I was just a beginner, less prepared than anyone else around me. I was the only one in the room not taking notes. Every time someone’s finger touched a key on the keyboard, the sound it made reminded me that time was still ticking even though it felt like it was frozen. I was looking at the ceiling instead of the board. I thought this was going to be just another easy class that I could pass with minimal effort. I was wrong. It was my first honors class. I should not have even been in that class. In History CP the year before my average was an eighty six. The requirements for honors was a ninety average. Nonetheless I was put into honors. I should have dropped the class while I had the chance, but now it’s set in stone. It all started about …show more content…
So before I had to go to sleep I wrote as fast as I could and typed as fast as I could. I had two screens, the screen of my chromebook and the screen of a monitor. I had a stack of notes that I was flying through trying to get all the information I could and answer the questions. It did not work out as good as I wanted to. I only got seven questions done. I knew that wasn’t enough. I had to get ready for bed so that's what I did. It was around 10:15 PM and I was just laying in bed, I had a whole plan of how to get it all done. When I got to school the next morning I worked on the easiest problems that were there in the thirty five minutes I have before homeroom starts. My bus gets to school around 6:55 AM. In that time I finished about eight questions. That left me five questions to do. Luckily I had a substitute teacher in mechanical drawing. I finished the five questions that needed to be done. When history came around I was ready to hand it in. Well, more ready than I will ever be. For the first five minutes of class the teacher talked about what we would be doing in the next few weeks. Then it finally happened. He asked for our solo work. He walked around with a basket that said assignments on the front. Everytime he passed a student he put the basket next to them and expected a paper or two. When he got to me I quickly put the paper in the basket. For the rest of that period I was just thinking about the assignment, knowing he would grade them during the lunch break, which he
I was taking AP World History, my first AP class. Keeping up my grades in the class was one of my biggest concerns, but surprisingly, it turned out to be a relatively laid-back class without much homework. Throughout the year, the class was mainly notes and document analysis. The only difficult part of the class was the tests. They were long and arduous with several vague questions based on specific parts of the curriculum that we had only gone over lightly. The course became more vigorous as the exam date drew closer; we began writing more essays, the tests we took grew longer, there were after school study sessions, and even a mock
Walking into Walnut Hills High School right now would have anyone thinking the just walked into the middle of a tornado. Everyone you look there are students running in and out of doors, in and out of cars, and most certainly either turning in missing assignments or retaking tests. There is only one way for you to explain all this ciaos, Senior Year, the year that all teens await with so much excitement and ambition and the year that every single hour long study dates pays off. For the class of 2021 this isn’t just their final year at Walnut Hills this is the year that friends separate and head off to their different university to follow their dreams.
I consider myself to be a hard worker when I study and work, who honestly loves school. My favorite classes of 8th grade are honors geometry AB, Investigation and Science & IED. I love these classes because when I solve problems experiment it feels like it's a big puzzle that is in need to be put together and I'm a person who likes to figure things out. I believe that my interactions in these classes are to be a cooperative learner and I participate in the class or group discussions. A description of myself when I work is that I am a very fast learner, so when it comes to doing independent project or tests, I finish very fast so I have a really large amount of time to check over and fix simple mistakes. Although, when I am working with my peer
I was a typical 6th grader with a love for social time and hatred towards pointless homework. As I was tapping my foot on my creaking wooden desk with my book opened pretending to read, Mr. Daniels was watching over me like a bird that just gave birth to chicken eggs. I had a feeling she was going to ask me a question about what I was reading. I realized from that point on to always trust my instincts. Mrs. Daniels tall toothpick shaped body leaned over and asked me to summarize the first chapter in front of the whole class. Due to not even beginning to read the first page I told her I did not even know where to begin. Since I was not prepared for class, not participating, and being rude about my task at hand I received a punishment. My punishment was every week I had to write a summary in my own words about the chapter I had read. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so far I didn't know if they would ever go back to normal. I knew my life was over at this
During my first semester while in the First Years Honors Program, I was able to get involved with Meals from the Heartland. I helped raise money by working at a bake sale. It also gave me the chance to help prepare and package the meals. While I was a leader for the First Years Honors Program, we organized a service learning activity for our class. For this activity, we made and delivered gift baskets for children in the hospital. My membership in Tau Beta Pi has also given me opportunities for community service. During my initiation, I served as a volunteer judge at the Tau Beta Pi roller coaster competition, which aims to motivate young students to pursue a degree in engineering. I also helped with the 2016 Pi Mile Run which raises money
During 8th grade, I got called out to the counselor’s office. Entering the counselor’s office, the counselor told me that I was in the honors class. The day I graduated Junior High with honors changed the next 4 years in High school. I promised myself and my mom that I would be graduating High school with honors. For the past 4 years, I have worked so hard to be in the honors program, again. I started to take advanced classes and then I started to take dual credit classes my junior year. If it wasn’t for being in the honors program my 8th grade year, I don’t think I would be as worried about my grades as I am now.
I have been in multiple honors and AP classes. i have kept an A or B in each of those classes even tho some of them where hard to even keep a B. I was in honors math all four years with this last year being in Honors AP Calculus BC. I was in honors
My first year in college has been a rewarding experience. As I look back on my Why College, Why Now essay, I realize that I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge about myself. I am proud that I accomplished my goals I made in my first year of college and I exceeded my expectations. I still have the same goal for the future, but I added more goals for the future. I am attending Wilmington University because I want to make my future brighter. Attending college and earning a degree in communication media will help me obtain an exciting job as a professional journalist.
Before my senior year I was a high C low B student doing the bear minimum in all my classes and definably wasn’t college ready. I heard a rumor that AP English 4 was the hardest course at my high school so being stubborn person I was I decided to enroll in it. I remember walking into that class the first day and seeing a two headed demon baby doll among a collection of weird creepy dolls and I knew that I made a mistake. The teacher wore all black and contently discouraged us by telling us that a good chunk of us will drop the class before the semester ends. I constantly struggled with keeping up with the content because of my bad study habits I acquired over the years like procrastination and being unorganized but I made a great effort to
My freshman seminar class hitherto has been good. In this class I have been learning about various topics. These topics fall into helping us for high school and preparing us for the future. These topics was important and necessary because they helped us to avoid from not being successful. One of the topics we have recently accomplished was budgeting.
I was in high school now, all of my friends were in these honors classes, I was stuck inside low level English, and I had no idea what I was doing. Looking back I am definitely glad I did not get into honors. I feel it would have been the same story as the middle school. In high school, it was not just English class, at the time, reading and writing took its toll on all my classes. Essays suffered, readings were slow or not done, and a very difficult process of self-teaching
Growing up in a competitive academic environment with a rigorous class schedule, I am familiar with the demands that advanced classes require. While participating in the Honors College at the University of Arkansas this semester, I am taking two honors classes and can clearly notice the difference in rigor between the two honors classes and the rest of my schedule. I strive to be able to challenge myself by taking even more honors classes at Texas Tech in order to not only learn more but to continue developing my sense of self-discipline and perseverance. Both in high school and at the University of Arkansas my advanced and honors classes included a much smaller class size, which helped tremendously in learning and truly understanding the material.
On the first day of my junior year I had physics as my first period to my surprise. My teacher, Mr. Torres, seemed like a very likable person but quickly cut to the chase of how challenging the class was going to be and explained how it was not for everyone. I became nervous, but I told myself that I could take on a challenge, I just had to work extra hard that year. I can still remember Mr. Torres giving the pre-assessment math test to weed out the weak because physics would be impossible if math was not your best friend. Math is definitely not my strongest subject and my teacher advised me to drop the class because I would struggle a lot to keep a good grade. However, I confidently told him that I refused to drop the class because I am focused and I would do whatever it took to manage an A in that class. He replied, “Okay, sure kid we will see about that.”
It was around 11:00 pm during the spring on a school night, and I was working hard on my science project and paper. This paper had a lot of research and so much work to be done. I didn’t know if I was going to finish or if I was going to have a failing grade. All that I
I remember this day as if it were yesterday. May 12, 2010 I woke up for school at six thirty in the morning, just like any other school day. But just like any other middle school student I was tired and did not want to go back to a place that they like to call school but I looked at it more of a prison. Every morning I had a routine which was to wake up, get ready for school and try my hardest to not miss the bus, for some reason the bus driver never liked to wait for me. The day started off great, I did not miss the bus, right before lunch I passed my math test with a B- . The last class of the day was Mrs. Orozco, who was my science teacher, she was not my favorite but I was having a good day so I had a positive mindset when entering her classroom.