EE1. Who Even Are You?

Senior year made me find who I really was. It made me learn more about myself as an individual. It also made me learn who I really wanted to be and what I wanted to do in life. I felt like I became more individual this year than I have in my past three years in high school. This year also made me realize who my real friends too. This year made me find who I really was because of what my future plans are and by other people that walked into my life this year. My parents helped me make my future decisions for me. While other people are going away for school and dorming with their friends, I’m going to an only commute school and still living at home. I feel like that’s an individual act.  There is also one person that walked into my life not too long about, about a year ago, that has helped me throughout the struggles of my senior year, and who has really brought my personality out of me. He is my boyfriend. I know this may sound stupid like what every other girlfriend says about their boyfriend but that is not my intention, because he really has helped me and taught me to do things on my own more and to make my own decisions. I tend to always make decisions based off of other people’s actions and I would always have to do things with other people. Every time I get into a tough decision with school or caught up in school stress he just tells me to relax and think about yourself and stop worrying about what others want you to do. My problem that I have is that I always try to make others happy while I try to make myself happy at the same time and that just doesn’t work out to well. I also tend to do more things on my own because  of friends. I had certain friends this year that really just left my side half way through the year because either of how I went my direction in life or because of their path they decided to take. 

CC2. Finding Myself

Senior year made me realize one thing about myself. In all honesty I don’t exactly know why this year made me realize who I really am. Not only did I help myself but I felt a little help from my school guidance counselor. The guidance counselors really did a lot of help with helping me choose my future. I felt like they steered me in the right direction in opening my options with college decisions. They helped compare college tuition prices and the programs certain schools offered. The most important thing was that I helped myself notice who I really am as a person.

CC1. Struggles

Senior year means college. Walking in the front doors of Alden High School on the first day of school as a senior didn’t really feel much different, but now that it is April 28, 2014 I can feel a difference. On the very first day of school I felt just like a normal student but as the year went on I felt more complications and stress. Senior year means figuring out what you want to do for the rest of your life, and that kind of scares me a bit. College is just a few short months away. To me it felt like senior year started to hit me just a bit after the first of the year when we met with guidance counselors for a senior status meeting. Senior status meetings is to review the classes you need to graduate and what diploma you will be receiving and what your future plans are intending to be. Your guidance counselor also notifies you how many more credits you need to graduate. Another thing that comes attached to senior year is college visits. Our FYE, college class, we went on two college visits to Medaille College and Canisus College. When touring these two colleges we had full access to both campus tours and an explanation of programs offered at both schools. Besides those two college visits I only went on one college visit on my own time. The college I visited was Trocaire College in Buffalo. Trocaire College is strictly a nursing school. When I took a tour of Trocaire I took a tour of the college, was able to look into some of the class rooms and hands on lab rooms, and looked at all of the admissions tables with programs and scholarship offers. With being a senior I think figuring out your future is the hardest part not so much the schooling.