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Aug 23, 2018

A letter to a highschool freshmen.

Wow, here it is. What you've been looking forward to for who knows how long. Please slow down. You get to experience real friday night lights in the student section instead of the middle school section, how cool! You get to be whoever you want to be rather it be a jock, a person in the band,drama, FFA or the kid who works all the time. Please slow down. New people, new adventures that seem so fun and trust me, they are. Highschool is everything you think it's going to be and more. You get to wear the mum and go to the dance if you're lucky, you'll leave with a crown as well. Please slow down. The first day of highschool is amazing and scary all mixed into one. Where will i sit? Do i have anyone in my classes that i know? Whos the cutie? All these questions will ring in your head. PLEASE SLOW DOWN. Next thing you know it's christmas vacation, you're resting your head to prepare for the next semester and boom, it's done and over. You're a sophomore stuck in the middle because your not the little freshmen anymore but your not an upperclassmen yet. You make that varsity team as a underclassmen and you feel on top of the world, you make SALE at San Antonio and you're so excited you can barely breathe. Please, for your sake please slow down. Here is comes, the birthday you've been waiting for..16 is here!! You get your driver's licence and you are on top of the world. You feel invincible, until you hit the curb in front of your crush and feel like a total idiot. Trust me, if they like you they don't care that you hit the curb even though at the time it's the end of the world. Soak it all in and PLEASE slow down. You go to sleep one night and wake up and you're finally an upperclassmen. Which is great but be prepared for the hardest year of your high school career. I know everyone says it but it's true. Even if as you're going through it and it doesn't seem so hard, you will look back and realize it was. Enjoy the brain teasing, exhaustion of junior year because you will blink and i'll be your senior year. Senior year is weird. That's the best word for it, you know you're about to do all your lasts but you don't truly feel it until one day after graduation, you'll be laying on your bed or brushing your teeth and you'll burst out crying because you did it, its over and it can never come back. So highschool freshmen, slow down and enjoy the ride because life is like an hourglass and when it runs out of sand, you can flip it over and start again.

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All names should be "unisex names."

1. Communicating via email can be awkward.

2. Appointments usually accompany weird looks.

3. Introducing yourself to someone is never without a hitch.

4. You’ve probably thought about changing your name.

5. You’re often asked why you have the name you do.

6. You get excited when you meet someone of your gender with your name.

7. You feel awkward when you meet someone of the opposite gender with your name.

8. You’ve had someone say to you, “I knew a [your name], but they were [your opposite gender].”

9. You’ve heard a bad joke/pick-up line or two about your name before.

10. People are surprised when they see you.

11. You’re extra sensitive to other unique or unisex names.

12. You’ve fought with your parents about it.

13. All things considered, you’re happy your name makes you unique.

You know that all of these things apply to you. You'll just never tell.

I get it... I'm pale.

1. At least I can't lose you in a crowd!

2. Oh my goodness your skin is like glow-in-the-dark.

3. Can't you just get fake tan?

4. Do you tan or just burn?

5. Your kids are going to look like Casper the Friendly Ghost!

6. *holds arm against your arm* Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. *holds pale arm against another pale arm* Aw, at least you're darker than her!

8. I laid out by the pool almost every day over break!

9. I haven't used sunscreen since I was, like, five.

10. *adjusts selfie lighting to their face* Oops, where'd you go??

11. *after working out* Your face is SO red!

12. *wears white* Look! You're all one color!

13. You need to get some sun.

14. Aren't you excited for summer?

The struggle bus is real.

1. Child prodigies:

2. Hearing other musicians in the practice room next door and accepting that you will never be as talented as them:

3. That anxiety that takes over before every performance:

4. Taking a million 0 credit classes:

5. When there's a paper due the next day, but you have to attend yet another concert in order to pass a 0 credit class:

6. When your friends try to encourage you after a performance, even though you are criticizing everything in your mind:

7. Knowing that there's always that one professor during juries:

8. The oh-so-attractive band/choir uniforms:

9. Realizing that a college campus is maybe not the best atmosphere to finish your latest composition:

10. Hearing "Oh, you sing opera? I LOVE Phantom of the Opera!" for the hundredth time:

11. When people think finals week is a breeze for you.

12. When you're drowning in the stress that comes with 18+ credits (and not to mention all those 0 credit classes) and people ask you how you are:

13. When it all comes down to it, though, you know that at the end of the day, music is your passion:

Because you need it in your life.

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6. holds arm against your arm Look how much darker I am compared to you!

7. holds pale arm against another pale arm Aw, at least you're darker than her!

10. adjusts selfie lighting to their face Oops, where'd you go??

11. after working out Your face is SO red!

12. wears white Look! You're all one color!