Volume 2, Issue 3

Seniors. We are almost done with our last semester. By now, we are familiar with semesters, and familiar with lasts. We’ve had our last practices, followed by our last games. Our last time to play the sport we love, play in the pep band we love, or cheer on the team we love. We’ve had last concerts, last cabarets, last pep rallies, last Homecoming week, last musical. But senior year also brings a lot of firsts. Our first college application. First time setting up our “4 year plan”. First time being in charge of the school. First time wondering... “What am I going to be?... What will my place be in the world?” First time pondering who we’ll stay connected with; if it will be hard, how hard it will be.

Maybe this year was your first time trying something new: taking a risk that you wouldn’t have taken when you were a freshman, a proof of your growth in these past 4 years. We’ve all grown; we’ve all changed. We’ve learned who we are, or maybe we’re finally starting to. But we’ve grown together as a class. We’ve seen each other at our highs, and at our lows. We’ve watched each other go through heartbreaks, “phases”, loss, and all the struggles in between. But we’ve stood by each other through it. No one in this school goes through a bad day alone. We get by and push through it, because brighter days are always ahead. And for the kids of our class who maybe didn’t have as peachy a high school experience as they expected: brighter days are ahead. We all have it in us to be successful and make something of ourselves. We can’t let any of our past mistakes affect what we achieve in the future. Sometimes we have to pick up and start over, but that’s okay. Every bump in the road will take us down the path where we are meant to go.

So Seniors- however this last semester has you feeling, whether you are enthusiastic or full of melancholy: use it as a lesson. Go through life remembering the things you liked about high school and seek out those things later in life. If there is something in high school you didn't like, find ways to make that part of your future life better. The biggest thing we should take away from high school is remembering where we came from. No matter where we end up in the world, always be a bulldog. Being a bulldog is what has shaped us into who we are; we can never forget that.

Thank you, Class of 2018. You have made my high school experience truly spectacular.