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Da'sean Davis

Mr.Chipman

English III

10/14/15

When I first arrived at Ridge at around February I automatically knew that things

were going to be a complete change for me.The school was a lot bigger than I had

actually expected it to be. From first glance it looked very similar to what a

college campus would look like from the outside. My old school was nothing like

it at all back at Eastern hills the only thing that our school had was a small hillside

area with the school perched on the front heading toward the back would lead you

to where my track/football field was along with the fitness center a place where

you could work out to improve yourself in fitness areas you needed work on. The

way ridge works is way different than any other school I have been to. The

students here are really dedicated and put a lot of time into the work that they

need to get done and the teachers are really serious about their teaching. The

classes that i had to endure had some pretty steep obstacles I'll admit but it wasn't

nothing extremely impossible I was an honors student and well known by my

teachers and my friends. I developed some personal relationships back at hills I

heard from teachers in my past years that if a teacher is really close to you they'll

come through for you in the very end when it really counts, I was determined to

get to know every teacher I met from that moment on. Overall as a high school

student I have had it pretty rough here at Ridge. I started going off into classes

that I thought that I would be able to understand like I would back at hills, but I

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started to reconsider after awhile things are not like what I thought they were.

These teachers give out an excessive amount of homework on the daily basis too.

I can say though that I kinda like how everything is more digital now, back in the

day teachers would screech and yell and have a cow if you even mentioned a cell

phone to them you would hear things like "if I see that it's mine or "Put that

away!!!" But now it's not like that anymore to tell the truth one thing that I have

learned is that as long as you're taking care of your business they could care less

about you and your phone I like this personally because I work better when I have

music in my ears. Let me be honest for a second I was really depressed when I got

to this school at first it was so big and there was so many people I didn't know

who to speak to or anything. I remember the first thing that I actually did when I

got here is that I sat at an isolated table all alone I wasn't expecting to know

anyone neither that I actually wanted to, but someone came over to where I was

and asked me if I wanted to sit with them. I didn't want to, but I did anyway for

some reason the students at Ridge really think your contagious or something when

you decide not to socialize with people that might not be the case, but that's what I

think. I also believe that Ridge changed who I am a little bit. For example at my

old school whenever it was time for lunch at hills I would just eat my lunch and

walk around with no one at all and it wasn't because I was a loner or anything it

just happened that way I can assure you that it wasn't always like that all at first I

had a huge crowd of friends that liked to talk, joke around about people and

socialize about how much we hated the school it was fun, but over time slowly

my friends started to get girlfriends and become way too busy to hang out we

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didn't have the same classes or lunches either we was separated and eventually by

the time I was a sophomore I was all alone during lunches and any other free time

that I had. It made me a bit lonely sometimes but I got over it anyway. To me

there's nothing that I fear more in this world than being abondened.I don't want to

slowly lose friends because of something like moving or something I know that

when I was moving here it was for the best and I wanted to say that was true but

deep inside I just couldn't. I left all my old memories and friends and a part of my

soul there and I knew from that moment that I would miss it all and to this day I

do. I know how I'm making it seem like I was really attached to my old school

and my new school life at ridge just devastated me but hear me out that was only

for a short time but now I can kinda relate to the people here I have a small

amount of friends I'm not well known as I used to be but I have a small reputation

around the school. The classes here are stressful I can't lie the teachers here sort of

get on my nerves but their really good people as a whole and they really know

how to teach. I kinda like how I get to brag about how I'm part of such an elite

school it makes me feel good about myself. I love the clubs that they have here I

think that is really cool. The only thing closest to a club that I was in during my

years back at Hills was the small group that went with me to the computer lab

during lunch so being a part of the smash club is a huge improvement. I really

have to push myself in my classes now if not then im never going to be able to

achieve my goals in life.Here either you hold your own and survive or the school

is going to walk all over you,when I put it that way it sounds kinda hard, I say it's

a challenge but fair I guess. Transferring really did have an effect on me though I

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grown a little bit more bitter since my old school my attitude increased quite a bit

too in both a good and negative way. I think this school has a motto or something

like it's always better at the Ridge or something like that I think it sounds nice, but

It sounds like something you would read outside of a fast food restaurant but as a

whole it's not a bad motto I don't agree with it but it works. I like where I am now

I opened up to new people discovered new opportunities, made new friends and

some new enemies too but overall I'm living a new life and I couldn't be more

happy about it. Going to a new school can definitely change you it will happen

whether you really want it to or not it can be really good or bad it depends on how

you go about it. Life is not about changing who you are it's about evolving

yourself to become better than what you were before. That's one of my

philosophies of life I make them every so often based on of what I see and

observe on my daily activities. I consider myself to be a philosopher I make one

everyday like this one I believe that it takes one to be really stupid at something to

become a genius at everything. That's impressive but I have way more from

where that came from I do believe that change comes in many ways expected or

not I think that the only way to truly figure it out is to just go through it. I believe

that with enough trial and error we will all reach the right path with time.