My junior year of high school my school softball coach expressed to me that I would never be as talented as the starting varsity catcher. I was sixteen years old and of course I thought I could handle anything that was thrown at me; i felt invincible. After that season of softball that fall‚ I knew I would never be the same. My coach had changed something inside me and I could never go back. I had felt a sense of failure that I had never felt before. From that point on I told myself that I was going
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This year is going to be my best yet. I have the perfect boyfriend with the perfect body. I’m the captain of the girls & boys basketball teams. My grades are great and i’ve already been accepted by five colleges. To think this is my Sophomore year in highschool. “Kila‚ Kila wake up.” My mom says shaking me. “I’m up. What’s going on?” I say sitting up in the bed. “Zavier is waiting for you in den. So get up and get dressed.” She says pulling my blankets off of me. “OKay but mom i am dressed. Please
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year for me in high school. I grew away from many people that I considered some of my closest friends. I also suffered academically because I began to spend less time doing work and being focused on less important things. I got caught up in unnecessary drama‚ went on my first college visits‚ and met new people in the matter of one year. Not only did I grow as a person‚ I grew as an athlete‚ I grew as a sibling‚ and I grew as a young woman. My junior year allowed me to develop my expectations for myself
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Every student is different. I believe that schools should not just have one specific way of grading for each student because each student learns differently and processes the information differently. Schools should give students placement test to see what they need to be taught and how they should be taught the class. Students getting graded on their standards give the students a higher opportunity to get better grades and understand the information better. Grading students on what they actually
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situations because they helped me prepare for an experience I had with my high school dance team. Luckily‚ I come from a very culturally diverse family. My mother’s father is from the Middle East while my father’s family is European. Vastly different origins within one family can create obstacles to achieve one decision. Watching my family work through their ideas and beliefs has helped prepare for one of my more difficult high school experiences. To date‚ the most significant experience in being a
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It was a chilly Monday night‚ and I was sitting in the Ed Landreth Building for the first time since the summer before my junior year of high school‚ when I attended the TCU All State Choir Camp. I reveled in the sights and sounds of the music department; every sound felt familiar to my entire high school choir career. It became fifteen minutes until the recital began‚ and my friend Taylor and I quickly walked into the Pepsico Music Hall. “Just wait!” She told me with excitement. “You’re going
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I remember it like it was yesterday. Elementary school; second grade; Ms. Rubright’s class to be exact. We were being lined up like cattle going to the slaughterhouse‚ so we could go on a bathroom break in an orderly fashion. My teacher called on my table‚ and we stood up and walked over to the line being as quiet as church mice; since that was what was expected by our teacher. It almost seemed like a medieval form of punishment‚ the way they made us wait half a century before we could actually
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friends and peers‚ even after they come home from school. Social networking and texting can be fun ways to keep the conversation going between friends‚ but they also come with some inherent dangers. Cyberbullying has become common place for teenagers. What is Cyberbullying? Cyberbulling occurs when an individual harass‚ threaten or humiliate by another individual with the use of technology. Cyberbullying can take place in several different ways. One common example is -sending mean and hateful
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this anymore. I thought‚ trying to focus on writing down my math homework and zone out the laughter surrounding me. I know- melodramatic eighth graders‚ everyone hates ’em. But I’m different- I swear. You just don’t know the whole story. It started when I walked into this wretched class. The worst thing in the history of bad things ever happening to people happened- I tripped. I know‚ oh the horror! But that’s not just it. I tripped. On my TIED shoelaces. And fell. And people stared. And Aaaughhhghgh
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Something that I am the most proud of is when I made my fist cosplay. All my friends from high school are into cosplay; some of them even won awards for it! I had thought I was too unskilled to join in‚ and procrastinated dabbling in the art. However‚ this Halloween I finally decided to try it out by dressing up as Professor Layton (from the Professor Layton video game series). The most important aspect of the Professor was his signature top hat‚ which I had to figure out how to replicate. I consulted
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