From a Senior to a Freshman...

From a Senior to a Freshman

                Oh freshman year… as great as senior year is, I actually miss you. Life was simpler and a happier place. Not really but it wasn’t horrible. We were once again the babies in the school and let me tell you I was terrified of the first day. But after a while the school wasn’t as much of the scary place I thought it was. It was just the place where I would have to serve out the last of my jail sentence… oops I mean finish my time in the Cobb County School System.  Yeah my feelings still oscillate when it comes to school.
Freshman year, not gonna lie, is probably the worst of the four years of high school.  You are the baby of the new family and you will be treated as such. That’s why a lot of upcoming freshman show askance towards high school. But for all the upcoming freshman out there, I have some advice. It helps for the most part at my school but warning… results may vary.  The advice I give you is based off of personal experiences so I’m really not making this shit up as I go like a charlatan. Because even though I may not know you or you may not know me, I’m a very benign person when I want to be, I have no reason to decimate your lives.

1.       Ok so number one most important piece of advice is… DON’T START DRAMA!! Seriously that is one thing you don’t want to do because it will follow you for the next four years. Now this lesson was not actually from my life lesson but I was friends with the drama starters and I had to deal with their shit for a while. I was a part of it and I’m still penitent for it. In fact my best friends from freshman year are no longer friends because of drama. So really don’t screw up your high school life and have it in shambles that early because than it will be a long four years for you my friend.

2.       Don’t slack off!! You have plenty of time to do that when you are a senior! This is from personal experience.  I slacked off back then because I was obtuse to think that it didn’t matter and now I am fighting tooth and nail to get my GPA up. Seriously don’t do it.

3.       Find you niche. It’s not always that easy and I was lucky I found mine in chorus and music. Nobody wants to be the loner of the grade. If you can’t find or think of one… well this is the year that you can step out of your comfort zone. So go find someone that is by themselves or start up a convo with the person sitting next to you. If they rebuff you or forgo talking to you. Don’t worry you have more classes with more people.  But if you decide to join something, don’t worry about everybody else’s opinions. Cause tell you the truth as long as you are happy, other people don’t matter.  I joined chorus and it was my escape from high school for a while.. without actually leaving.  And if you don’t find your niche freshman year, don’t worry you still have four years.

4.       NOT ALL TEACHERS HATE YOU!! Yes there are the teachers that won’t particularly like you freshman year, cause to be honest there are the teachers that just don’t like freshman. For example my homeroom teacher. The woman seemed to hate us freshman year and when we came back for sophomore year, we thought she went crazy over the summer. It was actually pretty funny. And now she gets all sentimental saying how much she will miss us and how much we have changed over the years.  SO anyway even though they seem to hate you, they really don’t.

5.       The Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores don’t really hate you… it’s the cycle of high school life. Well scratch that the sophomore year is when you turn into a little dipshits so yeah, sophomores might actually have a dislike for you.  But don’t worry besides them nobody really hates you, we all went through the torture.  Just don’t act like an idiot and you will be fine.

I honestly don’t know if any of this advice will help you, if I had had it back then, maybe my high school experience would be different.   I know you are probably thinking that I went so off topic. But I didn’t because freshman year is the year that we get the most advice and find out where we will fit, into the puzzle that high school is. So honestly I am just repeating some of the advice I received back in the day so ha.  High school is a jungle, if you aren’t prepared you will get lost.

Song:  Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) by All Time Low
P.S. The Umbrella was in the chorus room, r.i.p. the old chorus room! We lost it before sophomore year!