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Before I enrolled into SAC, I was a non-fan of sports, nervous, young man, who heard about SAC from a friend in Upper School and has tons of hopes for Grade 9. Something was hold me back to go to SAC. , although that "something” terminated after I knew that everyone were Andrean Brothers and that's why I'm currently aiming to perfect the role of a well-rounded citizen. As they say, “Friends are the most ingredient in the recipe of life”. Friends, like Daniel Zhao, who told me about this school changed my whole life. Once I stepped on Andrean soil, I knew that I was part of something special. In addition, I never had "fun" in sports events because I thought I might get hurt. Yet when I joined SAC sports teams, I was afraid
Before coming to kents hill, I had one view school. It's always been something that I dreaded and something I couldn't wait to be done with. Moving around from school to school never seemed like it was helping and I was falling into a deeper pit each time. After starting at a new high school freshman year, I finally thought that things might change, but that was far from what happened. Every day was unfufulling with school days consisting of crowded classes, drugs, and racism. I wanted out but I didn’t know where to go, and that’s when I made the decision to come to Kents Hill. over the summer before coming here I made a ideal version of what I wanted this school to be and although it turned out to be far from my made up version, I can say
Yet again, I was starting another school where I didn’t know anyone.I had to do it all over again, with the same thoughts going through my head, wondering what it was going to be like, always wondering if I was going to fit and make friends easily knowing how big it was. I decided that these next two years at this school were going to be focused on college and my school work, I wasn’t going to be in any clubs or sports. I thought to myself that joining a sport at a small school was very different and I didn’t want to know what it was like at a big school. I managed starting this school just like I managed starting high school. Good thing I am very outgoing so I enjoy meeting new people! I remember my first day of school there like it was yesterday. Walking in and seeing thousands of faces that I have never seen before. It was huge, 1500 in each grade. It was so big that they had two different campuses; one for the freshman and sophomores and another for the juniors and seniors. It was really hard making friends but I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Lake County Tech Campus associated with the College of Lake County and I made a lot of friends there in my nursing class. It was a very racial school, there wasn’t a majority of one race whereas Central was majority whites. I enjoyed all of my teachers that I ever had at Warren and I felt that I really learned a lot compared to feeling like I was ever
Starting high school is tough for some people. Moving to a new city is also tough for some people. Or me I had to deal with both. I can remember my very first day of high school, I was so nervous. I didn’t make any friends over the summer so I didn’t talk to anyone. I was pushed out of my comfort zone to talk to people and make new friends. A few months into school I received my first interim. It wasn't the greatest but , I blamed it on my transition to high school and promised that
This time I moved to Warren, Michigan and I attended my last year of elementary school with brand new people. The process of getting to know people took me a long time. I became the shy student that did not take part in any school activity again because I was afraid I would be judged on everything I did. As the years went by I started meeting new people each year. It is now my Senior year of High School and I attend three different schools: CPC, Cousino, and Macomb Community College, I can finally say that I am gaining my confidence back.
Sitting in the passenger seat of my families’ minivan I nervously wait to pull into the school parking lot. As we turn the corner my legs begin to shake and my palms are getting clammy, this is my first day of high school. All I could do was think about the dramatic change in class size, I am coming from a school where there are only about three hundred kids in the entire school to a school where there are about three thousand kids in the entire school. This would not be as scary of experience except for the fact that the majority of the kids from my middle school went to the high school on the other side of town. My high school was the biggest school in Marion County and was known for its performing arts. I would not have been able to get through my first day of high school without the three levels of
Being homeschooled at that point, my family had made a decision to keep my siblings and I at home and finish the school year out. For the rest of sixth grade, I was stuck at my house, doing online school, in the middle of nowhere, while having all of my friends back in Granville. That was okay though because I enjoyed my new house. I enjoyed the different scenery, the sounds of roosters, and being able to peacefully sit down on your front porch and enjoy the weather outside. All of this grew old, though, and I felt like I was isolated from everyone else.
This was a game changer for me. I was no longer in classes with the friends. I had special teachers who worked with me on reading as well as other subjects. I hated it and I hated school. My feelings only intensified when I entered elementary school.
I was moving to a different house so I had to also move to a different school, the school was going to be attending was Coleman middle school. On the first day of school, I did not want to talk to anyone, because everyone had their own groups and I thought other people would be mean if I tried to talk to them and join their group so I decide to stay to myself instead. I ended up finding some of my old friends but none of them was in the same classes as me. Soon enough I started to venture out and start talking to people it was weird being out of my comfort zone, but I made friends and even though it was not a lot it was enough for me to make it through the school
As some of you know I moved here almost a year ago and I’m pretty new to the system. When I first came here I was so excited to be in Canada but extremely terrified to go to school. The curriculum in my country, is very different from the Ontario curriculum. I attended a British-curriculum school and that was also different. The most I knew about the school were “as seen on TV’’. I expected cliques like the jock, nerds, goths, smart kids, cheerleaders, lockers which you wouldn’t even believe how excited I was about them and other cliche things in movies. I was mostly terrified due to the fact that I was a bit on the shy side and was absolutely terrible at making friends.
It’s hard because I miss my old school. Plus compared to then I have pretty terrible teachers, grades and I have no friends at all. The
When i got to Morrisville, there were so many different people that was not like anything i have ever seen. By this time i was in first grade so i hadn 't seen much of anything honestly. When i started school i was of course the “new kid”. Being the new kid was the scariest thing to me because i have never made or never had to make new friends before because somehow everybody i knew and went to school with in Lexington was somehow my family. Well atleast the ones i talked to were. So you can only imagine how scared i was when i stepped in the classroom with the resource officer and the principle introducing me to everybody, and having all of these peoples eyes on me. Turns out i never had a problem because all the kids were nice, plus i was good in sports so that made them like me even more. While being up there became less frightening, everything became harder. I found myself in a gold Ford Expedition going back and forth from moorisville to Lexington, we moved around a lot p there so i never really had a consistent group of friends outside of school, and in school was majorly hard because of the work. I have never experienced work that hard in Lexington. I went from getting all a’s in lexington, to a parent teacher conference every other week. So you can only imagine how that went. I was in Moorisville till
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In this essay the goal is to help get a clearer idea of why I am deciding to transfer schools and why I have chosen the University of Miami. Not only that but also to understand where I am coming from and who I am. Throughout my schooling, I always excelled in the top classes in high school and was in enriched sciences and high math. Like any other seventeen year old, I had no idea what I wanted to do and that is where the journey begins.