graduation

As I am finishing out my senior year at Judge Memorial I can't believe that four years has gone by so fast. The days turned into weeks, the weeks into months, and the months into years. It is all a blur. This feeling gives meaning to the quote, "Day to day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different." I can't believe how far I have come in these four years, and how much I have come to appreciate all the great things that this school provided for me. I am so grateful for the friends, teachers, and experiences I have had at Judge.

There were times in bio I wanted to applaud to the teacher. It was like he was perfectly delivering lines of the best play ever written, not teaching. It was just that interesting and exciting for my nerd brain. I learned how unspecial humans are. We are not our own tier of the evolutionary cake. We are mammals capable of speech. That is all. That being said, I also learned how incredible all life (humans included) is.

When I was a freshman, high school seemed to be this comically elongated span of educational development. Four whole years I was given. It's funny when you think about it, how life goes from being measured in weeks to months to half years. And then suddenly you realize that years go by far more quickly than you had ever anticipate, that only eight years ago you were referring to yourself as "ten and a half" and that it was only four years ago that you came to freshman orientation with so much pure enthusiasm that you never realized how quickly your time would pass.

On New Years Eve when the clock struck midnight it was the start of 2012. For most seniors this upcoming year will be the beginning of the rest of our lives. It will take us from confident high school seniors to scared college freshmen, moving out of their houses and into dorms surrounded by thousands of unfamiliar faces. It is going to be one of the biggest years of our lives. Looking back at the year it flew right by. It still scares me to think I am a senior, not to mention half way done with my senior year.

Our sadness over the loss of a dear friend is large. What is even more upsetting is the void left in our hearts, which will never cease to be hollow. But simply let's put our grieving aside, and think of Odarri's mother. Her sadness is greatly amplified. For us, it was the loss of a dear friend, however for her, it was the loss of her son.

Kanye West is one of my role models. I'm not a big fan of rap, or hip hop but ,Kayne takes his career to a whole knew level.