...Fairfield Prep is a place I have never experienced in my life. The saying these four years will go fast is now a reality. I remember sitting at freshman orientation scared and alone, I had no friends and no one to talk to. Now I can't remember a moment of my prep experience that hasn't been anything but fulfilling and sacred. I never would of thought that these four years of my life would be this amazing and this fast. I have learned different lessons that I will defiantly use for the rest of my life. I remember Father Hanwell our president freshman year saying that this experience isn't going to make you just smarter or athletically, it's going to make you a more well rounded person. I can assure you that this statement is true. I have learned...
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...to encourage people, or students in this case, to reach new academic and behavioral goals. I was a member of the most important club at my high school and that was the Renaissance Program. The Renaissance Program is a leadership committee in a high school setting to promote achievement and success throughout the school. I joined when we first started the committee and that was when I was a freshman in high school. I am certainly the person I am today because of this committee. As a member I learned how to become a leader, travel throughout the states, and become friends with amazing people. Leadership is what I learned as I enjoyed my four years of being a committee member for The Renaissance Program. Some people see leadership as simply someone who people follow, or as someone who guides or directs others. Well I see leadership as organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal. Leadership is also a social influence enlisted by a person to support others in an accomplishment. As the Renaissance Program grew I was one of the main members, making me feel welcoming. As the four years went on I became more and more of a leader due to the actions I was making on the committee. These actions include getting students and teachers involved in the committee and outside the committee. I was in charge of different Rallies throughout the years to help promote our Program. Rallies would involve teachers and students and different activities that were performed in front of the whole...
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...Seabury ENB 110, TR 10:50 Essay #2 22 September 2015 The Freshman Guide to College Survival To all current and future seniors, what are your plans after high school? Going to college? Ok, and what do you expect to get out of college? You probably think you know what differentiates high school from college but, I can assure you that you have no idea. From living situations to time management, college is different roller coaster but, it is on your shoulders on how you handle it. This transition is not going to be easy to deal with, for you nor your parents. Most freshmen can handle themselves for the first couple of days while others are already calling on the first night for the first flight back home. Now at this point you might be thinking "Where will I go?", "What should I wear?", "Will people like me?” etc. but, in reality none of that matters. There are more than a dozen rules in which you may need to actually survive your freshman year of college but, the two factors in which you’ll need the most guidance from is the Freshman Facebook page and roommates. Before you pack up almost everything that you own: clothes, shoes, and photos of everybody you know… one of the first things you’ll likely do after enrolling in school is join the Freshman Facebook Page for your class. Whether you post about the food, classes, or just other classmates that you see around campus, posting helps you to get to know every freshman (even the people you don’t see) socially. Currently, looking...
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...October 28th, 2014, was unquestionably the worst day of my life. My parents sat my sister and me down to make an announcement. I initially believed we might have been moving again, dreading yet another relocation, but once my parents had made their announcement, every part of me wished that “we’re moving again” was all they had to say. My mom, they told me, had been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Once my mother's illness was announced, I truly did lose myself in ways that are still difficult to explain. Because of this single moment, every aspect of my life for the next few years was filled with anticipation for the worst. Freshman year was the hardest of all four years in high school. Not only was it a transition year for me from moving from Germany...
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...related to many different problems, one problem that had personally affected me was the grades I got my freshman year of college. I started my college career struggling a little bit and often wondered how I could raise my grades and improve my GPA until I was satisfied with the grades I would get. Coming to college I was finally on my own with no one to wake me up, make me do homework, or go to class. These all led to my GPA not being exactly where I wanted it to be along with a number of psychological factors that have all been introduced throughout lecture and the readings. The four different chapters I can relate this problem most too would have to be those on stress, personality, motivation and social psychology. Stress is one of the main leaders for college students and low GPA’s and I believe it had a lot to do with my original GPA from my freshman year. Living here on campus is extremely overwhelming at first for a freshman here at UMass Amherst. There are so many events that you can attend, RSOs that you can join, and other things in town and campus. It is also the first time moving away from home and that can lead to stress because no one is around to remind you about things that you may forget to do. The classes here at UMass were also extremely different from any classes I took at my high school. I was used to smaller classes of about 20-25 students that were all mostly my friends, now I was being thrown into a 400 person lecture with a bunch of strangers and just a professor...
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...In my life some things have really stunk, I felt like a total punk. When hope was out of sight, I had a brother who stepped in to fight. I could be in the dumps, really canned, he would always lend a helping hand. He could be really close or not, I could still call him on the spot. Not only was he there for the bad days, but for the good ones, always, I can’t say we’ve always been on the same track, but my brother’s always got my back. I could be in any sort of jam some as thick as tar, still he would never be that far. We used to fight all the time when we were young, then, well then I pierced my tongue. That’s when he went away, he’s never even come back for like a day. It’s okay now I don’t mind, because my brother I can always find. I love him more then a lot things, and it’s not only because we’re siblings. Where ever he is I still see his face, he’s my one and only brother, I love you Ace. Bibliography: Personal Essay My name is Annie Chapman and I am sixteen years old. I started my life in 1983, in Los Angeles, actually in a suburb called Culver City. From the hospital I moved into a house on Lucerne Ave with my father Alan Berftman, my mother Mary Lee Chapman, and my older brother by four years, Ace. I spent just short of ten years in that same house. While I lived in Culver City I attended a Spanish emersion elementary school called El Rinclon. There I learned to speak Spanish as a second language. A month...
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...Dribbling the ball down the YMCA court. The ball slipping from my hand every with step taken from me. All that was heard was the giggles and chuckles of all the other kids in the gym. That was my biggest downfall during the early stages of playing my favorite sport. Those experiences I encountered as a young child really made me a different person. Would not be the student, player or person I am today if it was not for the experiences I went through. Being harassed and teased by the way I played basketball taught me that I can not let little things get to me. As the caterpillar that I am, waiting to sprout into a butterfly and go on my own, off to college. I had a time alone and realized the difference in my life since middle school. As...
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...“High school, the best four years of your life.” The way I feel it's going to be the more stressful four years of my life. Going to night school is nerve racking and quite frankly terrifying. I'm going to go from being the oldest grade in the middle school to the youngest in high school. I am excited, however for some things. I'm most nervous for the upperclassmen and assignments and I'm most excited for the freedom. Ninth grade, freshman year, fresh meat, no matter what you call it freshmen are the youngest. Upperclassman make me feel uneasy since, we have classes with them now. In the middle school you saw another grade one or two times a day. I am nervous I will look stupid in front of the upperclassmen. I might have a mental breakdown if I feel in front of them; especially if it was during the beginning of the school year. I am friends with some upperclassmen, but it is still scary to me. I am not looking forward to having classes with any of the older grades. I scheduled to take higher classes during freshman year. As I do believe I am very capable of learning the information, I am nervous I will get a lot of projects or assignments I won't be able to complete. I get overwhelmed quite often and it worries me that I will be overwhelmed twice as bad. Homework, projects, and essays all add up very quickly in my mind so, having of...
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...past four years I have attended Montevallo high school. Throughout my time I have been involved in many clubs and organizations, and they have all impacted me differently. In everything I was involved with in high school I always tried to make sure it was relevant to my future, but looking back now I realized I may have made a few mistakes, but for the most part I feel I did rather well staying on track. In my time in high school, I was on both the volleyball team and track team. I played on the volleyball team all four years of high school, but I should of stopped after my freshman year. I enjoyed playing and I enjoyed my teammates, but it seemed my goals never aligned with my coaches and the enjoyment started to slip away as the...
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...country and further my education was something i never thought about because i lost contacted with my real mother for more than 10 years. Sometimes i wonder what would be my life in honduras by this times would have been. Even thought my living condition were so poor and i use to carry my books in a plastic bag. During high school it was fours years of dedication. I was surprised because i did so well in high school, that i archieved a lot of hono roll and prizes. After being in honduras and only speaking spanish and now having the ability to speak another language for me it is something that im proud of myself because of the amazing thing i have done so far. Being born hispanic make me feels proud because hispanic people are hard worker people and im one of those people that i like to be responsible and i will try my best to be one of the best. In 2011 during high school i was choose to participate in the NASA program in Alabama. It was a huge training i learned many thing about the moon and the space shuttle it was a beautiful experience for me...
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...finding the best college for me was a strenuous one, filled with many ups and downs and tearful nights, plot twists that simply cannot be conveyed in less than 500 words, but alas, I will attempt to tell the gist of it. You see it all began during the horror known as eighth grade, a time many people wish to forget, filled with a longing for high school that my senior mind simply cannot comprehend. Part One: Issy Decides on a Career The state of Delaware requires that all eighth grade students research a handful of careers they wish to pursue for the rest of their life. I had planned on being several things as an adult throughout my childhood, ranging from a chef to a rock star, and up until our government funded soul searching in eighth grade I had every intent to become a school teacher. However, upon further research, of which included my interior designer godmother’s visit from Chicago and my after school care programs newly bought interior design kit, I soon found a new calling. Interior design became a passion of mine, much to the appeasement of my Nana, who had hoped for me to be in the home designing field for most of my life. Part Two: The Mailbox Has a Use...
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...At the end of a road there must have been a start, AMSU was my start. I am an AMSU lady, a leader of tomorrow. AMSU, depicted as the place of the start of my evolution; it has instilled in me a myriad of essential skills necessary for my success in the future. This is not only a school, it is my second home. If you know well enough you know that I basically do every type of activity at Ursula. That sense of motivation, to be well-rounded is what AMSU has taught me. It is because of what I have learned at AMSU that I will be succeed in college and much afterwards. What does it mean to be an AMSU lady you may ask yourself? Being an AMSU lady I believe derives from four core factors, being a women of academics, motivation, service, and unification....
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...Jackson Mia Comm.120 Tues. Thurs. 9:30 My LIfe I feel I am a very strong will individual and an independent young lady. I know who I am, so I am not trying to be someone I am not. I am very comfortable with the person I am today and don’t plan on change myself unless “I” want to. I am very cautious about the people I allow to get to know me. And when I truly care about someone you can tell. I may seem selfish but I love to do for others. Of course I have flaws like every once but I just except mines. Soccer: I have been playing soccer since I was five years old and it has always come very easy to me. In high school if you were to say, “ Mia Jackson, ya know the black girl, varsity soccer, since freshman year,” then people would know who you were talking about. Soccer is something that helps defines the person I am today. I never noticed how important soccer was to me until about two years ago, when I had torn my ACL which prevented me from participating in soccer for year. I remember holding back my tears as the doctor told me I could not play and had to get surgery, than on top of that recover time was close to a year. Over the summer this year I had to bust my ass to get back into shape because I felt I had a title to live up to. I would have to say I am now playing better than ever before out of my fourteen years of soccer. Most because I play every game like it’s my last and don’t take my talent for granted cause a simple injury can happen in a matter of seconds. High...
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...If there was one thing I learned freshman year, it was to not believe what everyone has to say. Everyone told me that freshman year classes were the easiest, and they were completely wrong. Sadly it was back to reality, no more staying up late and sleeping in with not a worry about what I was going to do that day. Now I had a schedule to follow Monday through Friday that involved homework, studying, writing essays, and soccer practice. It was seven thirty in the morning on the first day of school, which was the earliest I had been up in 3 months and I was already working on an assignment. I never would have guessed my first day of classes would involve graded assignments and homework. I assumed it would be full of listening to the teacher explain the ten page long syllabus that only comes in use during the first week of school, while I daydream about my summer, trying to fight my eyelids from closing. But the assumption I made about the typical first day of high school was completely wrong and it changed my outlook on high school for the rest of the year. It’s seven thirty in the morning, the sun is barely out and I’m already sweating through my t-shirt. Luckily I am not the only one, as I look around the classroom everyone looks miserable and fatigued. You could tell everyone wanted to be anywhere but at Anderson High School. The bell had just rung and our English teacher introduced himself and it seemed like it was going to be a fun year. Mr. Ger was dressed professional...
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...character is Alan Williams. His dream has always been to play college basketball with the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. In the book Alan is a walk-on and doesn’t really play any. Throughout the whole season he pushes himself to be the best player on the team. Not only does he do the team workouts he also wakes up early and goes for a run before his classes. When the team didn’t have workouts Alan continued to keep work on getting stronger. At the end of his freshman season he was called to the coaches office, just to be told that their isn’t a spot on the team for him anymore. After he is told this he goes back to his dorm and thinks about ways to prove to the coach he needs to be on the team. Alan stays in the weightroom and continues to run every day. One day the coach talks to him again about tyring back out to make the team for his sophomore year. A new basketball coach...
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