A Junior's LifeA Story by CordeliaI was asked to create a story basing primarily in our Adv. Biology class. I'm not sure if this is worth posting, but I'll go anyway.Here’s a story of
comfort, heartbreak, learning, helping, love, and friendship"a story that began
on the fourth day of June, year 2012. There were 48 students
sitting anxiously excited in a room filled with friends and acquaintances
alike, all of whom they’ve met one time or another in the past two years.
Smiles of recognition were exchanged, and faces of reminiscence were made at
good measure. But as the minutes tick on and the hours pass"so do anxiety and
the jittery nerves. By the end of that first day, all was but afraid. As the days wore on,
as the students spent more and more time together, they learn lessons both that
are confined within one’s classroom and those that are learned without. Doing
and saying as they observe of others, learning as they do things themselves...
these students spend 10 hours in one day with one another, learning from each
other or otherwise, and they have school five times in one week. With what they
experience and what they learn, it’s a schedule worth keeping for time and
effort. Ten months. That’s how long
they’ve spent with each other"getting to know each other, working with one
another, fighting among themselves"and all in all, being one class. It’s been
ten months since forty-odd students entered each class as one section:
Discovery. Since then, two have transferred out, many have gotten sick... but
none has dropped out. Ten months. That’s how long we’ve
been stuck in the classroom with forty five others learning and living right
beside us. It’s how long we’ve fought battles and wars against deadlines and
rush hours among ourselves and beside one another. It’s almost the end of
the school year. The end of the year we’ve been studying over six subjects"one
of which is Advanced Biology. As sophomores, we defined Biology simply as the
study of life. By the end of junior year, we’ll be able to give Biology a whole
new meaning. All of us started off
as acquaintances"or, in some instances, strangers"only slowly getting to know
each other by talking to others, listening to them, spending time with them and
understanding one another. Unconsciously, we start seeing these people as part
of our pictures of the future. And then we start experimenting and taking risks
with what we do"and that’s where we learn what’s good and bad, what’s right and
wrong, usually what we’ve never and will never be taught in school or even by
our parents. These are the things we learn that we will carry for the rest of
our lives. Don’t you think that
life is like the steps you take in Research and in your experiments? You
observe first to get data, and then you analyze your gathered data. After that
you start your experimentation and you take your results up for discussion. We’re sure that now,
after all this time with each other, we’ll be able to find out answers to
questions we’ve been asking for a long time and, other than that, have an
understanding as to why that is the
answer. Life is not always
about the lessons you learn or the grades you earn within the classroom. It’s
also about what you learn from your experiences, from people, from your
relationships, and from the world. Part of it is about the people we meet, the
relationships we develop, the smiles we share, the laughs we have, the tears we
shed, the mistakes we make, the risks we take and the experiments that are, as
of now, a little something we call adolescence. © 2013 CordeliaAuthor's Note
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1 Review Added on May 29, 2013 Last Updated on May 29, 2013 Tags: life, biology, perspective AuthorCordeliaBaguio City, PhilippinesAboutThere are no words to describe who I am, but there are several which summarize what I am: -a bookworm -nerd -geek -ADHD -simple -loves food -sarcastic -discreet -adorable (right) more..Writing
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