We have done it. Almost. We've spent the last four years together laughing, loving, hating and most of all, making memories. We've spent over 700 schooldays together complaining about how the building can't regulate temperature then trying to rebel against our dress code. Now, we're 14 days out; 14 days away from walking across the stage at graduation;14 days away from getting our diplomas; 14 days left before we become Morris Knolls Alumni.
We have come so far from the uncomfortable groups of Denville and Rockaway. Those don't even exist anymore. We have become our own family of almost 400 people. We've made it this far. So keep going, don't give up now. We all were always told that senior year is supposed to be the easiest, and honestly up to this point I think we all believed that. Now, these last few weeks, we have more final projects than I think we've ever been given. Personally, I have more projects due than classes I take. All I want to do is give up, say I'm done and just not do it. Like all of us. But we can't. We are 14 days away from never having to do all these projects again. The senioritis set in months ago, but we're in the final stretch now.
We have to keep going to classes, because we're only 14 days away. Some of use are so close to being dropped from classes for attendance issues, and some of us have had to appeal days. Just keep going. We really only have one week left of actual class, and then we're done. So far, we've survived hurricanes and nor'easters. We've survived loss of classmates and bomb threats. We experienced pep rallies and football games. We've survived the workload and the dumb dress code rules. We have done it to this point, and we're so close to being done for good.
I'm not going to lie and say that if I could just stop going to school now I would, like most of my fellow classmates. Frankly, we can't and I don't completely want to. We have 14 days left of dreaded work and waking up. But that's not the only thing we have 14 days left of. We only have 14 days left to be with our friends each and every day. We only have 14 days to make memories in high school. This will be the last time you see so many of these people. So cherish it. We only have so much time left in our youth. There's only so much time before we're off living in so many different states buying houses and getting married.
Make the most of these last 14 days. Because before we know it, we will be sitting down on our football field waiting to toss our caps into the air.
