Destiny's Blog

Dear Senior,                    I would like to take the time to tell you about the differences and similarities between high school and college. First, I am going to tell you from personal experience than explain some of the details listed in The Transition to College Writing book. When I was in high school, I had awesome grades and amazing help from teachers. There were times when I depended on teachers to help get things done for me. I would always finish my homework in school, didn't have to worry about homework as much. It was easy for me to participate in three sports and different organizations around the school too. My counselor would always help make sure my scholarships went through and provided me with so much information. So basically, in high school, I could always depend on my teachers and counselors other than myself. Then, my first year of college came around. I wasn't all the same as high school. For example, classes w...

When I was a senior in high school, I had this small group of friends/sisters that I would always hang out with. One out of the three girls in the group was in a relationship. We usually are happy for each other when one gets into a relationship with someone, but the relationship my sister was in wasn't healthy at all. Ever since they started to hang close with each other, it seemed like I hardly was able to see or hang out with my sister anymore. It's like her relationship just took her away from me. She started getting distant and starting lying about everything. She made up stories about her mom and other personal things. Every time I tried to talk to her about it, she would blow me off or lie in front of her "girlfriend". So then all three of us had a meeting and she thought it was okay to bring her girlfriend to the meeting. The meeting wasn't for her girlfriend so I was confused as to why she thought that was okay. After that meeting, I was sad and disappoin...