College Essays
I think that cell phones in school are a bad idea. I have a cell phone, but I don’t use it during school. It is used as a distraction. In recent study, 65% of high school students use cell phones during school hours. At my school, I look at how many people use their cell […]
What would you do ifgreat opportunity because you were missing a special talent like a foreign language? All kinds of people miss great opportunities because they were not bilingual or multilingual.Every student should know 2 languages before getting outof high school. Learning a foreign language will set you apart from all other applicants at a […]
My Mom told me that once upon a time their used to be a such thing as school. School as in where you actually go and learn something. School has turned into a war zone, fashion show, and a prison. Kids are being bullied because they can’t afford the latest fashion. Girls are parading around […]
“Twelve seconds left the score 52-51 Butler leads Duke here in Lucas Field, Indiana for the National Championship game.” The announcer, Curt Menafee of CBS exclaimed in great anticipation. Kyle Singler, the star point guard for Duke, stood at mid-court with the ball bouncing from his hands. He took the off-balanced shot from three-point line […]
I Can’t Think of a Title I sit here, staring up at the ceiling. What am I supposed to write? Maybe this, maybe that. The deadline seems far away, I’ve got time to choose. Switch this, switch that. The deadline draws near. I’ve got nothing and now I’m out of time. Teachers shouldn’t allow students […]
Schools all over the country face the issue of whether or not they should have pets in the classroom. Some people feel that pets should be in the classroom because they could provide learning from them like doing a math problem with a pets weight in it. However, some people think that pets should not […]
Homework. Intents for the good, outcomes for the worse. Homework was once a tool for teachers to reinforce the material learned in class. However in present day, teachers have abused the power of homework and robbed students from: sleep, play, exercise, social time, family and extra curricular activities. As a result of this misuse homework […]
It’s a law in the United States that an organized prayer in a public school would be considered as unconstitutional. Furthermore, the only type of prayer that is constitutionally permitted is a private and voluntary student prayer as long as it doesn’t interfere with the school’s educational mission. Recently, the controversy over whether the government […]
School’s finally out, and summer has begun. I know how much we all need this break; but it’s like a surfer paddling their surf board ahead of a wave, faster, faster, faster – though in the end, the wave will always catch you and you have no choice but to be driven forward by it. […]
Imagine it, a school community unknown to the novel of perpetual humor which similarly depicts the “Individual vs. Society” complex of humanity. A travesty it would be worded by professors of English; a calamity it would be foretold by teachers. The novel would thus be unknown to death, nor known to life. Alas, this unknowing […]
Often times, the realities of something are not well reflected in how they are officially presented or recorded. Sometimes this is due to shady behind-the-scenes scheming and plotting to make something appear different than it really is; sometimes, it’s because a misleading official description is beneficial to all involved parties, but most of the time, […]
We live in a state where many teens are patiently waiting until it’s their turn to walk across the stage, diploma in hand, to graduation. As teens we have big dreams, goals, and aspirations we wish to fulfill in our lives. Unfortunately, for some these dreams of bright lights and motivating carriers will be diminished […]
Get good grades.Don’t do something stupid. Follow in your sisters foot steps. Be an athlete. Stay healthy. Stay on the right path. All these things my parents have told me praying and hoping i go to college. I get college is important, but so is being my own person. My parents love me I know, […]
Deciding what college to attend is one of the most difficult decisions a high school student has to make. Many times, a student has a preference for one special school based on its location or student culture. But there is one aspect of a college that some students can not get over: the name. You […]
Dreams, I believe, are represented as the rough draft of someone’s predicted future. These rough drafts are used as models to develop into the final draft called goals, and as it takes time to revise; the drafts of dreams are overlooked and begin to establish an intended structure that will end in the conclusion of […]
Mr. JonesJason Jones is a band director at my school. He is a loyal teacher and employee. He always has time for fun and goofing around. I think Jason Jones should be “educator of the year” because he is a kind, very talented, hilarious, and over all great guy.This year we lost one of our […]
Career or field is a subject what we choose for our future to work in. Career choosing requires thinking like in order to choose a right career we have to first look up for our passion, interest, talent in a specific kind of subject. Many people are not able to find their passion or interest […]
A promising future doesn’t exist. The choices you make affect your life-not how smart or rich you are. A promising future doesn’t exist. Someone’s life can change in a second. A future is what you make it. Promising a future when we don’t know what will happen in the next hour is a waste of […]
Every school in the world at one point has given their students homework on weekends and holiday breaks. Schools shouldn’t be allowed to give homework on weekends nor holiday breaks becuase it is not fair. Every year students must go to school 10 out of the 12 months in a year. Every week us students […]
A lot of people at my school ask me why is that I do languages, generally in an attempt to make fun of me trying to better myself by accepting the languages of others, and ask me why I am not doing a ‘worthwhile’ subject, like DT. Now, I am not sure if its just […]
Science contains the knowledge gained through observations and experimentations. Science is the subject of fun. Science has changed our lives like it has changed the living standard of people. Science is first divided into three categories like applied sciences, pure sciences and art/social sciences (science is contained in arts).Science comes from arts like diagrams to […]
It’s the end of 1st hour and the bell for second hour has just rung. But…… . Guess what!!!!! Your computer will not shut down! When it finally does shut down, you have to go to your locker, to the bathroom and then to class—–all in 3 minutes!! This is not only crazy, but impossible! […]
It seems like all we hear about from teachers recently is the changes coming to the curriculum. They are constantly telling us how many more topics there are to cover and that it’s being tackled from a different perspective than it currently is. I, unlike other students, say bring it on! I am definitely aware […]
As a high school student, my morning routine is a daily hassle. At 5:45 a.m. my alarm clock becomes my own personal bully that taunts and ridicules me. It will constantly punch me in the eardrums until I get the nerve to stand up and do something to stop it. Then half asleep, I’ll take […]
What matters most to me is graduating high school and being successful in life . This matters themost to me but having and education Or high school diploma you will not make it far in life . Graduating high school and going to college would defitnely make my mother proud and myself . Me being […]
“Is it Worth it?” I’m no rich kid from Beverly Hills so a possible 100k debt is a nightmare, how about you? I have an uncle who went to college for 2 years before he realized that he didn’t need a degree for what he was going for. He wanted to be a business owner […]
Conversation About School! Did you know that more than 60% of kids don’t like school? The only place that you can learn on it is school anything you would imagine,because they are no place that you can learn in except school ! If you didn’t go to the school you can’t have a job because […]
Today the average life of a teenager is very stressful. Teens go through a lot; things like being a senior at a school of architecture and design. Right now I’m a senior and everyone tells me that I am supposed to go to college in less than a year. I feel like I’m in a […]
Should Schools Have Uniforms? Would you want to be told what to wear? No, of course not, you can make that decision on your own. That is why uniforms should not be allowed. It is showing kids that adults do not trust them to make a simple decision. Kids all over the world are being […]
Cheating in my school, Marjory Stoneman DOuglas has escalated to an entire new level.It is not just the slackers cheating their way to a diploma, but rather highly intelligent, yet lowly motivated students cheating their way into the top ten percent of their class. I personally have witnessed cheating a myriad of occasions. It has […]
