Middle school was a turning point for me. Toward the end of 8th grade I wanted to know if I was willing to open to new ideas and for once and to be curious to what high school has to offer. When I was younger, I struggled with opening to people and expressing myself. I never felt the will to make friends or was to afraid to speak in front of others. Exploring my imagination and ambitious became my goal in high school. With an open-mind set and determination I discovered that anything is possible
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“Do you want to come sit with us?” The sentence that started it all. Going into to the first day of school, I had no idea that my whole world would turn upside down. I went through my first day of freshman year nervous to even be in the high school. My reputation still horrible still getting the same disgusted looks use to all of it, I carried on with my day. I had to keep reminding myself of the changes I’ve made and that I am not that person anymore. The day carried on finally lunch came around
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Playing at the High School Football Game Approximately two weeks ago, the advanced bands from both middle schools, and the band from the high school played during the Sherwood football game. Though the football game was set at a date not too long after school started, everyone was surprised by how well the students were able to play their music. This was due to the fact that all of the students from the bands had received an email informing them that they needed to practice the song “Hooked on
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The start of high school was an absolute mess, even with someone as organized as myself. New topics, ideas, and friends entering and leaving my life quicker than they ever had before. I had classes with seemingly random people who I would have previously never talked to, who would very quickly turn into close friends. This change was only accelerated by the addition of my fall season as a rower. To add some context, I am a 6’ 2” guy who is utterly useless at any sport that requires a drop in hand-eye
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Rivalries are a huge thing within high school sports; especially between two small school fighting over their initials. My school is Ascension Christian and our rival is Ascension Catholic, and for the last two years my baseball team has come up short in very close games. Everyone could feel the tension as we were pulling up to their baseball field. We got out of our team bus and strolled straight into the visitors dugout. As our metal cleats scraped against the concrete, the other team knew we
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always way too uptight, and is super strict about absolutely any happenings in the school. Rumor has it that once he had heard of a party going on in one of the dorms and that there
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Christian Gonzalez Personal Narrative Essay Professor Hunt English 101 31 March 2014 Appreciating Life In today’s world there is a great amount of people who are living a life of poverty. Which causes hunger or sickness to many of their lives. These people generally do not have a home, job, or even a family. From my personal life experience I have noticed that it is common for those who grew up with nothing to appreciate everything they have. The writer Johnathan once stated “Regardless
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moving to a new school would be a challenge but I never imagined it would be this difficult. To ruin a special friendship and to do everything possible to hurt that person is not acceptable. High school is a extremely important time in a youth’s life, it should not be put at risk by jealous girls. Therefore forgiveness plays an extremely important role in ones high school. It all began when Sarah moved to Beachwood, a new school and completely new community for her. Beachwood is a high class area, you
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I always dreaded waking up everyday at 6 a.m. to get ready for school. On February 29th, I woke up and felt terrible and I almost asked my father if I could stay home. Before I asked him, I remembered we were going to have a party in the kindergarten class I tutored for; I could not miss that. When I got to school, I was waiting until lunch to go to the party in my kindergarten room. I was working on my math when our school secretary came on the speaker and yelled “Lockdown, the building is on lockdown
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you meet those three simple requirements, they’ll let anyone in! The class was only offered in the beginning of June if you wanted to take it through the Kindred High School. My birthday is at the very end of March, that’s two months with my learner’s permit. My parents decided it would just be easier to have me take it through the school, since I knew everyone who was in the class, and it worked out better with their work schedules. It was a simple class. The first week, we would show up at eleven
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hardly even able to go to school and were forced to stay inside all day long. I was a very bright student in school, was a fast learning and got good grades when I was able to attend. Unfortnately, I had nobody in my life to turn to to ask for help when it came to learning, not even my teachers. I either had to learn it myself and get it right the first time or fail and never get it right.
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back with regret. I had the amazing ability to just check out of life. Today I don’t like to use that talent because I constantly feel like I’m missing out. The day of my high school graduation, I looked around and I realized I barely knew the kids around me. Four years had gone by, and I had no idea where they went. High school was advertised as the best years of my life, and I totally checked out. I felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone, and I had been robbed of the majority
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In my four years of high school I have participated in four years of cross country running and two years each of indoor and outdoor track. I have run long distance in all of these sports. Running in high school has allowed me to develop better time management skills and a realistic affective goal setting process. Running long distance also demands discipline and perseverance and has helped me to apply these qualities to my academic and personal goals. The members of sports teams that I have been
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Wrestling in high school It was Sign up day, i was excited ready to do this. As i wrote my name down I thought, I don’t really know if i wanna do this anymore, i did it most of middle school and some of elementary in hillsboro. I Went ahead and did it anyways. During the first day of practice i already knew i made the wrong decision. All we did was run in the burning hot weight room to lose weight. We did that for the first couple of days and then started actually wrestling a little, we still had
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Moving to a different high school gave me a new perspective on the academic life I wanted to carry. I was on a mission to prove everyone that doubted me throughout my freshman year that I would be able to succeed in high school. That following summer I worked with a tutor to be ahead of my classmates for my sophomore year. Everything was going great until my family and the school thought it would be best for me to take the normal classes instead of advanced courses. Every day throughout my sophomore
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This story starts out when I was in 2nd Grade I was a popular kid until this new kid came to my school he bullied me he would call me names, “hey you ugly …..” I don’t want to mention the words he said yeah he cussed at me . Then I was in 3rd Grade I wasn’t cool anymore everyone just started to hate me every now and then another person was bullying me they would all say, “Hey weirdo nobody likes you!” I cried all the time but you know that just gave them reasons to bully me. Then I was in 4th
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passed the dancing Texas flag in the wind and wandered through the immense pillars in the entrance to my new school, my anxiety started to show. I was so lost. The outside of this school had already seemed unnerving enough, but as I walked through the doors my hands started to shake. The amount of students in this school easily tripled the amount that attended my old school, Franklin High School. I was extremely nervous because the worrying thoughts of me not being able to make any friends and my teachers
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quantity, so please. You are honestly the most real friendship I have. I have no doubt in my mind that 5 years down the line, we will still be as close as we are right now. To anyone else reading this, it might seem dumb that I hold a high school friendship to this high of a standard, but with you it's totally different. With you, I feel like our friendship is deeper than any I have ever had. We can talk about things beyond the small things. I don't know how to explain it, but like just this morning
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The happiest point in my life was quickly followed by the lowest. As a junior, I had just scored the game winning goal in the district finals for my high school soccer team. My teammates and I were absolutely ecstatic. It wasn’t just because it was the first time in over 30 years we had won a district final, this win just meant one step closer to our ultimate goal: the state championship. This victory meant we were one of the final sixteen teams left in the state. The next game started off hopeful
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I was expecting high school to be like the movie High School Musical, but now that I look at reality, I know that it is not. I’m looking forward to high school though. Everyone makes high school seem scary and terrible. After listening to most of the stories from former freshmen, I get very nervous just thinking about it. I’m actually looking forward to moving up and experiencing new things. In the high school, you can join more clubs, join different sports/activities, and have a lot more freedom
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called, Honolulu, there lived a young boy named, Gabe. Gabe has lived here all his life and was quite the introvert. He made only a few friends and went about his days as carefree as one could be. However, those days ended as he transitioned into high school, a place where many big decisions are made, decisions such as whether to take AP classes and college/career paths. This marked the point where the quiet little Gabe began to change, both physically and mentally. This new Gabe started to become more
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to go any farther. In fifth grade, I moved to Lake Geneva. In fifth grade, I also found my musher. It helped me move on from being afraid of being different and hesitant to take chances. School is holding and election for student council? I heard, “mush,” and ran for president. When I later learned of the school play, something told me once again, “mush.” That March, my parents watched me walk on stage and become Aladdin. A few years later in eighth grade, deeper snow and higher hills were straight
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“ Dang, all my money is gone.” is all I can think about as I sit in after school detention. You are probably wondering how I ended up in such a predicament, being broke and in trouble, but this is the story of how my perfect week turned bad, then perfect, then right back bad. It all started at cheer practice Monday afternoon. At practice that day Coach Wanda announced that the 9th-grade cheer team would get to perform with the Senior cheer team Friday night during the football game halftime
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From time to time over the years, I have thought about what I want to do after I get my high school diploma. A couple of months ago I realized what I wanted to do. I have decided to breed champion line collies. I already have a female champion line collie that is my pet. I realized, I could just start out breeding her, but I needed a stud dog. I got on the internet and looked for a male collie puppy. I found a champion line male that was 4 months old that I really liked, so I called to see
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the least diverse towns in the country as I’ve only known of one African American family living there my whole life. Everyone that I went to school with was of the same ethnicity and it seemed very normal for us, which is why after attending UW-Madison, I became much more aware of the different ethnicities and the problems that come with them. In high school, we talked about racism in past tense as if it was on the verge of extinction, when really there acts of racism taking place millions of times
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Three years ago I was just starting high school and was excited about starting school that year because I was just getting out of middle school, but what I didn’t realize is that high school flies by before you know it. I’m now in my last year of high school and have to start thinking about starting a career or even go to college! I’m definitely not ready to grow up but before I know it I’m going to have to start paying bills and my own phone plans and my own clothes and food, so if I wanted all
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from one school to another, even if it is not that far like Reardan to Willpinit, I feel like entering a different universe. Arnold's switch to Reardon High School came with huge challenges like overcoming cultural barriers, interpersonal barriers, personality differences, and different life experiences. I relate to this experience because when I was in elementary to middle school, I switched school districts. I was especially connected with his emotions when he first transferred schools. Arnold's
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English 101 Graduating High School without applying oneself to school work, or looking forward to the future, was for myself, and is for many other people a great negative factor for getting started on a positive, and productive outlook on life, toward a better future. The negative effects from not paying attention, or simply not applying oneself in the early stages of life, follow us around, and have made many aspects of life more difficult for myself and many others. For example
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This experience takes me back to third grade when I used to catch the school bus every day at 7:40 am. Every day I would get up at 6:30 am, get ready and then go out of the house a few minutes early to wait for the bus. Once I get on the bus I put on my headphones so I can tune everyone out. The bus carries kids from Kindergarten through fifth grade. Every day the bus was very loud and sometimes dangerous. I would glance to one side of the bus and see kids flying out of their seats, boys fighting
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Throughout the first half of my high school career, I definitely would describe myself as a follower. I went along with whatever my friends did just to try to “fit in”. This all changed as I entered my junior year of high school. One day at field hockey practice, a few senior girls invited some of my friends and I to a party that they were having that night. I knew that there would be alcohol there and I knew it was not a good idea. Most of my friends were excited to be invited to a party with
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