The Past 4 Years

Good Afternoon to the graduating class of 2022, I’d like to congratulate all of you for finally making it to this point. It hasn’t been easy but we still managed to push through the past four years. Can you believe we finally became seniors just to graduate and go to college just to be freshman again? I guess on the bright side I don’t have to hear my alarm clock yell at me every week day to get out of bed until college starts in the fall. Anyways, my first year of highschool, all the seniors talked about was how school is a prison, and don’t get me wrong, it definitely felt like one at times. And I now understand why they said that. Starting off with freshman year, freshman year was an interesting year for me considering my three best friends back then are no longer my friends right now. Meaning that at some point, I had to go through that conflict of not being friends with them anymore. Which you can only imagine how that went with three girls, but that didn’t happen until sophomore year. Sophomore year wasn’t too bad for me other than the friend drama. But the friend situation taught me an important lesson to see people’s true colors and mature faster so I didn’t go through highschool with more fake friends. Oh yeah, and the global pandemic that happened in March kinda sucked also. It hit us all like a ton of bricks. One day it was normal and the next day we were being taught on how to use zoom and google meets. If it weren’t for online school, I’d probably still be taking geometry right now, let’s be real.

Next is junior year, probably the most interesting school year yet. Considering we were all in different cohorts and I only went to school 2 days a week. It made it really hard to actually learn anything online so when we switched to at least being in person some days, it got better. Towards the end of junior year, school was a little more normal, we were back to school but still wearing masks. It was nice to see everyone again. Now leading to senior year, where it all hit the fan. Senior year was nice because there was always that reminder in the back of my head that this is my last year, so I should make it count. But god was this past year the most stressful year. As some of you may know, my Mom moved away halfway through the school year, and I don’t mean just a couple towns over, I mean to Alaska. She moved during the middle of my soccer season which caused some difficult times for me. But luckily soccer was there to distract me during it. I couldn’t be more thankful for the friends, family and teachers I had that supported me through this past year. High School is almost over. I’m sad it’s over but I’m happy that I learned so many lessons from it. I hope to take those lessons with me into the future and I hope you choose to also. I wish all of you goodluck after highschool and I hope you look back at these highschool memories to remind yourself how far you’ve come.

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