The emotional, and quite frankly physical, toll that high school has on teenagers is quite high. Of course some individuals may have a more stressful high school career than others, but those individuals are the ones who go on to a rigorous college experience as well. When in schooling, especially in high school and college, everything has to be done in super speed. Many students aren’t receiving the amount of sleep that they should because of workload and some students mental health is even becoming unstable. If students begin planning for college and working toward the college path that they desire during middle school, they will endure 7 years of strenuous schooling before they even reach college level.…
High school is the transition between middle school and college, thus it is a significant point in a student's’ academic career. It is a time where students have to use more effort and new habits are set, so skills like organization will be crucial in college. Looking back, I can reflect on my high school years and conclude there are various things one should yield for consideration. Therefore, there are a few recommendations that I can suggest to someone starting their high school career. Middle school was the time of one’s educational career where homework was a heavy influence on grades.…
What’s in between everything? What’s personal? One of the more common reasons people drop out of school is just plain academic struggle. Their classes are too hard, they don’t get enough help, they fall behind, and they feel too much pressure to stay.…
Though I am not even half way through my high school career, I feel as if I can still be a help to those who are just beginning. High school is probably the most important part of your life that you are responsible for in our teenage years, so it is important not to mess it up. There are a few concepts that I have figured out by myself that I wished someone would have told me. Those of which include never procrastinate, think about your future, learn how to manage your time, and do not settle for less than your best. My first recommendation is that you don’t procrastinate.…
Most movies portray high school students as one dimensional. They include peppy cheerleaders and dumb jocks whose lives seem perfect. Nerds eat by the dumpsters and get picked on by the school's bully. Although sometimes these characters exist, everyone has some unique quality that few others know about. Throughout my life, I’ve had to deal with multiple obstacles such as raising my little sister as my own, deciding which high school to attend, and learning how to adjust to my dual enrollment course.…
This situation has become all too popular in the high school system in today’s time. While some say that high school is the best days one one’s life, others say that college is substantially improved. What makes high school so difficult for some students? Why is college such a breath of fresh air? College and high school are both critical forms of education, but when comparing workload, social life, and freedom, college is a more favorable student experience.…
I couldn’t gain the nerve to tell my parents I failed. I didn’t gain a sense of urgency until it was too late. My middle school years were rather easy, until the 8th grade where I failed my first class. My 8th grade year and MacArthur Intermediate was a rather new experience for myself. Failing my first class in school was a difficult aspect of my life that I didn’t expect would happen.…
Almost all 8th graders are worried about the transition to high school, but high school isn’t all that different. Here is some information to see if high school is different or if it's the same as middle school. Sure, there may be some minor changes, but you will see that high school is really the same. For instance the classes will be the same as they are here, but there will be different subjects than here.…
How can the struggles you face during your high school years make an impact in your life? Growing up is a part of life, but when you have to grow to be an adult your senior year that may be too soon. That was the case I had to face my 2010-2011 school year while attending McGavock High School. That year I learned how to become independent, mature and str To begin with, learning how to become Independent was a necessity at that point in my life.…
College Nightmare In life, people come across challenging obstacles when trying to achieve their goals. College, like life, has a variety of challenges that appear in students’ pathways to their goals. For most college students that are just starting out in the basic classes, such as English 101, problems can arise due to classes being much harder than the prior high school classes the students are used to. Mrs. Fox-Angerer’s class is hard because it has an online portion, it creates stress, and it is a required class.…
High school is a time in life where many important lessons are learned to help a person grow into something better. I have made mistakes in my time in high school and from those experiences I have learned valuable lessons. My freshman and sophomore years I was not a good student. I was not motivated to academically better myself and because of that my grades suffered heavily. Those years of carelessness do not accurately represent me as the student I am now.…
The life is made of choices and changes, and always these two things are connected. Choices lead to changes, and changes require choices. Thereby, it seems like the life is an incessant cycle made of choices and changes, and it is. During all periods of life such as childhood, adolescence, majority and old age, we pass for big changes in our lives. These changes mark the life of each person in the world forever.…
Essay one The first semester of a college’s students career will be one of the most exciting yet stressful semesters of their college career. Coming straight out of high school or a job, college will be a very different kind of education any student has taken in their academic career. Different in a sense of the new academic obstacles that a college student must overcome to succeed. Obstacles like the writer William Zinsser once wrote “I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure and self-induced pressure” (Zinsser 2).…
High school is never easy. There are a lot of changes and growing that people endure. I had a lot of hard times throughout high school. I had my fair shares of ups and downs just like everyone else. I was the type of student who stressed out of every single test, quiz, and project.…
‘’Life is an unfinished painting that continues to grow threw out our live’’. Throughout the years of growing up and becoming a wise young man I had to make chooses to better myself. As a teenager I felt like no teenager including myself took school serious. We all as teenagers never realize the importance of our education until it’s almost too late in life. High school to me was a like middle school where teachers basically used to stand by us to make us do our work.…