I was dodging students like I was a car and they were the deer that had just been caught in headlights. Running fast, as if my name had all of the sudden been changed to none other than Usain Bolt. Breathing so heavily you would’ve thought I was being chased after by a crowd of angry, smelly, ginormous teenage bullies, but oh wait, I was. For me, new schools come as often as an update to a computer, which as you know can be about the most annoying thing in the world. If this were elementary school I would’ve been able to walk right in, say my name and favorite Hot Wheels car, and instantly had 20 new friends. But this was high school, and unfortunately things weren’t as sunshine and rainbows as they were back then.
By the time I had gotten to my new school, everyone had already formed their clicks from their years of friendship. You have your classic ones: Jocks, Prom queens, Nerds, Drunkies, and the people who were so shy they didn’t say a single word. Sadly for me there wasn’t already a Loser, Freak, Nerd, Outcast group to join, so I made one myself. Unlike other cliques, mine only consisted of just one person, me, myself, and I. Not having anyone else to watch out for you can be hard, though I had somehow managed to come my whole life with only one friend, myself. In situations like the one, I was about to find myself in, I realized another pal would’ve been nice to have.
I was in PE, just minding my own boring business, when I saw her staring at me. Now who is this
Abigail Williams is the niece of Reverend Parris. From the beginning the audience can get the idea that Abigail is not a truthful person. At first, Abigail tells her uncle, Parris, that did not do any sort of witchcraft in the forest. She said her, betty, and the others were only dancing. Once Reverend Hale starts questioning the event in the forest, Abigail then begins to reveal what she said actually happened in the forest. She also begins to show cowardness when she confesses they were doing witchcraft. She then changes the story that their servant,Tituba, had forced them to drink blood and do the witchcraft.
It was the time of college applications and everyone in my school was going crazy. I was relaxed and calm during the process, however, I was
George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm, can be easily compared to countries and events in modern-day because of its practice of oppression. One way oppression has been created in modern-day events, Animal Farm and today’s countries is through the control of information. The control of information has created oppression in countries like North Korea and Russia. The corruption and control of the Russian government led to oppression in previous times. North Korea also uses this technique to oppress their people. Orwell’s novel shows how control of information can create ignorance that leads to oppression; the allegorical meanings of the novel show that this same phenomenon occurred during the Russian Revolution and is still occurring in North Korea.
I would like to pretend that the bridge between elementary school and high school did not exist for me—that junior high just did not happen. I was a seemingly thoughtless kid, determined to make it out of school entirely and live in my own world where nobody could tell me what to do. I was awkward, irrational, and rebellious, three qualities I cannot thank my parents enough for dealing with. But the experiences and people I encountered in my junior high years almost made that whole chapter of my life worth reliving. I went through a lot in junior high, and have many memories of ridiculous instances that make it easy to make fun of myself.
One of the scariest things in life is big change. You can't control it a lot of the time, but it happens anyway whether you like it or not. One of these difficult changes is switching schools. In the summer of 2010, I moved from Florida to Tennessee and had to go to a new school where I knew nobody. I would be staying in Knoxville for the rest of my life, or at least up until I moved away for college. It made it a little easier being as young as I was, but it was still difficult to start over somewhere new. Looking back at it now, I don't think it's as scary and terrible as I thought it was. It brought new friends and opportunities which made it the best thing to ever happen to me. It may have taken place eight years
During the first two years of my high school career, I experienced intolerable levels of hardship which I eventually vanquished and was able to preside over. In case It doesn’t become evident, I have a “type a” personality which I’ve been more than conscious of since my middle school days. The feeling of unease that tormented me all throughout middle and half of my high school years when I wasn’t excelling further more than I was in my previous years. Personal goals, and ambitions, that I wasn’t quite living up to, it raged me, It wasn’t who I was, I was better than that. I always thought I’d be destined for greater things, I never imagined it’d come with sacrifices and failures, at least not like mine. It wasn’t until I began high school when I realized how different things were and it wouldn’t be your ordinary middle school level material.
Before I truly began to walk with Jesus, I was under the impression that I always had been. I was baptized as a baby, attended the same church my entire childhood, and spouted off every Sunday school answer without missing a beat. I loved the Lord, and I understood that he was my Savior and Creator, but I did not fully understand to what capacity I had been saved and created. I was missing something, and at age thirteen I developed a serious case of perfectionism. I closely monitored what I ate, religiously worked out, and devotedly studied to obtain unbeatable grades. I practiced piano every day until my wrists hurt and would except no less than flawless performances. I was captain of the cheer squad, and often referred to as “little miss perfect.” At a young age, I had constructed an image of what I thought I should be. Behind the facade, I was extremely lonely and insecure, but assumed those feelings were just middle school angst that would subside when I entered high school.
It was freshman year in high school, and I was ecstatic about the fact that I can officially refer to myself as a high school student. However, not everything was perfect, nor filled with sunshine and rainbows. It was just two weeks into the school year when I faced my first arduous obstacle.
As I have grown up, I have been extremely lucky to grow up in a well rounded household with privileges that many students are not able to experience. From a young age I was enrolled in a private school and then moved to a public school program in a nice neighborhood with an impressive school system. I was able to enroll in club sports and be a part of anything my heart desired. My parents were both able to receive a college degree and go straight into the workforce with little debt from their college educations. I have been able to have dogs, fish, and a cat throughout my childhood, never realizing how much of a privilege that was until I began to grow older and meet people who had grown up in very different situations. Waking up christmas morning to see stockings filled and presents piled high, everything I had asked for and more. I've been able to travel all over the world and experience things that some people can only dream about. However, once I came to high school, I joined the Academy for Global Studies, which is a program that focuses on the global aspects, and has helped me to become more aware of the people around me and not focus
High School is a place where “ if opportunity doesn’t knock build a door.” . For many of us, high school is that daunting step where students go from a small fish in a small pond, to a slightly larger fish in a much bigger pond. It explains that how students start their career from “a small fish” meaning in the first year they are very new to high school, they have plenty of new and great things to learn and also many more ways to go through in their life. They will face some problems, will go through some positive and maybe some bad experiences, and also understand the importance of study. From these experiences everyday they grasp learning power. As they go further, they learn many things, which are interesting and beneficial to them with their career or future. I had to transition from 600 students k-8 to 3,200 students in high school.
One thing I've learned at Shea high school is that friends are impermanent. You won't stroll in with similar friends you end up seemingly leaving with. Indeed, I am going to be leaving school with just a small group of friends that I know have the same intentions as I do. You will float away from friends since you will wind up noticeably with unique individuals. Your buddies will abandon you and you are similarly as replaceable as they may be. You will discover new people from a variety of different perspectives; from personal experience, they will be the greatest friends you ever meet. The general population you call your “friends” in all likelihood don't have your best enthusiasm on the most fundamental level
Sixth grade seem like a century ago, yet I still have vivid sometimes frightening memories of that wretched year. I still remember the day we learned about Idioms. How amazing it was to my sixth-grade mind that I could use these unusual phrases to describe what I was experiencing. Today I will use my most valuable sixth grade English skills and pair my favorite idiom to my experiences.
4th grade was a filled with chaos. Even if I try to remember one moment, I can only pull out blurry images. But out of all of these foggy memories, one stands above all. Three years back, I’m standing in front of the whole class; face as red like blood as everyone gawks and laughs. How I got into this situation is a long story. Very little did I know, it would alter my singing ‘career’.
I can vividly remember the feeling of excitement that overwhelmed me when I first walked onto the Peddie campus. When I got out of the car and had people greeting me, I knew that Peddie would be the place for me. My tour guide, Oliver Crane, completely convinced me that Peddie was the optimal place for me to do a PG year. After visiting the school, I immediately started on my application and eventually realized that I was accepted. About a week before heading up to Peddie, I started researching the school. I found mostly positive things, but also some negatives. However, this is expected of any school. I read that it can be difficult to make friends and that it is also hard being independent without having parents always by your side. By prejudging the school before I actually got there, I created so much built up anxiety and hesitation. By doing this I felt like I was already going into the new school year completely closed off to the environment. I eventually realized in order for me to have a successful and meaningful experience here I would have to be open to a new environment. I was extremely worried about whether I would make friends or not, whether people would like me, and whether the academics would be too challenging for me. After being at Peddie for two weeks now, I can say that these things do not present an issue for me because my maturity, determination to engage in the Peddie community, and motivation to excel academically has led to my success thus far.
The struggles of and the struggles people created for me during my high school years. Honor student, very quiet, ad never been apart of the crowd. The desire to fit in only resulted in a terrible experience and the devastation of the grades on my transcript. I became more into my social life then my education. It took self analyzing and the realization of the dreams that I want to achieve for a spark of change to come.