The biggest transition someone would take within their lives is the move from a high school student to a college student in the matter of months. The application process and overall steps to be accepted into a college is very tedious and crucial, but it will potentially set you up for life.
My personal perspective on high school graduation is simple, yet complex. Graduation means saying goodbye to the people who have raised you; those whom you have been going to school with almost every single day for nearly your entire life. Graduation means saying hello to new people and new places that are meant to be unfamiliar, but also unforgettable. It is the fine line between unfamiliarity and familiarity.
Freedom, also, plays a rather large role in graduating from high school. To be free means to be at the liberty of primarily yourself, as there will no longer be someone holding your hand throughout life’s greatest moments. For instance, teachers in high school are constantly reminding students of due dates and schedules. However, in college, students are dependent and responsible for their own weight and will soon discover it is all on them to be the best they can be. Freedom can also be applied to homelife, as everyone, especially teenagers, eventually desires to be out in the world on their own in full control of their actions without a hovering mother or strict father.
In my opinion, the steps towards high school graduation is one of the hardest challenges in anyone's career path and will not only transform where you are but who you will become. Students thrive toward graduation and some are barely hanging on; it is the progression of who is fit enough to graduate and who is not. High school is such a small portion of your life but it entirely means the most based on education being the key to success and those who prosper in the sense of change and freedom will be able to discover what life has to offer. High school graduates are the survivors of the fittest.
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You explained the impact of high school graduation greatly Emily! I totally agree with you and your claims. Graduation of high school is one of the biggest milestones of our lives. Our futures start after that day, once we become college students and set out to live the rest of our lives, without the people we grew up with. It's a crazy circumstance to think about, and it is most definitely one that is also very important.
ReplyDeleteWell said. I agree that the steps towards graduation and going to college are some of the hardest. My personal perspective on graduation is, like yours, complex. On the one hand, I am ready to be done with high school and venture out on my own, but I’m also somewhat anxious about adulthood and freedom.
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