#1 - 12th Grade, A New Start
A few years ago I was hearing stories about some senior friends that I had. They use to say that senior year was really something else. I use to hear them say that their time in high school went by in a flash. At the time I didn’t pay much attention to them. Now, after some years I have filled in their boots. I am now a senior and really believe what so many people have said before. I have no idea about the problems and challenges that await me. Nonetheless, I am eager to find out what they will be.
So far, my senior year has been a real roller coaster. It has just been a couple of days since I became a senior and I can already tell that it is going to be a really tough year. But this is only the beginning of the chapter. I will need to work harder this year more than any other year that has passed to make sure that I’ll walk towards my diploma. I believe that I am where I have to be by now. The classes that I got this final year all seem to be right. I have gone to all seven of the periods and I really enjoyed them. This is due to the fact that I got into an English class where I can build up credit for College of the Sequoias.
For this year I will need to be on pace with every class and not slack off at all. At this point, I am on pace in every class. This comes from the hard work that I put in my classes day after day with determination and will. I know from experience that it would not be something easy to keep my grades up throughout the whole year, but it is my duty to keep them up. Although having good grades determines if I can graduate, I have to finish my senior project. In my senior project, I am currently doing my job shadow. I am trying to schedule an appointment with my doctor and I hope it’s as soon as possible. In my opinion, the job shadow will be the most interesting thing that I will do in my senior project. Hopefully I will get inside information about being a teacher by observing and analyzing the teacher doing her work.
Since this is my senior year, I’m going to be really busy finishing everything I need for my senior project and making sure that my grades don’t fall. But being busy will have its reward soon. For now, I am looking forward to many great things this year. Some of those things is making fun memories with the people that are most important to me because after you graduate, that is the only thing you will have. I also want this year to teach me and to give me some experience for collage that I’ll be able to carry the rest of my life. I have goals for this year and for the future too. One of those is that I will try to boost up my GPA by going above and beyond with my work. I will focus on doing level 4's in all my classes.
For the rest of my Senior Year, I just want to keep the rhythm I have right now. This rhythm has helped me pass my classes and not slack off in any of them. It will also help me reach my life goal which is becoming someone important that can maybe even change the world. But for now, I just want to make many more memories with my friends here at LHS.
So far, my senior year has been a real roller coaster. It has just been a couple of days since I became a senior and I can already tell that it is going to be a really tough year. But this is only the beginning of the chapter. I will need to work harder this year more than any other year that has passed to make sure that I’ll walk towards my diploma. I believe that I am where I have to be by now. The classes that I got this final year all seem to be right. I have gone to all seven of the periods and I really enjoyed them. This is due to the fact that I got into an English class where I can build up credit for College of the Sequoias.
For this year I will need to be on pace with every class and not slack off at all. At this point, I am on pace in every class. This comes from the hard work that I put in my classes day after day with determination and will. I know from experience that it would not be something easy to keep my grades up throughout the whole year, but it is my duty to keep them up. Although having good grades determines if I can graduate, I have to finish my senior project. In my senior project, I am currently doing my job shadow. I am trying to schedule an appointment with my doctor and I hope it’s as soon as possible. In my opinion, the job shadow will be the most interesting thing that I will do in my senior project. Hopefully I will get inside information about being a teacher by observing and analyzing the teacher doing her work.
Since this is my senior year, I’m going to be really busy finishing everything I need for my senior project and making sure that my grades don’t fall. But being busy will have its reward soon. For now, I am looking forward to many great things this year. Some of those things is making fun memories with the people that are most important to me because after you graduate, that is the only thing you will have. I also want this year to teach me and to give me some experience for collage that I’ll be able to carry the rest of my life. I have goals for this year and for the future too. One of those is that I will try to boost up my GPA by going above and beyond with my work. I will focus on doing level 4's in all my classes.
For the rest of my Senior Year, I just want to keep the rhythm I have right now. This rhythm has helped me pass my classes and not slack off in any of them. It will also help me reach my life goal which is becoming someone important that can maybe even change the world. But for now, I just want to make many more memories with my friends here at LHS.
#2 - First Semester of Senior Yr.
Time fly’s by so quickly. It feels like I just had started this year yesterday, but in reality I am halfway done with my senior year. At the beginning of this year, I had in mind to have two amazing semesters. One semester has ended already and I could say that it had both fun and not so fun times.
First semester was incredible to me. I had really been busy doing work for my classes that I lost track of days and time. Fortunately, hard work paid off in this first semester. When I first got word that the semester was going to end I felt a strange feeling of relief. I felt like it was the best news I have gotten all year. I think I got that feeling due to the fact that I was really beginning to stress out and get what people call “Senioritis”.
Aside from all the stress that I had, I never gave up. I ended first semester passing majority of my classes (6 of 7). From all the classes that I currently have, I have to say that math is the biggest obstacle I am facing. I am taking Pre-Cal and it has not been easy getting through. This is the only class I have had trouble with so far. I did not pass semester A. I feel that I could have done better in this class if I were to try a bit harder. Now I have to basically finish both semesters’ worth of work in order to pass this class. On the other hand, all the other classes that I passed were not as difficult as math.
During the fall, I was keeping an eye out for colleges that I wanted to apply for. There were so many choices and many collages that I wanted to apply for. I ended up getting accepted into College of the Sequoias. This is the first place I will be attending. I have a plan to go there for two years and then transfer to a bigger college. I am undecided of what college I want to go after COS. I will be keeping an eye out for some colleges or even universities.
This first semester has taught me that there is no time to be slacking off. That just one period can change you from being on/off pace. Therefore, I will be using the knowledge I got from this experience to continue on to second semester and try even harder.
First semester was incredible to me. I had really been busy doing work for my classes that I lost track of days and time. Fortunately, hard work paid off in this first semester. When I first got word that the semester was going to end I felt a strange feeling of relief. I felt like it was the best news I have gotten all year. I think I got that feeling due to the fact that I was really beginning to stress out and get what people call “Senioritis”.
Aside from all the stress that I had, I never gave up. I ended first semester passing majority of my classes (6 of 7). From all the classes that I currently have, I have to say that math is the biggest obstacle I am facing. I am taking Pre-Cal and it has not been easy getting through. This is the only class I have had trouble with so far. I did not pass semester A. I feel that I could have done better in this class if I were to try a bit harder. Now I have to basically finish both semesters’ worth of work in order to pass this class. On the other hand, all the other classes that I passed were not as difficult as math.
During the fall, I was keeping an eye out for colleges that I wanted to apply for. There were so many choices and many collages that I wanted to apply for. I ended up getting accepted into College of the Sequoias. This is the first place I will be attending. I have a plan to go there for two years and then transfer to a bigger college. I am undecided of what college I want to go after COS. I will be keeping an eye out for some colleges or even universities.
This first semester has taught me that there is no time to be slacking off. That just one period can change you from being on/off pace. Therefore, I will be using the knowledge I got from this experience to continue on to second semester and try even harder.
#3 - Senior Year Reflection
It has been over a semester of my last year of being a High School student. At points, this year has been exactly what everyone else had said it was for them. There were times where it would be fun showing up to learn, but then there were days in which many deadlines would come at you at once. Last year I had many senior friends and they all told me almost exactly what I have been experiencing.
My senior friends from last year told me that this year had potential to be very satisfying or gut-wrenching. I have felt both sides of their statement so far. This year has been pretty satisfying by doing so much fun things. An example of this can be the senior trip for Gradnite that is going to take place in Disneyland. That sounds very interesting and I am hoping to go with my group of friends.
On the other hand, sometimes I have felt this year gut-wrenching because I cannot afford to miss any deadlines as they can affect my graduation status. All the deadlines that come out in announcements need to be met on time or before the time. For me, this is probably the hardest thing to keep afloat. I am a busy student. I love playing sports and doing many extracurricular activities and these sometimes can get in my way for meeting important deadlines in time.
Anyways, so far I have been seeing the happy side of senior year. My year has mainly been good and I really do not want this to change. I remember having tough times, but those times cannot be compared to all the good ones I have had throughout this year.
My senior friends from last year told me that this year had potential to be very satisfying or gut-wrenching. I have felt both sides of their statement so far. This year has been pretty satisfying by doing so much fun things. An example of this can be the senior trip for Gradnite that is going to take place in Disneyland. That sounds very interesting and I am hoping to go with my group of friends.
On the other hand, sometimes I have felt this year gut-wrenching because I cannot afford to miss any deadlines as they can affect my graduation status. All the deadlines that come out in announcements need to be met on time or before the time. For me, this is probably the hardest thing to keep afloat. I am a busy student. I love playing sports and doing many extracurricular activities and these sometimes can get in my way for meeting important deadlines in time.
Anyways, so far I have been seeing the happy side of senior year. My year has mainly been good and I really do not want this to change. I remember having tough times, but those times cannot be compared to all the good ones I have had throughout this year.
#4 - The Presentation
The senior exit interview is coming up and I am both eager and nervous. The senior exit interview is the last step of this 4 year senior project. In this part you will present main important experiences from your life in High School to 4 panelists of the community. These will then rate your presentation and if you get a passing grade you will be able to walk and if not, you won’t be able to.
I have gotten my date to do the presentation and it lands on Thursday, March 23rd. I have no idea what I will be facing, but from some stories that many friends have been saying is that it is quite easy actually. This fills me up with hope that I can pass. I would have done early completion, but I was not fully done with the rest of my senior project and still needed a lot of work to put into it.
Now, I feel more prepared. I have dedicated extra time on the rest of the senior project and have finished it. As I wait for the day to come, I visualize myself giving the presentation in front of 4 people, doing my best to show them how my life has been inside this beautiful campus, but the more time I see myself giving the presentation the more nervous I get. One part of me truly wants that Thursday to be tomorrow, but another part of me wants that Thursday to never come. When that day comes and it is time to do my presentation, I will need all my courage to pull it off as I am not a really good speaker in front of people. The way I am eager for it is that I will have some major weight of stress taken off of me as I will be focusing more on passing my classes on time.
Hopefully everything goes well and I do the best presentation I have ever done. This will not be easy but it will certainly be worth the shot. Until then, I will continue practicing for this major day.
I have gotten my date to do the presentation and it lands on Thursday, March 23rd. I have no idea what I will be facing, but from some stories that many friends have been saying is that it is quite easy actually. This fills me up with hope that I can pass. I would have done early completion, but I was not fully done with the rest of my senior project and still needed a lot of work to put into it.
Now, I feel more prepared. I have dedicated extra time on the rest of the senior project and have finished it. As I wait for the day to come, I visualize myself giving the presentation in front of 4 people, doing my best to show them how my life has been inside this beautiful campus, but the more time I see myself giving the presentation the more nervous I get. One part of me truly wants that Thursday to be tomorrow, but another part of me wants that Thursday to never come. When that day comes and it is time to do my presentation, I will need all my courage to pull it off as I am not a really good speaker in front of people. The way I am eager for it is that I will have some major weight of stress taken off of me as I will be focusing more on passing my classes on time.
Hopefully everything goes well and I do the best presentation I have ever done. This will not be easy but it will certainly be worth the shot. Until then, I will continue practicing for this major day.