High School 101

High school life oh high school life.

I used to say that my high school years were the best years of my life. I was free-spirited, young, carefree and ready to discover more out of life. It was all about living and enjoying the moment - finding and losing friends, experimenting with boys, getting high on infatuation, getting busy with my social life and basically taking classroom matters for granted.

High school is purely fun and nothing serious. You can do stupid things in high school and just laugh and get away with it. High school is the area of life where we become silly and pointless, in order to “find ourselves”.

This is totally true. Not long ago, I was a high school student. I was immature and lacking good sense but I had fun all along. At the end of those four years of being silly, I am a change person, with wisdom and a whole new understanding of everything, just everything.

So now here I am. Out of high school and sure is happy that I am out of it. High school years were happy and good times, but now I opt for happier and better times.

After experiencing high school, I want to help the kids who are about to enter it and those who are already in it. I’m not an expert at this, but I sure do know how to make my way around high school. So read on fellas

FRESHMEN

Being fresh from a world of innocent crushes, jackstone and effortless lessons, it’s normal that you’ll be lost in a world that is a hundred times different from where you’ve been. As freshies, you are off to a clean slate. You’ll have to decide on who you want to be in high school. The statement “be yourself” is so cliché. You can be whoever you want to be in high school. If you portray someone you are not, its okay. The real you will eventually come out along the years. Don’t play it safe honey. Be risky. Do some experiments with yourself.

One of the most crucial things you’ll have to do is to be with the right people. Choose the right kind of friends. But again, it’s normal that in your first year, you’ll be in the wrong crowd. Just don’t be in the wrong crowd for too long.
Another crucial thing you’ll have to remember is to avoid being a wallflower! Don’t be just another face in the crowd. Start making a name of your own. Be active and show off what you got. If you’re good in public speaking, volunteer in class to recite. If you’re athletic, join the varsity. If you have a knack for writing, audition for the school paper.
Prepare yourselves for a bumpy ride ahead. You can’t imagine how many things can happen in just four years.

SOPHOMORES

My sophomore year in high school was kinda ordinary. But it was during that year that I did one of the craziest things in my life.. a memory that is permanently stamped in my head. In your second year, lessons are normally undemanding and you’ve probably have found the friends you’ll spend high school with for the next three years. Things will settle down in your sophomore year.

If it is destined for you to happen, then probably something crazy will happen to you too. When that moment comes, grab the opportunity and enjoy it while it lasts.

JUNIORS

Ah, yes. Junior year is Prom year. There are a lot of things to look forward to as a junior. You’ll probably fall in love and get your hearts broken, get closer to your friends, have sleepless nights because of school projects and encounter challenges that will test how you see yourself. Well, it all depends on the person and how he spent that past 2 high school years. But personally, those were some of the many surprises I’ve met.

It’s obvious that you’ll mature and become full-grown teenagers in junior year. You’ll become conscious of your looks and get frustrated by the changes in yourself because of the ever-unpredictable hormones. By now, you have partially “found yourselves” but is still quite confused if you are who you are.

Basta things will get complicated. You’ll have some personal struggles.

SENIORS

Senior year is the cream of the crop. So many twists and turns will happen in senior year that will test how much you’ve grown and learned about life and about yourself during the past 3 years. Most of the time, you’ll find yourself failing and realizing that there is still much to learn. But hey, one year is long enough to fully “find yourselves”.

You and your friends will become like a family in your senior year. After 3 years of being silly together, you are now like brothers and sisters. As your farewell year, you’ll learn the value of not wasting a day and making every moment count. Since you’re graduating, you’ll have to hit the books more often. But also, it is during your senior year where you become restless and want something more out of life. As seniors you’ll have frequent rewinds of the times when you were still freshmen, memories of the days that had gone by.

Basically, you will all become emotional.
But trust me; senior year will be the best year of your lives [as a teenagers].

Now, aren’t you just excited?