Middle school is over and it is time to enter the “fastest four years of our lives.” High school is supposedly filled with endless adventures and challenges‚ but how can I feel satisfied that all of my goals were accomplished? While in middle school‚ school began and ended a half an hour after that in high school‚ we took yellow buses instead of Septa‚ and the grading system was not as strict. Even though there are changes to get used to and overcome‚ before I reach the end of my senior year I want
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does the entire year count as one giant disappointment? My eighth grade year was my year of many disappointments that continued one after other until the entire school year felt like a huge let down. There is no year that I despise more than my junior high year‚ and that is quite a claim considering how awful middle school was for my fellow students and me. How could one school year be so incredibly bad? My eighth grade school year was the biggest disappointment of my life due to my insecurities‚ my
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On a gloomy February day in 2013‚ I was set to meet my high school counselor for the first time. My mom and I arrived at Niles West and found ourselves waiting in the guidance counselor’s office to decide my classes for freshman year. “Jason?” My head tilted up. “I can meet with you now” my counselor said with an inviting smile. Going into the meeting‚ I was dead set on taking a debate class in order to be on the debate team. My dream in eighth grade was to be a lawyer‚ and I thought being in
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Compare and Contrast Essay High School vs College Having a good education is the key to becoming successful in life. It is a proven fact. This achievement requires not only graduating from high school‚ but also from college. Moving from high school to college may be an exciting transition‚ but it is also a very difficult one. It is a challenge that the student will struggle with and eventually adjust to over time. Although there are many differences between high school and college‚ one should
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Rates Are Increasing Many young adults view high school as a new territory with more advanced classes‚ more students‚ but other students only view the negative side of high school ‚ rather than the positive. What most young adults do not understand is that when they choose to dropout of their high school‚ it is only stealing valuable knowledge from them. It is obvious that the high school drop out rate is increasing rapidly. Why might the rate of high school students be increasing‚ and why do students
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There are a number of sobering statistics concerning the high school dropout rate in the United States. One third of all students who enter high school don’t graduate.1 As of 2000‚ 10.9% of 16 to 24 year olds were dropouts.2 The dropout rate in urban schools is twice the rate of non-urban schools.2 Statistics also show that young adults whose families are in the lowest 20% of incomes are six times more likely to dropout that those whose families are in the upper 20% of incomes.2 The U.S. Department
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When I first was assigned to write a paper on one of my previous papers that I wrote in high school using rhetorical situations I was very excited. This was because I knew exactly what paper I wanted to write about; the paper that I enjoyed the most‚ which was my short story called speech to Roseanne. I wrote it in high school for my teacher Ms. Drysdale’s class. I first began incubating the first day thinking and planning in my head exactly what I wanted to say in this paper. I knew I had to focus
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A common theme throughout my high school career has been overcoming adversity‚ even when it did not seem possible to myself or others. During my freshman year‚ I developed an illness that caused me to miss school occasionally. Though it was difficult with advanced classes‚ I was able to get through it and maintain a grade point average of all A’s and A-’s that I was very proud of. Unfortunately‚ my health began to deteriorate during my sophomore year so much so that I had to take many classes
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How does working while in high school affect high school students? There are many differing opinions both positive and negative regarding the effects of working on academic success. Working while in high school is a necessity for some in order to pursue higher education. It teaches responsibility and budgeting. However‚ on the flip side‚ there are many who would debate that teenagers in America who work during high school experience negative effects on their high school success such as‚ no social
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My High School Experience Everyone has heard or been told‚ “high school is what you make of it.” High school is in fact what you make of it‚ but it is also the time of great change in everybody. They say HIGH SCHOOL is the best part of growing up and being a teenager. It is where we can experience things‚ which we thought we can never make or do. It is where we discover and learn things in our own and it is where we learn to become independent. In my four years of studying here‚ I discovered
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