develop personal relationships with my professors are priceless. SMU also has my first-choice major, Biochemistry. When I toured SMU, I fell in love with the gorgeous campus and friendly students. While I am a student at SMU, I hope to step out of my comfort zone. I have lived in the same house for seventeen years, gone to the same church for seventeen years, and attended to the same school for fourteen years. I feel as if I have lived in a “Northeast Jackson bubble” for my entire life, and I am ready to
South Korea is well known for their education. Not because of the strict curriculum, but because of the amount of education students are forced to get. Considering the amount of education students are offered, Korea is not a developed country, yet. Although many say that Korea will continually establish into an advanced country, I believe that this is impossible in the near future. There are uncountable obstacles that make South Korea stay as a country that just completed developing. The numerous flaws
Dear Principal Belzer, My name is Caitlin Ung, I am an AP Composition and Language student at Mills High school, and am writing to bring your attention to a controversial topic that arose while reading one of our summer reading assignments. Mills’ junior AP English class is required to read Zeitoun, a nonfiction book by Dave Eggers that explores the tale of a Syrian-American facing various trials in a post- Hurricane Katrina society. As one of these students, I find that Dave Eggers’ novel, Zeitoun
Ultimately, my lifetime goals include graduating from college and having a stable career as a chemical engineer. I intend on majoring in Chemical Engineering, because math and science are the subjects I excel in. In the end, I want to be able to improve the lives of people. The academic choices I have made throughout my high school career have been sufficient to project me towards the right direction. The classes I attend classify as advanced placement. Not only will they help me gain some college
this will assist me by replacing my unsubsidized loan. My goal financially is to minimize the amount of loan I receive, both subsidized and unsubsidized. I do not want to graduate college with a lot of debt, especially if I have the opportunity to reduce my debt.
The summer of 2014, my mom plops something on my desk. Was it a brick? No, it was a massive three inch SAT prep book. The intense studying was about to begin. In 1926, the first SAT multiple-choice test was created in order to allow all students a chance to show their skills and knowledge without economic status or their specific high school curriculum holding them back. It was created to give all students an equal opportunities. The SAT taken by students now, however, goes against what it
It never occurred to me that it would open so many doors for my future. A few months before starting kindergarten, my mom took me out for a drive and passed a few different elementary schools in our area. When we passed by what would be my future elementary school, I immediately wanted to attend because of the playground on site. When my mom told me, I would be learning in French at the school, I thought that was even better. No one in my family spoke any language other than English so I was going
A teacher is one who has the privilege to walk beside countless individuals in this constantly changing world. A true teacher inspires wonder and encourages growth. A teacher has the potential to inspire a dream, and provide a clear focus while a student travels the echoing sea of uncertainty. A teacher tries to fill the longing need of the human intellect, the need to satiate one of the greatest thirsts within the human person, the thirst to know. Taking from the quote
Martinez 1 Daniel Martinez Suzanne Treese AP Composition & Lit H 11 December 2015 An Invisible Gender Amongst Society Why is it that authors let their own lives become the root to their style of writing? This might be the key to writing a successful novel or it might just be the reason authors begin to show a sense of similarity within their literature. Similarities or techniques noticeable within many famous authors literature, Zora Neale Hurston is no exception to this. Hurston like many authors