The first of the two pieces of advice that I feel will strongly hale me with this year are, like Skylar said, The professors don’t all hate you. I have always had an issue with how I appear to other people, I don’t know if it is my anxiety or my depression, but for some reason I always feel like someone is always talking about me, or looking down on me, or if I just meet someone, I feel like they hat me for some reason I don’t know why but I always do, every time. And also what Harrison said about the free time, I have started noticing I have way more free time than my high school teachers said I would. They made it seem like I would be busy 24/7 and after being here just two weeks I noticed that I have had way too much free time. And I didn’t realize that would be the case.
I was really looking forward to rushing this year, but after talking with my friends and family who have been here and rushed before, I decided not to do it this year with all of this that is going on right now. I just felt like it wasn’t a good idea for me right now. So I decided to use wait and rush as a sophomore, hopefully all of this COVID mess with be over and done with. I am least looking forward to having to balance all of my classes and keeping up with all of my school work.
The advice I would give to a student going in to their Senior year of high school would be, to enjoy every moment. Take it all in, spend time with your friends, I know when I started my senior year I was not thinking that anything like this would happen. Never in a million years did I think a global pandemic would happen my senior year, but it did. Make sure that you don’t take anything for granted. Go to the prom, cause we didn’t get to, and that is one of my biggest regrets . Make sure that you pay attention in your classes, do your work and don’t slack off. Do not think that just because it’s senior year that the teachers will just give you a pass, I thought that and I learned very quickly that was not the case. But most importantly, enjoy every single day that you get to spend in that classroom, because before you know it, it’ll all be over.