End of School Year Reflections

Congrats! You’re embracing the final stretch of the 2017-2018 school year. Whether it was your first or final year, it’s important to look back at everything you’ve learned as a high school student:

Iced coffee is the most important meal of the day.

Everything is a competition in high school. Your friend tells you he’s tired because he slept at 4:00 a.m.? Tell him you didn’t even go to sleep.

Rewatch High School Musical and practice your cello. That stuff is accurate. Senior Dee Pressed recalls how his “favorite time of the day is when we break out in song every single lunch period, so don’t be the only one left out.”

Use rolling backpacks. You’re an adult now, so you need to upgrade your normal bag. They’re the coolest, and no one will step on your foot when you walk in the halls—great for personal space!

Don’t use your locker. Have too many textbooks? Buy a bigger rolling backpack. Remembering combinations is hard anyway.

Walking to class? No. You need to impress your teachers. You have to sprint to your classes! How else can you go down one flight of stairs in five minutes? Go especially fast, crouch down, put your arms up, and scream “NARUTO!” when you see Markova or Choubs. Be sure to give them a wink too to show them how much you appreciate them.

If you cut out sleeping, you get an extra eight hours of work done every night. There’s no need to sleep when you can read about Macbeth and write a 1,000 word short story about how you connected with Macbeth and his conversations with imaginary objects.

Study underwater so no one can see you crying.

High school is a time when you e-mail your honors math teacher at 1:02 in the morning and he responds at 1:04 with a smiley face.

You can also message your computer science partner at 4:00 a.m. and get a response.

If you ever get caught sleeping in class, look up, put your hands together, and say ‘Amen’.

If you’re one minute late to Spanish, you might as well grab some McDonald’s on the way and be 25 minutes late.

Hope this reflection brings back some nostalgia and is a pat on the back for all the wisdom you’ve gained through the strenuous experiences of high school. Good luck to the graduating class, and here’s to another one to three years for the rest of us!