My mom,dad,aunts,uncles and older cousin told me that in high school the work load would surprise me and to do it a soon as possible. Turns out they were right the best way to get the work done and have time to myself or to review would be to finish my homework as soon as possible. Which happens to be right after school or after my rec. hours. So I always get my homework done then I review then I have time to myself. Lara
Seeing as I have an older sister attending St-Thomas, she told me a whole bunch of advice. For example, she told me not to procrastinate when doing projects. I think the best advice my sister has every given me was to always be confident and to be myself, even at school! I really love having an older sister in these situations.
My whole family told me that it’s not that big of a deal, and to not worry. My sister is in high school, now attending BHS, and told me that some teachers I will like and the others would be “different”. Their advice did help me a lot, it wasn’t that bad after all, and plus my sister had a lot of friends at our old school who attended St. Thomas and they would help me find my way around and stuff.
That is really good advice. It is very accurate because all teachers are different from each other and they each have they're own special personality. Nice blog!
I have an older sister that has been at St.Thomas for four years now, so coming into high school, I knew that my sister would give me some good advice. She told me to try to get my homework done the day I get it so I wouldn't have to worry about it the rest of the week. I find this advice really helpful because I get so much homework a day that if I leave it for the last day, I wouldn't be able to complete it. Another tip my older sister gave me was too always take notes in class and to always listen and pay attention during class. This tip was extremely useful for me because if you don't pay a lot of attention in class, the next time you will be completely lost.
I haven't really get that much advice because I don't have any older siblings. But the best advice I've gotten from my parents or cousins was always stay organised and do your homework the day you get it so you don't forget. I found you don't really have to do the homework on the same day you get it because if you're organised you will know when it is due. Cameron Hubscher
Coming to St. Thomas was a big step for me. Luckily my friends and family gave me some tips to keep me going. The first few days of high school were pretty tough! I kept getting lost it was unbelievable! Thankfully the first few weeks they didn’t count the strikes because I would probably have gotten ten million strikes for being late! I told my dad that I got lost many times during day. He saw that I was a little stressed to go back to school the next day because he knew I didn’t want to be late for class and get lost again. My dad was really helpful and said that we can make a map. So that’s what we decided to do. It was really helpful (even pretty too) since it was all colorful and easy to read! I really enjoyed it and it became really helpful. Sooner or later I knew my classes by heart! Anyways even though the start of high school was a little bit tough, everything’s going much smoother now!
Coming into to high school was pretty intimidating for me. It's like you're going back to kindergarten. I have to admit, those huge Sec 5 students kind of scare me and remind me of when I was in kindergarten and I was looking at all those huge grade 6 students. I was really scared to leave elementary school and almost all of my friends. I was scared to meet my teachers but I was really excited to make new friends. Once I met all my teachers, I became more comfortable and knew that I could always approach them and talk to them, they won't bite! The best advice I received would have to be from my brother (don't tell him). He told me that it's exactly like elementary, but with more homework but more options. I realized that high school wasn't as scary as I thought it was and that there are way more options that will fit your personality!!!
The best high school advice I ever got was about a year ago from a friend that goes to this school. He told me that St-Thomas is shape like a huge “H”. I didn’t understand at first but after my first few weeks at this school I understood what he was talking about. If you don’t already know, the cafeteria and the gym are in the middle of the “H” and the rest is classrooms and lockers. I caught on pretty quickly and I still think of the advice wen I’m trying to get to my class in time.
The best advice high school advice that I ever got was from my grandma. I always had a feeling that when the time came, she would be the one giving me advice about high school. Her best advice was that I was going to face disappointment, like bombing a huge test or not getting chosen for a team, but it isn't the worst thing in the world because these kinds of things happen to everyone and that worst things will happen later on in life. I know that it wasn't the most reassuring advice, but it is true and I'm really happy that my grandma told me this instead of just telling me how good it's going to be.
Grandmothers are truly the best! It's very true that in high school, you can face disappointment. I like your examples for them and I know what you mean. We shouldn't be surprised though for the test one. If you didn't study, then you know what's going to happen! However for pop quizzes, it’s understandable. But not getting into a team is really hard to take if you've wanted to be in it since you were a kid! That's how life is though, disappointments around every single corner you look! Continuing on, it's great that your grandma decided to tell you about bad things rather than good. You always hear great things about high school, what about the bad ones though? I liked how your blog demonstrated great advice!
I got a lot of advice from everyone on how to survive high school. To be honest most of them were really, really useless. In all the advice I got I will be talking about one that one of my friends said. How do not overreact on these small issues like it will all be okay. She said it is normal that you fail a test it is normal that you did not do your homework once. So soon as that happens do not go crying in the corner or get mad at yourself. Also later in a few weeks when you completely forget about it you will think back and laugh at how dumb you acted in that situation. I did not learn this the first time ,on this one history test I did really bad and thought I would fail history this term and went crazy over this making a big issue. Then know I am like “Wow! That was one test! Big Deal!” and also I did really well on report card in history. So overall if something goes wrong the problem is not as big as it seems. It is like a mountain when you are near it, it seems HUGE but if you are far it seems puny. P.S This does not mean you can fail every single test and exam then say it is “normal”. Madurra.S
Some of the best advice that I've got was from my family members and my older friends that already were at St. Thomas. My friend gave me a lot of good advice for the first day of school. One thing was that to not walk through the front door because Mr. Allali would be sitting there and make you read out loud the rule in the agenda that you can't walk through the front door. Also, he told me that I should talk to people and try to make new friends and not be that kid who has the wifi code and sit in the corner playing on your iPhone or iPod. Also my parents told me to always do your homework once you get it. You never know when your teachers our gonna drop 3 hours of homework on you. I've got a lot more, but yo guys don't have to spend all night reading my blog. Justin Pugsley
I've gotten a lot of advice, but the advice that I've heard the most is probably time management and organization. High school is a big step in your life and you need to be organized. This includes keeping your locker clean and your binders nice and tidy. I'm sure there's much more. Also you need to write your homework down because it's really easy to forget and you might only remember the night before it's due. Easy little things like that will make your life so much easier. I wrote time management down because for the last two years I went to the open houses, all of the ambassadors that I met told me that I need to manage my time. My parents also have been telling me that time management is key in high school. School always come first, but you just can't do work all the time. You need to think ahead. " Okay so I have hockey practice in two hours and need to get my homework done. I'll do an hour of homework, watch a bit of TV and then have a little snack." It's worked for me so far throughout high school and I will never stop managing my time.
Easiest question ever! Back in the past, when we were all in elementary school. One of my fellow classmates asked our teacher about high school and what's it's going to be like. She told us to not worry and that everyone is in the same position as you. They are all nervous and you aren't the only one that's new to this concept. Everyone is feeling insecure and there's only a few people who actually feel confident and not worried. I'm not saying that that's bad but a whole bunch of people just feel scared. This is suppose to be thought out as, that you aren’t the only one nervous about making friends, doing good, being okay and so on. She told us to just forgot about being nervous but, who can do that? I thought this helped me so much since, when I came here, I thought that I would be the loneliest person EVER. But my doubts soon disappeared once I realized how nice everybody is! Now, I don’t have a lot of friends, like a whole little cloud of people but I have enough to be happy! I like to associate a lot of people as ‘acquaintances’ since I don’t know if they want to be my friend. But, that’s the best thing someone could of told me to be prepared about and I like to think about this as advice. I’m really happy now and this little piece of information I should of known before, helped me A LOT.
The best advice I ever obtained came from my parents. They both told me to be myself. This advice has helped me so much because it’s taught me how to be more confident in myself. Back in elementary school, at the beginning I was a shy kid. Once I got used to everything it allowed me to be more social and make many more friends. In high school now it’s the same drill. The only thing is I had a couple of friends coming from my elementary school. I think it was good that I had friends come from my school, so I wouldn’t be as shy. It helped me a lot and I felt more confident. After I started to make new friends, I felt great and rather than kindergarten, I was more social. I think this was the best piece of advice I ever received in my life about high school.
Earlier before the school year started, my entire family was giving me a bunch of advice. Everyone said "Don't be nervous" and in my head I would say "Ya, that helps a lot." Other common advice that they gave was don't be shy, be nice and all that other stuff. Well something that my cousins said was to just be myself and people would like me. That seemed to work out because now I know a lot of people. And my parents said to always do your homework the day you get it. That advice was useful but I still do procrastinate (a lot) on some things.
Gregory My parents told me to go to them or my brother if I had any questions about highschool. I went the whole summer not saying a word about highschool. That ended on the last couple of days of summer when I had to go get my lock, agenda and schedule. The only advice that I can remember about school was don't do you homework last minute, stay organised and my favorite advice was if someone offers you a bag of sugar, it's not sugar.
Sofia I didn't get much advice considering nobody in my family likes talking about anything school related during summer vacation but my sister did tell me to always keep my locker organised. She actually told me that a lot because she said that during her first year of high school her locker was a complete mess. She would always be losing stuff like homework or study sheets that she didn't put in a binder, an she would get in trouble a lot for not having her homework complete because of that. So that is the best advice I got.
No one has really given me advice about high school. If I can try and remember one thing someone has told me is probably to never be late to class or skip class. Most of the people that were telling me not to be late were people that knew I was going to be taking art and they previously had my art teacher because if you’re late by just a second he makes it into a huge deal!!! My best friend told me never to skip class because she has and she got in a lot of trouble and I wasn’t planning on skipping but it was great advice anyways! Abby
The best advice about high school that I got was from one of my elementary school teachers. It was near the end of the year and I was in grade 6 and were talking about high school and what to do and how to be prepared. This advice was extremely helpful in my high school year so far. This advice helped me with my school work, do not skip class and always listen. I got lots of advice and I found it really helpful. I was really lucky for getting so much great advice. Daniel Carducci
Some great advice that I got for high school was from my sisters. They gave me so much great advice. It was when my sister Emilie told me NOT to double book and not to stand out to much, because then it is easy for people to make fun of me. That advice worked. I got so much more advice from my parents and my two sisters. All the advice that was given to me has helep me a lot. -Sophie
The person that gave me good advice for high school was my brother. He told me that if I wanted to be popular and have many friends then I would have to act normal and be funny and so far it has worked out I have met so many new people and it really does feel good to have friends and to never be alone and it is a great feeling. The last thing that my brother told me was to never double book or hold the binders in two hands because everyone holds them in one hand except for girls. So that was my great advice it will help you a lot in life. Matt Colpron
My mom,dad,aunts,uncles and older cousin told me that in high school the work load would surprise me and to do it a soon as possible. Turns out they were right the best way to get the work done and have time to myself or to review would be to finish my homework as soon as possible. Which happens to be right after school or after my rec. hours. So I always get my homework done then I review then I have time to myself.
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That is some good advice!
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Seeing as I have an older sister attending St-Thomas, she told me a whole bunch of advice. For example, she told me not to procrastinate when doing projects. I think the best advice my sister has every given me was to always be confident and to be myself, even at school! I really love having an older sister in these situations.
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Aww... I would love it if I had an older sister to give me advice. I'll probably do that with my sister
DeleteMy whole family told me that it’s not that big of a deal, and to not worry. My sister is in high school, now attending BHS, and told me that some teachers I will like and the others would be “different”. Their advice did help me a lot, it wasn’t that bad after all, and plus my sister had a lot of friends at our old school who attended St. Thomas and they would help me find my way around and stuff.
ReplyDeleteThat is really good advice. It is very accurate because all teachers are different from each other and they each have they're own special personality. Nice blog!
DeleteI have an older sister that has been at St.Thomas for four years now, so coming into high school, I knew that my sister would give me some good advice. She told me to try to get my homework done the day I get it so I wouldn't have to worry about it the rest of the week. I find this advice really helpful because I get so much homework a day that if I leave it for the last day, I wouldn't be able to complete it. Another tip my older sister gave me was too always take notes in class and to always listen and pay attention during class. This tip was extremely useful for me because if you don't pay a lot of attention in class, the next time you will be completely lost.
ReplyDeleteYour lucky your sister gives you good tips! Whenever I would ask my brother questions about high school he would just say he forgot about sec 1.
DeleteI haven't really get that much advice because I don't have any older siblings. But the best advice I've gotten from my parents or cousins was always stay organised and do your homework the day you get it so you don't forget. I found you don't really have to do the homework on the same day you get it because if you're organised you will know when it is due.
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Coming to St. Thomas was a big step for me. Luckily my friends and family gave me some tips to keep me going. The first few days of high school were pretty tough! I kept getting lost it was unbelievable! Thankfully the first few weeks they didn’t count the strikes because I would probably have gotten ten million strikes for being late! I told my dad that I got lost many times during day. He saw that I was a little stressed to go back to school the next day because he knew I didn’t want to be late for class and get lost again. My dad was really helpful and said that we can make a map. So that’s what we decided to do. It was really helpful (even pretty too) since it was all colorful and easy to read! I really enjoyed it and it became really helpful. Sooner or later I knew my classes by heart! Anyways even though the start of high school was a little bit tough, everything’s going much smoother now!
ReplyDeleteI really agree that everything is going a lot smoother now. I got to say that it is much smoother of a transition that I thought it would be!
DeleteComing into to high school was pretty intimidating for me. It's like you're going back to kindergarten. I have to admit, those huge Sec 5 students kind of scare me and remind me of when I was in kindergarten and I was looking at all those huge grade 6 students. I was really scared to leave elementary school and almost all of my friends. I was scared to meet my teachers but I was really excited to make new friends. Once I met all my teachers, I became more comfortable and knew that I could always approach them and talk to them, they won't bite! The best advice I received would have to be from my brother (don't tell him). He told me that it's exactly like elementary, but with more homework but more options. I realized that high school wasn't as scary as I thought it was and that there are way more options that will fit your personality!!!
ReplyDeleteThe best high school advice I ever got was about a year ago from a friend that goes to this school. He told me that St-Thomas is shape like a huge “H”. I didn’t understand at first but after my first few weeks at this school I understood what he was talking about. If you don’t already know, the cafeteria and the gym are in the middle of the “H” and the rest is classrooms and lockers. I caught on pretty quickly and I still think of the advice wen I’m trying to get to my class in time.
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That trick helps me a lot.For instance if I am in the 260's and need to go to the 280's I know it is exactly how to go and I know exactly where I am.
DeleteThe best advice high school advice that I ever got was from my grandma. I always had a feeling that when the time came, she would be the one giving me advice about high school. Her best advice was that I was going to face disappointment, like bombing a huge test or not getting chosen for a team, but it isn't the worst thing in the world because these kinds of things happen to everyone and that worst things will happen later on in life. I know that it wasn't the most reassuring advice, but it is true and I'm really happy that my grandma told me this instead of just telling me how good it's going to be.
ReplyDeleteGrandmothers are truly the best! It's very true that in high school, you can face disappointment. I like your examples for them and I know what you mean. We shouldn't be surprised though for the test one. If you didn't study, then you know what's going to happen! However for pop quizzes, it’s understandable. But not getting into a team is really hard to take if you've wanted to be in it since you were a kid! That's how life is though, disappointments around every single corner you look! Continuing on, it's great that your grandma decided to tell you about bad things rather than good. You always hear great things about high school, what about the bad ones though? I liked how your blog demonstrated great advice!
DeleteI got a lot of advice from everyone on how to survive high school. To be honest most of them were really, really useless. In all the advice I got I will be talking about one that one of my friends said. How do not overreact on these small issues like it will all be okay. She said it is normal that you fail a test it is normal that you did not do your homework once. So soon as that happens do not go crying in the corner or get mad at yourself. Also later in a few weeks when you completely forget about it you will think back and laugh at how dumb you acted in that situation. I did not learn this the first time ,on this one history test I did really bad and thought I would fail history this term and went crazy over this making a big issue. Then know I am like “Wow! That was one test! Big Deal!” and also I did really well on report card in history. So overall if something goes wrong the problem is not as big as it seems. It is like a mountain when you are near it, it seems HUGE but if you are far it seems puny.
ReplyDeleteP.S This does not mean you can fail every single test and exam then say it is “normal”.
Madurra.S
I get what you mean. It happens to everybody, you either fail or you don't do well. Great blog Madurra!!!!
DeleteSome of the best advice that I've got was from my family members and my older friends that already were at St. Thomas. My friend gave me a lot of good advice for the first day of school. One thing was that to not walk through the front door because Mr. Allali would be sitting there and make you read out loud the rule in the agenda that you can't walk through the front door. Also, he told me that I should talk to people and try to make new friends and not be that kid who has the wifi code and sit in the corner playing on your iPhone or iPod. Also my parents told me to always do your homework once you get it. You never know when your teachers our gonna drop 3 hours of homework on you. I've got a lot more, but yo guys don't have to spend all night reading my blog.
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Gregory
DeleteAt one point I have broken every single piece of advice you just said. Great blog Justin
LOLOLLOLLOLLOL you're such a thug
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that is some great advice and ill try to start doing that.
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I've gotten a lot of advice, but the advice that I've heard the most is probably time management and organization. High school is a big step in your life and you need to be organized. This includes keeping your locker clean and your binders nice and tidy. I'm sure there's much more. Also you need to write your homework down because it's really easy to forget and you might only remember the night before it's due. Easy little things like that will make your life so much easier. I wrote time management down because for the last two years I went to the open houses, all of the ambassadors that I met told me that I need to manage my time. My parents also have been telling me that time management is key in high school. School always come first, but you just can't do work all the time. You need to think ahead. " Okay so I have hockey practice in two hours and need to get my homework done. I'll do an hour of homework, watch a bit of TV and then have a little snack." It's worked for me so far throughout high school and I will never stop managing my time.
ReplyDeleteEasiest question ever! Back in the past, when we were all in elementary school. One of my fellow classmates asked our teacher about high school and what's it's going to be like. She told us to not worry and that everyone is in the same position as you. They are all nervous and you aren't the only one that's new to this concept. Everyone is feeling insecure and there's only a few people who actually feel confident and not worried. I'm not saying that that's bad but a whole bunch of people just feel scared. This is suppose to be thought out as, that you aren’t the only one nervous about making friends, doing good, being okay and so on. She told us to just forgot about being nervous but, who can do that? I thought this helped me so much since, when I came here, I thought that I would be the loneliest person EVER. But my doubts soon disappeared once I realized how nice everybody is! Now, I don’t have a lot of friends, like a whole little cloud of people but I have enough to be happy! I like to associate a lot of people as ‘acquaintances’ since I don’t know if they want to be my friend. But, that’s the best thing someone could of told me to be prepared about and I like to think about this as advice. I’m really happy now and this little piece of information I should of known before, helped me A LOT.
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DeleteThat's really good advice. Great blog Emily!
Great blog keep up the good work.
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The best advice I ever obtained came from my parents. They both told me to be myself. This advice has helped me so much because it’s taught me how to be more confident in myself. Back in elementary school, at the beginning I was a shy kid. Once I got used to everything it allowed me to be more social and make many more friends. In high school now it’s the same drill. The only thing is I had a couple of friends coming from my elementary school. I think it was good that I had friends come from my school, so I wouldn’t be as shy. It helped me a lot and I felt more confident. After I started to make new friends, I felt great and rather than kindergarten, I was more social. I think this was the best piece of advice I ever received in my life about high school.
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ReplyDeleteEarlier before the school year started, my entire family was giving me a bunch of advice. Everyone said "Don't be nervous" and in my head I would say "Ya, that helps a lot." Other common advice that they gave was don't be shy, be nice and all that other stuff. Well something that my cousins said was to just be myself and people would like me. That seemed to work out because now I know a lot of people. And my parents said to always do your homework the day you get it. That advice was useful but I still do procrastinate (a lot) on some things.
Gregory
ReplyDeleteMy parents told me to go to them or my brother if I had any questions about highschool. I went the whole summer not saying a word about highschool. That ended on the last couple of days of summer when I had to go get my lock, agenda and schedule. The only advice that I can remember about school was don't do you homework last minute, stay organised and my favorite advice was if someone offers you a bag of sugar, it's not sugar.
Sofia
ReplyDeleteI didn't get much advice considering nobody in my family likes talking about anything school related during summer vacation but my sister did tell me to always keep my locker organised. She actually told me that a lot because she said that during her first year of high school her locker was a complete mess. She would always be losing stuff like homework or study sheets that she didn't put in a binder, an she would get in trouble a lot for not having her homework complete because of that. So that is the best advice I got.
No one has really given me advice about high school. If I can try and remember one thing someone has told me is probably to never be late to class or skip class. Most of the people that were telling me not to be late were people that knew I was going to be taking art and they previously had my art teacher because if you’re late by just a second he makes it into a huge deal!!! My best friend told me never to skip class because she has and she got in a lot of trouble and I wasn’t planning on skipping but it was great advice anyways!
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The best advice about high school that I got was from one of my elementary school teachers. It was near the end of the year and I was in grade 6 and were talking about high school and what to do and how to be prepared. This advice was extremely helpful in my high school year so far. This advice helped me with my school work, do not skip class and always listen. I got lots of advice and I found it really helpful. I was really lucky for getting so much great advice.
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Good job for talking about not skipping class good way to help kids for the future. Matt Collpron
DeleteSome great advice that I got for high school was from my sisters. They gave me so much great advice. It was when my sister Emilie told me NOT to double book and not to stand out to much, because then it is easy for people to make fun of me. That advice worked. I got so much more advice from my parents and my two sisters. All the advice that was given to me has helep me a lot.
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The person that gave me good advice for high school was my brother. He told me that if I wanted to be popular and have many friends then I would have to act normal and be funny and so far it has worked out I have met so many new people and it really does feel good to have friends and to never be alone and it is a great feeling. The last thing that my brother told me was to never double book or hold the binders in two hands because everyone holds them in one hand except for girls. So that was my great advice it will help you a lot in life.
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