It's finally June. Graduation, summer and before you know it, you'll be moving into college. Here's the unforeseen chronicle of the last few weeks of high school, as told by the one and only Deadpool.
First, it's total excitement...
It's that feeling of opening up your calendar and, amidst dozens of little dots showing how busy you are, realizing that there's only ten more school days until you're done forever. All of your classmates start buzzing about graduation plans and you begin to get excited about how real it all is.
...and then, the only thing you want is to be done.
After the initial realization of having only a couple weeks left of high school, you then realize you still have a couple weeks left of high school. All your college friends are already home having their summer fun, and you're still waking up at 6 a.m. every day. Agony.
You will yourself to finish with motivation.
Okay so your AP exams are over, but there's still time for teachers to assign final projects and papers; although you'll inevitably complain to your friends, you secretly make a promise to yourself to finish strong. You can practically see the finish line, and you're going to get there if it kills you.
It starts to hit you that everything is a last.
Walking to second period with your friend who you've gone through school with since sixth grade suddenly becomes way too sentimental. You begin to cherish your two-minute conversations with people between classes. The smiles of teachers greeting you at the front of the school every morning mean more. You realize that you will never again have to be smashed in a small hallway with a herd of people who walk negative miles per hour -- but you try to remember the frustration you feel, because it will never happen again.
Finally, the last full week! But wait...
You're so swamped with scholarship ceremonies, senior cook-outs, and special school events just for the graduating class that you can barely even process what's happening. It's like everything decided to happen all at once and you're just along for the ride! So much so, that you don't even realize you've finally made it to your last day of high school... until you're walking in one of the stairwells and start randomly tearing up a little bit.
School's out, it's summer!
Congratulations! It's Summer Break! You never have to step foot in high school as a student again. You try to shake off the sentiment of graduation and just enjoy yourself -- it's that weird time of limbo between the last day of school and the actual graduation ceremony, so you get to catch up on your sleep and attend some great grad parties.
Hello, high school graduate. Welcome to your future.
And just like that, you've done it. You've walked across a huge stage with friends who have been through it all with you. Your family sat cheering in the stands for you. You received your diploma. Years of complaining about high school and dreading that crack of dawn alarm have cumulated in this amazing celebration. You made it. Go enjoy yourself, relax, and have some great home-cooked meals for the next couple of months because your next stop is college!