Middle School Leads To College

School is a big part of a student's life that can make their future. Students who have high goals for themselves, like myself, tend to be harder on themselves, and demand perfection to help lead them to their perfect future. Middle school leads to being in the “smarter classes” in high school, and high school leads to college. That college degree leads to the job that will help provide for the future and for a future family. There is so much pressure on education that there is no wonder that anxiety disorders are on the rise.

Students are asked to take harder classes, while also being involved in multiple activities and sports. The top students are held to a high standard of taking the most rigorous courses the school provides, along with setting high standards for themselves. Like myself, the top students not only take the harder classes, but also college courses. Here they are treated as college students, and the stress of college life on top of high school, sports, activities, and trying to apply for college gets to be a lot. The stress of waiting to see if you got into a college, or waiting for a teacher to grade a test can put a student over the edge.

With the harder classes that students take comes more homework and studying. On top of trying to balance sports and activities to

I wonder the same thing as I wait for a test to be put into the grade book, waiting anxiously to see how I did. Maybe the reason students are stressed is that they put super high expectations on themselves, or maybe it is due to the added pressure to always be on top. Our unreal expectations for ourselves have to come from somewhere, or does it really just come from within? We are told to be the best, and we want to be the best in everything that we do. School is all about what we know, and we know that being number one feels great. Being number one and striving to be number one comes with a lot of added