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New Year, New Goals
On August 15th I realized the beginning of my senior year was here, I realized this was the last chapter of my high school book. Honestly, the fact that it’s my last year in high school and that I’m on my way to graduation hasn’t really hit me yet. I have mixed emotions, I feel excited but at the same time I feel nervous and a little overwhelmed with school work, but I know I’ll do fine. I have decided to totally challenge myself this year by taking classes that will definitely make my senior year a little bit harder, but it will be worth it.
My career goal is to become a psychiatric nurse, one of my goals for senior year is to finish all my classes with straight 4s. Health services is currently one of the most competitive fields. The career I chose has many requirements first, I need my nursing license and more education to get my mental health license. My sophomore year I started taking the basics of health care classes, following with psychology my junior year and now having physiology and a CNA class which gives me the opportunity to work with more hands on activity. If I finish my CNA class I have the opportunity to graduate with my CNA license which gives me a lot of experience in the medical field.
I have very high expectations this year honestly, they go beyond of what I had planned my freshmen year. I remember I came with this idea of yes getting good grades, but I never really thought of challenging myself, I had this idea during my sophomore year as well. I then realized I can do so much more. At the start of my junior year, I decided to take on a challenge and go for the level 4s and try and get more involved in school events. At the end of it, it became evident that I was doing so much better and that I now had way more options school wise. Now, it’s my senior year and my plan is to be totally involved with every event, make more friends, but also I want to be even more responsible. Another one of my goals is to apply to all the scholarships I can, I will try to meet every single deadline I can and I know I will.
As to college wise, my plan is to apply to Boise State University in Idaho State and hopefully get accepted. The reason for that school being my first choice is because they have a good nursing program, I love the city it’s located in and because I was born there. I recently went to visit this summer and the school is amazing I totally loved it. A couple of my family members go there and they really encouraged me to apply and it became my first option ever since then. Last, but not least, my final goal for my senior year is to have fun, I want to really experience all the fun possible with my friends and family.
Time Is Ticking…
Well almost half of senior year is gone already and I am filled with mixed emotions at this point. I feel stressed but I also feel excited to know graduation is getting closer and really fast I should say. Currently I am on pace on all my classes, but I am having a really hard time with pre-calculus, it’s becoming a really big obstacle at this point. I feel like I’m not going to be able to pass the class, however I know I will and I’ll do anything in my hands in order to do so. Other than that class, everything else is coming together just how I want it to. Going on to my senior project, I am about half ways done with it. I have decided to do early completion for it, so I will be presenting my senior exit interview in January. I decided to do early completion because I don’t want it to be another stress factor during the month of April when I’m sure I’ll be stressed enough already. A big part of my senior project is my job shadow, I feel like it really shows a connection with my pathway and I really think it makes a clear understanding as to why I chose health services as my pathway. I decided to job shadow one of the nurse assistants at my own personal doctor. It was a great experience and it just made me realize that yes that’s what I want to major in and that that’s what I want to do for the rest of my life, I want to help people with their health problems. Moving on to my future, the plan right now is to of course, graduate from Lindsay High School, go to a four year university, get my bachelors in nursing, and hopefully continue on to get my masters on psychiatry. As to colleges, I applied to four CSUs which are: CSU Bakersfield, CSU Fresno, CSU Sacramento, and CSU Long Beach. I also applied to two out of state schools which include Boise State University in Idaho and Grand Canyon University in Arizona, and I applied to two junior colleges, College of the Sequoias, and Porterville College. Honestly, I’m really rooting for Boise State in Idaho, not only because they have a really good nursing program but because I really love the campus and I love where it’s located, the weather there, and I love that it’s a big city. I was born in Idaho so I feel like that has also been a big factor that has made me chose that school as my first option. However, as a backup plan I have CSU Bakersfield as my second option, and the other schools I applied too as well. Overall, I have tried to be as much involved as possible, I am currently involved in ASB a lot so that helps me get involved with every sport and event that goes on in our campus. It’s crazy to think high school is almost over, that in less than a year I’ll walk out with my diploma. I think the thing that most excites me about graduation is just being able to start a new chapter in my life, to meet new people, to get out of my comfort zone and to just have fun and finish my career, I just have to finish strong, and I know I will.
Time to Present…
As I had said before I had signed up for early completion for my senior exit interview. Surely enough I am just a week away from presenting my senior project to a set of panelists. I can honestly say I feel completely ready to present my project. It took lots of time to create and to make it look perfect. I tried really hard to add my own touch to it so it can actually represent me. I don’t really feel like this project was hard for me personally, I just feel like it did take lots of time away from me in order to create it and add pictures and everything. Overall, I am supper ready to show everyone what I have accomplished and learned here at Lindsay High School.
Along my four years here, I believe the hardest thing for me was to try to adjust to the new grading system which was empower, at first the system wouldn’t work and not only us the students were having problems with it but even the learning facilitators were having a hard time updating grades. Another thing I had a little bit of trouble with, was keeping up with deadlines, especially my senior year, there was just so much going on I would lose track of things that were due at times. I don’t think there was something supper easy to do while being in high school because everything is a challenge even if it is something small. The semester is also about to end on January 20th and I am on pace to finish all my classes with a 3.5 or higher, except for pre-calculus that’s my hardest class, I’m still going to finish it though. At this point all I hope for is to keep doing good and get ready for graduation.
As I had said before I had signed up for early completion for my senior exit interview. Surely enough I am just a week away from presenting my senior project to a set of panelists. I can honestly say I feel completely ready to present my project. It took lots of time to create and to make it look perfect. I tried really hard to add my own touch to it so it can actually represent me. I don’t really feel like this project was hard for me personally, I just feel like it did take lots of time away from me in order to create it and add pictures and everything. Overall, I am supper ready to show everyone what I have accomplished and learned here at Lindsay High School.
Along my four years here, I believe the hardest thing for me was to try to adjust to the new grading system which was empower, at first the system wouldn’t work and not only us the students were having problems with it but even the learning facilitators were having a hard time updating grades. Another thing I had a little bit of trouble with, was keeping up with deadlines, especially my senior year, there was just so much going on I would lose track of things that were due at times. I don’t think there was something supper easy to do while being in high school because everything is a challenge even if it is something small. The semester is also about to end on January 20th and I am on pace to finish all my classes with a 3.5 or higher, except for pre-calculus that’s my hardest class, I’m still going to finish it though. At this point all I hope for is to keep doing good and get ready for graduation.
Graduation year is here!
It is officially 2017 and I could not be any more excited! It’s officially my graduation year! Well to begin with I am honestly so excited to finally finish my first semester of senior year. This semester has been honestly quite hard for me because of the classes I got. Fortunately, I am currently passing all of them. I spent my entire Christmas break trying to catch up on all my work so I can just turn it in when we go back and so far I finished everything that was due. However, like I had said before I am really struggling with pre-calculus. It’s like the hardest class I’ve had to do in all my four years of high school. The last thing I need in order to pass that class is my final measurement topic test and honestly it’s really giving me anxiety just thinking about it. On the other hand, this semester has been full of great moments. Homecoming was absolutely great; we all had an amazing time. Now, looking back to the start of the year I wasn’t really stressing about not passing my classes because I felt like I had control of the situation. All I had to do was keep up with my deadlines and do my level 4 projects in time but, now I realize it’s harder than I thought it would be. I feel like I won’t be able to turn in a certain assignment on time or that my grades won’t update the way they’re supposed to.
Further on, I am actually very excited because its officially 2017 and that means my graduation is only months away. Were the last generation of the 90s and it’s pretty crazy to think that we made it this far in life, it seems so unreal. Graduation is on June 9th and I am already counting down till the day I can walk on that field with my cap and gown making my family proud. It makes me very happy because even my family that does not live here In California is coming to celebrate with me. While on Christmas break I received great news! I am officially a Bronco from Boise State University! I got accepted to the school I want to go to! I was really hoping I would get accepted and for me to receive that email saying “Congrats Jackie! You’re officially a Bronco!” made me so happy I even got a little emotional and I cried a little. I also got accepted into Sacramento State but that is just my backup plan if Boise doesn’t work out for some reason. I am already one step closer to reaching my dreams and I feel extremely blessed. 2017 started off so good, I have no doubt that this is my year and I am so ready to finally start my last semester of high school. So far this year is going great! I really hope it stays that way because I’m beyond ready to graduate.
It is officially 2017 and I could not be any more excited! It’s officially my graduation year! Well to begin with I am honestly so excited to finally finish my first semester of senior year. This semester has been honestly quite hard for me because of the classes I got. Fortunately, I am currently passing all of them. I spent my entire Christmas break trying to catch up on all my work so I can just turn it in when we go back and so far I finished everything that was due. However, like I had said before I am really struggling with pre-calculus. It’s like the hardest class I’ve had to do in all my four years of high school. The last thing I need in order to pass that class is my final measurement topic test and honestly it’s really giving me anxiety just thinking about it. On the other hand, this semester has been full of great moments. Homecoming was absolutely great; we all had an amazing time. Now, looking back to the start of the year I wasn’t really stressing about not passing my classes because I felt like I had control of the situation. All I had to do was keep up with my deadlines and do my level 4 projects in time but, now I realize it’s harder than I thought it would be. I feel like I won’t be able to turn in a certain assignment on time or that my grades won’t update the way they’re supposed to.
Further on, I am actually very excited because its officially 2017 and that means my graduation is only months away. Were the last generation of the 90s and it’s pretty crazy to think that we made it this far in life, it seems so unreal. Graduation is on June 9th and I am already counting down till the day I can walk on that field with my cap and gown making my family proud. It makes me very happy because even my family that does not live here In California is coming to celebrate with me. While on Christmas break I received great news! I am officially a Bronco from Boise State University! I got accepted to the school I want to go to! I was really hoping I would get accepted and for me to receive that email saying “Congrats Jackie! You’re officially a Bronco!” made me so happy I even got a little emotional and I cried a little. I also got accepted into Sacramento State but that is just my backup plan if Boise doesn’t work out for some reason. I am already one step closer to reaching my dreams and I feel extremely blessed. 2017 started off so good, I have no doubt that this is my year and I am so ready to finally start my last semester of high school. So far this year is going great! I really hope it stays that way because I’m beyond ready to graduate.