High School Memoir After watching the seniors leave, I found myself wanting to put use the tricks I learned from all of my seniors to see if it was true. First through knowing the seniors of 06, I got to meet knew people all the time from all sorts of grades. To me, I feel thats a very good quality I have had throughout high school, because I can look back on my experience and tell people that I knew a lot of people from different varieties of groups and Cliques. I feel that if you are going to be around the same people for years at a time, you should just learn to be friends with the people who come into your life. I am not just saying to be best friends with every single person you meet, but just alway have a lot of acquaintances because you never know who you will need on your side if you ever get into stupid high school drama. And trust me, this stupid drama will always be around. Especially if your at El Segundo High School, there is so much even the teachers participate in it. But what can we do, everyone is used to it anyways. If I could pass down any advice to new coming freshman, I would tell them that friends in high school is the most important part of school, because they will find out that if you can keep a "true" friend till graduation and beyond, then they are truly true friends, because fights will always happen between people and they wont be friends, but a true friend will be there through thick and thin. The second main rule I have learned through high school is, do not let peer pressure ruin your life or friendships. A lot of people go through high school partying and doing drugs and it changes a lot of people. That is one reason a lot of friendships will end because one friend will do something that the other one does not approve of, and they will start to argue about it and just end up not being friends anymore because one decided to make a bad choice. It ruins lives because people can develop addictions to alcohol or certain drugs because of peer pressure. I mean you listen to a loser then you end up a loser later on so it is just best in high school to just follow what you strongly believe in, and to not be afraid to be yourself and do what you want to do. I mean it your life to live, so you make your own choices. The last and final thing of advice to new freshmen would be to just have fun, do not let stupid stereotypes or people who think they are too cool tell you what to do. If you want to dance at the LTA's, then you dance till your feet bleed. If people say anything to you, just let it go in one ear and out the other. They are just words anyways, it is not like they really do anything. Looking back on all the things I have done over the past, I feel that my high school experience was amazing and I would not change one thing I did in that school. We all learn from mistakes so if anything high school is like a trial life till you get out because if you mess up in high school there are your parents, teachers that care and councilors that care. But when you get out it is the real thing, and everyone needs to be ready, because in the real life there is no messing up.  |