10-peyton miller-graduation

 

    From elementary, middle school, to highschool, getting out has always been the thing I strive for most. When I so called “graduated” from elementary school, it was the most exciting thing, to go to a whole new school at a “new ranking” of classes called middle school. In middle school was where it started setting in that life isnt all rainbows and butterflies but work work work. I knew by then that highschool graduation would be my top priority and id persevere to get there without disruption. 

    After middle school, I got a whole new sense of community, not the greatest community, but a community. That would be high school. Where, somehow, I ended up with no friends because at some point in summer, everyone parted ways, leaving me behind. I knew by then that I would just do with high school on my own. 

    By then, I had started an early college high school program that got me many credits ahead of everyone else and prepared me really well for what id be doing 4 years later. During my junior year (this year), I was told that I could graduate early because of the many extra credits I had and only needed to take two extra classes this year to fulfill it. That was one of the hardest choices I had to make this year. 

    I had to choose between a extra jampacked schedule including the one I already have, and it didnt rally matter if i graduated because i had no friends either way, and graduating and leaving all my scary, embarrassing, and sad experiences in the past with highschool and never have to worry about it plus, get into a college before my other peers. Or I had the choice to stay in high school one more year and have an easygoing senior year, (probably still with no friends though), and graduate with my class with all the senior year perks. 

    I chose to stay (i dont know why though). But essentially, to me, graduation is another step closer to the beginning of my life, because nothing to me in highschool and below even matters until you graduate, but although i matters how you do it effects how you will live outside of highschool so of course i have to do well. But graduating will be a good thing for me to feel like I can actually do something and maybe even make friends in college so im excited for a new environment. 

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