Gallup High School Jennifer Crowe

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elcome to Gallup High! I hope this piece gives you some positive insight into your upcoming experience and helps you through it. We’re all here for you and hope you make the most of your time at GHS. Once a Bengal, always a Bengal!

What to Expect:

Expect to be periodically overwhelmed. It happens to all of us. Use those moments in high school to build your time management skills. You will most likely be juggling your school work, activities, work, family, and friends, and more in a very short time span. It’s up to you to decide what will be in your best interest. I realize that’s a dangerous statement coming from a teacher, so I add this: that decision should be based in the long-term. It’s nice to hang out with friends and skip the homework; it’s less nice to be repeating freshman classes as a senior and having a bunch of ninth graders asking you what went wrong.

Expect teachers to hold you to a higher standard. This may look different from teacher to teacher and class to class. Your teachers want you to learn and to grow, and they are there to help you in that process. One of the nicest things they can do in that process is push you to keep going, whether you like it or not. Just like riding a bike, the training wheels must come off eventually. You may not have teachers who go over homework every day, give you time to read in class, or hand you very direct clues to answers. These teachers will still expect you to ride that bike, though, and get there on your own.

Expect to be part of the community. You may spend most of your time sequestered at a lunch table in the corner with your friends, but you’re still a Bengal. I won’t give you a line about how “high school is the greatest time of your life” or “the friends you make in high school last forever” because I really don’t believe those. I do believe, however, that you should expect to be shaped by this experience. I also believe, from my own (lack of) participation in high school, that being involved has more benefits than detriments, socially and academically. So, participate in school events. Go to games. Join a club.

Answer questions in class. Ask questions in class. Let people get to know you. Let yourself get to know others. Make a conscious decision to rep yourself, your school, proudly—without talking smack about others in the process.

These are always some of the common things I hear seniors talking about in late March and April when they’re writing “Remember Whens” for graduation: “I wish I hadn’t goofed off freshman year,” they say, or that they appreciated so-and-so’s class because they felt really supported. Or, more often than not, they can’t remember when anything happened and wish they hadn’t taken their time in high school for granted. pathway, challenge yourself to participate in related competitions like Skills USA or JROTC Orienteering. If volunteering is your thing, check out Key Club meetings or ask about National Honor Society. Like sports, but not an athlete? Hang out with the Girls Athletic Association. Have an idea for a club that doesn’t exist? Make it happen by taking your idea to a teacher willing to sponsor!

Athletics is always an opportunity, too. From basketball to dance, you have some options if you’re athletically inclined. I won’t list them all, but I would like to shout-out volleyball, soccer, and cross country to diversify your thinking.

Activities and Experiences: Tips for Success:

While most activities offered are related to athletics, there are still some great opportunities to be involved if that’s not your thing. One of the newest coming in the fall are the different career pathways. There are several pathways you can choose to join, including health and medical, culinary arts, construction trades, welding, and education. The career pathways are designed to start you on your journey in that particular field, putting you in the best position for any future training and certification you may need. Joining a career pathway will make your schedule less negotiable in favor of those that would benefit that pathway the most.

The various clubs on campus reflect plenty of interests. If you consider yourself more artsy, you may be interested in drama club or the school newspaper. If you want to step up your career

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