High School

Hello Class of 2022!

I want to congratulate everyone who has made it this far. Now I know that we all thought high school was going to take a lifetime to get through while in reality it flew by. As most of you know I moved away the summer after fifth grade, I’m sorry I never told any of you but it was a shock to me too. Now lucky for you I did end up coming back to finish school in the same area I started. Now I know most of you are probably expecting some okay speech with advice and as Agatha Christie once said “Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it”. 

I know that the only thing I will leave school remembering is that a^2+b^2=c^2. Which for me is very surprising because I am horrible at math and I even hate it a little bit. I find it funny that this year I was put into a dual enrollment math class because when I took geometry and algebra I only passed because of help from other students. I know that in college the teachers are way harder on their students so we are lucky to have teachers that push us to be able to do math we never thought we could do. When you go college you need to be in a positive mindset because if you go in doubting yourself you are setting yourself up for failure. 

My freshman year wasn’t even in a high school, in Wisconsin my class size was four times the amount here. So the 8th and 9th graders are put in Junior high. Freshman year for me was fairly normal because I didn’t have to enter a new school and I knew all of the people. I do remember that Algebra class where I should have failed but the night before the final I studied everything and somehow passed with an AB.

Starting sophomore year I was that little 5 foot girl in a three floored high school that everyone told me was like a prison, I remember my brother and his friends all picking on me when I would walk past them in the halls. I was very lucky because that year I found out about photomath so geometry was pretty easy especially because of Covid my high school time went down to basically nothing. I know that covid is horrible but I would have not passed my history class without it, because of covid my parents decided it would be best if my brother and I came to Maine because the numbers here were way lower. 

Before the start of junior year I decided that I was going to come live with my mom full time. I know that Junior year was supposed to be the hardest but let me tell you when you are doing it at home it is so easy. Junior year went by very fast because I did all of my work from home. Sorry to all the teachers because I don’t know if I did one assignment myself.

Senior year for me has been the most stressful because even though I came to this school junior year I never went in person, so walking through those doors my first day here was scary because even though I knew these people from elementary school, I kept in touch with none of them. Lucky for me I can be a social person when needed. I would like to thank everyone who made me feel welcomed back at this school, and I wish the best for all of you.

“graduation caps” by j.o.h.n. walker is licensed under CC BY 2.0.