I was always classified as the quiet, humble type student, often hiding in the back of the classroom counting down the minutes until the bell would ring. Participating in class was a challenge because of my introverted nature. Being born first in my family, I was the child who loved to please my friends, family and teachers. The highlight of my days in grade school was receiving little smiley face stickers on the top of my math papers or a simple pat on the back from the teacher. Progressing through middle school, I started to come out of my shell and blossom into a teenager who had a high aptitude for reading, science and mathematics. My intellectual interests have always been perpetually shifting but I always knew that I had a knack for …show more content…
I started to read endless newspapers, publications, and journals completely engulfed in news topics such as “the war on terror renews,” “sea level rise worse than predicted,” and “income inequality grows to unforeseen high.” I worried as I read such headlines, and I asked myself questions that none of my peers seemed to be pondering: “what’s going on with our world, and what can we do?” Current world events are not covered in our school’s curriculum on a daily basis so we have not engaged in any of these discussions. Instead, we are fed large servings of Calculus, elements on the periodic table, and facts about Wilhelm I, King of Prussia. I quickly told myself that I did not want to be someone who was invisible, content with the status quo, watching ineptly as the world quickly deteriorated. Not satisfied with my current knowledge, I self-educated myself further on global issues and world affairs and researched the ones where I could make a difference. Daily, I listened to the likes of Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, read articles by “DailyKos,” “The Christian Left,” and “The Other 98%,” and tuned into Fox News and “Conservative Daily” so that I could understand the political issues and inevitably reach across the aisle seeking to unite both
As many people have told me before, it is a very different ballgame than middle school’s easy going years. There is much more work, the classes are harder, and the environment is completely different. Many people’s grades may slip and they may cower in fear at the barrage of assignments they receive class after class. Unlike other people, I am confident in my ability to excel at all classes and to sustain exemplary grades. Therefore, while many are trembling in fear at the prodigious assignments and work is bombarding them from all angles, I will be at ease, knowing that whatever obstacle is thrown my way, I will conquer it and be its own
Since I am homeschooled, I have had a different experience than people in public school. Also, I have had more opportunities to teach myself. I am an outgoing person and I enjoy being around people. Although I would consider myself an extrovert, I also appreciate quiet time to myself. I am usually an optimistic person. I am a thinker more than a feeler. I am task oriented and work hard; I throw myself into my work. I get very involved in my school and and my projects outside of school. I like to challenge myself, whether in my coursework or personal projects.
In high school I was offered a variety of classes, and I soon fell in love with English and History as well. Although I was able to quickly grasp on the lessons taught in History class, I realized I needed a lot of time to understand the material in my science classes. However, this did not discourage me; it only increased my love for the class. I would quickly try to finish all my homework so I could begin reading my science textbooks. Last summer, I decided to give both fields (history and science) a try. I worked as an intern in Reshma Saujani’s campaign. She was the former candidate for New York City Public Advocate. During the internship I learned a lot about our country’s political history as well as the details of workin...
During my early education, meaning elementary school and middle school, I was a very average student. I gave an average amount of effort to my grades, and I received above average results. This did not bother me, until the end of my 8th-grade year. At this point in the year, I was filling out what classes I desired to take the following year, my freshman year. I realized that from this point forward, I had to take my education much more serious, in order to get accepted to whichever college I desired. therefore, when planning my classes, I decided to challenge myself more than I ever have in the past, and take multiple honors courses. I assumed because of my grades, that I had what it took to be an honors-level student, but I was very wrong. One teacher, Mrs. Johnson, made me realize the kind of effort, time and energy needed to be devoted to my education.
Partial Participation is an affirmation that students with a severe disability can acquire numerous skills that will allow them to function at least part of the time in a wide variety of least restrictive schools, nonschool environment, and activities.
My generation finds it hard to escape the flashing headlines, on television, our phones, the internet. Faster than other generations whose news was limited to the daily paper, we have matured, become more aware of the world around us, losing our innocence in the process. We can’t escape the violence and hostility occurring all over the globe, we can no longer feign ignorance and trap ourselves in a bubble. We can not simply ignore the obvious demarcation in our communities.
Starting college is an intense and confusing event that plagues all recent high school graduates. It is like trying to run when all you can do is crawl, and for many freshmen, myself included, one can get easily overwhelmed by the daunting task of picking a major when less than two months ago some of our parents still packed our lunches for us every morning. The concept of entering college tends to be frequently skewed and expecting an eighteen year old to decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives, without having them actually experiment in different areas, has the potential to create a generation of adults who are aggravated and depressed in their careers.
Looking closer at students, High schoolers have so many different things on their mind that current events are the last thing that concern them. We have all been there (I’m still experiencing that). To me, I believe it is very important to be caught up on major issues, and how issues are affecting the nation as a whole. I believe it is vital to us to know new laws and new supreme court rulings being implemented. I know that the vast majority of our student body vaguely knows much about this at all, because it shows in a classroom setting when current event
I attended North Liberty Elementary School and my 1st grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Camblin. I was an above average student in school. My favorite subject was P.E. because I loved playing games and sports. I also enjoyed art because I loved crafts, but P.E. was my overall favorite. I struggled with the Concrete Operational Stage milestones because I was not able to acknowledge that others’ thoughts and perceptions could be different from mine, I think this is because I just felt like I was always “right”. I also struggled with the object permanence milestone in the Sensori-Motor stage, I just didn’t understand where the object or toy went when it wasn’t in front of me. This didn’t take long to develop though, with help from teachers. I was very outgoing and extremely talkative. Teachers would call me a “Social butterfly”. I made friends easily and I am still friends with most of the people I made friends with when I was young. I was very close with my brother throughout my childhood and I still am currently. Since my parents had gotten a divorce, I only saw my dad a couple times a month at this point in my life. I was not very close with him since he had a drug addiction and an alcohol problem. I have also recently learned that he had also been cheating on my mom. I was close with my mom, but I was not close with my stepdad yet, since he had just become a part of my life. Eventually, I grew closer to him, and I am close with him
When we are young, we all have our own unique dreams and aspirations for what we wish to do when we are “older.” As we grow older, we begin to realize that some of our dreams are unattainable, while others are able to achieve their dreams. Whether one is the first person or the latter, we are spoon-fed the idea of attending college. We all hear how college is our “gateway to success,” and how “our entire lives depend on college.” Pressures bear down on high school students, telling them that they must attend college to be capable of anything in life. But people do not realize the detriments that are also associated with attending college. Students should not be pushed to attend colleges as there could be several factors that play in a student’s
Eight years ago as I was preparing for my middle school graduation, I remember my homeroom teacher presenting each student with a parting gift. It was an envelope and inside of this envelope was a strip of paper containing notable characteristics of the respective student. When I opened mine, it read “—thoughtful and extremely perceptive of others and her environment. She is intelligent and has varied interests and opinions that hardly anyone knows about. She is an excellent student and a loyal friend.” Though I did not consider the significant meaning of these words at the time, when the paper resurfaced a few years later, I read the paper again, this time with deeper reflection. To this day, I am amazed by how accurate my teacher was in describing
I have always had a passion to learn. My interest is in political theory and economics, hoping someday to become a lawyer and stateswoman. I realize that in order to reach any of these goals, a college degree is vital. When I in turn reach my goals, I will use them to encourage and uplift my community by investing my time, money, energy, and influence to become a stepping stone for others.
My semester of study abroad is best described as an intense learning experience, without which I feel that my education would have been incomplete. The lessons learned were far different from those I encountered in high school, but of equal or greater importance. I gained new perspective about international affairs and also found I was challenged as an individual to grow intellectually, socially, and emotionally. There is no doubt that this experience has changed me, and I am certainly better for it.
I was always a quiet person that never spoke what was on my mind. I didn’t have ambitions nor interests. Before high school, I never considered what I would be when I grew up. I was curious, but never curious enough to want to know what if the impossible became the possible or how much I manage to achieve in life. For me, an honest lifestyle where I don’t do anything would be perfect. However, this sort of thinking all changed after that single class period. This event would later reveal valuable character traits of mine while also paralleling various facets of my life.
When I was in high school I had a problem, which was being shy. Being shy made me seem as if I was anti-social, and caused me to have no friends, but my shyness was decreasing each year of high school because I talked more, and by the time I reached 12th grade I had many friends, who are very close to me till this day. While being in high school, I was always focused on my studies. People believed that I was a genius in high school, but I really wasn’t, I was just focus on the lessons, and understood what the teacher taught us. As I reached eleventh grade, I was chosen to be a part of the National Honor Society; I thought that I was never going to be part of the National Honors Society. I was at the hospital when my friends told me the good news—that I was selected to be part of the National Honors Society. As I reached 12th grade I learned that working while going to school is a bad idea if you can’t multitask right. When I was working I didn’t realized that I wasn’t multitasking right; I wasn’t putting enough effort into my studies, and having a job was distracting me, so I decide to quit my job, and continue my education by going to college. Growing up was scary, but I’m ready what the future is holding for