What I Learned After Graduate From High School

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Every thing in life is a learning experience whether you mean it to be or not, in fact most things we learn are by accident. Meaningful learning experience happens many times in lifetime, some teaches minor lesson and some teaches important lesson. Even sitting on the couch watching TV, you can learn something. When you're watching the news, you've learning about the society. I had learned a great many things after graduate from high school. It has change my thought toward life. I felt like I grow more smarter, more confident and, in many cases, wiser. I felt like I grew smarter after graduate from high school. To begin with, I was strongly belief that I probably couldn't make through high school because I came to United State with almost no English. The Texas state just have a new rule for high schooler to pass 15 STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness ) in order to graduate from high school in my freshman years. The new rule give me more stress every night but change to 5 in my sophomore year. I prayed to God every night to help me pass all my course and the state test. However, graduate from high school changed my previously held beliefs. I …show more content…

Ironically, I believe that my shyness, something that I consider a communication barrier, has ultimately led me to focus on a field for my life’s work: communications. I have many goals, but to accomplish these goals I have to get through the many obstacles that could get in the way. Even though, I am not finished creating my goals and aspirations, I already have many. The two most important are to be happy and successful. I want to be happy because even if I become rich or famous, if I am not happy in life nothing else would matter. Success for me is simply doing something that I've always wanted to do. That in itself is quite an achievement. I’m confident that I will get through all those obstacles without any problems if I keep believing in

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