School is What You Make It by Nicholas

School is What You Make It by Nicholas - April 2016 Scholarship Essay

School is What You Make It
By: Nick DeMarino
As a student wakes up in America, many thoughts enter their mind: ‘Do I really have to go to school? What is school doing for me? I hate school’. They then begin to mope and groan throughout the day, stressing about homework that they received from all of their teachers. I know that these feelings go through students’ minds because I used to think the same way. I never looked forward to school because I never understood what it was preparing me for. Now, as a high school junior, I have learned that school is what you make of it; I wish I would have known this piece of simple advice as I advanced in school.
The reason behind my realization of this advice came out of seeing a few fellow classmates at my school. When I began to start seeing more and more kids just simply not care about what their grades were and then saw other students go out to parties, just to come back to school the next day and stress out about the homework they “forgot to do”, I realized that I needed to make a change. The fact that we can attend a school and receive a top notch education while enjoying freedoms that are guaranteed to us as citizens of the United States is a true blessing. It is an unmatched privilege that is taken for granted by many of the country’s youth. We have a civic responsibility to become an educated generation that will be the working class of the country in a short amount of time. In a way the fate of the country is in our hands; to have a country that is inhabited by an uneducated population would be disastrous.
In conclusion, we students should be excited to go to school. The privilege to get an education is not one to take lightly. As a student wakes up in America, many thoughts should enter their mind: ‘I really get to go to school. What can I do for my school? I love school.’