"When one door closes, another ones opens."

I don’t believe in much, but I believe in the verity of this statement.

There is something about new beginnings that is so exciting. You feel a sort of blind hope in the unknown… like anything is possible.

That’s the thing. Anything IS possible.

As I prepare to leave high school, I've been thinking a great deal about the changes certain to occur in the next few months of my life: my high school cafeteria will give way to the campus quad, I will be held accountable for my own actions more than ever before, and the first faces I see when I awaken will not be those of my parents, but rather of my roommates.

In essence, the comfort and routine that I have known for 18 years will supplanted by an overwhelming sense of unfamiliarity. However, I see before me a future as yet uncharted, a blank slate brimming with possibilities. This fresh start excites me more than the tumult of change frightens me.

Like the majority of my fellow high school seniors, I don’t know what I want to do with my life and I’m still figuring out who I am and who I want to be, but I DO know that college will be the perfect place to begin putting the pieces together.

This will be my final article for Odyssey. Writing for this platform has been a tremendous experience — one that has completely revitalized my passion for writing — and I could not be more grateful for the opportunity.

Though I will miss sharing my thoughts each week, I must remember that when one door closes, another one opens. Odyssey will always be a part of my story, but I'm moving on.

I can’t wait to see where I go from here.