High School Reflection Imagine the Daytona 500 race event. Racecars roaring past the spectators on an oval-shaped raceway at a rate of what feels like two-hundred miles per hour. This phenomenon describes how fast my four years of high school have approached. Graduating from high school reminds me of graduating from the Math and Science for Minority Students Program/the (MS)2 Program. When I graduated from the (MS)2 Program, I left behind great friends who all had the same insight as me. We all wanted to prove people wrong by attending college and making something of ourselves. As minorities, we understood that we had to work twice as hard to compete with the “top dogs,” and we all were willing to accept the challenge. Although I am looking forward to life after high school, I will miss my friends, the Choctaw Central Winterguard group, and my sixth period band class. The first thing that I will miss when I graduate from high school are my friends. My friends and I have been with each other since the seventh grade, and we have done almost everything together. We have procrastinated together, whined about the load of work assigned to us, and studied last minute for tests. There is no other group of friends that I would rather be with than them. I have seen all of us …show more content…
I will miss the fun times that we all had at the practices and the competitions. As a whole, we are just like a family. We laugh, eat, and humorously argue with each other. We all held high standards for each other, set goals like any person should, and strived to achieve them. When we accomplished a goal, we did not settle. We enjoyed that moment, set more goals, and strived for the betterment of our group. I will miss the Choctaw Central Winterguard group, because not only did I have the most fun around them, but I was taught to remain humble and to give all the glory to God because he is the reason for
From the beginning of high school, students strap on their seatbelts and prepare for one of the most vigorous races of their lives – becoming successful. With the rare occurrence of a break, kids are expected to keep on driving as fast and as powerfully as they can in order to get into a “great” college, which would be followed by graduate school and then an actual job that would make a lot of money. In American society, common values include working hard, determination, and being so productive that free time is not even a question. However, this philosophy is taking a major toll on American college and high school students. For at least 40 years, America’s future has been steadily growing unmotivated, tired, and hopeless due to the overemphasis on performing well in school. This phenomenon is appropriately expounded in William Zinsser’s “College Pressures”, which takes a look at the top four sources of tension that cause these feelings of dejection and agitation. After reading this article, I came up with a few solutions to this national problem. It is time to switch the harsh, over-encouraging green light of education to a comfortable yellow one. In order to make this ideal transition, directors of education across the country need to primarily reduce the amount of out-of-class assignments, lighten the grading system, and incorporate days in the school year that allow students to express their thoughts about school and provide useful feedback.
Walking into Walnut Hills High School right now would have anyone thinking the just walked into the middle of a tornado. Everyone you look there are students running in and out of doors, in and out of cars, and most certainly either turning in missing assignments or retaking tests. There is only one way for you to explain all this ciaos, Senior Year, the year that all teens await with so much excitement and ambition and the year that every single hour long study dates pays off. For the class of 2021 this isn’t just their final year at Walnut Hills this is the year that friends separate and head off to their different university to follow their dreams.
School, from kindergarten to college, is intended to challenge a student’s natural ability while developing practical skills and knowledge. I have always excelled as a student. In high school, I completed 10 Advanced Placement courses. I then entered college and finished my degree in 3 years while also completing multiple internships. I could have easily coasted through high school, taken my time in college, and landed an unassuming job in a cubicle. Instead, I chose to embrace the true intent of school, challenging myself to the extents of my own natural ability. I did this not because it was easy, but because it was right.
Southeastern University is a private, Co-ed, Christian university. SEU’s main focus is to equip their students to be a next generation of leaders so that they can enter the real world as influential servants to their careers and communities. Southeastern university offers a plentiful amount of study programs, even the program I am interested in which is Human services. I selected this school First because it is a Christian college, and Second because of the programs of study. I chose to go to a Christian college because I grew up in a Christian household and because I believe in Jesus. I also chose Southeastern University because of the programs of study. SEU was one of the few colleges that had a program of study that I was interested in.
People would tell me “Senior year is amazing, you get to do all these things, and that it is completely different than any other year that you have been in at Amory High School.” You know when your a freshman and a sophmore you may think that is how it's gonna go you think that you will be invisible, but when in reality its different. I would be lying if I said that Senior year hasn't been the best year out of my four years here. It's the same though the only difference is that you have different teachers and every once in a while a new kid comes just trying to make it through just like you. I will miss high school, but this year has taught me so much and has made me realize that I am ready for college and that I am wanting to venture out into the big world.
There are several key behaviors you have to have when you go out to your school practicum sites and there are many reasons why you should have them.
Let’s flash back in time to before our college days. Back to then we had lunch trays filled with rubbery chicken nuggets, stale pizza, and bags of chocolate milk. A backpack stacked with Lisa Frank note books, flexi rulers, and color changing pencils. The times where we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive, but we did. Through all the trials and tribulations school helped build who I am today and shaped my future. From basic functions all the way to life-long lessons that helped shape my character.
As freshman, we came home from school with the mentality that we were no longer children, but rather had entered into a new stage of life. Everything seemed different and new; we weren’t the big kids on campus anymore. We no longer were the persons being looked up to, but rather were the persons looking up to an entire school of older students. We remember joining our firsts clubs, going to dances, and having Orientation days.
My 6th grade year was fun but i hated it to all of the drama
“Many American high school students, especially poor and minority students, graduate unprepared for life because of the woefully inadequate public education they received.” Most students who graduate high school feel unprepared, they feel that the education received is not enough for them to move on. It doesn’t matter if they are poor or rich, students still feel unprepared for their post-secondary lives. Students that may think that graduating is easy and then stating their lives is easy, but what they don’t realize is that there is a lot that they don’t know about what is going to be coming their way. High schools need to start talking to students and bring in students who have graduated to talk to them about how hard the real-world becomes after graduating high school and knowing it is not easy to start the new life feeling
To a kid, “back to school” signals the end of summer fun and a return to strict rules and schedules--and worse, homework. (UGH!) To a parent, it can mean freedom; not having to drive a “bored” whiner from one activity to the next, or worry about where a teen is hanging out or what they might be up to. For the drained parent, those three words offer a Hallelujah! ray of light at the end of a ten-week-long tunnel. (Finally! A chance to breathe and regain some sanity!)
Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.
Going into freshman year of high school was something that hit me unexpectedly. I couldn’t believe that 4 years from then I would be graduating. To me it seemed like an eternity of course, as if I had all the time in the galaxy to relax before things would become more profound such as grades, time management skills, and independence.
Graduation: the last day that I would unwillingly set foot on the fields of Horizon High School. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest, and tried so hard to keep my feet moving one after the other in order to maintain my perfect stature. After the two hour wait of opening speeches, class songs, and the calling off of the five hundred plus names that were in front of me, it was finally my turn. As my row stood up and we walked towards the stage it had set in at last, this is it, I am done. My high school career ended on that night, but it didn’t close the book that is my life, it only started a new chapter, and with it came a whole slue of uncertainties.
Having spent twelve years of my school life in just one small red brick building, the years tend to fade into each other. But the year I remember most clearly and significantly is my senior year of high school, where I finally began to appreciate what this institution offered to any student who stopped to look. Before, school had been a chore, many times I simply did not feel motivated toward a subject enough to do the homework well, and seeing the same familiar faces around ever since I was 5 years old grew very tiring soon enough. But I began to see things from a different angle once I became a senior.