What I Learned After High School

How I changed from this semester to the end of the semester is that I am not turning in late work anymore because I have learned my lesson with all my teachers. I used to turn in a lot of late work and they would not count it as a grade.

When I was in eighth grade, I wanted to attend Northwestern University to follow in my band directors footsteps and study Music Education. Unfortunately, I encountered a number of problems freshman year. Due to these problems, I quit band, and did not see college as an attainable option so I gave up on going to college. During my Junior year, I realized that college was an something I wanted to do so I decided to do whatever it took to be ready by graduation. During my junior year, I went on a college visit to UW-Oshkosh. However, the campus didn’t impress me and I became discouraged about post high school education. Everything changed when I attended Northwestern University on a college a at the beginning of the school year. Originally,

1. Students learn to be a team player, a very important skill to have on the job. Being able to work with co-workers and supervisors is key in keeping a job today.

A significant challenge that I faced that I thought I might not accomplish was in sophomore year. I believed I would not be able to pass my science class. I was almost failing the entire year but the last quarter was the worst. The teacher made a huge test that would help anyone that was almost failing and I studied every night until the test which was for about a month and a half. I was sure I would still end up failing because I wasn’t sure about many of the topics we had discussed. On testing day, we had time before the test to study even more and I had one of my friends test me with flashcards that I created; there was over one hundred of them. While taking the test, I was freaking out and ended up not answering some of the questions because

The knowledge and skills obtained while in high school could have assisted me in my future with things such as college or employment, because in high school I would have learned social skills, like communicating professionally with my bigger bosses, the owner of the company, or the CEOs. This is information and skills that could have assisted me in my future and helped me define the type of person that I could have become. A student is taught ethics and problem solving skills, for example, how to get the work done right or how to make a customer or guest satisfied. Also,

This might be one of the hardest things, I will do in group because I have learned so much about myself. I have no idea what you went and are going through on a day to day basis. I can not begin to imagine the feeling you had about me when you came home to the first search warrant. You could have felt; disappointed, sad, hurt, shocked or let down.

There are many critical skills needed to continue learning. The four skills discussed are Investigation, Analytical Thinking, Effective Communication, and Collaboration. It is more than just knowing what the skills are to be a successful lifelong learner but knowing how to proactively use then in the workplace, school, and your personal life. You need to be able to ask probing questions and be able to locate information to investigate. Analytical thinking allows you to evaluate your information you have obtained. Effective communicators can express themselves properly. They also can listen and understand others effectively. It is important to be able to collaborate with others in a multitude of ways whether that be in a class or on a team at work. All of these skills together will make projects, papers, discussions, and tasks easier to accomplish (Bethel University,

As a 16 year old, my knowledge and views about the world are very different from those of someone who is older or younger than I. I posses the average expected knowledge that a typical Junior in high school holds. I can read and write, solve certain math problems, and understand what requirements are needed of me to graduate high school. Along with knowing standard academic skills, I know certain skills that help me approach daily life situations. I know how to write a check, babysit for a child, and drive. All these abilities are skill sets that I learned at a specific moment in my life and my age greatly affects that. For example, I did not learn how to read until I was about 4 or 5 years old, I also did not know how to drive until I was 15.

Being at Hickman School for ten years has been a great experience for me. I started going to preschool at the Hickman house in the year 2006 and I slowly moved my way up through the years till finally this year I’m an eighth grader. Over the years, I have had many friends and teacher come and go. My teachers helped me to understand new concepts while sports and my friends helped me understand more about myself. That is what I like, don’t like, and so on.

Growing up, I had always been an excellent student and enjoyed going to school. However this changed, when my parents got a divorce when I was in 8th grade. The result was that my father abandonned and left my mother, my younger brother and I. My father was the source of income for my family, as my Mother is a stay at home mom, so when he left it runined us financially. It was so bad that for nearly three years while I was in high school, we never had our own home and were bouncing around living with different family friends for as long as we could before moving in with another group of family friends. My response to the divorce was to give up on school. I stopped trying and barely managed to pass 8th grade. My bad academic habits followed me to high school where I began to care even less and less about academics. My mother, brother and I moved right before the start of my freshman year. I went into highschool not knowing a single person. By chance, I made friends with the skater crowd.

Waiting in line to go through customs I didn 't want to think about all all the things I would have to do. Support myself financially, find a place to live, figure out how to start college. It all seemed overwhelming. I immigrated on my own to US when I was seventeen. The transition was difficult, and I considered returning back to India. Even though it would have been easier to return, staying provided better opportunities. As I grappled with my new environment and struggled to acclimate. Two experiences played a pivotal role in shaping my character. First, the support I received from family and friends. The second, my work with adolescent youth. Through these I understood the importance of support and the joy of providing it. The

Hey there! I’m Hadas Klinger, and this is my second year in being a grade representative. I love fries, youtube, and stepping on crunchy leaves. Most importantly, I love being a part of student council. I get to watch the joy on my peer’s faces when I give them free hot chocolate and hand out free candy. High school was something that I always feared, and Student Council helped me get over my fears. I always have a smile, and I try my best to go the extra mile. The most important thing I’ve learned from high school (so far) is to keep staying positive because it doesn’t matter how many bad days you’ve had, it’s the good ones that you will cherish.

The importance of learning academic and vocational skills throughout high school is that it creates a basis for every major or job they could want to do, and see non-academic subjects in an intellectual light. A student spends roughly four thousand hours in high school. Very little of this time is spent learning vocational skills if any. This is because in our society, there is a bias that more academic based jobs are of higher status than vocational jobs.

Throughout my high school life, my extracurricular involvement has helped me develop a variety of skills. Primarily, I have been a part of the Leadership and Peer Support group as a project manager of a conference; I exercised my leadership and collaborative skills. As an engineer, there are times where an individual with leadership and cooperative skills must rise and become the leader in different projects. Interpersonal skills play a significant role in an engineer’s life because they will always be required to communicate with new people. Earlier this year, a peer and I decided to start a Student Mentorship Program and as a co-founder of this group, I learned how to problem solve, make decisions, think laterally, and work as a team. As a student, my skills will allow me to accept challenges with confidence and contribute to discussions during lectures with new ideas. Teamwork, leadership, interpersonal and hands-on skills are key abilities engineers must contain in order to be successful.

I had the opportunities to utilize my knowledge and skills, which I have learned and acquired from the university. It was a great experience and a chance for me to approach and have a real feeling with the actual patients. They gave me feedback about my communication and problem solving skills, which I think is very important in the nursing career. I found that there were many situations, which taught me valuable knowledge that I can never learn from books or university. Every placement provided me valuable experience. Now I can be confident in my communication skills and decision-making, as these practices have taught me the way to approach and talk to patients. These have given me a place to apply my critical thinking skills into the real situation.