The past four years of my life hold both my highest of highs and my lowest of lows. High school can be a very awkward time period in a person’s life. Four years ago, I made the intimidating switch from St. Mary’s School to Algoma High School. There were certain aspects of high school which made me nervous, but academics was not one of them. I learned how to be a responsible student in my earlier years, and school had always come relatively easy to me. As high school went on, the workload grew, but I also grew, so I was perfectly capable of keeping up with the work. This type of growth came rather easy to me. It was important for me to have one thing I could be confident with through all of the drama and chaos in my life. Growing in my community was not challenging thanks to the Live Algoma movement. Our community itself has experienced so much growth over the past four years, which allowed many students, including me, to grow in their community involvement as well. I have always been a rather outgoing person when I am around my peers, but it used to be a different story for me outside of school. I never went out of my way to talk to adults because I had this …show more content…
The members played a big part in this personal growth of mine, as well. I was shocked when random community members would come up to me to congratulate me on a win or ask how the teams are looking. It was important for me to be assured that they care about the things I was doing. These small conversations felt like an invitation for me to start and hold meaningful conversations with adults. Some of the greatest lessons that I have taken from high school are lessons that have nothing to do with the curriculum. Having the confidence to have a real conversation with adults who have experience living through some of the challenges I am going through has helped me to succeed in tough
This memoir can open the eyes of upcoming seniors, to make that last year in High School beneficial and to thrive for more. Working hard was Jeannette’s number one trait and the results were amazing.
I also learned how to be their link to resources on campus, and how to be a point of contact in difficult times in their academic or personal lives. Gradually that feeling of it being an unnatural course of action faded away and I became more and more confident in being a peer leader. This course helped me to determine that I was able to teach and challenge a wide range of students while also equipping me with the skills necessary so that I could be an effective teacher. More importantly, I learned that
As can be seen, throughout students academic careers whether high school or college, it is clear that people have to work hard to earn phenomenal grades. In life nothing is handed to people , and even though you face obstacles along the way you have to keep going. Personally, I have faced plenty of obstacles throughout my high school career that could have interfered with me reaching my highest potential. However, I have worked and worked as hard as I possibly could to reach where I am today. I’ve had many instances where I could of just gave up and threw in the towel, but instead I got back up when I was knocked down.
According to a Navy Seal quote” The only easy day was yesterday”. I first witness the quote while I was reading a book about Navy Seals in the eight-grade and I enjoyed it. I liked the citation since life is an everyday struggle and each day is more difficult than the previous day. I felt the true connotation of the citation at the end of freshman year. The end of my freshman year and sophomore year felt like the Navy Seal’s Hell Week, but my Hell’s Week was more
The span of four years has molded me into a totally different person. My view of my high school and the people inside of it has transformed completely, even though not much has really changed. Although freshman and senior year might have seemed totally different, both served to help me grow as a person. In my freshman year of high school my classes sped by incredibly fast; as a result, every teacher was forced to squeeze their instruction into forty-five minute periods.
The most significant impact that I have made in a community has been through my work as a Student Section Leader. In years past, with the exception of my junior year, the position had generally been given to kids considered the most popular in the school. They ruled through fear, which resulted in intimidating seniors yelling at underclassmen to cheer. The football games (the only games the leaders would attend) generally involved a majority of the people feeling uncomfortable, self-conscious, and waiting for halftime so they could leave discretely. Going into my senior year, I hoped to revolutionize the position.
High school has impacted my life in so many ways. High School taught me so many things, from personal relationships to creating a relationship with my education. As a freshman, I made a huge amount of mistakes and I regret doing foolish things, but I’ve realized, I was only maturing into the young adult I am today. Freshman year, I was out of focus and I was only trying to find myself. I would also prioritize other things and ignore my parent’s advice, where they would tell me to focus in school and give it my full attention.
I learned to take hold of my education, guiding it along the path of my curious mind. I was infatuated with the correlation between growth and education. Both concepts are intertwined; as you develop as a student, you learn how to adapt to various stages in life. With this in mind, I was able to conquer the rigor of AP classes and the social stress associated with high school. As I grew, I longed to not only better myself as a student, but to improve my school.
As a child, I was always told to dream big by my mother, father, and many others. Nonetheless, living with my mother, stepfather, and siblings in San Jose, there was constantly fighting, moving around, and fear from within, as well as the outside world. I always struggled in school but didn’t think much of it, considering both parents and older siblings were high school dropouts but weren’t in disastrous situations. Towards the end of elementary school, I refused to go to school because of my social phobia, as well as the fact that I would be bullied because of my speech impediment. Near the end of my seventh grade, I went to Modesto with my dad every weekend and found the different environment to be very calming, thus when the time came for him to bring me back home, I would cry in the car and beg to be taken back to Modesto.
Middle school was a confusing time for me; my parents had separated, we had moved to an area that had a tremendous amount of crime, and by my seventh grade year I no longer had an after-school program to attend. The center my brother and I attended lost its funding for teen programming. It wasn’t surprising that all of my core classes my 6th-grade year, were all “advanced.” I was one of two students who graduated my elementary school with all A’s.
It wasn’t until middle school that I became extremely introverted and afraid of social contact. I remember that despite having repressed near every memory from fifth and sixth grade, I can recall the paralyzing fear of even having smalltalk with my deskmates, to the point where in seventh and eighth grade people were shocked to hear me have conversation with friends, commenting on how they had never heard me talk so much as in that moment. I was finally diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression in freshman year of high school where I was put on meds, but I always knew that I was different. Everyone around me when I was younger were able to have sleepovers and have inseparable best friends while I got anxious from direct eye contact. Sometimes I wonder If finally being diagnosed made me almost seem more normal.
Life for me growing up was super difficult. A lot of my childhood was pure traumatic. Also, it was a struggle for me and my family, money wise and food wise. Also, our house was very small. We even lost our father and I also became a teen mom.
My high school experience was a long, frustrating learning experience. I didn’t know what to expect, or what I was getting myself into. Nobody gave me the tools to understand the main focus of each year. I am going to give you tips and advice on how to succeed in high school. I will discuss 9-12th grade along with what to expect each year.
Most people want to improve themselves in some way, whether it is to lose weight or give up smoking or increase their confidence. Self-improvement is something that we carry out over a life time, but it is a task that can require a lot of motivation. Keeping your motivation levels up and steady can be a job in itself. In order to achieve the motivation required for self-improvement, we need to look at the three keys that will help us succeed in our goals. 1) INSPIRATION
HE called her fat and she froze. He recalls sitting in the same position and staring through her window for well over 30 minutes and she was numb. Her husband of two years and partner of six, a man that promised to love her no matter her size, in a very judgy tone called her out of her name for a flaw she said he knew she struggled with managing. But Angella says wasn’t angry at him, having endured years of stereotypical adjectives being used to define her. “The truth is I was 5ft 5 inches at 288 pounds and I struggled with managing my weight all my life.