High School Research Paper

It was a very weird excitement about applying to high school's. High school was the big topic during my eighth-grade year. Everyone was talking about how they believe their high school career should be. Although I did not have much information other than what I had seen on television I did not know what to expect. I knew I was going to high school though at the time this was not something I wanted to face. I did not want to face the fact that I was growing up. This was something so devastating to me.

I was thinking of all the negatives that can happen to me while I am attending high school. I have never held a conversation with someone who was attending or had attended high school to ask them questions I was curious about. I could not ask

I was afraid that I will have no one to talk to. I was scared that when lunch time came I would have no one to sit with at the lunch table. I was scared that people would look at me different because I was a Muslim. There were so many thoughts racing through my head when I thought about high school; so I just pushed the idea in the back of my head and chose not to think about it.

Eventually, the guidance counselors started to come around and ask how much progress we have made so far. I was the one who had made no progress at all. I have not even started looking into high schools. When I began to research school I was not looking at the academic aspect. I was looking at which school had the cutest uniform. Sounds weird right? I was not thinking this whole school aspect through. I was going off of location and uniform.

Then one of my friends brought to my attention that since I wanted to go into law enforcement I should go to a vocational school that offers the course as college credits. At first I was not to fond of the idea because I have never heard of the school and taking college classes as a student in high school scared me. Then as it was time to start applying I wanted to give it a try, so I applied and took the test they were giving. To my surprise, I go into the school. This is when I started to do more research about the