Well, these past two weeks my Instagram timeline, Snapchat stories and Facebook newsfeed have been filled with endless pictures of the kids a year younger than me in High school graduating and finally “making it”. This sparked quite an interesting conversation between my two good friends from home and I. We all reminisced and talked about where our mutual friends ended up and shared juicy gossip we learned of each but then we started talking about people that we didn’t know and as we continued to talk about all of these people I realized something no matter what school you do go to or where you’re from after graduation everyone ends up fitting some stereotype and knowing at least one person in each.

The Athlete

At my school, we had a handful of these and I at the beginning was one of these until I got injured. They were the high school “jocks” that took sports a little too seriously and skipped partying and studying high school away to hit balls and sweating their asses off. After high school, they become the kids that got their whole schooling paid for and automatically have a social life in college because half the school either goes to their games or creeps on them through the schools online roster because they're so “hot”.

The Family Maker

While I only had one of these at my school, my friends who went to separate schools have met all too many of these. They’re the people that as you’re scrolling through your social media feeds post pictures of them and their babies that they had young in matching dresses on Easter. Or have “family photos” with them, the adorable baby that was worth all the crap people said in high school and the baby daddy. These kids are probably the most courageous and thick-skinned kids that ever came out of my school because they didn’t care about what anyone said they just cared about that cute bundle of joy that has made them the happiest person alive.

The Local

In my high school, these were the kids who didn’t do much to strive academically or they did but they loved home too much to go away for school. They went to community college or the local university, they still party and have their new friends they just do it while home. They’re the kids that we all wonder how they’re doing but we don’t get what exactly it’s like for them to be near their parents and still be free.

The Hero

I went to Military school, so I met all too many of these students. They’re the ones who school bored to death but ROTC rocked their socks. They’re the ones who every day prided them on making a uniform mean more than just something they wore for four years. Some of my best friends in high school became these men and women and every time I’m scrolling through Facebook I see the amazing things they're doing like diving in Hawaii or traveling all of Germany but I also see all the struggle and changes that they’ve undergone making this the choice for their future. So thank them and honor them because while they get some perks they bust their ass every day and undergo too hard of times to keep our freedom.

The Greek

My high school “clique” including myself all fell into this stereotype. In high school, we all rocked the classy scene and all lived it up at the parties. We all lived to make our parent's friends love us and think of us as the loveliest little southern belle. At school, we lived to be judged and talked about by the “drama starters” of high school. Since society trained us young to “give no facks and have no ragrats”, that’s exactly what we did after we were handed that high school diploma. It’s no different now in college, we’re still judged and talked about, we're still rocking the Lilly and the first impressions and the party scene whether it’s at a club or the craziest frat party that night. The only differences are now we’re just doing it wearing “The Best” letters at our schools and with picture perfect Instagram pictures of us sorority squatting with our amazing sisters that push us to be the best we can be and love ourselves.

The Partier

In high school, there were always “the quiet ones” who mommy and daddy wouldn’t let out ever or “the wild children” who mommy and daddy let out too much. Well in college their both the same. They both either go out together or bump into each other as their shotgunning their beer and drinking away their Thursday to Saturday. They’ll eventually drop out of college because they drank their intelligence away or proudly earn the diploma they deserved for managing away to balance the hangovers and homework.

The Adult

Some of us have become this faster than others and some of us portray ourselves as adults while others like to rock their stereotype. Usually, we only think of the kid whose off a college rocking the good grades and no bad decisions as the adult but that's not true. This is what we all become after high school whether it’s the adult that lives with mommy and daddy forever, the one who drinks away all of college, the one that starts a family at 17 or the one who lives college up and then makes a life for themselves working a 9-5 job or at grad school we all become a part of the “real world” and no stereotype can change that or make us see any different.

So no matter what stereotype you make sure you are still having a blast and you’ve found your happiness and forget what society judges you as because you’re still an adult just like everyone else which means you’re the only responsible and in charge of deciding what you do with your life.

Estela|Sweet Southern Prep