It is the month of November and we are close to the end of the first semester. I am happy to say that so far I have managed to stay on pace in all my classes. There are only two classes that I really struggle with and they are Physics and Precalculus. I struggle with these because the math involved with them is really challenging and the ideas and concepts you have to learn and remember are really complex. My senior project is coming along fine. I have mostly everything done and all I need are a couple more journals, add some pictures, and update a couple of things. I learned from my job shadow that the career I originally kind of planned for is something I probably won’t pursue. While it is still an option for me I’m looking more into the Fire Academy at the COS Hanford campus. So far my plan is to attend Porterville College, in which I’ve already submitted an application for, get my general education out of the way, take an EMT course, and then go to COS Hanford and join the Fire Academy. Another option I’ve been looking into is becoming a Pararescue Jumper otherwise known as PJ’s. Basically they are field medics who fly in on helicopters and extract the wounded and keep them stabilized until they make it back to base. I recently found out about them when I was watching a documentary series called “Inside Combat Rescue.” Even if things still don’t go according to plan or if there are circumstances that prevent me from becoming a firefighter, then my back up to my backup plan would be to join a Police Academy. I feel like I’ve already learned more than enough educational wise so I’m not too keen on going on to a 4 year university. The only college I’ve applied for is Porterville College. Right now I’m a part of the wrestling team but I don’t know if I’ll stick with it because my workload between classes and practice is overwhelming. So I may have to give it up in order to keep my grades up. Especially since my classes are pretty much all college prep courses. The one thing that excites me about being almost done with high school is that I will finally be independent. Of course I’ll still get financial help from parents but every choice I make will be mine. The classes I take in college, the direction I want to go towards in terms of a career, and finally getting my license and being able to work. I’m looking forward to see how the rest of the school year goes and whether or not I’ll still have the same goals or something different. It’s always best to have backup plans and to plan ahead just in case things don’t happen the way you want them to. An adaptable plan will always be a working plan.
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It is August 17th, 2016 and it is my third day of senior year. So far I’ve pretty much settled into all my classes except for Trigonometry because we’ve been having some technological problems and everyone is pretty much lost. I’m pretty happy with my schedule because it’s a mixture of challenging classes such as Trigonometry, Psychology, and Physics as well as easy classes such as Beginning Guitar, Office Aide, English, and Government. Right now my favorite class is guitar. I’ve been trying to get into this class since Freshman year but it was always full. The only downside to my schedule is that I didn’t get one of the classes that I chose as an elective which was Video Game and App Development. To add salt to the wounds my friends who are enrolled in that class keep telling me how great it is, those punks. Overall, I’m pretty content with my classes and anticipate my senior year to be both a challenge but fun too.
In terms of progress for my senior project, I would say that I’m pretty much almost done with it. I completed my job shadow and all the tasks with it over the summer at a Honda dealership up in Selma. So that’s one thing I don’t have to worry about anymore which is a huge weight off my shoulders. Right now I’m just focusing on my life map which was supposed to be done I guess my freshman year but I barely found out about it at the end of my junior year. I already have ideas of what I want to make so it shouldn’t be too hard to actually finish. To be honest, I’d be lying if I said that working on my project has been exciting. It’s been one big ball of stress and a roller coaster ride trying to get all these assignments completed on time. I’m just glad that my job shadow is out of the way. Once I’m completely done with all my assignments, it’s just a matter of sprucing up my website and making it look nicer because right now it’s nothing but texts. Since we are still in the first week of the school year I don’t really know what to expect for the future of my senior year. I’m pretty sure everyone wants a stress free final year but the reality of that is that it won’t happen. If anything I want my senior year to go as smooth as possible. I want to pass my classes but at the same time have as much fun as I can with my friends. I think the biggest thing I’m looking forward to for my senior year is passing my exit interview and walking for graduation. My goals for this year, I want to stay on pace on trigonometry and pass that class because from what some of my friends have told me, it’s no walk in the park. I also want to get my drivers permit and then eventually get my license. I’ve already passed my drivers ed class and mastered the art of stick shift. I also want to be able to play the guitar decently and so far in the two days I’ve been in guitar class I’ve made good progress. Well that’s all for now and I hope everything goes as planned. It is August 9th, 2016 and I go back to school in one week as a senior. In one week I will cease to be a junior and move on to the last chapter of my high school life. During my junior year I had plenty of fun and pretty much loved all my classes. I think my favorite classes were Chemistry and being a Teacher's Assistant even though that really isn’t a class. It did however give me plenty of extra time to complete other assignments for my other classes. My junior year wasn’t anything too special but it wasn’t terrible either. If I had to use one word to describe my year i would have to use “pleasant”. The only lows that I had this year was that some of my friends moved away including two of my favorite cousins. However even though I lost some friends I was able to make new ones at the same time!
One of my most memorable moments this year was when I was finally able to Powerclean 190 pounds. It was the most satisfying feeling I have ever felt and I made sure to let everyone know how pumped up I was which came in the form of yelling and running around! Ask Cheatwood I’m sure he’ll tell you how crazy I went. Another moment is that I finally learned how to drive a manual transmission car! The things I’ve been interested in are golf, anime, and gaming. I’m not very good at golf and I don’t do much to improve outside of practice but I still like to play a couple rounds with friends or other teammates. I’ve been watching anime since I believe the 8th grade and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. I’m also a very avid gamer and dominate in most Call of Duty games and the Halo series. However, I have my days where I’m completely off my game which results in me “raging”. Basically in other words, I start to yell and shout things which I’m not allowed to type. I also hear that the school will be reintroducing the wrestling program so I’m thinking of trying that out. I don’t really have plans for college. Atleast not for state colleges or universities. Right now I’m looking more at Community Colleges like Porterville College because it’s in my reality of possibility. Even if I don’t go to college I may just go to a Vocational School like UTI or even the military, either Marines or Army. In terms of a career I still don’t really know exactly what it is that I want to do. I know that I like to do things that require being hands on or using your hands to get dirty such as a mechanic or auto technician. Maybe even going into residential construction or welding. I anticipate the rest of my high school career to be fun but stressful. Not stressful in the sense that I’ll be struggling but in the sense that it’s my last year of high school and I feel like I’m not ready for life after. I would like it to be stress free but that mostl likely won’t happen. Especially not with the classes that I chose. But then again I’d rather have challenging classes rather than a boring year. It is June 2, 2015 and we are very near to the end of this school year, my sophomore year. Throughout this year I have had many highs and few lows. High school this year was pretty much the same as last year, a major task. Freshman year was pretty much a breeze compared to this year and I know it’s only going to get more difficult. Overall so far, high school has been a pleasant experience. I’ve made plenty of new friends, tried new things, and have met lots of new faces. Some lows that I faced were a total lack of motivation. I did not feel driven enough to do anything. I would often do my assignments the day before they were due and even though I still completed them and got a relatively good grade. The stress that came with it was not favorable. Another thing was that this year went by extremely fast! Sure I’m all for waiting for school to be over so I can do whatever I want, but this year flew by too fast. I guess that’s what I get for complaining so much!
Over the course of this year I had many memorable moments. Some of those moments stick out more than others. One of them includes getting a perfect score for my English CAHSEE. Everybody was telling me that it is a difficult thing to pull off and that I should be proud. I am proud of my accomplishment; however the test does consist of lower grade standards so I would think it’d be expected to get a high score. I think the amazement comes from being given so many questions to answer and not making a single mistake. You could be the smartest person in the world but you still make mistakes. Other memorable moments include joining the golf team, squatting more than three hundred pounds, and the Winter Formal dance. These were all great experiences for me and I certainly won’t be forgetting them anytime soon. Other memorable moments I had at this school were that I actually finished some of my classes pretty early! There’s nothing more awesome than being a sophomore and not having to worry about your classes anymore. Unless you’re a senior but I’m not there yet! This year I tried mixing things up a little. I’ve always played football because I guess I’m really good or so people tell me. This year however I just wasn’t feeling the excitement when I went out for practices. I tried to tough it out but just couldn’t do it. I’ve been play football since I was 7 and I am now 16. It just got boring and I didn’t have the love for the sport anymore. I love watching but playing is a different story. After I quit the team I got heat from my some of my ex-teammates. Most weren’t too happy or thrilled that I quit because I was a valuable asset. Eventually they got over it and now we just joke about it. My plans for the rest of the year included me just doing my school work and doing nothing else. That’s when my brother and one of my friends convinced me to try golf. Let me tell you, for such a boring sport, it is really fun to play. I had more fun playing golf than I ever did in football. It was a really great experience and I plan to keep playing for the rest of my high school year. I think the activity I enjoy the most out of everything else is anime. I started watching anime in the beginning of my freshman year and I have been in love with it ever since. I’ve been trying to get into reading manga but I’m too focused on my anime. I do have plans for college but I also have back up plans as well. It’s always good to be prepared for the worst. I can’t say that I plan on going to college but I will say that I wish. Sure I’d love to go to college and further my education and pursue some dreams but in the end, it all comes down to money; a necessity that my family is somewhat struggling with. I tend to think realistically because it’s better to see the truth and read the facts for what they are than to delude my mind with pointless pipe dreams. I’d love to go to a four year university but if circumstances stay as they are for the rest of my high school career, it will be an incredibly difficult thing to do. If anything I plan on going to a decent junior college for two years and once I earn my AA degree, I’ll transfer somewhere else. That is currently what my brother is doing and it seems to be working out for him. On the chance that I’m not able to attend college due to certain reasons, I plan on trying to find a decent paying job or enlist into the military. If I do join the military I’d either join the Marines or Air Force. It’s not the ideal life I want to live so I will try everything to make this outcome less than possible and achieve my simplest dreams. In terms of a career, I can see myself doing something relative to construction or anything else that is hands on. I would hate to work at a desk because if it is anything like sitting in a desk on hours end here in high school, I don’t think I’d be able to take it. Unless it’s a very well-paying job then that is a different story. No the reason why I’d like to make a career in something that is hands on is because I like to get involved with my work. I like to use my hands and see results that spawn from them. I’ve always loved building objects and putting items together. Even if it isn’t functional or appealing to the eye, the fact that I made it is more than enough. I don’t exactly know what career I exactly want, but it would be somewhere along these lines. I anticipate my high school career to be a bore and stressful with an abundance of fond memories. It is high school, it comes with a lot of work and it’s up to you to make the best of it. For me I would like the rest of my high school career to be a smooth sailing. I want to create as many memories as possible that I can look back on and not be ashamed. My ideal high school career includes not falling behind, failing classes, and making poor decisions that affect me in the present and the future. I want to graduate with my class of 2017 and walk on my graduation. I would be extremely disappointed with myself if I wasn’t able to do this because I couldn’t get my act together. Graduating high school is my number one priority at this moment. Well I can officially check off Freshman year off my metaphorical check list. Freshman year was really fun and I made lots of great memories! So far high school has been pretty great. Met lots of new people and kept in touch with old friends as well. All my classes were pretty easy except for Geometry. That was a mission to pass. But at the end of the year I passed it and got my credits! Geometry was a pretty fun class to be in and it felt weird to be one of the few freshman in there along with Juniors and Seniors. One of my highest moments of Freshman year was playing JV football with Coach Traeger and fighting Strathmore for the league championship. Even though we tied and I didn't get to play due to a concussion I got three weeks prior. I was still very exciting to watch from the sidelines. One of my lowest moments was when me and this girl stopped talking back in January due to reasons. Long story short things didn't work out but that's all behind me now and I'm moving on. Overall Freshman year was great!
The most memorable moments so far was when my brother caught the game winning pass and ran it into the endzone for a touchdown against CVC. I couldn't believe it that Jacobs team beat such a powerful team and not to mention CVC being D4 and Lindsay being D5. It seriously looked like a movie moment. I remember every one and I mean EVERYONE jumping and screaming in the bleachers including me. That's something I'll never forget. For extracurricular activities I like to play online multiplayer on the Xbox and watch anime mostly on my phone. There's not much that I do outside of school or for clubs since I'm not in one. I guess I really enjoy listening to music since I pretty much have my earbuds in my ears constantly. Some of my favorite bands are The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stained, Pearl Jam, Rise Against, and the list goes on. I used to go to football practice and to the gym but now that the season is over I don't have to. I still go to the gym sometimes but not very often. I plan on going to college or I at least would like to go. As for what colleges I'd like to go to I don't really know. I know that I'd prefer if it was located here in California or one of the neighboring states because I for sure am not going across the nation! That's too far and I'd get so homesick. But yes I would really like to go to college. I don't really know what I'll do after high school since I still have 3 years left of it. I haven't really thought about it so for now I don't really know. I could see myself being some sort of technician. I like to build things and destroy things as well. Maybe I could go into demolitions, that'd be pretty cool. Or maybe even the military. I could see myself in a marine uniform standing next to all my brothers in arms. All I know is that I like to get dirty and I hate having to sit for long periods of time, reminds me school too much. Having a desk job would be less than ideal for me. For the rest of my high school career i expect to make new friends and maybe find some more interests since I barely have any. I would like to get into Beginning Guitar but every time I choose it as an elective I never get it. Hopefully I get it one of these years. I want to continue having as much fun as I can without it messing with my grades or getting me into too much trouble. My life is pretty mundane and I need something to keep things interesting. For the rest of high school until the day I graduate I hope to make plenty of great memories that I can look back at when I'm a shriveled old man. |
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