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English Project: Letter to a Senior.
Letter to a Rising Senior
So you think you're a senior--
No, this isn't a game show? Oh.
Dear rising Senior and former Junior,
So you're a senior. Walked through those doors. You have just one more year. You have this, if anyone has it, you certainly do. You have probably only a few more classes to go. Get some electives. Do some fun after school stuff. Oh, and don't forget to get prom tickets before they cost a thousand dollars!
You're gonna start feeling this weird thing called Senioritis and lemme just say as a senior who is a year behind for all intents and purposes that it SUCKS. Take a deep breath, it's only three fourths of the year. I promise, it flies away.
You got this bag right, this backpack, but you can't find that one paper? Introducing organization! The one size fits all of being better at finding anything and everything!
I know you'll want to help your friends, I mean who doesn't? Just don't do the work for them. You have to let them mess up. Stumbling and falling is a part of learning, whether you like watching people do it or not. Support them, don't leave them in the dust.
School is like life. You're growing from the moment you walk into pre-k, from someone who doesn't know how to do addition to someone who can multiply and divide trinomials. There will be times you know what to do, times you will have to pick yourself up off the ground. You will look around at points in this 'lifetime' and find that your friend circle is an ever changing thing that will never really stay the same. Cherish those friends that stay the longest, but try not to mourn when they go, for more will fill their place.
Ah, drama. Welcome to the next phase in your life. You will have boy drama if you haven't already, he-said she-said drama to the max, you'll find yourself struggling through the goods and bads of each of these. Remember, collect all the facts. A story to support this is that I have a friend whom I needed to talk to. I told her that I would talk to her after school, and then she heard a teacher being worried about me not making it to Graduation and immediately assumed that it was her fault. Now, rest assured, it wasn't her fault but she didn't ask me if I was in danger of not graduating. She simply assumed the worst because just previously I had told her that she and I needed to talk about our friendship(Which is not the way you should ever broach a conversation with anyone. Logic is not always the answer, no matter how many times it works out... Sometimes you must sympathise with the other party.).
Absences. Oh, missing school. I know it might seem like you'll make it no matter what, that no one wants you to fail, and no one does; but you have to help yourself as much as they help you. Depression, anxiety... The fear of failure, the depth of just how much it can feel like you're disappointing everyone around you... It's hard. It's hard to cope with, hard to deal with, hard to think about. It's something that even if I am told a thousand times that I haven't done anything wrong by missing school, I will feel like I've screwed up immensely. I am in a class, and most of the year we make friends. These people will lift you up and support you, they don't judge or hate or get angry when they know you're hurting and just trying to make it through another day. If you have anxiety, if you have depression, tell a counselor. Ask them to make it in your file so that they know. They can't help you if you don't try to speak up for yourself.
So you're a senior. All you have to survive is 175 days of school, give or take a few. And I know that you might not think you have it, but you do. If you survived middle school, elementary school, you have high school.
Sincerely,
© Karia FelWell
So you think you're a senior--
No, this isn't a game show? Oh.
Dear rising Senior and former Junior,
So you're a senior. Walked through those doors. You have just one more year. You have this, if anyone has it, you certainly do. You have probably only a few more classes to go. Get some electives. Do some fun after school stuff. Oh, and don't forget to get prom tickets before they cost a thousand dollars!
You're gonna start feeling this weird thing called Senioritis and lemme just say as a senior who is a year behind for all intents and purposes that it SUCKS. Take a deep breath, it's only three fourths of the year. I promise, it flies away.
You got this bag right, this backpack, but you can't find that one paper? Introducing organization! The one size fits all of being better at finding anything and everything!
I know you'll want to help your friends, I mean who doesn't? Just don't do the work for them. You have to let them mess up. Stumbling and falling is a part of learning, whether you like watching people do it or not. Support them, don't leave them in the dust.
School is like life. You're growing from the moment you walk into pre-k, from someone who doesn't know how to do addition to someone who can multiply and divide trinomials. There will be times you know what to do, times you will have to pick yourself up off the ground. You will look around at points in this 'lifetime' and find that your friend circle is an ever changing thing that will never really stay the same. Cherish those friends that stay the longest, but try not to mourn when they go, for more will fill their place.
Ah, drama. Welcome to the next phase in your life. You will have boy drama if you haven't already, he-said she-said drama to the max, you'll find yourself struggling through the goods and bads of each of these. Remember, collect all the facts. A story to support this is that I have a friend whom I needed to talk to. I told her that I would talk to her after school, and then she heard a teacher being worried about me not making it to Graduation and immediately assumed that it was her fault. Now, rest assured, it wasn't her fault but she didn't ask me if I was in danger of not graduating. She simply assumed the worst because just previously I had told her that she and I needed to talk about our friendship(Which is not the way you should ever broach a conversation with anyone. Logic is not always the answer, no matter how many times it works out... Sometimes you must sympathise with the other party.).
Absences. Oh, missing school. I know it might seem like you'll make it no matter what, that no one wants you to fail, and no one does; but you have to help yourself as much as they help you. Depression, anxiety... The fear of failure, the depth of just how much it can feel like you're disappointing everyone around you... It's hard. It's hard to cope with, hard to deal with, hard to think about. It's something that even if I am told a thousand times that I haven't done anything wrong by missing school, I will feel like I've screwed up immensely. I am in a class, and most of the year we make friends. These people will lift you up and support you, they don't judge or hate or get angry when they know you're hurting and just trying to make it through another day. If you have anxiety, if you have depression, tell a counselor. Ask them to make it in your file so that they know. They can't help you if you don't try to speak up for yourself.
So you're a senior. All you have to survive is 175 days of school, give or take a few. And I know that you might not think you have it, but you do. If you survived middle school, elementary school, you have high school.
Sincerely,
© Karia FelWell
