Forgive me if this is redundant
I mapped it all out. The remainder of my high school life. One year. Another 370-something days. 8890 hours. 533,000 minutes. 32 million seconds. Sure, 32 million may seem like a lot. But just wait. It's never seemed like a smaller number to me.
August
6-15th: Work daily
17th-19th: Student leadership retreat
22nd: First day of senior year
22nd: Dave Matthews band concert
September
12th-14th: Camp Kern w/ district's 6th graders
15th: ACT testing
22nd: College visit(s) TBD
indefinate: Auditions/casting for Fall play
October
6th: SAT testing
indefinate: Begin mailing out college applications
November:
3rd: College visit OR Youth Specialties
10th: All-day play rehearsal
15th: opening night for play
21st: personal deadline for mailing out college applications
December:
21st: beginning of vacation (location TBD)
25th: Christmas
31st: turn 18
Januray:
indefinate: tryouts for Spring Musical
February:
Ski trip?
March:
20th: premeire of musical
April:
indefinate: wait for acceptance/rejection letters from colleges
May:
27th: last day of school for seniors
June:
8th: graduation
And that's it. With that, my high school education and my life as a sheltered Terrace Park boy will come to an end. I don't mean this to sound sappy or prematurely nostalgiac, but I'm looking forward to this year. I really am excited for being a senior in high school. I just want to make the most out of ever one of those 32 million seconds.
I've had a great run. I'm only 3/4 into high school, and I look back to see some amazing memories. From my first trip to the principals's office (there was a fight in the hallway and I was the only witness who saw the whole thing) to my premiere on the stage as a hot-dog seller with 3 lines in Inherit the Wind... from my first article in the school newspaper (it was pretty bad) to the first Mariemont News TV show that I anchored in (it was also pretty bad)... from being told by my sophomore English teacher that I didn't have what it took to be great to hearing my junior English teacher say that she'd bet her life that I'll achieve greatness... from my first time jumping into the pool as a freshman who had no idea how to swim to winning my heat at Sectionals this year to break both my personal records.
It's all a matter of ups and downs, things that we consider valuable and things that we want to hang on to. There are things that we didn't think were important long ago that turn out to be precious to us later on. There are also frequently things we put stock in one day that the next day turn around to bite us. I really believe out of my classmates, for all their insane parties, interrogations from police, scholastic achievements, and athleticism, I had the absolute best high school experience. I never got thrown in the back of a cop car, I can't say I've ever thrown up on someone else or vice versa, and no one's confusing me for valedictorian... but I've loved high school. Have I had some terrible times where I've hated Mariemont High School? Yeah. But I wouldn't trade it.
Live big while you can. Stay classy because it's who you are.
August
6-15th: Work daily
17th-19th: Student leadership retreat
22nd: First day of senior year
22nd: Dave Matthews band concert
September
12th-14th: Camp Kern w/ district's 6th graders
15th: ACT testing
22nd: College visit(s) TBD
indefinate: Auditions/casting for Fall play
October
6th: SAT testing
indefinate: Begin mailing out college applications
November:
3rd: College visit OR Youth Specialties
10th: All-day play rehearsal
15th: opening night for play
21st: personal deadline for mailing out college applications
December:
21st: beginning of vacation (location TBD)
25th: Christmas
31st: turn 18
Januray:
indefinate: tryouts for Spring Musical
February:
Ski trip?
March:
20th: premeire of musical
April:
indefinate: wait for acceptance/rejection letters from colleges
May:
27th: last day of school for seniors
June:
8th: graduation
And that's it. With that, my high school education and my life as a sheltered Terrace Park boy will come to an end. I don't mean this to sound sappy or prematurely nostalgiac, but I'm looking forward to this year. I really am excited for being a senior in high school. I just want to make the most out of ever one of those 32 million seconds.
I've had a great run. I'm only 3/4 into high school, and I look back to see some amazing memories. From my first trip to the principals's office (there was a fight in the hallway and I was the only witness who saw the whole thing) to my premiere on the stage as a hot-dog seller with 3 lines in Inherit the Wind... from my first article in the school newspaper (it was pretty bad) to the first Mariemont News TV show that I anchored in (it was also pretty bad)... from being told by my sophomore English teacher that I didn't have what it took to be great to hearing my junior English teacher say that she'd bet her life that I'll achieve greatness... from my first time jumping into the pool as a freshman who had no idea how to swim to winning my heat at Sectionals this year to break both my personal records.
It's all a matter of ups and downs, things that we consider valuable and things that we want to hang on to. There are things that we didn't think were important long ago that turn out to be precious to us later on. There are also frequently things we put stock in one day that the next day turn around to bite us. I really believe out of my classmates, for all their insane parties, interrogations from police, scholastic achievements, and athleticism, I had the absolute best high school experience. I never got thrown in the back of a cop car, I can't say I've ever thrown up on someone else or vice versa, and no one's confusing me for valedictorian... but I've loved high school. Have I had some terrible times where I've hated Mariemont High School? Yeah. But I wouldn't trade it.
Live big while you can. Stay classy because it's who you are.
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