Big Day

Graduation day, June 6th, 2026, the big day, the biggest day some would say. All those years and time you spent procrastinating and not doing your science work over the Covid years have finally paid off. Many days spent on Google Meets and Zoom and many snow days that were not actually snow days because Covid had to just invent online classes, which is so lame, but its the least we had to make up at the end of the years beisides senior year obivsouly, when you only showed up to Google Meets so you could potentially go to practice. Even then, the teachers were lucky if they got 6 kids in the Google Meet.  I don’t want to make this speech about how Covid ruined our lives, because it did set us up for failure, but does that even matter now? Like, seriously, the only thing you learn in 6th grade is about the Great Pyramid of Giza and nobody remembers 7th grade and 8th grade. They tell you the whole time you’re not going to get away with that in high school. But we did. We went from visco girls and saving the turtles to 6-7 and scuba, and this change is better I fear. Half of us started our schooling days in Sabattus Primary, while the other half started in Liby Tozier, and then bam Carrie Ricker came along for us, and so did a bunch of new faces at our young age.

We all came together in one school after spending 4 years not knowing each other and built connections we have now from not even going to the same school until 6th grade. It may seem like a long time between 6th grade until now, but we went almost 3 complete years without seeing each other due to remote learning and cohort scheduling, and everyone built up their connections again that they potentially had lost. As freshman many of us had joined a sport im pretty sure and luckily those started in the summer or even a fall club so you weren’t blind sided to some of the people in the school at least most of us knew some which created bigger bonds and our friends as freshmen were introduced to the upperclassman and it goes on, its all one big domino affect, when you enter high school nobody is really alone as you may think.

Upperclassmen yelling in the hallways, saying hey can help you get to your class and most definitely pointing you to the wrong class, as you go sit down, and they take attendance and tell you that you’re in the wrong class. How awkward. I’m not going to be boring and talk about sophomore and junior year because nothing really exciting happened. I mean, we didn’t win anything, I don’t recall, not homecoming or winter carnival one time until senior year. Then there was senior year for real, like for real senior year. Everyone told us that it would fly by so fast and it honestly did, so many teachers would say this is going to go by faster than you think and it really does, you have your bad days but at the end of that bad day it really doesn’t take long for you to just be done school and go off to whatever you want to do and wherever you want to go. Go wherever the wind takes you and don’t take your time with things for granted. 

“NTU Graduation” by Nottingham Trent University is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.