Freshman Year Research Paper

Freshman 101 is a class adapted from the parrot program (Fay & Medway, 2006, p. 226). The parrot program was designed for college students at Cornell University. Freshman 101 is the first of its kind in the state of South Carolina and the first to extend Parrot’s college program to high school freshmen (p. 226). Each two-hour intervention class contained 25 to 30 freshmen students. The objectives of the class were to have participants understand the definition of acquaintance rape and the frequency that it takes place along with South Carolina’s laws regarding rape (p. 226). Students also learned about mixed messages associated with verbal and non-verbal communication and how to clearly state their wants and desires (p. 227). Communication,

Coming from being a junior in high school to now being a senior. Senior in high school is going to be one of the most favorite and scariest parts of my life. Everyone says that it is one of the biggest part of your life. They say senior year will be one of my favorite memories. My expectations for high school amounts to worrying about deadlines for my high school projects, everyone asking about where I will be attending college, and trying to figure out what I am going to do with the rest of my life.

We all regret some of the choices we’ve had in the beginning of our high school journey. Since we can’t go back and change them, we can always give advice to the incoming freshman who may need our advice. Coming from middle school can be a hard transition because there are so many new things to learn. New students will face a new campus, teachers, friends, and overall a new way of life. I believe that freshman students who struggle to adapt into high school can lead to poor grades, peer pressure, and losing focus of long term goals. Here are some suggestions to help incoming freshman have a successful high school experience.

Sophomore year is going to get tougher as you go on, but there will be many room to have fun, like the assemblies. Dont give in to video games, like last year. I will not play League of Legends or any other games until I finish my homework and studies. My days of being a procrastinator master is over. Remember back when you stayed up till 3:00 studying or doing a project at the last minute. Doing everything the day they are assigned makes your life more stress free. I wouldn’t be tired and have a mood swing while doing my homework, and then sleep for a few hours, and waking up feeling like poo.

“Time flies by when you’re having fun”, I never thought this quote would mean so much to me until now. This quote was repeated constantly my junior year and now I realize the true meaning of it. All the years I’ve spent in school have led up to this point, my senior year. As my last year in high school begins, and soon ends, I have a lot of decisions to make, and goals to set. Keeping high grades, going to FBLA nationals, and making my teachers proud are a few of my senior goals.

Freshman year was definitely the most nerve wracking for me. I was between moving, switching schools, and making new friends. It was a scary time in my life. It was also a new beginning! My first day of freshman year was like a fresh start for me. I made new friends, and a new very best friend! Though I did miss my old friends,

Many college students find their freshmen year emotionally challenging. For instance, transitioning to a new place far from home they find themselves alone, depressed and emotional. Other students work so hard to achieve their goals of academic excellency, that they overwhelm themselves to exhaustion. By the same token, receiving negative feed back from teachers can lower students’ self-esteem. Even though students are going through these struggles, at the end of their progress they will feel relieved because they achieved their

An advice that I would tell to incoming juniors would be to take everything serious as it is a year that is essential to colleges and universities. The first step to make a great year is having the capacity to have work done. Many say that junior year is the worst year of high school, but it does not have to be unless procrastination takes upon you. Proceeding to enter senior year, some advice that I would give myself is, do not panic and take things easy. Applications for colleges and universities are around the corner and the need to have everything done on time will be stressful, give yourself some time off to adjusting to an accumulating period of time and effort. Time is precious but so is my health, relax and ask for help in hard times,

Everyone always talks about how high school was so fun and you should have the time of your life, and everyone got along, but I never quite saw it. High school for me was not a time of befriending everyone, finding love, and fun times. To me, it was a confined prison, full of sweaty kids, stupid drama, and overwhelming work to do. I spent the majority of the time trying to find who I belong with, a club I fit in to, people to hang out with, and how not to be such an awkward person all the time. I was under stress constantly, for my parents forced me to focus on nothing but school, and despite me being focused on that, I wanted to try to hang out with friends as much as I could. I had to learn how to balance social life, school life, and my alone time. And what a struggle that was.

Just this year thousands of kids started their freshman year of college here at NIU. Like many, I was terrified, but instead of letting my fear get to me, I used it to fuel my confidence instead. That is my belief, that instead of hiding when you are afraid, you should use the fear of the unknown and turn it into a reason to experience more.

High school was actually very good for me. At first it was difficult to make friends, but by my senior year I had amazing friends. A majority of my friends were a year younger than me so when it was time to talk to them about college, they weren’t really thinking about it yet. Luckily I did have some friends that were my age so I had some people to talk to about college.

Obviously like any other freshman high schooler I was excited to start playing high school sports and being apart of the whole high school experience. But like many other freshman I had a false impression of high school. I thought it was going to be exciting and that I would meet a lot of the older kids and go to cool highschool parties. I also didn 't understand why people always said highschool changes people. I

My freshmen year of high school I did not expect much to change from middle school, just more work along with unwanted stress of moving on to high school. I had to the wrong attitude going into my classes. I felt as if the teachers were all against me and they all wanted me to fail or just torture me. The daily frustration of having to go to school everyday seemed to be unbearable. I tried to fake being sick or to tired to go to school on a daily basis. All that got me through the seemingly endless days was the thought of never having to step foot on a school campus again.

My freshman year brought new friends, new hobbies and new options! As a freshman I wanted to be involved in as much as I could. I joined every club possible, including KAY, Student Council, and FBLA. I was able to be freshman rep of FBLA, Future Business Leaders of America, and this gave me the chance to make friends that were not in my grade.

It felt like everyone at the school already knew who I was and was friendly with me on the first day, I even remember exactly what outfit I had on and I didn’t even take a picture. I was the only freshman at the school to be on the varsity football and basketball team at Lakeland Senior high school , and actually one of my best friends during the basketball season got moved up from JV to varsity with me so that was something else that was cool to me . Although the first year of high school everyone says is one of the most important years you’ll have , I wish I would’ve had that focus honestly but unfortunately I didn’t , my head was into being popular and cool with everybody , getting all the females , as shy as I was my freshman year a lot of the females wanted my attention ,