Personal Narrative Essay Examples High School

Freshman year I was very nervous to start high school, but I was a little happy to at the same time. It was exciting to move on from middle school. I was nervous because it was my third year in the Brunswick City Schools and I didn’t have very many friends. I was also nervous because there were so many people than I was used to seeing. I remember my first day of 7th grade being scared because I was new and because there was so many people. Going into my first day of highschool felt like…

High school has been a four-year collection of many downs for me; I have struggled with depression since middle school, and it has followed me into my teenage years. The most difficult part of depression for me is having a lack of energy. I wake up for school at six o’clock in the morning and find it practically impossible to drag myself out of bed, but I know I have to because staying at home all day makes me feel even worse. I go to school with people I’m typically not in the mood to talk to,…

I still remember the first high school football game I ever attended. I stood in the first row next to my best friends, Jordan and Nick. It was the fall of our first year in junior high; the leaves just had begun to turn, there was the soft burnt autumn smell in the air, and it was just cool enough that we brought our matching Machebeuf hoodies. As the home team sprinted onto the field, the student section erupted, posters shot up into the air, the cheerleaders began their chants, and the whole…

and worked a full time job, maintaining a 4.5 GPA and being active within a homeschool group. I would have loved to continued homeschool throughout high school but when my Mother and I moved from the coast back home to Asheboro to be with family, my Mom had to go back to working full time. So off to high school I went, well it turns out real high school is not like the musical that I somewhat expected. Joining as a sophomore it was difficult fitting in at times. Everyone had their group of…

Entering my first year in high school, in 2013 i wasn’t the typical kid who knew everybody. I didn’t feel comfortable talking to people because I was shy. In class I would barely ask questions, not knowing if everybody would think the questions were stupid.When I got around a group of a people I never knew how to start a conversation. After all, I came from a small middle school where everybody had known each other for 10 years. Even learning how to get around the school was a challenge. My…

Like a river, high school has been a winding journey for me. Sometimes I am not sure what is around the bend. With each bend change happens within me when I allow it to. My mom once said, sometimes you have to give up to get up. The river started off nice, calm, and welcoming and then the water started to pick up the pace. I have changed as a person and have matured more through the raging waters and rapids than the calm of my freshmen year. Going into my Freshman year I had some high…

When my freshmen year of high school in the fall of 2014, I was beginning to look forward to a great year, a great season of cross-country, and a great new school. What I wasn’t looking forward to was the problems and adjustments I would have to make as a new freshmen in high school, especially my first ever all boys, Catholic School. I knew adjustments were a part of life and that I would have to come to terms to that and enjoy the new experience as much as I could. The problems I was trying to…

but things went pretty well. My freshman year I went to Max S. Hayes High School. My parents were so excited there last born was finally in high school. I was so excited I couldn’t sleep the night before. My excitement came from all my older sister going to high school and me wanting to know what was so different, and why couldn’t I be in classes with all my sisters. I thought it would be all fun and games like the movie High School Musical. It definitely was a different change. There was so…

have had the satisfaction of knowing that at the end of the day I can go home. I am a shy person, and it has always been difficult for me to adjust to a new environment. Transitioning from eighth grade to high school was especially difficult for me because my high school was, in fact, a boarding school, which meant that that feeling of satisfaction was no longer present at the end of the day but postponed to the end of the week. Living at LFA was a completely new world for me and nothing I had…

The avoidance of planning can ultimately crash a physical education program in a school. As it talks about in Graham, it can become not an enjoyable experience. When lessons are not planned out it can lead to injury and unhappy students. Once you get a mix of that it becomes unhappy parents and unhappy administration, which ultimately, takes away the value of your program. I can relate this to my high school physical education program, where it is the type of program where you roll the ball out…