First Senior Journal
It’s the beginning of a new year and for most people it’s their first day of school, but in my case it is the last first day of school. Just yesterday it felt that we were incoming freshmen and feeling nervous of how high school was going to be and now we are the oldest students at this school. It is overwhelming thinking of everything that has to be done this year. We as seniors have to stick to the deadlines because if things don’t get turned in when they have to be we have no more chances of going back and making up work. I know for a fact that time flies by so quick and I’m having different emotions on whether I’m excited to graduate or worried of not passing all my classes. Even with everything I’m feeling I’m going to be positive and know that by working hard I can finish strong. These first days of school have gone good so far and hoping that everything goes as planned and I accomplish my goals.
I’m on pace to graduate and really excited to see how this last year of mine turns out. This year I’m taking mostly all electives since I have completed most of my credits. My goal is to complete all of my classes on time. Working hard is going to take a lot of my free time away and I know that it’s not going to be the same like the past years, but at the end I know that all that will pay off. This year I’m going to overcome all the obstacles that get put in my way and make this year the best one yet. My goal is that at the end of my senior year my GPA is worth all the hard work I am going to put in this year.
Besides passing all my classes other things have to get done before graduating. One of those things is getting our senior project done. At this point I only have my website setup, but hoping that by the end of this week I have my job shadow and life map posted on there. One of my goals is to do the early completion of the senior exit interview, but I know I have to do a lot of work. I also know that if I started working on it from now on until it’s the deadline I have enough time to get it together and finish it. As you can tell I’m already stressing out because of everything that has to be done.
This year I am really looking forward to being successful and making my parents proud of me. All the sleepless nights and stress that I am going to go through is all going to pay off as soon as I finish everything. Once I reach my goal it’s only the beginning of my future. I’m hoping to enjoy my last year at Lindsay High School and make lots of memories that I will forever remember.
It’s the beginning of a new year and for most people it’s their first day of school, but in my case it is the last first day of school. Just yesterday it felt that we were incoming freshmen and feeling nervous of how high school was going to be and now we are the oldest students at this school. It is overwhelming thinking of everything that has to be done this year. We as seniors have to stick to the deadlines because if things don’t get turned in when they have to be we have no more chances of going back and making up work. I know for a fact that time flies by so quick and I’m having different emotions on whether I’m excited to graduate or worried of not passing all my classes. Even with everything I’m feeling I’m going to be positive and know that by working hard I can finish strong. These first days of school have gone good so far and hoping that everything goes as planned and I accomplish my goals.
I’m on pace to graduate and really excited to see how this last year of mine turns out. This year I’m taking mostly all electives since I have completed most of my credits. My goal is to complete all of my classes on time. Working hard is going to take a lot of my free time away and I know that it’s not going to be the same like the past years, but at the end I know that all that will pay off. This year I’m going to overcome all the obstacles that get put in my way and make this year the best one yet. My goal is that at the end of my senior year my GPA is worth all the hard work I am going to put in this year.
Besides passing all my classes other things have to get done before graduating. One of those things is getting our senior project done. At this point I only have my website setup, but hoping that by the end of this week I have my job shadow and life map posted on there. One of my goals is to do the early completion of the senior exit interview, but I know I have to do a lot of work. I also know that if I started working on it from now on until it’s the deadline I have enough time to get it together and finish it. As you can tell I’m already stressing out because of everything that has to be done.
This year I am really looking forward to being successful and making my parents proud of me. All the sleepless nights and stress that I am going to go through is all going to pay off as soon as I finish everything. Once I reach my goal it’s only the beginning of my future. I’m hoping to enjoy my last year at Lindsay High School and make lots of memories that I will forever remember.
Half Way Done
Never had I that senior year would go by so fast. As of right now there is only is only six weeks left until first semester is over and I am stressing out about finishing all my class on time. I currently on pace on all my classes but find it hard turning in all my assignments on time because of how overwhelmed I am about school and college applications. The class I am struggling the most is hospitality because since the year started we have been doing lots of cooking labs. The days we don’t have cooking labs the teacher overloads us with a lot of assignments that are due the next time we have the class and doesn’t give us class time to catch up on work. I’m also struggling with economics because there is a lot of vocabulary terms you have to know in order to do well in the class but I am managing to stay on pace by asking for help and going after school to get more assistance.
I signed up to do the early completion of the senior project and don’t need a lot of things to complete it. Everything for the early completion of the senior project is due December 2nd and all I have to do is do my resume, my third journal and add lots of pictures to my pages. I uploaded all the other assignments that have been due and I am on pace on the senior project. I job shadowed a RN at a clinic in Porterville and really enjoyed this experience. I learned that I am really interested in pursuing a career in this field because all the skills needed to be in this type of job like time management and have lots of patience I feel that I have those skills already.
After high school I plan to go to a community college and do the RN program. I was interested in applying to Fresno State but after hearing that getting into the RN program there was hard because it’s impacted the most I decided to change my mind and looked into the program at College of the Sequoias. I currently applied to COS and just waiting to do the placement test and register for classes there. My next step is to apply for scholarships and fafsa. It’s overwhelming thinking of all the steps you have to take in order to complete an application but I know that at the end it will all be worth it.
Overall I am excited about graduating and starting a new chapter in my life. I know that I can accomplish everything that I want to do after high school I just have to set my mind to it and put a lot of effort into it. Overall high school has been a great experience being involved in clubs like my voice, key club, art club and ASB and has made it a memorable experience.
End of First Semester
Winter break is over and there is only two weeks or 8 days left of the first semester and I’m having mixed emotions. For most people it’s a relief that first semester is over but for me is not. I am getting ready to complete one of the major required tasks for graduation which is the senior exit interview. I currently have my entire website completed I just need to attach my senior exit interview power point to it which I’m still working on. Getting the entire project completed early has been stressful because besides the project I have all of my classes to finish on time and catch up on anything I’m behind on. The only thing I have my mind set on is that once I pass my senior exit interview I will have second semester to just focus on finishing all my classes and have less things to worry about. I’m scared of presenting my senior project and messing up on something or blank out but instead of having bad thoughts I need to be positive and tell myself that everything will be fine and that this will only get me closer to graduation. What I really like is that Mrs. Quintero, Dr. Carr and Cheatwood offer PLT to do a practice interview and receive feedback on what needs to be fixed or get better and have taken advantage of it and signed up for it. The hardest part of the senior project was working with weebly because I had never used it before so it was something new for me. Also the hardest part was getting everything done by December 2nd because before that point I didn’t have a lot of things done and I had little time left to complete it. I find it very hard talking about myself and I feel nervous about the fact that I have to talk in front of panelists that I do not know and are going to be grading me on how well I present. On the other hand first semester will be ending and graduation will be around the corner. I feel confident about passing all my class at semester and receiving all my credits. I’m really looking forward to second semester because it will not be as stressful as first since I will have the senior project done and economics. Economics has been the class that has stressed me out the most this semester because the concepts are hard to understand and I have a good feeling that government will be much easier. It’s crazy how fast these four years of high school have gone by so fast and I’m going down to my last semester as a high school student. This new year will definitely my year and I will enjoy every second of it because never again will I be a high school student and once this is all over I will enter the real world of being an adult.
Winter break is over and there is only two weeks or 8 days left of the first semester and I’m having mixed emotions. For most people it’s a relief that first semester is over but for me is not. I am getting ready to complete one of the major required tasks for graduation which is the senior exit interview. I currently have my entire website completed I just need to attach my senior exit interview power point to it which I’m still working on. Getting the entire project completed early has been stressful because besides the project I have all of my classes to finish on time and catch up on anything I’m behind on. The only thing I have my mind set on is that once I pass my senior exit interview I will have second semester to just focus on finishing all my classes and have less things to worry about. I’m scared of presenting my senior project and messing up on something or blank out but instead of having bad thoughts I need to be positive and tell myself that everything will be fine and that this will only get me closer to graduation. What I really like is that Mrs. Quintero, Dr. Carr and Cheatwood offer PLT to do a practice interview and receive feedback on what needs to be fixed or get better and have taken advantage of it and signed up for it. The hardest part of the senior project was working with weebly because I had never used it before so it was something new for me. Also the hardest part was getting everything done by December 2nd because before that point I didn’t have a lot of things done and I had little time left to complete it. I find it very hard talking about myself and I feel nervous about the fact that I have to talk in front of panelists that I do not know and are going to be grading me on how well I present. On the other hand first semester will be ending and graduation will be around the corner. I feel confident about passing all my class at semester and receiving all my credits. I’m really looking forward to second semester because it will not be as stressful as first since I will have the senior project done and economics. Economics has been the class that has stressed me out the most this semester because the concepts are hard to understand and I have a good feeling that government will be much easier. It’s crazy how fast these four years of high school have gone by so fast and I’m going down to my last semester as a high school student. This new year will definitely my year and I will enjoy every second of it because never again will I be a high school student and once this is all over I will enter the real world of being an adult.