To start off with, going to high school was a big journey to explore. High school wasn't always as easy like in the movies. In every year there were sacrifices I made to graduate to the next. Playing sports while going to school could be a hassle, especially when having too much homework. Going to school and playing sports isn't always the best way to have good grades. Reasons why, having too much homework could cause some stress because of after games or practice, you're wasting some more time to study and do work. Because of that there is a lack of sleep being involved in this situation. My next sacrifice was attending to school. Waking up early to go to school wasn't the best thing for me. I was a lazy guy who always wanted to stay home to play video games or watch TV and sleep in late. Waking up late was the best for me. There were times where I almost kept being late to school because I would be so late to school. There were also days where I get injured in sports and because of that, that would affect my attendance for missing too many days for the doctor. After that, Passing the …show more content…
First of all, playing in sports for independence high school was a huge part in life. Playing football, basketball and running track impacted me in independence high school. For every year I wouldn't be home till 9 by spending my times in school and then practice or my games. There wasn't time where I could of gone to parties after school because sports was life for me. There was my huge part of success in life. Additional to this, my life is now part of the society by me joining the army. By me joining the army was a life learning to how to become your life successful. Joining the army was one of the best choices i made. Just by making this huge step in life in become part of the society is a pleasure because I could reach my future job and not only that the army pays for my
My participation in high school sports have made me into leader as well as helped me gain relationships with friends that will last a lifetime. It has also taught me to rely on the people around me and work together with your team to accomplish your goals. Being a part of a sports team has also influenced my decision making because in order to participate on the team you have to have good behavior, and be a good student
High school was not a completely dreadful experience, but I did not get a really an exceptional education. As I entered high school, I thought it would be a whole new exciting chapter in my life. I started out as an involved student, and went through all of the Advance Placement and Honor classes, and managed to be at the top 12% of my class. In high school, I basically placed myself to enjoy it; I joined all of the extra curricular activities I was interested in. I was in band, tennis, swimming, dance team, and Key Club. Sometimes I was at school for about fourteen hours a day, four times a week.
In my life, I had not had the chance to be a part of something that influenced me much, until I joined football my freshman year in high school. Joining football was perhaps the most devoted and wisest thing that I did because shortly after joining I began to see changes for the better, and from then I saw the person that I wanted to be in the future. In other words, it shaped the person that I am today and will be for the rest of my life. Not only did the sport influence me but it also equipped me with a new mindset that affects me today in my decision making skills, time management and many other beneficial life virtues. I believe that these virtues will bring me success in the nearest future because I feel confident about myself and I feel more in control in my life through my actions, all thanks to simply joining what seemed to be a “regular” extracurricular.
Each game, my passion grew. Each team, new memories and lifelong friends were made. Sports sometimes make me feel disappointment and at loss; but it taught me to be resilient to a lot of things, like how to thrive under pressure and come out on top. Being the team captain of my high school’s football and lacrosse team showed me how having a big responsibility to bring a group together to work as one is compared to many situations in life. Currently playing varsity football, varsity lacrosse, and track I take great pride in the activities I do. Staying on top of my academics, being duel enrolled at Indian River State College, working three nights a week, and two different sport practices after school each day shaped my character to having a hard work
Since I'm coming to an end in my middle school years in a few months, I feel obligated to make a guide to help you youngsters transition to middle school, and even help people who are already in middle school, struggling! Hopefully these tips will help you in your three years of Hell on Earth.
School now days kids like to think it is to “hard” or they don't have the motivation to keep up in school. In high school you are being taught responsibility, you learn lessons. Sometimes the hard way. As students, we should try and succeed in academics as well as doing our best to succeed in sports. Sports to some kids are there only way out. Kids that live in bad neighborhoods, kids that hardly have enough to get them by, and them are the kids that realize they need the motivation in school because high school is a big deal.
Making new friends, walking through the halls of a new school, and trying to become popular are a few concerns students stress over, prior to their first day of classes. I, Eitan Boutehsaz fell under this category as I made my switch from a private school, Yeshiva Ohr Chaim, to a public school, Great Neck North Middle School. It was the day after Labor Day, September 5, 2005, and I finally arrived at the institution where I would spend the next year attending. I was anxious, nervous, and in doubt of what this new chapter of my life at Great Neck North would have in store for me. At 7:35 A.M., I walked onto the stairs of the bus, but quickly realized I left my most prized possession at home, my basketball. I ran back into my house and took my basketball from its case on my chest. I ran back down the stairs and stormed out of my house, trying to get back my breath while sweating profusely, and got back on the bus. The bus was filled with excited-young peers’ ready to attend the first day of classes at a familiar school with friends; however, I had no reason to be happy. I was without my long time friends who I spent ten wonderful years with at Yeshiva Ohr Chaim. Nevertheless, I used my basketball as a means to get me through my first day of school because it was and will always be my “insurance policy.” Overall, my expectations for what Great Neck North would offer for me were not even close to what proceeded in the future. The year was filled with joyous occasions, academic success, the acquirement of best friends, flirtatious encounters with the opposite sex, and most importantly leading the Great Neck North basketball team to its first playoff appearance. In essence, as I reminiscence over my first year of public school, a framed...
When confronting change, individuals may face perceived fears and challenges. Many current middle schools do not address the needs of middle school students as they transition from elementary to middle school (Akos,2004; Eccles, Midgley, et al., 1993). School personnel understand the problematic transition students embark on when moving from one level of schooling to another. The transition from elementary to middle school may be particularly challenging because it often involves substantial school and personal change at a time when most students are experiencing cognitive, physical, social, and emotional challenges that occur in puberty and have been coupled
I made school my main priority because I knew everyone in the medical field did not get there by luck, I knew they got there by setting a goal and pursuing that goal, until they attained it, through hard work. All I would think about as I was growing up, was how I can improve my grades. This was on my mind nonstop. This mindset brought me to seventh grade, where I started taking AP classes, and I continued, until this year. I told myself that I will try to take as many classes as I could, that would help me in the future, and I did.
Based on the novel “Western Union,” written by Zane Grey, it is centered on a criminal outlaw, Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott) and the Western Union’s construction of the telegraph line. When Shaw is on the run in the West after committing a bank robbery, he runs into injured Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), an engineer of the Western Union. Seeing this as an opportunity to get away, Shaw attempts to take Creighton’s horse and supplies. However, seeing as the man was injured, Shaw helped Creighton and took the engineer with him to be healed, saving Creighton’s life.
All or most of us have gone through it. The countless hours we spent filling out college applications, scholarship applications, visiting colleges, and taking the dreaded tests. Whether it was the PSAT, SAT, ACT, or other college entrance exams, it was a big hassle. After visiting such a great number of colleges, the advantages and disadvantages of the schools seemed to run together in my mind. The endless paper work and deadlines seemed as though they would never end. When I thought about college, it seemed like it was not real, like it was a figment of my imagination. I imagined what it would be like, wondering where I would go. The questions of "What did I want to major in?" and after I decided that, "What schools had my major?" circled around in my head. When filling out questionnaires for college searches I was asked about what size college I preferred, whether I wanted to be in a rural or suburban area. Did I really know how to answer these questions that would so greatly affect the next four years of my life?
An anonymous author once said, "What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now." Over the course of my school years, it has been an exciting and shocking experience. These experiences have been an enjoyable journey from my elementary to middle school years. However, after several years the end of my middle school adventure is coming to a close. Soon my new journey will start as a freshman. Eight grade will surely be one of my most memorable years. It has been an absolute wonderful one hundred eighty days, and I will miss some of the aspects of eight grade—but certainly not all of it.
Have you ever felt uncomfortable, scared, nervous, and confused? Well new students feel this way whenever they move to a new school. They have no idea if they'll make friends or if anyone would like them. But with the ambassador program new students will right away feel comfortable in their new surroundings, able to learn a new language and know their way around our school faster than someone who's been there for three years. If we had this program, they just might make a friend right away.
Freshman year of is viewed as the most important year in a students’ high school career. For many students it is a make or break time period that many don’t move past. Ninth grade students begin their year between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. During that age, students begin to one of the biggest growths within human development. Entering a new format, with new teachers, different building, and a whole new culture can cause problems within the new group of students.
There has been much debate over whether students need to know what career choice they want before entering high school. Indeed, students do need to know their career choice before entering high school, in order to take classes that guide them towards success. Students will need to know their career choice for many different reasons such as: having more time to prepare and have better chances at job openings. First, students who choose a career earlier have more time to prepare for that career. For example, those who want to go into childcare will need to have a lot of practice and experience with children before going into the workplace.