One Last High School Paper

Well, congratulations everyone, we made it to 2023. We did the hard work and now we are soon-to-be graduates. I still can’t wrap my head around it. We are seniors Graduates. Everyone has always said “Don’t blink it goes by so fast” and honestly I’ve always called bull crap on it, but now I’m at that place I can say they were right. It feels like just yesterday I was trying to find my way to classes thinking that Oak Hill was a maze compared to Lisbon High even though our school is practically one big loop I couldn’t find my classes for the life of me. I remember On my first day, I sat in the wrong class for half the period before the teacher realized I wasn’t supposed to be there. The look on my face was instantly a deer in headlights (the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to me while at this school.)

 On my first day in the school, I was also greeted by overly curious people asking every question they thought of. Most of the time I replied with a nod I was as social as a grizzly bear and never knew how to reply. Thankfully I’ve grown in this area and can now actually conversate with my peers. 

Not even two weeks after my being here we went remote due to covid. Not only did we get through one year of remote work but two years of doing work at home and then periodically working some days in school with masks. Everyone always says high school goes by so fast but our class was practically out of school for two years which made high school fly by faster than anyone in our class thought it would. Just last year graduation felt so far away we had plenty of time left right? We lost out on many normal non-educational high school experiences like field trips and school dances but we didn’t let that stop us from making high school more fun with the people we surround ourselves with. We made the best out of what we had.

 but enough about covid we’ve wasted 3 years talking about I’m not gonna drag it on.

Don’t blink they say, well I blinked and it’s senior year looking back we all grew so much and I’m sure most of us didn’t even notice the small changes in each other but slowly we transition from snooty annoying loud freshmen to the next working class. Now we are all legal or soon-to-be legal adults even if we don’t all act like it. Well, class of 2023 we made it. We were being mocked by seniors. Now we are the seniors, funny how it works. We did the work, we stressed out, we put in our time, we did our assignments, and survived thousands of minutes of Membean and we can all finally say we made it to graduation I don’t know about you guys but I never thought I was gonna make it through all for years but I did we did. I’m not gonna drag this speech on forever but there is one last thing I want you guys to remember…. Dont, blink

“Graduation Day” by kevin dooley is licensed under CC BY 2.0.