2009.. and then some rambling

The year of 2009 is rather daunting to me. This year, I’ll be graduating from high school and moving on to college. I’ll be picked up from everything I know and plopped down into an unknown world. While I’m scared and nervous to leave, I’m excited for having a new beginning. Hopefully, 2009 will be one of the best years of my life. I want to graduate, wish everyone luck, and leave the 707. I’ve enjoyed my stay but it’s definitely time to move on.

To make sure everything goes the way I’ve planned, I have to finish high school. While this may seem like an easy task now, things will change when there’s two weeks until freedom. For now, I’ll have to finish up the semester still trying my hardest. Then there’s senior project! This upcoming semester is said to be the hardest semester you will ever face in your school career. Graduation is so close that you can taste it… but you’re still stuck at two in the morning trying to finish the twenty page paper that’s due at eight o’ clock. Not to mention that presentation that you’re going to have to pull out of God-knows-where with all of your peers staring up at you like you’re some kind of human exhibit. Pressure? Tell me about it!

Even after senior projects are done, there’s still the matter of walking across that stage in front of your closest family and friends, hoping that you won’t trip and fall flat on your face. Plus, there’s those five minutes where you’re supposed to make a great, inspiring speech when all you want to do is cling to those front doors and yell, “You’ll never take me away from Tech High!” Yet, all we have to do is let go and move on. We all have great things in store for us. Whether we go on to work for NASA developing the next generation of space shuttles or we end up becoming the CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, I know that when we have our ten year reunion, things won’t have changed a bit.