When I first started high school I was really afraid of it being a lot harder
than middle school.
The scariest part was grades matter a lot more.
I was afraid the teachers would be strict, but it's not really the case.
I thought that the teachers were gonna be like really hard
it's actually more fun than middle school is. I didn't really know what my friend
group was going to be but then I realized that there's tons of different
people and you can definitely find a place.
Not knowing my classes and where they were. There's this new school but it's
huge.
Once you get to know the building it's pretty and also take advantage of the
freshman orientation because that way they give me tours and you get to
know the school better.
In middle school you are dependent on a lot of things. In
high school you are on your own and if you need help you need to
advocate for yourself. Probably the work because it's harder.
The first time you take finals every freshmen like freaks out because it's
their first time but once you're done with them
it's like that wasn't that big of a deal. People a lot older than you,
it's really shocking seeing the people with the little beards.
Maturity levels and
I don't know maybe bigger difference would probably who your
friends are.
There's a lot more people which is a lot more variety of people so you've got
more groups. The school year's going to go by like way faster just because I
think you're gonna have like way more fun. Friends, the activities, the cons
just feels more like a community.
The biggest challenge about high school probably would be dealing with the
people around you because a lot of people are going through a teenage
hormones.
Fitting in into a place, like having a place where you know you can stay like
having a second family.
The biggest challenge is probably time management.
Juggling everything. Work
There's a lot of work. You want to have good grades and you want your parents to
be proud that you can manage multiple things like playing on a really good
team in basketball and also keeping at least an
ABC grade and it is a challenge.
The freedom, we definitely have a lot more freedom than
middle school and just a ton of kids so a lot of friends. The amount of
people that you didn't know and how many different things that go on.
I guess I feel like there's more community and there's more like spirit
and interaction.
It goes by so fast, it's really hard to tell what was a favorite thing about it,
but sports is definitely like up there. Definitely just being independent
You get a lot more freedom kind of, to choose what you want
to do with all the electives. We can get here a half an hour early and go talk to
a teacher if we need to.
Even though sometimes the classes are not easy
the teachers are really helpful and they actually do care.
They're a little bit more challenging and you have to
work a little bit harder at it but once you get into things it's not that hard
Higher level than what was expected. There's a lot more hours spent studying and doing
homework.
It kind of depends on your classes like if we take an AP class you get a lot
more homework, but the regular classes the homework load is kind of regular.
I actually have a lot less homework in high school just because we have a
little bit more time in class to work on it it seems like because the teachers
don't give us longer lessons.
I have a calendar in my room like reminds me of
certain events like things that need to be turned in.
Yeah I make a lot of lists. I just do period by period what do I have to do. Come home
after school and the first thing I do would be my homework and make sure I get
it done and they give planners which is really good because when I didn't use my
planner my grade was falling but when I did it started looking a lot better.
You know keep that mentality of what I'm looking forward to doing in life and who
I want to be as person, not the people around me. Being on time, coming before
school starts by sometimes an hour so I can talk to all my teachers.
I took avid my freshman year so that was a really helpful class to take. I study
at least like 2-3 hours before a test because I want to be prepared.
Hard work, dedication. Like not with just homework but with every sports.
I've got some of the same ones, like we occasionally talk sometimes we all kinda like scattered
Most of my friends in middle school went to different schools so no. A lot of
the kids in middle school I don't really see because they're not in my classes
so I've made a lot of new friends. It's confusing to find all your past
classmates and all your friends because they're scattered everywhere but then
like you start to figure out what everyone is and you start to know where
you sit at lunch and where to meet up with people
Some of them I've just met at lunch and some of them are like sophmores, juniors.
It's not just freshmen. I joined football during the summer and started making
some new friends during the weeks.
Me being a shy person, you know it was just a little bit hard first but as I
joined groups I've found a few people from there
just having classes with people. And then after you meet those people then you'll
meet their friends and then after you meet their friends and you meet those
people's friends and so then it'll just keep building up building up.
Like high school, it's supposed to be your better years according to like what
everyone says and whatnot so be more like more ready to be involved in
things.
Don't be very shy, because if you're shy you don't really warm up to the school as
fast so then it just stays harder for a longer amount of time.
There are a lot of things I learned in my past that I could have used in the
future but I kinda threw it away because summer and all.
Take a lot notes, don't talk in class. Probably just to trust the
teachers they know what they're doing, they have gone through this with
students every year. That there's going to be a big change
you're just gonna have to get used to it but it's not too bad.
Be chill. Don't worry about it,
it's gonna be okay, you'll figure it all out. A lot of people told me not to freak
out but I still did it.
But I would say I'd probably go back and just tell myself not to freak out
because honestly it's really not that scary once you get to freshman year.