Everyone always says high school is going to fly right by you. You don´t believe at the time till it’s already happened without you even realizing. They say it will be some of your best moments and some of your worst moments. This is a gist of how mine went.

Going into high school I was scared. A typical freshman, your worries are always what it’s going to be if you will fit in it well with feeling powerless and odd because you’re the “newbees”. My biggest fear was going to pep rally´s. People told myth stories about how it would do down and how you would get hit in the head with batteries and get stuff thrown at you. I don’t know why i believed that stuff but i didn’t know what to expect. Come to find out pep rally´s is really fun and it shows the love the students have for the school and their grade, it encourages students’ school spirit and puts life into school. I thought it was all going to be bad and scary but it wasn’t and I got the hang of everything in about just a week. Throughout the year I was manageable with keeping grades up and keeping myself in a good mindset. It was a pretty fast year, I still learned the most. My favorite class was enthic studies. I learned so much in this class about race and ethnicity. I would be excited just to go to this class including going to see the teacher Ms. Mafi who no longer works there, but she was a great teacher. 

My sophomore year and junior year school was now starting to get harder. I started to hate school and started to miss a lot of days (bad idea just go to school as much as you can) but it wasn’t all bad now that i look back on it from what’s now. I joined a band which kind of changed things for me because I was never the type to play things in front of people and feel okay with doing it. I’m still not even 100% with it but I can push myself into doing it now. I tried to never let myself fail but sometimes I couldn’t succeed how I wanted. As time grew i started to realize i didn’t need any of what i was getting taught and it just made me uninterested in everything. Life overall started getting very complicated. But I’ve made a good amount of friends in these years, you normally don’t end up with who you started with like how you sometimes people separate out from middle school once they reach high school. It’s life and it happens but the ones who have left and the ones who are still here have both taught me many things. I remember I used to race down each hallway with my friends in morning times to get our energy out. I remember once at a basketball game after school I had tripped in front of everyone and it was so embarrassing but funny, me and my friends still find it funny when we replay it in our head. We have many talks now about things that have happened in school and how we miss it and miss being in school. How we didn’t know it would end so soon.

Then there is my senior year. Online school. This one really kills because your senior year is what you’re looking forward to right as you start high school. It felt like all those other years were a waste because the seniors don’t get to have a senior year which includes prom, senior skip day, a normal graduation, and just the feeling of being a senior in the school that we will never get to feel. This year has definitely been the hardest so far and changed me the most. During junior year everyone thought it was nice to be getting a break, till it turned into our life. I used to always want to do online and this proved to me I will never say such things again or ever want to be a part of it. My grades are not the worst they have been so far  right now but they know how to get there very fast. This year has been such a mental and emotional struggle to keep up with especially being mixed in with the pandemic. I guess a good way to look at this is how we make history for people. I know kids are gonna wish they had this because they don’t have to get up and go to school but it is not the greatest. Some people think differently and find it being easier but this is how it was for me. I’m currently in my senior year and I’m so eager to graduate already. I hope we can possibly be back in school, maybe that last couple of months we have left just so we can have something for us.

In conclusion, my high school experience wasn’t the best but it definitely taught me a lot. Not everyone’s experience is the same but they all have some value meaning to it for themselves. High School is going to fly right by you whether you believe it or not so be sure to make memorable times while you can because you don’t know what can happen. It has its good and bad times but that comes with everything, you wouldn’t be able to appreciate the good times if there were not any bad experiences to learn from.