To The Underclassmen
To all the upcoming or current freshmen, you’re never going to get to senior year right? Life is going so slow, but you have so many things to be excited about and things you cannot wait for! A drivers license, varsity sports, senior pictures, and all the other fun things that come along with growing up. With one semester left of this school year, it is exciting to go up a grade! You may be an incoming freshman, super excited about starting high school. Or you may be a freshman, excited that now you can say you have completed your first year of high school. But let me reassure you, as a senior in high school with her last semester left, it goes by quicker than you could ever imagine.
As a senior, it is crazy to think that I went from thinking about who I will sit with at lunch next school year, hoping for no seating chart, and trying to get the same classes as my friends to thinking about college, my career, and how to pay for college. I am thinking of things I never imagined I would ever have to think about. As a freshman, I can promise you that I never thought the last semester of high school would ever come.
My biggest piece of advice I can give to you is do not rush it, and enjoy it all. Go to Friday night football games, go to school dances, hang out with your friends, and don’t worry about the little stuff. Not everything in high school has to be so serious, so enjoy these times you have to be with your friends. Because before long you’ll be making your last high school memories with your absolute best friends, and wish that you could have more time together.
Another piece of advice I can give is to find teachers that you trust and can go to about anything. Having an adult figure you can go to and trust will always make high school so much easier. I can’t tell you the amount of times I have gone into my teacher’s room and just talked about life and received life advice. Get all the advice you can out of your teachers, because soon you’ll graduate and you can’t just walk into their room during the day for them to give you the pep talk that you need.
The last piece of advice I will give you is don’t worry so much about everything. Your appearance, a missing assignment, or not understanding a class. I’ve woken up late and wore the clothes I’ve gone to sleep in to school, missed several homework assignments over the past few years, and didn’t understand half of my classes. When I was a freshman and sophomore, I freaked out over forgetting my homework at home, and I wish I could go back and tell my past self that I got accepted into college…and it is not the end of the world. And who cares if you show up to school looking like a mess one day? That is how I look 90% of the week. I promise that missing homework, not understanding, and not looking good for school is not the end of the world.
Enjoy it all…with one semester left of high school I really wish I didn’t rush it so much and took more time to enjoy it. I have so many mixed emotions about graduation…excitement, nervousness, sadness…and so many more. Enjoy eating at the lunch table with your friends, enjoy playing your sport, enjoy ranting to your teachers. Because you’ll blink and you’ll be making plans for your future, and beginning to say your goodbyes. Don’t rush it and enjoy the ride!
Venice Michael • Aug 31, 2021 at 10:48 am
This article will help many of us underclassmen out, and this contains useful information! This advice will help me once I get into high school, and probably many more underclassmen. Knowing this advice will help me have a better mindset throughout the years. I’m never nervous about going into high school, mainly excited, but reading this makes the little “issues” I have about going into high school sound so much easier. I loved the tips Olivia!
Trinety Gillem • May 19, 2021 at 9:45 am
This is a great article. Sometime I wonder if I will ever be driving, or if when I will be going to college. This a some great advice that I could use in the future. Keep up the great work.
Isabella Gilvin • May 5, 2021 at 10:08 am
Great article Olivia! I think this article is great advice for when I get into high school. This will help me not be so stressed when I get there, and to not rush it by and just enjoy it.
Alyssa O'Neill • May 4, 2021 at 12:27 pm
I am currently in the 8th grade. I actually can’t wait to finally be in high school. I won’t rush it, and this article is great for those of us like me about to go into high school and those already in high school. I’m not one to rush, I like to take it slow sometimes. And maybe I will start to go to the games I’ve only been to one basketball game because I was in the 6th grade and did the cheer camp. I didn’t even stay for the whole game. I’ve only been going here for two years as I came from California. Anyway, great article! This has made me look forward a bit more to see what high school is really like. TV is TV, and it doesn’t always show the truth about something like high school. Amazing job!
Angel Newgent • Mar 1, 2021 at 5:31 pm
I really do love this entry. It gives hints, and tips, and personal advice. It tells how you may feel and experience. It just makes you feel at ease and look into the upper-class men eyes. I really do love the way it was written and just the whole thing itself, the entry almost making me feel better on moving up. Overall,- great job.
Daniel Guijosa • Feb 24, 2021 at 9:50 am
I am in 7th grade and I definitely won’t try to rush through high ,but I will try to be ready for my senior year.
Ruby Villanueva • Feb 24, 2021 at 9:47 am
Great article! As I read this article I can learn not to get so stressed about assignments and just take my time. I can learn a lot from this article as time goes by.
Madison Schreckenghaust • Feb 24, 2021 at 9:44 am
I really like this article! I think this is a great article with great advice that I need to use myself! This helped me to realize that I don’t always have to stress about classes and how dress too much anymore. I really enjoyed this and think it would be great for me to see again as a freshman.
Alexis Alford • Feb 24, 2021 at 9:41 am
Great job! I love all the advice you said. I learned that it is ok if you have a missing assignment and to enjoy the moments I have with my friends .
Rylan Preston • Feb 24, 2021 at 9:39 am
I really like this article! The reason why I liked it is because, I never think that school goes really fast but as you get older and older it goes faster and faster. I really enjoyed this article!
Mariah Easton • Feb 19, 2021 at 2:09 pm
I love this article this will help me alot when the years go by.
Enoch Hines • Feb 12, 2021 at 2:25 pm
Great article Olivia! This is a great article and the underclassmen can learn a lot from it. I understand time is valuable but you have proven it is more valuable then even noticed. Well written, keep it up!
Kylie Logan • Feb 10, 2021 at 10:07 am
This is a really great article! You did a really good job and I can take this article and learn from it. I can learn not to rush on getting assignments done right when they are assigned to me and just take my time on it. Good job on this article.
Braxton Armstrong • Jan 19, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Great article Olivia! This is great advice for all the underclassman who rush so many things. I am not even a senior yet and I already know that it is coming to fast. I wish there was a way to slow everything down but you can’t do that so you just have to make the best of it. Keep up the great writing.
Gannon Davis • Jan 19, 2021 at 9:48 am
Nice article Olivia! I liked that you explained to the underclassmen that they need to enjoy their high school years before they are gone. I agree because there will never be another point in our lives that will be like our high school years. Keep up the outstanding writing!
Madison Cummins • Jan 19, 2021 at 9:42 am
I feel that this is such a beneficial article for the freshman! I remember being a freshman and feeling as though senior year would never come, but I’m now realizing the time flew by so quickly. These are such good tips because I remember always stressing about things that are so insignificant now. Keep up the clever writing Olivia!
Faith Abbott • Jan 19, 2021 at 9:37 am
As a current freshman in high school who worries too much about everything, this is very reassurring. This makes me feel better about the times I’ve failed a test or didn’t do an assignment becuase I got home late. I truely appreciate this, even if it wasn’t met for me.
Bella Panmei • Jan 19, 2021 at 9:33 am
This article was so heartfelt and I almost teared up because of how fast everything really went by! Everyone always said it would go by quick, but I never really took it in mind how true it was. I love your style of writing and how personal and deep it can get. I loved reading every word of it and I so agree with not rushing it. I honestly wish I was a freshmen again and relive high school. Keep up the amazing work Liv!
Jack Salyers • Jan 19, 2021 at 8:08 am
Wonderful advice Olivia. I really enjoyed how you explained what underclassmen show look forward too and you gave them a lot of ways they can make it through high school. I also recommended them playing sports to make lifelong friends. Keep up the amazing work.