College Essays
Walking down the huge crowded hallway, seeing new people, new faces, and I know by the end of the year soem of those new faces will be my bestfriends. But the most unexpected thing about High school is the number of kids that do not care. Many kids think school is not important, they think […]
Going to college will make you more likely to read to your kids and spend more time with kids. Going to college will improve your chances of talking and reading to your kids. Going to college opens more doors in your future. Getting a college degree means that you will get a higher paying job.Your […]
In my experiences I have felt very lonely is many parts of my life. I don’t really know why but I just have never felt like I belonged. Teens show this ideal by not asking for help. Some teens are afraid to ask for help otherwise they would feel weak because they have to ask […]
Imagine you are sitting in meeting or a class. You are listening to the speaker and you get bored, so you take out a piece of paper and you doodle. The speaker then asks you “Am I bothering you?” You then look up and reply with a “sorry, I got side tracked; continue”. You kinda […]
Everyone needs a friend in some point in life. This week a dear friend of my broke our friendship for one of our enemies. If you and your friends brake up or have a fight try to fix it because every needs friends. Here is what friendship means to me. F =Forever R=Rapport I=Irreparable E=Everyone […]
Homework is an issue that isn’t being addressed correctly by schools. They say things like, “How can parents help their kids with homework and What type of homework should we be assigning?”When the real question should be, should we be assigning kids homework?This has been a topic of discussion for a while now and still […]
Imagine you sitting down, listening contently in class when the teacher calls you out for chewing gum. She argues that it interrupts the class when you can not help but wonder, Isn’t she the one who interrupted class to tell you not to chew gum? So, why are so many people against gum chewing? Gum […]
Looking at the way affirmative action is set up in colleges today, it almost makes me want to be an African American rather than white. Seeing how much easier some colleges in America make it for minorities to get in over whites is astonishing. Today colleges can give up to twenty points on a student’s […]
Yes the multi-answer question, now ask yourself why do you go to school? Is it because you need to learn the material that most of the teachers say you wont use in the real world? Is it to try and prepare yourself for the future ahead? You have to ask yourself about many things to […]
Schools often debate the best scheduling system for high schools: such as either the traditional schedule or the alternating, or A/B, block schedule. A traditional schedule calls for typically six, seven, or eight classes of approximately fifty minutes each every day for the entire year. An alternating block schedule consists of taking “eight 90-minute classes […]
Don’t you hate it when people around you are so educated and want to go to college? They are all like “I want a productive and happy future”. Who does that? It is much wiser to drop out, search for a job after about three years of living in your parent’s house, once you find […]
“In just a few months you’ll be long gone” my teachers remind us constantly. I used to get really upset when anyone reminded me that it wouldn’t be long before I would be forced to venture out into this so called real world. Our whole lives always revolve around the future, especially during childhood. I […]
I can’t spell. It’s a well-doccumented fact going all the way back to kindergarden when I decided the word ‘knife’ was best served with three letters. Since then I’ve improved somewhat, maneging to spell ‘moast’ wrong three differant ways in the same paragraf, proving that I may be creative even in my failure. In all […]
When nature calls, we should honor it. That is a problem if we are in school. A teacher could deny our right to use the bathroom. We could run out of bathroom passes. Whether we’ve had to drink water at a certain time (to avoid using the bathroom during class), didn’t want to spend a […]
The ChooseMyPlate website says that dairy is one of the five most important food groups in a meal (“MyPlate”). What better way to satisfy the dairy requirement than to drink a carton of chocolate milk? This, unfortunately, is a common misconception across the nation, and even across the entire world. Around the world, chocolate milk […]
Whether I like them or not, I admit that I find comfort seeing people I know in uncomfortable situations. When I say uncomfortable situations, I mean taking the FCATs, taking the SATs/ACTs, picking up my new school schedule, or just coming back to school after a long break. Once dropped off at pre-school, I would […]
Throughout a student’s life, they learn and take very many classes that are supposed to help them prepare for their future as an adult. However, by the time students graduate high school, they still do not have an understanding of how the real world works. Because of this, schools should have a mandatory life skills […]
Many people put off the thought of college until their junior or senior year of high school, i’m here to tell you now that this decision is one you should stay far away from. From personal experience, i saw that my brother and sister started late and that finding a college they wanted to go […]
As it is reaching April 1st there will be a lot of fear among students. It is the final notification of colleges across the country and I am afraid. All throughout my life I was taught that I need to get good grades so that I can get into a good college and that good […]
It seems to have become a common belief that a sufficient amount of sleep is a luxury a lot of people can’t afford. But Recently, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been encouraging education policymakers to start middle and high school classes later so students will get a sufficient amount of sleep […]
Dreams keep people motivated and are a consistent reminder to stay focus. My ultimate dreams is to go to college, graduate, then be a nurse practitioner. After high school I would like to get accepted to a four year university, preferably CSU East Bay, or any UC. After I complete my general education, I want […]
Day after day I sit in my second period class, constantly glancing backwards at the clock hoping it will advance faster. My teacher stands in front of the class droning on and on about some tenuous type of algebra that makes absolutely no sense to me. I look around at the faces in my class, […]
Hey, So I know that high school can suck bigtime, and I’m still in high school right now (a senior) and I can assure you that my high school years are the worst. I’m the eldest of 2 kids so I didn’t have an older brother or sister to tell me how to survive this […]
High school students are assigned, on average, 3.5 hours of homework per day or 17 hours per week. With sports, extracurriculars, and part-time jobs, students lack the time to do their homework and they certainly don’t have time for a social life. They go to school from 8 to 3, go to practice, if they […]
Many people make fun of teachers for several reasons, only one of which I will say here: they don’t make enough money. Is it a teacher’s job to get rich, or make tons of money? No, it’s not. It’s a teacher’s job to give the gift of knowledge to their students, to repeat the knowledge […]
How do you feel about having about orchestras? Do you think that that our school should have one? Is the band enough, or do you not really care? My high school’s fine arts program is way too small! The concert band has about forty members in it. Most schools have over a hundred. The choir […]
Dear School, Thank you for making sure I always have something to do. And I mean always. From 6pm to 2am, you always seem to make sure I am busy either doing homework or stressing about the homework I didn’t do. I aspire to be as consistent as you. Thank you for always keeping me […]
Today’s American society is one with a primary focus on academic success. Within recent years, the role of the economic downturn has hard-pressed the need for excellence to the boarder of impossible within educational institutions. With the difficulty of excessive unemployment rates even in percentage of college graduates, the pressure to do- not just well- […]
We live in a world in which people only seem to notice mental illness a moment too late. The suffering becomes evident on the day of the memorial, when candles and people clutter a sidewalk, honouring a soul they had no concern for a week before. Pictures of the forgotten youth get plastered to a […]
Teachers these days suck. I will admit that some of them know what they are doing, but others are so boring! All they do is sit there and talk to you the whole class. Yes, some people like that because they can then do nothing the whole class, but to me I feel like I […]
