Everyone seemed to be having the time of their lives, the feeling of being free from high school finally sinking into their minds. Forgetting about all of their problems for the night, and letting loose. My mom always says that I’ll regret this when I grow up; not living the full high school experience. But what is really considered the “high school experience”? It is just going to parties, homecoming dances, prom, and being in relationships? How cliché. I noticed a guy walking towards where I was standing, he was holding a cup in his right hand that was similar to the one I was currently holding. He was dressed in an all-black tuxedo and his hair was neatly styled into a little quiff. He looked oddly familiar, but I couldn’t quite put my
finger on who he was exactly. By the time I was done examining him, he now stood right in front of me and sent me the most genuine smile I’ve ever seen. Although he was standing a tad too close, I didn’t feel like telling him to go away just yet. I don’t know why I didn’t shoo him away yet, I just have this aching feeling deep down in my chest. He felt different from the other students, I don’t know—it’s difficult to explain. “Hey! I-uh, saw you standing here alone and just thought that I should come over and say hi,” he said. He grinned at me once more, showing off his pearly white teeth. His green eyes twinkled under the dim lights. He seemed like a nice enough guy, but you never know with high school. “Oh, uh-hi,” I replied while tucking a lock of my long hair behind my ear. I wanted to keep my answers as short and vague as possible. There was still that feeling of familiarity lingering in my mind. “It’s Arden, right? My name’s Alec, we were in a lot of classes together and we did that one project in grade 10 together.” “Oh yeah, I remember you,” I responded whilst nodding my head. From what I recall, Alec was a really nice and sweet guy. He made me laugh a lot when we would spend time together to work on that project all those years back. He was still beaming widely at me, I nervously smiled back.
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.
High school was, well, I guess you could say normal, but what is normal? I went to class, complained about the food, teachers, projects, you know, the “normal stuff”. In high school, looking back, I guess you could say that I was the one who had all the answers and always knew what was going on. As my one classmate put it one day “Holly’s like the New York Times; she always knows what’s going on.” I was the one that knew what the homework was, what the test would be on, if you needed notes you could copy mine because I had them all, and this was a big one; need help with your homework? Ask Holly. I’m not trying to say that I was an over-achiever, I too slacked off just as much as the next person, I guess my point is, is that I wouldn’t have been that girl if it hadn’t been for my friends.
People say high school is supposed to be the golden years of your life. I don’t know what else in life is to come; however, my philosophy is to live in the moment and make the life you’re living in the present worthwhile into the future, not only for you but for those who surround you. I live my life participating in our community and getting involved in our school. The activities, and the people I’ve formed relationships with, are what have formed me into the person I am today. The person I am today is not perfect, but I have learned from the mistakes I’ve made.
‘’High school is the best years of your life,’’ is a shibboleth commonly used by adults, but how true is this expression? As high school is a time in which one obtains freedom and independency, without having many responsibilities, some adults consider those years to have been the best of their lives. However, plenty of adolescents repudiate this, as they endure a lot of pressure during their high school period. In this essay, I will argue that, although adults often regard high school as the best time of their lives, it is a social institution that can be very threatening to adolescents, as issues such as peer pressure and parental expectations, which become evident in the teen movie High School Musical, generate a lot of tensions that can
Throughout my four years in high school I have been fortunate enough to fulfill many of my aspirations and my thirst for knowledge. One goal that I would like to achieve is to become an international attorney. I have aligned my involvement in specific academic and extra-curricular activities to aid me preparing for the long road between my present situation and the day I pass the bar exam. Through my high school activities I have learned three virtues that I have deemed necessary to achieve my goal, passion, self-discipline, and perseverance.
I was told that this, my junior year, would be the easiest year of my high school career. And no, they were absolutely wrong. It was not just school and grades that I was concern about either. I had other things to worry about, things like, driving, clubs, friends and family. I however had no idea that it would be this difficult. Throughout this school year I have learned many things; like the value of sleep, whose really your friend, and that although very important, grades are not everything.
This topic has brought out a lot of ideas that have been storming inside of my head for a while now. The topic I have chosen is that simply High school and how that has affected me a ton. Now how has this affected me you may ask well it has changed my responsibility's and changed my life. Well every morning I have to wake up early and be so tired the last thing I truly want to do is go to school well someone has to do it and that someone is me. School is really boring and half the stuff if not more you will never use but you must still learn it all if you ever want to be successful in life. i am here to tell you that I have accomplished years of high school and can accomplish those hard years of college. Thank you for your
High school is meant to be the time of your life, but for most seniors just like me it can be some of the most emotional and crazy time. The things in my past make me who I am today, and the things I do now are the first footsteps into the future. I’ve learned a lot about myself in these past four years, and I still have so much learning to do. This is my high school story; the good, bad, and the ugly.
As young girl with big dreams I imagined my senior year of high school to be one of the best years of my life. I imagined going to homecoming with all of my friends, being the captain of the varsity soccer and cheerleading teams, going to Friday night football games, going to Prom with my perfect date, and going on a senior trip with all of my best friends. I never imagined my senior year to be the way that it is. I am the new kid.
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.
Through out life people go through so many hardships. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that comes out of the situation. One of the most exciting but yet scariest events would be graduation. For a lot of people, graduating from high school is a goal. It takes a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal. In the long run, it opens a lot of opportunities for people to succeed. Graduation is the end of high school, and the beginning to life.
Apart from the classroom being how it is in real life and how it is always a positive to be a part of the extracurricular activities. When this film was new and when most of the viewers were kids back then. High School Musical made it seem like when they made it into high school it would be just about the same thing. All of the musicals going on and how amazing high school will be once they make it that far into life. Hollywood made it seem like the kids were going to have a lot of fun and that sports are very important. Although it is mostly correct. High school is fun and sports are very important. Viewers today should know that the musicals are just a fantasy in the Hollywood life of films. Academics are the most important with education. High School Musical takes away the part of how academics should take a huge role in education. That is a danger towards the movie. It would have been good if the movie was made to where it brings out more of real life education while still being a musical. Hollywood could have made a song about maintaining a good grade in class to be eligible to take part in the extracurricular activity. The success to the film about education is that being involved is always a plus. Whether it is being on the basketball team to stay in physical shape and or to be in the drama club to work on public speaking. Also, the academic decathlon to improve on
In high school, I didn’t write papers. I didn’t study grammar. I didn’t have homework. High school was social time. High school was seen as a joke and a waste of time.
You know, it is really strange how quickly time passes, after spending my whole childhood wishing I was an adult, now here we are and it's a little hard to grasp. It feels like just yesterday I was standing here in the same position at eighth grade graduation. Ahh, middle school, such a joyous time for all of us, free of maturity and not a care in the world. The biggest decisions I ever had to make then was deciding which group to stand with at passing time and choosing which shirt from my extensive collection of Stussy and No Feat apparel to wear. We were all naive to the danger that lurked just around the corner. We were unaware that the carefree world we lived in was about to come crashing to the ground in a blazing inferno of real school work and responsibility ... otherwise known as high school.
You have to go into a new atmosphere with many new people and rules. It can be hard to figure out where you fit in and belong. This has stayed mostly the same for past and present. High school has always been a new atmosphere and experience. When my dad was in high school he loved to play sports with his friends, go to school dances, and hang out with friends. There were no football teams at my dad’s high school because it wasn’t a big enough high school, so in the fall you watched soccer, field hockey, and track. My dad ran cross country in the Fall, played basketball in the Winter, and played baseball in the Spring. His school was surrounded by athletics fields much like any other high school past and present. School dances had music, dancing, and each one had a different theme. They were locally decorated by the students based on the theme of that particular dance. At lunch, he sat with all his friends. The lunches were typical and always had the same meals. There were no snacks that you could buy, just what was being served for