Freshman Year is the year to make friends and get to know each other, know who you like and who you don’t. The peak of students getting into couples. These “freshmen” are not yet freshmen. They are just middle schoolers just trying to find their way in the new environment. Gossip starts to spread whether true or not you will hear things but it will be okay. The Second half is where the students truly become freshmen. They get the hang of how the school works, but would forget where one class is from time to time, they settle into their friend groups. But in this half is where drama really peaks. You have to choose a side in conflicts that may seem like the world right now but it will be okay. Then it is Summer.
Sophomore year finally rolls around, this is the year of isolation. Now I don’t mean isolation as individuals, but as in friend groups acting like their own sovereign nations acting as one, that is only because they spent a whole summer hanging out together so they only know each other fully and deeply. However this leads to the whole grade being separate and not acting like one, and sadly this is the peak of loneliness. If you are not a part of a friend group there is a low chance of you getting fully involved into one. HOWEVER if you are a transfer student it may be easier. Every group wants to get to know the new kids. This is also the year of transfers. One friend you might have had last year might not be here because they transferred. It’s sad but sometimes people choose to do that and that’s okay. New worlds start to get thrown around, something called cah-ledge, and car-ear BUT you don’t have to worry about right now you have another summer vacation.
Junior year finally comes, this is the year of individuality. You learn who you are and get an idea on what you want to do in the future. Students may look different because this is the year where people really change, physically or emotionally. The kids would call these changes glow ups. You may or may not start to have things to do after school like internships, sports, and jobs. The grade as a whole starts to build a community with each other because instead of people acting as groups of people they act as individuals spreading their ideas. Students would hear these ideas and say hey that’s a good idea lets help. They might form a committee of juniors to help organize events to raise money for trips and other more fun events. But this is also the year of cutting off and distancing. Maybe someone you were friends with doesn’t align with what you want so you just decide not to be friends with them. Not because you hate them or anything but you have your own goals. HEY LOOK you got an email from a college saying you would fit right in with them. Surely they only sent it to YOU and nobody else, and not leave you stressing… ANYWAY YAAAAY ANOTHER SUMMER
Senior year has arrived… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH COLLEGES SPAM YOU WITH EMAILS SAYING JOIN US JOIN US JOIN US, BUT YOUR FRIEND ALSO GOT THOSE EMAILS. The first half of this year is stressful with college applications, FAFSA, and TAP applications, finding scholarship that could help you even pay for college, what you wanna study in college really becoming a big question all of this on what feels like just yesterday you were a little middle schooler coming into high school. However everyone is going through these stressful times. Everybody talking about how stressful things are brings people to the realization that they aren’t so different after all. Everyone starts treating each other with respect and treating each other as equals because everyone is just trying to make it through high school. A couple months later decisions are out and you think of which place you can afford and would like to go to. The Second Half of Senior year is the half where you decide your future; on May 1 you will most likely finalize your choice of college and like that it’s mostly over. All you have to worry about is housing and other paperwork but not that many stressful things. Senioritis which was slowly creeping up on you in the background is in full effect, and you and all your classmates just relax and go to classes doing what you have to. Then that day comes when you walk across the stage thinking about what you did your past 4 years and you walk out the building for the last time into the rest of your life.