Class of 2015,
It has been a year since we have graduated high school. Can you believe that? A whole year, 365 days since we stood together as one class. It’s crazy how fast time flies.
We went from raising our hand to go to the bathroom to being a young adult and having to make life decisions on our own in the same year. The Class of 2015 is now in college or out in the working world making a difference.
My high school and the memories I made will always hold a special place in my heart. High school shaped who I am today. It gave me my work ethic, friends that will last a lifetime, courage, and helped me to find who I really wanted to be.
We are all young adults now just trying to make it in this world. Gone are the days of assemblies, uniforms, special schedules, morning announcements, detentions, and our childhood.
I haven’t sung my Alma Mater in over a year, but I still know all of the words.
As another school year comes to a close and graduation approaches, it’s time to reflect back on this past year and our high school memories.
People always say that college is the best 4 years of your life, but for me, those best 4 years were high school. Sure you have more freedom in college and can pick more interesting classes, but high school had a sense of security and it felt like home.
In high school, I basically knew what to expect from your teachers and knew almost everyone in my classes. In college, I have no idea what a teacher is like until I step into that classroom. I know the names of maybe five people in each class, and that is including me and the professor.
I had so much to look forward to in high school: class trips, school dances, proms, days off at least once a month, early dismissals, our equivalent of field or spirit day which we called “Color Games”. In college, all I look forward to is winter break and what time class is over.
We’ve survived our first year of official adulthood, and completed our first year of college. We have so much more to look forward to.
We have stayed up late studying to ace that test, wrote 10+ page term papers, and for some of us have moved out on our own.
We have gotten a lot more stressed out (I know I have.) High school let me enjoy life, and yes I did spend my time studying, but I also made amazing memories in school and with friends.
As the band Twenty-One Pilots sings “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days, when mamas sang us to sleep, but now we’re stressed out.”
My four years in high school will probably be my favorite years until of course, I have lived to experience so much more. Then they will just be four years that I will be so thankful for.
All we wished for was to grow up, and now that we are here, all I want to do is go back to safety net, that place between childhood and the rest of our lives: High school….
We will always be the Class of 2015, and no one can ever compete with that! (I mean we are awesome!)
****Special shout out to Archbishop Ryan, Class of 2015! We survived our first year out of high school! ****
