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The first goodbyes this year were rough, and it’s only getting worse. As I attended my last high school football game, last mock trial competition, and last journalism worknight, I felt each one hit harder than the one before. Every month is a whirlwind upon a whirlwind, and all I can do is try my best to fill them with laughs, friends, and family.

As I look back at my four years here, I realize just how big of a place extracurriculars have had in that time. I think about all of the close friends I’ve made and can put all of them into a club where I met them. I’ve never stayed up late to study for a test or work on a class project (which may have been a mistake…), but I can’t even begin to count how many days I’ve had to sleep in school because of a competition running late or a newspaper that needed to get done the night before. Even sports, though I don’t have the time to play this year, helped me find what I really wanted to focus on.

I feel like I spent so much time trying to figure out who I wanted to be in the future that I missed out on the present. I don’t want to be a super senior by any means, but I wish that high school would last just a little bit longer so I could really experience it.

See you later,

– Violet & Emkay