Congratualitons ( Free Choice )

I woke up in the more to an email from Mr.McBride stating that a college will come see us today but didn't really took it as a priority to go see who was visiting. I just came to school and went to my all my classes up until third period where I found out that my class ( Leadership ) was told to report to the college office , again I just ignored it and just went to Spooner's office to print out my back ground , then Divine tells us " Saint Peters is doing an on site admissions , all you have to do is get an interview, and bring your transcript , SAT scores". Me & the rest of the people in the room who didn't really took it that serious then just went straight down to the college office and got prepared for the interview. I was so nervous because I have never been interviewed from a College admission person before and this would be the first time for me . In my head all i thought about was " What if he says my hair is too wild ?" , "What if I don't get accepted & I get wait listed?" , " What if I talk too much?" , I guess being nervous is what helped me keep thinking about the different situations and mistakes I made in my life which expressed myself better and replied to the admission person who said " Tell me about yourself " , through all of this I gained an 18,000 scholarship and became accepted to Saint Peters University .

Research Class ( ID )

In my science class, there are only a few people that were chosen to be in that class, which is also similar to the Leadership Class because it is filled with the people I was Honors Chemistry with. In Science Research we were all given the opportunity to pick a topic on anything we want to research on, and at first I did not know what to Research on but then because of my culture I was able to connect and finally come up with a hypotheses. Growing up in an African household opens my curiosity in many things because usually when something is hurting, families believe in faith or religious ideas, stating "God will make you healthy, you just have to be patient and have faith". I first experienced menstrual cycle in 7th grade where I thought I wasn't normal. I thought I had a disease, but that was just a phase, where I soon started getting cramps the next month. I wanted to ask my dad why do I receive this, but he is going to say "inshallah you'll feel better”; however the every month the same pain occurred. One day I went jogging with my brother and did push ups my cramps weren't as bad as before. Because of this experience I concluded that if a person is more physically active then their cramps would last for shorter amount of days. I enjoy being in Science research because I am able to take control in what I am researching on and I am doing something that I am interested in. As the school year proceed I hope to see if my hypothesis was correct.

Testing (CCR)

In the United States of America, everything is based on a test. To move on to the next level of education , you have to take a test , which I think is highly unfair because some people are horrible test takers. From 3rd to 8th grade you have to take the Citywide test , where you have to pass both the reading and math test with at least a 2 , 4 being the highest. When in High school , you have to take Regents , in order to receive a high school diploma you must have passed 5 regents including Algebra, English , Global , US History, and Living Environment. In order to get into certain colleges , you have to take The SAT's or ACT's , which is a time standardized test that test how "smart" and "challenged" the highest being 2400. If your becoming a doctor you have to take boards in order to practice medicine , you have to take the mCATs to get into medical school. Everywhere you go and everything you are aiming to accomplish , you have to take a test in order to maintain that accomplishment. I believe that it shouldn't be like that , the purpose of the testing is to see what you learn and to see if you can practice it correctly , but a lot of things may happen when you are nervous,you can blank out as soon as you get the test , and sometimes after all of the studying you begin to stress and give up.