Life After High School

Public schools help students become prepared for society until the day they graduate from high school. Over the years, students do not continue since they do not feel that they are prepared for college and decided to earn a low-paying job instead. Therefore, more students are either dropping out of high school or not attempting to enroll in college to improve their education.

Contemplating back on my high school journey, I began to recognize and appreciate the life changes I experienced and the imperative lessons I learned throughout those four years. If I had to choose several words to describe my high school experience, I would begin with eventful, challenging, and memorable. High school afforded me many experiences that continuously led to stressful and challenging encounters. Being involved with the Ambassador Program and the National Honor Society was one of the greatest decisions I made in high school. Both clubs provided me with numerous life-changing opportunities that will continue to have an impact on me for a lifespan.

College is not worth the time and effort because there more to life after high school then just college and the military is a better alternative right after high school.

The essay ‘Life After High School” by Annie Murphy Paul is about the effect of a persons high school experience on what they do later in life. Paul had been asked to be the commencement speaker at her old high schools graduation which made her wonder if our high school experience determines who people become as adults. To see both sides of the argument Paul interviewed some experts and read studies on the topic. Some of the research has shown that there some truth to the idea that high school has the ability to shape who we will become in the future. This includes research taken from the Wisconsin Longitudinal study, which is one of the largest and longest-running research project on the effect of high school. For example that jocks are in

A decision that will last a lifetime my parents had to make was a name between Alexis and Malori. I was four days away from being Alexis. I am Malori Kristine VonTobel and active within the school. I participate in Sunshine Society, Student Council, Pep Club, Knitting Club, Drama Club, volleyball, cheerleading, and swimming. Being this active and still having time to complete my senior project shows how determined I am with anything I do.

Ring! Ring! The school bell dings and Stan gets up and goes to his locker. He walk over to the water fountain and someone push his head down and he got wet. It was his friends Kyle and Eric. He says” hey what was that for” and Kyle responds “ It was just a joke.” They then exit the school and went their way home. As they walk through a back alley Stan trips Kyle. Kyle falls and hits a garbage can, and the can tips over. In the can was a brown bag filled with money. The boys were astonished and took the money.

A few weeks before school ended, one of my friends, Niko, kindly invited me to an AMAZING house in Santa Cruz for one weekend. I thought it was really nice of him to invite me and gladly accepted. The house was really awesome: it had a breath-taking view of the ocean, really nice rooms and when you went to bed you could hear the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks. On top of that the hosts were really nice.

Starting high school was something that would be impossible to forget. You get this grand idea that it’s going to be like the movies. Where the populars rule the school and the school is divided in the nerds, jocks, populars, and who knows what else. Upon being welcomed to Cooper it became clear this wasn’t that kind of school. There were the populars, but not in the same way I imagined. Here we were welcomed and given the helping hand we so desperately needed coming into the bigger fish pond. I can say much like a fish on land, I was out of my habitat. Walking among the others who have gone through this was one of the most terrifying things I have ever done. I have to say that in the beginning I predetermined high school was going to be the

What we are suppose to do is find plan our life out after we graduate High School. Are we going straight to college, or are we getting a job right out of High School. These are the questions that we are asking ourselves during this project.

Over the course of four years of high school the question that I hear most is "What do you want to do after high school?". Well after a lot of decision making I have decided that after high school I am going to continue working my job at Safeway and go to Pierce College for two years. I am hoping that two years at Pierce College will help me find a career I am passionate about and want to further my education in. After I get done with my two years at Pierce I plan on transferring to either Eastern Washington University or Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Financially, I plan on paying for Pierce by getting a student loan, paying a little bit of tuition out of pocket, and I also plan on applying to get a second job for the summer

While walking through the electric sliding doors, I smelled disinfectant wipes and saw a plethora of dark blue scrubs, white lab coats, and street clothing. I entered an elevator to my right. Once I got to the third floor, I made a sharp left and saw the patient transport room containing several other young people all wearing the same blue polo shirt. I was home. For my graduation project, I volunteered at three different hospitals: Paoli Hospital, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. After accumulating almost two-hundred hours in various hospital environments, I have made important decisions that will affect my post-high school life.

In February during the finales months of my senior year in high school, I began to start thinking about my life after high school. I had no idea of what I wanted to be in life. I knew I had liked arguing with people and standing up for what I believe. Then one day, I was watching one of my favorite movies “Legally Blonde”. A brief summary of the movie is that it is about a “dumb blonde’ girl who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to become a lawyer by attending Harvard Law School. In the beginning, she was lost but somehow turns everything around and proves to the world that blondes are smart, and that you can do anything if you have faith in yourself. After watching this movie, a light bulb had lit up in my head, and I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be a lawyer. I was unaware on the steps it took to be a Lawyer, so I asked my teacher about what I should major in to become one. She told me to major in political science. I had never heard this word before so I researches it to find more about it.

For the majority of my life, I had lived the way they referred to as “the right” way of living. I did as I was told and dressed how they would have preferred me to. I had also done well in school since the idea of being successful had always been engraved in my head. As a teenager, I never had the opportunity to experience what countless men and women would refer to as “high school experience” since I excessively worried about my grades and any possible way I could improve them. Subsequently, I completely disregarded the thought of gaining experience in which resulted in having no recollection of memories in which I can truly value. Therefore, what exactly have I been doing with my life? Absolutely nothing. I had the same routine for six years; wake up, get dressed, go to school, eat lunch, study for several hours and then go to sleep. I lived a monotonous life in which I felt had no meaning. As a result, of the establishment engraved in my head at such a young age, I had forgotten all it is that life has to offer. That life is limited and how important it is to “live in the moment” which can be demonstrated by the moments I’ve missed, the moments I’ve had, and those I long to experience.

Senior year is a big year, the year where you have a lot of last firsts, having to apply for colleges and having to decide what you want to do with your life after high school. It's the year to surely remember and is very important. I have a lot of goals this year that I hope to achieve, but there are also things that I am worried about.

When I entered college as a freshman, it was expected of me. There was no other choice or