Mentor High School

1) Describe the peer mentor role in your own words. The role of a peer mentor is to help students with their transition from high school to college. You want them to enjoy the college atmosphere. In my case, I was considering to transfer right in the beginning because I just did not like the whole atmosphere. Thanks to my wonderful peer mentor though they reassured me to keep trying to adjust by joining clubs, going to events, and making friends that I would begin to like it here. Once I did…

fact in which my parents were not able to afford to pay for certain academic luxuries that my peers have had (private tutors, extracurricular academic activities, summer science camps, etc). However, I was fortunate to have been placed in charter schools for the most part of my K-12 education. Without the incredible guidance and nurturing that I received from the communities at KIPP and LCPA, I would not be here…

ballroom dance my 6th grade year. My brother was involved in the high school formation team, so I was around ballroom dance a lot. Because I was exposed to dance so much I wanted to do it, too. Yuval Hod visited Alaska to choreograph for the team so I got private swing lessons with him. Stefanie Brown Borrego, the high school formation team director, choreographed a swing routine that my partner and I performed for the elementary school talent shows. From that first experience I wanted to…

Before coming to SCTC I had no idea of what I wanted to do after graduating high school. In fact, I was not sure I wanted to attend SCTC at all. I had heard about the programs that were offered and was sort of interested in the Digital Graphic Arts course, but I had not had much experience with art on the computer. I was very good at drawing and painting, so my art teacher suggested that I apply for the program. He made it clear that I could learn many things at SCTC that he would not be able to…

accessible. All through my adolescence, Track was my life. My fantasy was to grow up and win the secondary school state title. Fortunately, my fairly residential area had a notoriety state wide to produce top level groups each season. Tragically, this made the opposition to be picked to be on the group significantly more strenuous. After a promising youth vocation, I influenced the secondary school varsity to track group. My senior year I was harmed and needed to choose whether or not I could…

Freedom is something we look forward too from the youngest of age. As a child we look forward to staying out past 7 o’clock, as a teenager we look forward to the freedom of driving. We focus on growing up too quickly, excitedly awaiting middle school, then high school, then college, then whatever life holds. Tickets to us are like the golden ticket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, something that allows us freedom and new opportunities. This ticket that I hold in my hand isn’t a plane…

We all went through those strange changes between middle school and the senior year of high school. Everyone changes at least a little bit in those years because it is such a formative time in our lives. Changes occur in more than just our appearances, they happen within our communication styles and entire personalities. Bullies, teachers, and friends provide a framework for us and shape us into different people. For some of us, that transformation is a lot more profound than it is for others. I…

getting a degree, and changing ones circumstances, is the key to a better life then the one they had. Unfortunately for those who experience foster care system, the dream of college access is never realized. An estimated 150,000 foster youth complete high school and qualify for college entry each year, but only 10-20 percent actually matriculate. These statistics illustrate that while…

an article Making College Worth It: A Review of the Returns to Higher Education,"Like the benefits of purchasing a house, the benefits of obtaining a college degree are spread over the long run—certainly much longer than the period a student is in school paying annual tuition fees"(Oreopoulos, Petronijevic). College is time-consuming but, it is time well-spent learning skills and about ourselves like what interest us and what career we want to pursue. Many students take college loans in the hope…

My parents have always made religion a priority, so naturally, religion, and all that I learned from it, is very important to me. I began my schooling at a catholic grammar school and when I attended a public middle school and high school, I continued to stay active in my church and church community. Throughout middle school, I was a member of peer council; we would meet once a week to discuss topics such as the importance of serving others on a daily bases or how we could use our blessings…