I guess I have to start from somewhere. Coming to the United States, was an experience I would never forget. When I was little, I have always wanted to live in a dormitory. Eventually, I got my most desirable wish of living in the dorms, for both my middle school and high school years. My mother wasn’t really in support of it, as she was scared of me getting bullied. My joy knew no bounds when my mom gave me the good news that I will be leaving off to boarding school immediately after graduating from elementary. I was ready to get out there and show the world that I can be small, but can also live without fear like everyone else. Boarding school life wasn’t as fun as I expected it to be. It wasn’t easy because the seniors of the school made …show more content…
To my surprise, I started having good grades and never wanted to settle for less than a B grade. I worked thrice as hard to get a good grade. I was so proud of myself as I gained back my self-esteem, and I could also see myself transitioning from a ‘shy dumb girl’ as people usually say, to an outspoken smart young lady everyone wants to know and get help from. This was how it was supposed to be. No one on this earth is perfect! For one reason or the other, depending where we came from, we all have different issues and also need help in any weak point. Everyone is entitled to make mistakes but it is up to us to change our mindsets if we really want to succeed. One tool that helped me is ‘transitioning’. After learning from my mistakes and seeing that my families especially my dad wants the best from me, I have to transition myself of making too many excuses/procrastination or even listening to those that keep saying that I cannot make it in life to a well responsible student and well mannered. Nowadays, I put negative thoughts aside and always put positive attitude/thoughts in me. I learned and I grow through the power of
I went into my freshman year of high school very insecure about my own potential. Never did I think that I had it in me to be one of the “smart kids”. Fortunately for me, I signed up for all the wrong classes and I was forced to go to a school (yes, McDevitt was not my choice but my parents) that had terrific, dedicated teachers that knew I was taking the wrong course and did something about it. Like in Th...
Sometimes I will put one of those 3 in front of school and I usually end up paying the price for it. When I receive a bad grade on an assignment, it will usually ruin the rest of my day once I see it, and some days I want to give up on that class. I'm usually upset until I tell myself that it is an easy fix and all I have to do is work harder on the next assignment that comes my way. After receiving a bad grade on an assignment my next grade satisfies me and I am pleased with myself. At first I'm at a low, im upset. But then my mind wants to soar, so I push myself extremely hard to do better, After getting a few good greats I them become lazy and end up getting another bad great. This restarts the process and makes me want to work harder to succeed. The quote “The Lower You are, The Higher your mind will want to
Distinction between the zoning categories is their capacity to host multiple households. Apartments have the most capacity, whereas residential detached properties have the least. Traditionally, (RD) has been designed to host single families. Properties on these sites may include granny suites and backdoor entrances into the basement, however, they were not intended to facilitate renting to non-family tenants. This is illustrated in 1999, where in response to low vacancy rates, City council adopted a motion to lift the tenant ban by applying Official Plan and zoning by-law amendments which permits tenantable second suites in single and semi-detached houses throughout the City (City of Toronto, 1999). Criticism of this motion by councilors and
In the article, Why boarding schools produce bad leaders by Nick Duffell, Duffell describes the linkage between the educational background of boarding school and the outcome of being an inadequate leader. Many boarding school educated people go on to ivy-league colleges and a significant number of them then pursue leadership positions in politics. Duffell is a psychotherapist that works with previous students of boarding schools. He argues that attending boarding schools turns children into adults that hector and have child-like qualities due to the fact that boarding schools force children to act as adults too quickly. In addition to this environment that encourages pseudo-development, children also lack the ability to be themselves or express
After reading the novel “The Coquette and The Boarding School,” I was intrigued in a certain passage written in the novel. Mr. Shelby, Mr. Boyer’s friend writes to him saying “I am quite convert to Pope’s assertion….the result of her education.” (Foster 78) Throughout the novel Mr. Shelby gives Mr. Boyer advice on what to do with his current situation involving his love interest, Eliza Wharton. In this passage Mr. Shelby agrees with the pope’s opinion that “Every woman, is at hear, a rake.” (Foster 78) After the first time reading this I did not know what to think that such a religious icon would say that every women despite their behavior has whorish tendencies. By the pope declaring this statement men have a stereotype on what every women’s
Nevertheless i pick my grades back up,not for them, but for me ,then again people still judge you by being smart . as a result this all can affect you, no matter what you do or how you do it or even the mistakes you make .clearly,it can affect even the brightest of
I got A’s and B’s in my class and extra-curricular activities. Being good boosted my confidence but I was always set back by the realization that my parents did not love me the same way other parents loved their kids. I also developed insecurities brought about by bullying. I was, in this 3rd stage, industrious yet inferior.
Worrying too much about grades can cause students serious problems like not really understanding the work, make them not feel smart enough and lose interest in school and can cause anxiety and other health issues. In the article Mr. Bains said “ Indeed, there are several problems with strategic learners” (Project Information Literacy October 10, 2012 page1/4). One of the problems is students don 't really understand what they are learning if once they reach that high grade they want they will just stop. I am very guilty of only performing for the grade because I did it all throughout high school. I was taught that getting an A was the highest grade you can get so once I reached that A I...
Honestly if I was to go back in time I’d change all of my mistakes and make the right decisions which are to block out the people that accounted for my failure. Allowing obstacles to bring you down even though you have the capability to overcome them isn’t the right way to go if you want to be successful. In order to be successful you need to learn who to associate yourself with so you can mainly focus on the goals you want to archive to make you better mentally and physically. Having a better mindset is good for obtaining success because you will be able to think more positively about what you need to do. My freshman year could have gone way better if I applied this method to my life which is why you should apply it to yours. Learn from my mistakes and don’t follow the path I journeyed into as a
I watched Indian School: Stories of Survival (Films Media Group). In this documentary, Native Americans ( from many different tribes) speak about their experience with ethnocide. Ethnocide, according to the textbook is “the destruction of a group’s culture, without necessarily killing any of the members of the culture” (Eller 235). In this particular case, they speak on Indian boarding schools, which were created to essentially erase Native American culture and idealogies. Children at 7-8 years old, would be taken from their homes and sent to various places. This was so the children were spread out to ensure that a bunch of children from the same tribe would not end up in the same place. These children would experience emotional, physical and spiritual abuse, in order to ensure that all remnants of their culture were extinguished and would return home at 17-18 years old, an entirely different person. Thus, boarding schools were created to assimilate children to live and participate in a white society. This was brought on by white settlers in the 19th century, as they wanted the Native Americans to minimize their ideologies and instead practice American culture. Americans regarded the Native Americans with either fear or saw them as inferior, and reformers believed that
Do your best. Even if you don't get all A's or don't have those excellent grades you used to have, it's okay. Make sure you're putting in as much as effort you can and feeling good about yourself. If you want to do better, look into tutors, talking to your teachers or look at Youtube videos about that topic.
It was a beautiful, sunny day in South Florida. I was six years old, playing by the pool with my new puppy. I loved swimming in the pool almost every day after school. I also enjoyed going out on our boat after school or crossing the street and going to the beach. My father came home one evening with some interesting news. Now, I do not remember exactly how I felt about the news at that time, but it seemed like I did not mind that much. He had announced that we were going to move back to my birth country, Belgium. I had been living in Florida for five years and it was basically all I had known so I did not know what to expect. I had to live with my mom at first, and then my sister would join us after she graduated high school and my father finished settling things. I remember most of my earlier childhood by watching some old videos of me playing by the pool and dancing in the living room. It seemed like life could not get any better. However, I was excited and impatient to experience a new lifestyle. I realized that I could start a whole new life, make new friends and learn a new language. Belgium was not as sunny as South Florida but it has much better food and family oriented activities. Geographic mobility can have many positive effects on younger children, such as learning new languages, being more outgoing, and more family oriented; therefore, parents should not be afraid to move around and experience new cultures.
This fall I am retaking Chemistry and I aiming for an A. I do not think grades can fully represent one's work ethic, grit and perseverance. Personally, I have struggled with the fact that I was in special education until middle school. I was behind academically because for the first few years in my life I was almost fully deaf and struggled to learn as quickly as others. Although I was in no longer in special education classes by high school, it was already ingrained in my mind that, academically, I was not intelligent enough to fulfill my dreams of having a job that involves food and nutrition. Even with those thoughts, I still pushed myself to apply to Johnson & Wales to prove myself wrong. Thankfully, I did prove myself wrong. I just goes to show even with those negative, I came from being someone that saw no potential in myself with no proof that I was smart into someone who works hard everyday. Grades don't show that someone is in-tune with their weakness and strengths and that their emotionally intelligent enough to work on them. For example, a weakness that I have struggled with is being not being
When it comes to school, I have always been an “A” only student. I am slightly obsessed with my grades, and I have never had a “B” in my life. Originally, this pressure was put on by my parents, but now I am self-driven and I do not allow myself to have anything lower than an “A-”. Achieving no lower than an “A-” consists of lots of hard work and time management. Unlike many other students, I have always been one to complete my homework as soon as possible. Other students procrastinate and either don’t do their homework until late at night, or even the day
In the American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, by David Wallace Adams, he argues that the boarding schools were designed to civilize Indian children. The boarding school main goals were to adapt Indian children into the lifestyles of the white man. The boarding schools cut all the boys hair and left them bald changed their native names and the children had to adjust to the whites food. Whites believed Indians were uncivilized and savage individuals. The boarding schools were built to teach children to be well-mannered humans as whites, forget about their old customs and beliefs, learn Christianity and follow the whites lifestyles. The whites taught Indian children the bible and have them forget about their religious beliefs