How high school has shaped me

I came to Oak Hill my junior year and only knew a few people from playing lacrosse with them in seventh grade.  I went to Saint Doms from 3rd grade all the way to my sophomore year. It was hard there, not going to lie, I got through it but I wasn’t happy there.  It was really expensive and I felt like most of the teachers there didn’t care how I was doing or if I was understanding the things they taught. Oak Hill was a lot different than Saint Doms, one because there was a lot more people, and two because the people here were more welcoming.  Over time I became friends with more and more people and I started to make bonds. It wasn’t until the lacrosse season started until I really felt like this is where I belonged, I started to like where I was. I remember them taking me in like I was family.

Finding a family made the whirlwind of emotions that has been high school a lot easier.  From transferring schools halfway through high school, to making new friends and losing some too.  Junior year was hard because I was still adjusting to a public school. New teachers and their different ways of teaching was hard to grasp and I had a hard time adjusting.  I even had to take a gym class which I had never done in high school. One thing I will always remember about gym class is destroying the fire alarm with a lacrosse ball and we had to evacuate to building and the fire department came.  Even though the beginning of junior year was rough, the ending was great and I will always remember it.

Now it is senior year and it starts getting real.  The college emails start pouring in and it got pretty stressful trying to narrow down a couple colleges I wanted to go to.  I got a call from Marquette University in Wisconsin. It was the head coach of the lacrosse program calling to talk to me about considering going there.  I was pretty excited about getting that call because it was the first D1 program that reached out to me. I thought long and hard about going there for about a month and a half but I decided not to go there because it was so far away and really expensive and I realized I would only get to see my friends on the holidays and that’s about it.  I got a couple more emails and calls from colleges I’ve never even heard of and then I got an email from a small school in New Hampshire called Saint Anselm College. I went to visit there and I fell in love with the campus. I am happy to announce that I will be attending SAC next year and playing D2 lacrosse.

Senior year has been a lot more stressful than I had expected.  I thought it would be a walk in the park all the way to graduation but I was dead wrong.  It’s taken a lot of time and more effort than I had ever given to get here but with this being our last english class we are almost done.   

In conclusion, my time here has been short, only two years, but during those two years I have made some unbreakable bonds with some amazing people.  Overall high school has been pretty good. I’ve learned a lot of things that will be useful later on in life. I’ve enjoyed all my high school experiences, even some of the bad ones, and I look forward to my next chapter.  Farewell class of 2019, we made it.

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