The remaining days leading up to graduation are bittersweet for anybody. Whether your senior year was the best out of all of your high school years, or your worst, you can't escape the reality that your millennial days are ending.

So first, you have graduation practice. Despite everyone's differences, you are all together. In one place, at one time, to celebrate each other. This is where you see who is in your row and pray that you aren't stuck sitting beside your ex boyfriend or your ex best friend. It is also the time to see who everyone is ending the year with because it is clear when you all branch off to different places for lunch. Now, despite everyone's cliquey attitude, it is always ok to get some extra time in with your girls since you do have two hours to eat lunch. Then after lunch you get to come back and sit in the hell-defying sun and sweat so much that you don't even remember which hand you are supposed to grab your diploma with.

So your two days of graduation practice (if you're lucky) fly by and now it is on to your next duty as an upcoming graduate, to attend baccalaureate. Here you are gathered with your classmates and all of your families to recognize your hard work and to bless you in your future endeavors. Besides this, it is also a great place to get good pictures because you never know how hectic the stadium field will get after you are announced graduates. Sometimes you can luck out and sneak away before your old "besties" want to take a reminiscence picture, but a lot of times it just doesn't work out that way. So suck it up. Take the pictures you don't want to take with the people you don't want to take them with. Because why create drama with people who you won't be seeing after you throw that cap up in the air?

The morning of graduation is overwhelming. You finally did it. You walked the halls of the unknown and conquered it. You lost friends along the way, but gained that friendship back in others. You found yourself and who you want to be further down the road. You learned math problems that you are never going to need, and you learned life lessons that will stick with you forever. And that is what matters. Not the fight you had with your best friend, not the boy who broke your heart. What matters are the memories you have and the people who stayed. So go into graduation shoving all of the bad into your gym locker that you are never going to have to see again and move forward because guess what? You're graduating and it is time to start a new chapter.