My high school experience has been very intense and action-packed thus far. It has been an exciting journey of homework assignments and tests. In many ways, my high school experience has been what I expected. However, it has also been different in some ways.
When I was a young boy, I always looked at high school students as the coolest people in town. They could drive, date, and stay up late. As I grew closer and closer to my actual high school experience, this perception lessened. However, they still seemed so much older than me.
Now that I am in high school, it doesn’t seem like I am. I remember seeing the high schoolers driving to school and thinking, “Wow, they’re old.” Now that I am that age, I don’t seem old at all. It seems like just yesterday I was going to my first day of 7th grade.
My high school experience has been like what I expected in many ways. In most ways, it is just like junior high. The only major differences are that people can drive, and I am no longer the oldest in the school.
The differences though, are what stand out. When I was little I thought high school would be so cool. However, upon further investigation, it’s not everything its cracked up to be. Not that high school is extremely boring or anything, but I don’t think there are that many differences from Junior High.
Up to this point in high school, I feel pretty successful. I haven’t procrastinated as much as I did last year, and therefore have had a lot less homework. I think one of the reasons that high school hasn’t been such a challenge, is that I took some pretty difficult classes in Junior High..
I have many goals for my high school years. I want to make the honor roll every year in high school. I also want to take many AP and concurrent enrollment classes to build up a lot of college credit. When I first started 7th grade, I had goals like, making the basketball team, and being “cool”. Those things, however, don’t matter to me anymore. When you look at the big picture, where is being popular, or being on the basketball team going to get you?
This is why I have tried to concentrate on the more important goals, primarily academic. Many kids in high school don’t think that doing well in school is that important. Just call them popular and they’ll be happy. I don’t believe this philosophy. Doing good in school is important, and that is my main goal as I continue my high school journey.