Reality Check
In two months and 6 days it will be 2019 already. You're almost 1/3 of the way through your final year of high school. How's it going? Are you meeting your expectations so far? Yes? No? Why or why not? What are you hoping for the next 2/3 of the year? Provide some reflections on your current senior reality.
I am very happy with how my senior year is going right now. I am not only happy with my grades, but how I've grown as a person. I have been putting school and homework as a higher priority. I also feel that as a person, I've been much more outgoing and sociable. I get along with a lot more people. I also have been keeping up with my health: getting at least 7 hours every night and working out frequently. I hope for the next two thirds of the year, I continue to grow, not deteriorate.
ReplyDeleteThis trimester so far through this school year has be even less than I expected. I mean, I knew this school year would be easy, but I come to find that this school year so far has been absolutely cake. This year, I have been on top of my grades, more than I ever have through my whole high school career effortlessly. Not exactly effortless, but enough to be relaxed while still being on top of things. I hope to be able to continue being on top through the rest of this school year, and then continue that attitude on to college.
ReplyDeleteI think so far this year has been going great. It is still hard to believe I am a senior already. It seemed as if the last 3 years have taken so long yet they went by so fast. I expected this year to be the easiest year of high school, and it is. Pretty soon we will all be on our own and be free, but also making us more likely to make mistakes and get into trouble since we won't be with out parents and won't be locked in a school everyday. I hope the rest of the year goes by slowly and teaches me more lessons I need to learn before I'm on my own. This year I had learned to not take anything or anyone for granted. After high school, everything changes. whether you and your friends go into separate ways, or you are just missing everything when it was so easy and fun playing the sports you loved. I am not ready to be set free yet, it is going to be hard but it will be so nice being on our own and having fun with our good old friends and new friends. I'm curious what the future will bring for me.
ReplyDeleteSchool has been going decent so far. We didn’t have the best season in football, but I had fun playing for the last with all my friends. Besides football, I’ve met most of my parents’ expectations with school, I have good grades. My hopes for the rest of my senior year are to just enjoy it. I don’t want to allow sports and school to stress me out. I’m still going work hard, but I just don’t want to stress over small things. I want the rest of the school year to be fun. I want to have fun with all my classmates before we all head our separate ways. I also want to have fun with my underclassmen friends. After this year I most likely won’t see them much and we will become more distant from each other. I would love for that not to happen, and stay as good friends as we are now, but in reality I’m going to become more distant with my high school buddies, so I just want to enjoy these last months of being kids and being dumb with my friends.
ReplyDeleteI have been doing good when I went to Mrs.Philips she said “this is the best grades you had in the past 3 years” I believe that I will still pursue what I want to do which is Crime Scene Investigator. Also I will be graduating at the end of 2nd trimester thank god. I won't have to get up every morning and get ready for school because my college classes start at 10.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, we can start by clarifying that this is not my last year of High School, but it could be. If I decided a year ago to stay in Sweden, I could be one of the students that have one year left until they graduate. However, I decided not to.
ReplyDeleteIt is going pretty well when it comes to friends and after-school activities. I feel very blessed and happy for choosing to come to America and study an extra year. In school and with my classes, I feel like it isn’t going as good as I thought it would. At the same time, I am here to have fun, I don’t want to have a life here in America where I go to school and then go home to study, so I am not too worried about not meeting my standard grades here.
I want the year to continue as it has been since I came here. I want to meet even more new people, create more memories and just not worry about life to much.
This 1/3 of senior year has been one of the best times of my life. This football season I had a great time with my friends, I will remember for the rest of my life. But not only that, this year my friends and I have taken more time to become kids again. After school and on the weekends we go hunting for something weather is coon rabbits or squirrels. For the next 2/3 of my senior I expect the same thing. I expect many more Sunday night footballs, hunting trips, and boys being boys!
ReplyDeleteI would say senior year is flying by just as I expected, it hasn't been as difficult as junior year which is okay I guess. I would say future wise I am pretty uncertain of what the future holds, senior year will be over before we know it and that is scary. The future is inevitable though, I will just try to enjoy my last months of high school and still prioritize my future but try not to stress about it so much that makes me miss out on the present.
ReplyDeleteThe first 1/3 of the year has gone exceptionally well. It has been a lot easier then I thought it would be. I love having two opens, this makes my school days fly by. However, it is sad knowing that their flying by and will soon be in the past. I have doing well academically and I have enjoyed being back in class with all my classmates and peers I wouldn't regularly get to see much in the summer. The first 1/3 has been fairly stress free and really allowed me to appreciate school and all the benefits associated with it. I hope the next 2/3 will be just as enjoyable. I think the year is only going to go faster and faster as it goes on, but right now I can cherish these moments of living the life of a care free senior.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe I am a senior already. The last 11 years went by way to slow but felt like it went fast. I would say this year is going pretty good so far. I am taking college classes on top of high school classes and I am doing just fine! I am for sure meeting my expectations. I am getting the grades I wanted to get. I am doing my homework and doing it the right way. I thought that senior year was going to be so hard. I thought it was going to be hard because I thought I was going to be pressured to figure out my college plans. Also because I work two jobs outside of school. Honestly, it isn’t that hard. For the rest of the school year, I am hoping to continue the grades I am getting and continue the hard work I am doing to make my life successful.
ReplyDeleteI think this year is going good so far. I think this year have meet some of my expectations but not all of them. Somethings I have been decent and something have been going great. Things that have been going decent or was going decent was football, I think it was fun with my friends but I think we could have done better than we should have. In football I learn of lot from sitting on the sidelines like If I want to play I need to work hard and get better every day and I think that will help me a lot for baseball and the second thing is being a good teammates and having confidence in yourself and your teammates is key to having a good team. I hope that next 2/3 of the school will be fun and enjoyable and I can’t wait for baseball to start.
ReplyDeleteThe year is going by fine but honestly I feel like it’s such a drag. I never have the motivation to do anything. I think I knew this year was going to go by fast but I wasn’t prepared for it to go this fast. As a lower classman it seems like seniors get to do whatever they want but it doesn’t really seem that way. It’s also more challenging this year because of Kirkwood classes. Sometimes I just don’t want to go to class and the fact that I have a choice is really rough. The only thing that keeps me going to class is knowing that my mom would not be happy if I stopped going. I hope the rest of the year slows down a little bit even though I know it probably won’t. The only “reality” that has really hit me was the idea that I have to plan the rest of my life, but I don’t think I’ve gotten the full effect of that hit yet.
ReplyDeleteMy year? If it were to ever go the way I thought it would go I could be relaxing knowing that I would be getting a B in English. I really hope that the rest of the school year is better. I really wish we didn't write papers but instead keep doing this blog thing. I would so much rather do a paragraph blog everyday instead of doing papers. I also didn't really plan on becoming so dehydrated as much as I am. "The human body is about 70% water. Of course you are gonna need water." I wish that single thought didn't have to go through my head. I also wished I didn't get ingrown toenails. But I rather spare you the details of that story. I hope the rest of my school year goes a lot better than it is going now.
ReplyDeleteThis is my last year in high school, and I have been working the best to my ability. The more that I keep pushing to get through some of my classes the better. The more that I think about how my year and the sport seasons ending is getting hard. Last night was one of the hardest ones so far because of the amount of work, weekends, hours, and the relationships that have been built up over the many years. It is hard to think that the season in over. My volleyball career is over for my senior year of high school. The more that the I keep working hard are pushing myself the better the outcome. I hope that the next ⅔ of the year of being senior is one of the hardest steps because it will become basketball season, and deciding if you would like to go to college or not. The more that you think about it you would mostly feel empty inside because after high school what will you do? I feel like I will be lost but I won’t be because I will be working more than I was in school. The more family time and friend time after high school. The next step of becoming an adult is that growing up and knowing what is right.
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