The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, is a novel about Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers to participate in the 74th annual Hunger Games. The event held by the Capitol, is a game in which there are 24 tributes and you must try and survive. Collins has depicted Katniss as one of the main heroic characters. The author uses many different techniques to show how heroic Katniss really is. The author depicts Katniss as someone who displays strengths like selflessness and sacrifice.
It wasn’t the hard class or the teacher or my studying style, but it was my mentality that was holding me back. I thought that what I had was confidence, when it was really just arrogance. That arrogance blinded me from the fact that AP calculus BC isn’t a typical high school course, it’s an actual college level course. It dawned to me that
Through the experience of working as youth leader for freshman connection I have grown as a better leader. To help incoming freshman was incredible experience for me. I joined freshman connection to serve school and defiantly to get knowledge and team building skills out of it, so that it can help me make my college experience better. I think I have achieved all the goals that I wanted to through working as youth leader. Additionally, not only that but also to work on community service project on bullying has really allowed me to serve as teacher helper.
The age-old threshold of self-responsibility is something every teenager passes when moving on from high school. I had a taste of this life when participating in the Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College Program during this last summer. I was part of the National High School Game Academy, where we learned about game development and made our own video games. Life on campus was liberating, yet stressful, as I learned there were many entertaining activities as well as deadlines to meet during this six week program. Temptations such as clubs and amusement park trips plagued my entire stay on campus.
Over the summer, I would like to take both geometry and Algebra II so I can take honors precalculus sophomore year. If I cannot take both of these courses over the summer I cannot take honors precalculus sophomore year and Calculus BC junior year. Taking both geometry and algebra II over the summer will help me in taking other rigorous math courses, as stated before, and other courses in other fields. I am interested in pursuing fields that are highly dependent on advanced math courses and skills.
It is July of this year, 2015, I am riding a charter bus from Stark State College in North Canton,Ohio to Pearl’s dinner in Chicago, Illinois. I am with this program called Upward Bound Math Science, which I had spent all summer with program. We make it to our destination, no problem. See this isn’t the challenge I face this is a day before the really challenge occurs. So that day we went to Wheaton College, which I left bored and barely informed about the school.
My whole life long, I have been trying to find a place where I can truly fit in. I have also been worried about what I would do when I grew up. I was torn between my passion for horses and my passion for performing. There was no way I could give up one for the other, so I searched the net for Christian colleges that had majors in both equine studies and vocal performance and there it appeared: Asbury University. It was manna from Heaven.
The freshman myth has really opened my eyes, after all I myself am a freshman in college straight out of high school. The fact that 18 million students in a single year apply for college and 34% of those students drop or flunk out of college is a little scary. I have big goals for life I want to be either a Jag for the Army or a Prosecuting Attorney. The freshman myth is what I was thinking my senior year; piece of cake, easy, not going to have to work as hard as I have the last few years of my life. I learned quick that senior year is a lot more stressful then it sounds.
Growing up in a private charter school, the teachers really fixated on telling you when and how you were wrong. We were expected to know anything and everything that prevailed to our current grade. Being in that environment really made it hard for me to try. Because trying was leaving possibilities for error and mistakes and that wasn 't acceptable. So, for any difficult problem, I wouldn 't even try.
Because my Sequence is 25 I like to break things down and evaluate. I feel confident about an assignment when I have a plan. I must think about how I want to get my point across before conveying it. I sometimes like putting things together if the directions aren’t complicated or confusing. I must reprogram my learning habits now that I understand my weak points.
Algebra Final Essay By: Chloe Kowalczyk When I transferred from honors, I was worried about joining a new class in the middle of the year. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered I had friends in the class and the environment was chill. I was able to thrive in this class and it made up for my bad experience in honors. This class has positively impacted my high school career because it prepared me for AP physics, lowered my stress levels, and had a good environment.
Last month in math support class I got into a fight. We were in math support class and this boy was talking about me. He was calling me names and making fun about my weight. So as soon as he stopped I got up and just starting going off on him. So he jumped up and started yell back at me.
Life can have so many challenges a person will have to endure. Some will be making it to the NBA playoffs and others will be running a marathon. For me, the biggest challenge would be the most terrified obstacle a young person would ever have; the SAT. Known for its extremely dull black and white pages and its notoriously rough questions, I was about to prove myself against its makers, The College Board. Opening my eyes, I was greeted by the bright, bright sun peeking through the curtains.
I am extremely excited to be able to study abroad, however my GPA is a possible deterrent to this opportunity. Last semester, I had 16 credits and it was my first semester in the business school. I also began a role as peer mentor, switched jobs mid semester, and moved off campus as well. All of this adjustment contributed to my semester not starting off as strong as it should have. I really struggled with Accounting 100.
The yelling only seems to stress me out. However I find that when I cheer myself on and self-teach myself the material thoroughly I do much better. I know I am capable of a lot more than I do at times. The best motivation for me is to think of how Albert Einstein taught himself calculus even though he was expelled from school at age fifteen. When I cheer myself on rather than beat myself up I feel I can do much more.
