The 4th quarter begins today and this is the beginning of the end. After this quarter, you will be leaving not just a grade, but high school. Your days as a high school student will end, and you will assume the responsibilities of an adult. Life only gives us so many chances to start over. When those chances present themselves, it is imperative that we embrace those chances and make the most of the opportunity.
For your blog this week, think about how you will use this new beginning to make changes. Think about what new beginnings mean. What do you need to do before the end of the year to help you enter the adult world confidently and ready? Tell us where you will find yourself after high school and the steps you need to take to make it happen.
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Before the end of the year, I want to make sure that I am ready to leave high school behind. I will also make sure that I realize that there is a bigger world outside of high school. After I graduate, I plan to attend Baldwin Wallace University to become a teacher. After I have a steady job, I want to get married and start a family. Change is big and it can be scary, but change is necessary. I'm ready to close this chapter of my life, and start a new one.
When high school ends, I will attend the Bowling Green State University. I will be upset to leave my friends, family, and boyfriend in Brunswick but I am excited for a fresh start and to see what life is like outside of Brunswick High school. I am majoring in Apparel Merchandising and will room with a girl I met off Facebook. I am excited to make new friends and to have a new change in my life. Part of me is afraid of change and a new routine, but another part of me needs a new start. Sometimes an uncomfortable change, can bring out the best experiences. I am excited yet discouraged to begin this next chapter of my life.
Entering this new beginning of this last quarter it is crucial to make the best of it. It is important to do ones best and try hard to ensure that they will be successful in college. For college there is so many new responsibilities that need to be taken are of without the help of your guardian. I am going away to Ohio University for college and need to learn the responsibility of doing my work without procrastination. I plan to be responsible in everything I do in order to have a successful future.
Before the end of the year, I want to make sure I am mentally and emotionally prepared. I realize I am stepping out into the real world and need to be fully responsible for myself and my actions from here on out. I need to take everything I have learned over the course of my life and take what I know to move forward into my future. I am attending Bowling Green State University for forensic investigation and hope to achieve an amazing career and start a family with someone I will later on meet when I graduate college. I am looking forward to learning new things and watching myself and others around me change.
I do not think it has hit me yet that we are in our last couple months of high school. As scary as it is that next year we will be on our own, out in the real world, I am excited and ready to being my life. Next year i plan to attend Bowling Green State University where my major will be early childhood education. Before the end of the school year i want to do everything i can to make sure i am ready to leave high school. I want to make the best of all of the things coming up so i have good memories to look back on. I am also very excited to start over in college and because i can be anyone i want. I will be going to a place where no one knows me and i can make new friends. I can not wait to begin college and have many new experiences
After high school I am going to attend The Ohio State University. I plan to major in chemical engineering. To do this I need to send my final transcript and receive my high school diploma. I plan on taking in as much knowledge as I can while attending college. Not only will I learn a lot in the classroom, I will learn life lessons. As I begin my life as an adult I will make mistakes but I will learn from them.
With the fourth quarter starting I will be focusing of wrapping up high school and getting ready for college. I will have to finish up with all of my classes and take finals and ap tests. After graduation I am going to attend the Ohio State University and want to become a Dentist and have a minor in business. I want to move down south. Eventually I plan to get married and have a family. Gojko, Stefan, Goran, and I will forever remember the great times we experienced in Language arts and will talk about how exhilarating it was. We will periodically throw language arts parties which you will be more than welcome to come to! :) :) :)
I will enjoy these last couple months of high school. These are the best times to live life with no responsibilities just worry about having fun. Me and Filip will always talk about language arts and Mrs. Perrin forever and how we enjoyed this class so much. We are actually throwing a party in the summer to celebrate language arts being over and you Mrs. Perrin are more than welcome to come. New beginnings are near and it will make me into an adult more. I am going to college and getting a business degree.
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This was my favorite class in all of high school !
Cheers to that
I want to be a better person academically and socially. I want to develop my work ethic by getting a job and finishing the school year the strongest I've ever been. I plan to do Tri-C for the first year and then transfer to a university to major in music. I think that taking a few courses at the community college will help me stay "in the swing of things" with school. I want to do what I love for the rest of my life. I don' think I'll be happy if I'm not playing music.
Before the end of the year, I need to let the reality that high school is over and that real life is beginning set in. After graduation I plan on attending Costal Carolina to get into animal care. When I am holding a good job I would like to travel and see the world. After traveling and seeing all the things I want to see I would like to get married have kids and continue work with animals.
Leaving high school to me means that the obligations and priorities that I have been previously forced to respect are shifting to necessities that I must consciously decide to respect on my own. From now on, I will be the only one having to tend to my own business. I plan to spend a lot of my time exploring Earth and the rich cultures, ideas and practices of the human race. My father, a religious traveler, will be taking me on extensive trips to Hong Kong, India, various countries in South America and across Europe. My grandmother was born in Italy so I have distant family who still resides in Sulmona. I plan to live there with my cousin Panfilo for at least a couple years to learn about my heritage and inherent culture. I hope to one day make a significant difference in the lives of those who live in poverty. How I will make that happen, who knows, but if I do not spend my finite time on this planet appreciating the diversity and sharing with others the power of universal acceptance than I will feel like I wasted all the time I had.
After high school I will be attending a trade school to get my LPN. In the summer I will be applying for a job called TLC which is transitional l living center, taking care of older men and woman who can no longer feed, bath, or do anything themselves anymore. I later on plan to attend Tri-c and go further with my LPN and go up to my RN. I am ready for this change, change is good and I can't wait for what is to come. Im ready to say goodbye to high school.
All throughout high school, we wish for snow days or we wish for any other excuse to not have to be present in school. It is slowing but surely hitting me that just after this one of many quarters that we have completed... it is going to all be over. I am hoping to be successful and responsible in the choices i make. Being alone, and not having someone/teachers always following you and pushing you to be and do you best is going to be a very different change but its part of growing up. Although I am nervous i am so excited to move on from this part of my life of replaying the same routine for 12 years and see where it takes me and how it goes. Different is always good along with change, i am very excited to move and work and attend college, just always reminding myself to.. always stay motivated.
After high school I will be attending Washington and Jefferson college in Pennsylvania. I am very excited for a new beginning and meeting new people but leaving everything behind will be one of the hardest things for me to do. Family and friends will no longer be right by my side. I need to become more independent so going away will hopefully help me with that. I also need to become better at talking to new people. After college I have to be able to get along with people in a work place so I am hoping that being around completely different people in college will help me make friends easier.
After high school I will be attending Ohio University. I have wanted to go to Ohio university since I was a freshman. This new beginning is going to open many doors to my future. I will meet lots of new people and this will be nice to meet people just like me. My room mate is James barnes and I think this will workout well because me and James are extremely similar people. I am not thrilled about the people I will leave behind. OU is far away from any other college and that makes it hard to visit friends. I need to learn how to study on my own a little bit. Besides that I think I am ready to take on college and the new beginnings.
New beginnings could either be a bad thing or a good thing. For me to enter the adult world ready for its challenges I will first need to learn to take things as they are and not try to fix things that I can't. After high school I will be leaving to go to Fort Benning Georgia to start my career in the Army. Some of the things I need to do to prepare is go to future soldier training on Thursday to prepare mentally, and to prepare physically I'll need to start training.
I think that before the end of the year i want to make sure that I have my future set and planned. I want to attend Tri C after high school and go to a college after a few years. I think that a new beginning is a fresh start and a good way to start after high school. I want to get a job at Dillards when i turn 18 and get a car. I need to save my money and keep my goals in my head all the time to accomplish my goals. I will try my best to make these goals after high school happen.
After high school I will be attending Ashland University to major in nursing. I am going to be sad to leave my friends and family, but I am excited to start college. Before high school ends I need to realize this is going to happen. I am going to have to become more independent and notice that my friends and family are not going to be right by my side. Another change is being out of a routine and not playing sports. I have played sports my whole life and to not have them there will be a major change. Change scares me sometimes, but I feel like I can get used to this change. I am excited for college and the memories I am going to make.
The thought of leaving high school has always been one that has created a sense of anxiety through out me. On a daily basis I think about how excited I am to be able to enter a new chapter of my life, where beginnings are fresh and I get to choose the path of which my life with fall in to. But at the same time, I am terrified. Leaving high school means leaving behind the past 14 years of my life that I have worked towards. Growing up, this is the moment you have been working for. All of those years of grade school, this is where you wanted to be. In the last year of high school, you are at the top of the food chain. You've made it. Everyone knows your name, everyone knows who you are, and you have had the same set of friends for years now. Old memories are reminisced on as we try to hold on to what is left of our childhood. Leaving that behind is terrifying...but at the same time it is refreshing. Stepping away from the people you've seen on a daily basis for the past few years is beyond satisfying. The thought of being able to see new faces and learn new stories is riveting. All of these years of school have prepared us for what is next. We now know the basics of everyday life and now it is our chance to be able to choose what we want to do. We choose wether or not we go to college, and if so, we choose where and with whom. We choose what we want to dedicate the rest of our lives to. We choose the people we want to associate with and we have free range of literally everything we do. We are pushed to create a life for ourselves and give ourselves purpose in that life. As an 18 year old student that works full-time after school, I'd like to be able to say that I know exactly where I want to be in life. Life is giving us a rare opportunity to start fresh with faces that we've never seen before, and some old ones that will remain in our life. So I will seize that. I will share my stories and grow as an adult. My intentions currently are, after I leave high school I will be attending Cleveland State University and I will pave the way to the rest of my life. I have the intentions of studying English Literature and French. I want to expand my knowledge of the world. I will travel and learn, as I will teach and try to inspire those around me. My intentions after high school are to grow as much as I am capable of and in doing so, finding others that will only make me grow more happy and successful.
After high school I will be going to either Bowling Green, or Akron I haven't decided yet, but I know wherever I choose it will be the right choice. I plan on majoring in either engineering or computer science. Its going to be hard to leave all my family and friends behind, but I am ready for a new beginning and for meeting new people that could possibly be in my life for forever. Before the end of the year I want to know that I did everything I could to make my high school experience rememberable, because I do not want to forget about it and the people that were in it.
After high school I'm going to Ohio Northern University for advertising design/marketing. I think that new beginnings especially college are the most exciting because you get to meet all new people. In high school you have some restrictions because you see the same people for four years and you get to know majority of your class. On top of that you have parents, curfews, not being able to drive, and all these different things. High school was great, but I'm more excited for college because of the independence. I can be anyone I want and it won't effect anyone but me.
When high school finally comes to an end I will be watching all of my close friends leave for college. I am someone who will not be attending a college my first year. Instead I will be working and saving money. I do plan on attending college later on, just not right away. New beginnings are scary, but exciting. Brunswick was my new beginning for high school coming from a private school all my life. Now here I am starting over again. I am most excited to see where this leads me. Despite not attending a college like everyone else, I still have my 1 year old brother to look after and watch him grow and grow as a person in work. New beginnings help create who we are. Creates a sense of refreshment for us. But we should never forget our past and should use it as tool for our new beginning. As excited as I am for high school to be over. I will miss the teachers and peers on who helped me become who I am today.
After High School I am going to Kent State University to major in Finance. Although Kent is not too far away, I will still be leaving many friends and family. I think that I am ready to make the change into college, because i'm looking forward to meeting many new people and I hope that some of the people I meet , I will keep in touch with for a long time. When you go to college you have so much more freedom to do what you want rather than in High School. This is where you will have to learn to make the best decision for yourself. I want to do everything that I can this last quarter to make the best of my last days in High School. After that then only time will tell what the future holds for me.
After high school I will be moving away to New York city to live with my aunt and attend Marymount Manhattan college. I'm most excited to do this because this has always been an aspiration of mine. I frequent New York very often but this will be entirely different. I will be moving away form my family here and entering a completely different lifestyle. As an adult it will be solely up to me to go through with the decisions I will be making that will be bettering my future and I must be able to rely on myself to be able to complete and do what is necessary to be successful and feel like i've accomplished what I want. I am the oldest in my family and since my father never attended college and my mother immigrated here from another country, I am the first to truly experience something like this. It's confusing do to the fact that i'm still trying to figure out how everything works and I realize that there will be days that will be hard and I will struggle but I feel like it helps people grow. I have amazing friends who will all be going their separate ways to other states as well but we alway remain in good contact so I'm very sure that even though we're far away from one another we will still be as close as we are now. I feel like now that I will be separate from high school I'm really about to enter the new beginning of my life where I can finally pursue my goals and really live the way I want, new beginnings help us find a new and fresh idea of what we want to do and achieve and I think that is the beauty of entering a new stage of ones life
While being in the last chapters of my "childhood" I plan to hopefully make ammends with those around me, and then go on with my life. I will be starting at Tri-C in the fall for my associates of art degree with a minor in english lit, and psychology to start on the path to being a art therapist. I also have plans to make an issue that has controlled my life known to the public, and then hopefully have operations done to better myself. Also for living plans, I see myself either staying close, moving to New York, or applying for a visa to move and live over in Europe, most likely the United Kingdom. In order to make this 'new beginning' a reality and effective, is really reliant on the persons ability to let go. To cling to the past will get you no where, to let go and stretch your wings is the only way you can fly. Because this is the first time you get to be your own person and not have others influences shoved onto you.
I see a new beginning as a new chapter in my life. The new beginning of leaving high school and having more freedom as a young adult. After high school, I will be attending Tri-C for two years to get required classes out of the way. I will then transfer to Kent State to major in the study of psychology and minor in photography. As I have these last moments in high school, I can continue to shape the person I want to be. I have grown so much since freshman year and during my senior I have been realizing who I really am. To take on this new chapter, I need to learn what it is like to be independent in life and make my own decisions. That is a big step to take after high school because there is not a lot of freedom considering you are still a “kid”. Once these new changes come into play, I will learn a lot more about myself and become independent. I need to be confident with myself and make good choices to stay on target in college. It will be an uneasy transition at first, but we all have to grow up sometime.
New Beginnings are a great opportunity to showcases your abilities for the future. Lets say you wanted to acheive something in High school, but something was holding you back. This "New Beginning" may give you the confidence and power you need to make your dreams come true. Leaving High School and becoming an "adult" also gives students more freedom to pursue what interests them the most. It is important to make good decisions in the next journey and not forget what triggers some of the opportunities you may encounter. After Highschool is when you decide who YOU want to be. Nobody can push you around or tell you what to do. The steps you take is what is going to mean the most in the long run
getting to start over and have a new beginning is a great opportunity to learn more thing and become more. Now someone can achieve more. And can fix the things that you where bad at. This allows someone to follow their dreams and succeed in life. After high school their are a lot of options that someone could take they can go to school or take other routs like starting a business. Becoming an adult is also a big step because their are more responsibilities and people have to make the right decisions to get though life. After high school only you have the power to do what you want to do.
I am so excited for a fresh start but I'm also upset about leaving the people i love behind. I cannot wait to go to College and meet new people and watch my dreams come true and become who i want to be. Im going to make the best out of these last days of high school because even though i dread waking up in the morning and coming to school everyday i know i will end up missing it and missing the people I'm close to right now. I think the hardest part of this new chapter will be saying goodbye to everyone. A lot of my friends are going 4 hours away and its going to be hard to say goodbye to them and not seeing them as much as i do now. Plus saying goodbye to my family is going to be even harder.
There is nothing I need to do by the end of the year in order to start living life as an adult, other than staying alive until May 14th. After high school I will be continuing figuring out what want to do for a living. I will be going to college at Akron University and to get there I will need to wait until summer is over and then when school starts, I will drive there.
Honestly, all I need to do to get ready for the adult world is to let go. To let go of my friends, to let go of my fears of growing up, and to overall just let go. To grow and become a person, you have to wander and explore new surroundings and in order to do that, you have to stop holding your mom's hand. My moms hand symbolizes security, safety, protection, and comfort but as I grow older and see the world clearer, I understand that there are just some things I need to do on my own. I need to stop being scared of becoming an adult because in 17 days i'll be considered one and I need to stop being scared of losing my friends and never seeing them again because it's already happening. These threads in my life just keep getting thinner and thinner and I'm trying so hard to make these threads hold up my weight of life but it's not worth it. Why have a string, no a thread, hold you up when you can go out of your comfort zone and find someone who will be the rope. So I have to cut my threads and find a rope. Heck yeah to terrible rope metaphors. Who said high school including the best years of your life because man were they entirely wrong.
Will definitely be trying to raise my grades up a little better just to prove to myself that I am capable of it. Going into Tri-C next year is a good step towards going to OU the year after. I will lose friends going off to different colleges and relationships with people can end and new ones can start.
Next year, I am attending Ohio University and I am undecided in what I am going to major in. I am so excited to start this new chapter of my life, but at the same time very sad. I am going to be hours away from all of the people I love and I think that is going to be the hardest part for me. But, I have found great roommates for next year which makes me more excited because I am going to be making new friends and forming new relationships with these girls I am going to be rooming with. I want to travel and study abroad through the college as well. I want to make the best out of these last couple of weeks in high school. It is going to be a huge transition but I think it will all be worth it. I am excited to watch all of my dreams come true and figure out who and what I am going to be.
Im getting myself ready for adulthood by leaving the high school lifestyle for a college lifestyle. Which means I will need to buckle down on my academics more in college than in high school. I am planning on going to Bowling Green state University. This will be a huge transition in life but it will help me become an adult and will help my maturity grow. I will try my best to take this fresh start as serious as possible, because I want to become successful in life.
I feel that when I go into my college life I will be able to find a lot of opportunities that can help support and push forward the way that I want to live. New beginnings are an amazing thing as it can result in new friends, new places, and new things. What I need to do in preparation for the end of this year is to find out what I truly want to do with my life and how I see myself living through college. A new start will open many paths and hopefully i'll be able to find out what I want to do.
For me, high school was a time of figuring out my life. I'm unsure of where I will be come August, but I hope that the choices I make today help me make that decision by the end of the month. I noticed throughout high school that I hold on to a lot of things. Old friendships, past relationships, my past self, even. I need to be able to let them go and fully commit to myself in the moment today. I intend to make life after high school a new start, where I will fully release all of the tension I have been holding on to, letting snap like a rubber band. I think part of my new beginning is going to come in a physical change. I plan to dye my hair on my 18th birthday, I intend to get my first tattoo, and I am looking to leaving Ohio for school. I feel like a physical change is the best reminder of the spiritual and mental changes one has to make, as it is a change that cannot be avoided unless it is physically altered again. The thought of leaving this town, leaving high school, and going somewhere else to study what I love is actually very terrifying. I find myself drawn to certain places and reminisce on the memories I have there. To leave all of those behind for my studies is actually quite terrifying. Yet, it's a fear I have to overcome eventually.
Entering into the adult world is overwhelming, losing all my friends but being presented with new opportunities and challenges. Handling a whole new level of responsibility is mentally straining. I will be attending The Ohio State University which has been a monumental goal of mine, but accepting all the responsibility that comes with going to college will be hard as I tend to procrastinate and put pleasure before work. Doing the responsible thing over the pleasurable thing is what I am going to work on as I go through this fourth quarter and hopefully will be able to develop the mental capacity to handle the adult responsibilities that are being brought forth.
I completely sure that I will never give myself up to adulthood. I plan on living my life exactly as I do now, except in the future I'll have more money and a few more responsibilities. I plan on going to college at the start of next year and honestly there is nothing I need to do for the rest of the year to ensure that besides get decent grades which will be no problem. College will be a change and I will definitely miss high school but I think college will introduce me to a lot more freedom and new experiences and will be an overall very good experience for me with new classes and making new friends.
As the year comes to a end I plan on becoming fully ready for what is layed out ahead of me. Next year I will be attending OTC where I will be certified as a high performance technician. After that I plan to either get a position on a team or open up my own shop.
Entering the adult world is something that I have been waiting for for awhile now. Making new friends and losing the ones you have is the price to pay when going off to different colleges. I need to buckle down and pay more attention to school. The two things that I want when i go to college next year is that I want Good school and grades and good work. While I am going to school I want to make money on the side so i could enjoy some leisure activities. I will be attending Tri-c for the fall and spring semester. After, I want to transfer to Cleveland State University or even out of the country. I tend to procrastinate a lot so I want to change that and want to finish my work more early and have time for studying. It is timed to be responsible. People are going off to colleges now and there is no one who is controlling you other than you. It's time to buckle down and become your own person now.
Entering the adult world is something i have always thought about but was never ready and now being a senior in high school i am so ready to graduate and start a new chapter in my life. I am scared and nervous for this but i know it will all be ok in the end becasue freshman year entering a new high school, was a new chapter in my life then and i am ok now. I will be leaving many friends in high school that are going away to college. I will try my best to keep in touch but there comes a point in life that you just have to let go and start your own chapter in life by yourself, meeting new people. College will definitely be different than high school but it will be more challenging with bigger opportunities and i am ready to take it on. New beginnings will open many paths to find my career and i hope i will find the one i want to do the rest of my life and be happy and successful in the future.
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