College Essays

Communication is essential to everyone’s life. The voice of a person is one of their most valuable tools. This immensely valuable tool is often abused by the most trusted of people, our teachers! Everyday, as students, we shocked by the loudness and also lost by the softness of our teacher’s voices. Many of our teachers’ […]

Did you know that the school board is going to change the school hours from 8:30-3:30 to 9:30-4:30? Not only do you get an extra hour of sleep, but also you get a whopping 4? hours of sleep! But you have to realize that even one hour of extra sleep can do a lot. First […]

Home work sucks. Keeping track of it all, lugging books home, and occasional misunderstanding. Trust me, I’ve been there. Especially with the misunderstanding. I have a lot of trouble in math and when there are disruptive students I get distracted and end up not understanding that night’s homework. Most teachers give time to work on […]

Finding a date for homecoming, two words: awkward and scary. Especially when turning down the gentlemen with twelve red roses. Now Arrowhead students are grabbing their closest friends instead of a date to homecoming and ditching the normal routine. Arrowhead students have found the way to down the hurt from not getting asked or getting […]

Motivation is something every teen struggles with. I have read many books on waking up early, making routines, even books about motivation itself. Basically, I have come up with a way to stay motivated that works wonders for me. I am an online school student, which means that I make my own schedule. Well, I […]

The nominee in which I have chosen is my old English teacher Ms. ParMar from Northridge Academy High. This woman was the one teacher who I generally looked up too and was inspired by, she made literature seem like a fun learning experience and not as a 2-hour lecture. Although Ms. ParMar’s style was basic, […]

AmbitionAmbition, the drive that is needed in every human being to achieve their dream. Ambition sets apart the strong from the weak, the winners from the losers. I’ve always considered myself the strongest in that aspect. My ambition always set me apart from everyone else. All my life I’ve been called ambitious, by my parents, […]

High school is an important phase in a student’s life. It is the predecessor to the next important step, namely, college. Due to this fact, grades are quite literally the bane of a high school student’s existence. Their presence is constantly felt by the student, and the ominous shadow of stress that accompanies grades, especially […]

I go to a public high school that is situated in an affluent area. Many people move to my neighborhood because of the topnotch academics, and because of it, an epidemic is occurring. Almost every student in my junior class of about 300 would be able to admit that at one time or another, he […]

Throughout the day at school, I often find myself asked to do menial work for other, usually older, non-honors, students, made the target of derogatory comments about my physical appearance, mannerisms, or political beliefs, asked increasingly personal questions by people I don’t really know, and, to top it all off, treated like a narcissist or […]

When it comes to physical activity, one common attitude seems to exist: “No pain, no gain.”While short-lived pain can signify progress, chronic fatigue may suggest overtraining, leading to injury and incomplete body recovery.Often, adolescents endure the effects of overworked bodies engaged in a fast-moving academic lifestyle.To reduce the risk of injury associated with overuse and […]

The aura associated with college is severely wrong. People all told me that college is a blessing. They said it that is going to take me further in life, opening up new passages giving me a sense of dignity and respect for myself. It’s all one lie after another. All the thought of college has […]

“Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Alice, I am thirteen years of age, and I am in Gifted.” Gifted. That’s a word frequently used amongst me and my friends. Why is it used so often? Don’t ask, I’m not quite sure. Some of us use it as a badge of honor, others as […]

PART ONE: SCHOOL My intelligence is defined by numbers, letters, and percentages. Is that all I am? If you’re smart you’re expected to always know what you are doing. What about when It all gets to be too much? I enveloped myself in school. The regular one hour of homework turned into and hour and […]

Parents should not buy their children uniforms because the students can’t express him or her self, it can cost too much, and even too old to wear uniforms. One reason why parents should not buy uniforms for their child is that you can’t express yourself. If you have a lot of good clothes and you […]

My school will never let me get enough sleep. I never let myself get the significant amount of sleep at night because of HOMEWORK!!! And having to wake up at 6:00 AM just to get ready and catch the bus at 6:44. Once i’m on the bus my mind slowly falling asleep and catching my […]

The new dress code policy was released Thursday, addressing the complaints about how strict the dress code is for girls. GIrls are now allowed to show, at most, their eyelashes. “We didn’t think guys would be able to concentrate with such a liberal dress code policy, but we’ve decided to let girls show their eyelashes. […]

I will never understand why people find it necessary to hate on people who do not deserve it at all. I mean, there are these people who are making hate pages for celebrities. Like for example, Selena Gomez, I mean I get it that you may not love her music but that doesn’t give any […]

Recently I overheard two school administrators chatting amidst the pre-bell rush outside my first period class. One asked how the start of the school year was going and the other responded, “So far, very good. Everything is under control. ” Under control. The answer seemed reasonable enough, a run of the mill response. But when […]

How much do you like wearing almost anything you want to school? What if that privilege was taken away? School uniforms are a waste of money, takes away the right for a student to express themselves, and is a financial issue for families with little money. Schools think that uniforms will solve problems of gangs, […]

Summer reading. BORING! I am a junior and ever since I’ve been going to school and have been receiving summer reading assignments, I have thought them a waste of my time. Summer vacation should be a time to rest and not do any academic related things. It’s the time to hang out with friends go […]

In a country that is searching for answers as to why its children are not performing at top capacity, it seems fairly obvious that one of those answers may be found in the time at which they start their school day. For any parent who has looked with pity upon their teenage children as they […]

One sneer, one “harmless” joke, or one snide comment; this is where it all begins. These singular acts of bullying multiply, like a virus with no cure, and give birth to hundreds of other self-loathing thoughts within the minds of the infected. The virus needs no aid but only desires an opportunity to get inside […]

High School is a lot more work than middle school. I do not think it is harder but it is definitely a lot more work. For instance, on the 25th of August I had four hours of homework. This was more homework I had in a night than I ever had per night in middle […]

Entering my third year of Spanish at my high school, I have realized that the department as a whole does not have a very effective way of teaching the language to its students. Countless hours have been wasted while trying to learn ridiculous words such as “lawnmower” and “hammer.” I barely even say lawnmower and […]

Students still do not want to listen to the dress code policy. They think that it is dumb for us to have dress code. People agree with that, uniform should not be part of dress code. The only reason we wear it ,is because teachers think that students won’t get bullied. They are wrong students […]

“You just may start a chain reaction,” Rachel Scott. Imagine a middle school where the majority of sixth graders were swearing or doing drugs. What kind of environment does this create for other students? How did they even come up with the ideas that have been embedded into their brains? Could it be because of […]

Take the time to think about this. Kids should be able to have their cell phones with them at all times, even during the school day. Because what if something important happens outside of school and you need to be notified they could just txt you, or if we need a quick calculator, our phones […]

In the 21st Century schools are bigger, better, have a more diverse student body, and are more technology-integrated. Schools nowadays have more technology in their classroom than ever before. SMART Boards instead of blackboards, laptops instead of textbooks, even a Bring Your Own Device Policy. However, with all of these new educational advancements, there also […]

I’ve never been against homeschooling. Having been raised in a home where all five children were homeschooled, I’m quite in favor of it. Most arguments against homeschooling complain that children who are homeschooled don’t have the same social functionality, or educational opportunities as public schooled kids. My reply to that is that homeschooled children don’t […]