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To The Class Of 2017 High School Seniors

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Lindsay Gowans

Jun 08, 2017

Western Connecticut State University

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To the Class of 2017 High School Seniors

Class of 2017,

It is almost your time to walk across that stage and receive your diploma. You are moving from having to still raise your hand to use the restroom, to completely living on your own in an unfamiliar town with unrecognizable people.

I know that you are probably feeling either scared, stressed, or excited to be leaving High School. But, let me tell you, that College is not as frightening as you believe it is. Once you are there, you will meet some of the best of friends that you will have forever. These are the people that truly know you because you basically live with them. College is going to teach you to grow up and not care about what other people think. You are going to learn that going to the dining hall or the library by yourself does not mean that you are lonely. Trust me, you will search for any moment to spend at least five minutes with yourself. But, you will also make some of the most incredible memories you will ever have. You will yolo and go out on a Saturday Night, even when you are drowning in homework. You will drive for hours even if you do not have a destination. You will explore, cry, laugh, and watch an endless number of movies with your pals and eat until you can’t breathe.

You will have the craziest stories to enlighten your hometown besties with and they will do the same. I know that you are probably scared that you will lose touch with your hometown friends. You are wrong. You are going to see your besties more than you believe you will. You will take the two-hour drive to visit them at school at least once and you will all come back home more times a year than it seems. If they are worth your time, you will stay in touch. Long distance best friends are the best friends.

Enjoy this last month of High School, it will be over before you know it. This is the time for Prom and Senior Trips. If someone asks you to hang out, don’t say no. Admire the place you considered a prison for the past four years of your life because once you walk out of those double doors, there is no going back.

This will be the shortest summer you have had yet. Fill it with Graduation parties, beautiful vacations, long road trips with your best friend, daily beach trips and bonfires.

Good Luck Class of 2017. This is your time to shine. Do not take it for granted.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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