My Senior Speech

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My first day as a freshman, I remember thinking how cool I was to finally be walking the high school hallways. To my surprise, I noticed that we were the underdogs that were so annoyingly tempting to pick on. I never understood why freshmen were so disliked, until I was on the outside looking in as a junior. I could finally see how newcomers to Stonewall were in desperate need to spike up their maturity levels. Now as seniors, we are no longer those disruptive, squeaky-voiced freshmen that we started as. It has been thirteen long years from kindergarten to twelfth grade and it’s finally time to move on because life as we know it will drastically evolve. For thirteen years, we’ve been expected to wake up early in the morning and get ready for school. For thirteen years, we’ve been told to get our homework done before we go outside or play videos games. And for thirteen years our only excuse to watch the news was in the hopes of school being closed or at least a two hour delay. Now, after graduation, there will be no one to tell us to brush our teeth before bed, to change into our pajamas, or to clean our rooms. It is our job to remember the lessons we’ve learned throughout this long journey. I, myself, have learned a lot from my four short years in high school. I learned that a little hard work goes a long way, I learned not to allow things to stress me out, and I learned that the experiences I’ve come across throughout my journey will always be more valuable than the actual destination. Some of these experiences include procrastinating instead of doing our classwork, staying up late doing our homework last minute, and illegally parking to escape the inconvenient cost of purchasing a parking permit. Having older siblings, I specifically remember thinking how lucky they were to have already finished high school. I realized later that I was looking at things the

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