Being a High school Student

Life is full of trials and challenges. It is made up of complex processes and steps, but these processes were the ones that will lead us to success.

High school education is just like elementary education. It is also important and it is also one of the complex processes and steps that we will take in order to success in life’s trials and challenges. It consists of the more complex levels and these are first year, second year, third year, and fourth year high school. High school is actually a secondary education which consists of those levels mentioned above.

I am a high school student. I am recently studying in the University of the Philippines High school in Cebu, a school for the poor but deserving students. I am yet in first year high school or what they call freshies or freshmen. I can say that being a high school student is hard because a high school student has many, big responsibilities to do, especially that I am studying in a challenging type of school.

But, being a high school student is also important because you can learn and gain a lot of knowledge that is needed for having a brighter and better future. I can say that it could also be fun and exciting because in here, we can meet new friends, new classmates and new teachers. You can have someone to lean on when you have some problems. In this university, the teachers and the students have nice relationships with each other because the students can approach them anytime they have problems because the teachers in this university were very pleasant and approachable.

Being a first year high school student, studying in the University of the Philippines in Cebu is also a challenging and competitive role because every student in this university is determined to compete for the honor roles or rank in their own homerooms and in over all. It is also pressuring because there are times that many of our subjects have tests or quizzes in the same day and especially that the test is about fifty to one hundred item test or a Chapter Test in Science A, B, or C and in Social Science. It is also hard for us to study because at most times, I go home late in the afternoon.

Even if I am yet in first year high school, our school activities and responsibilities were yet much, hard and very pressuring. It is because in this type of school, UPians (students in U.P. High school) were trained earlier and they also have advanced lessons for their brighter future. And, if we complain about those many activities and responsibilities, the teachers would answer us, “That’s what UPians are”. UPians don’t complain about hard and much responsibilities and activities. It is because they were qualified and enrolled here because they were poor, but fortunately deserving students.

But, these trials and challenges (I am referring to the much school activities and responsibilities) can be passed and solved if we only study and strive harder. Studying and striving harder is also the only way to pay back for all the sacrifices, hardships and love that our parents have provided just to educate and support our daily needs.