My life is about to begin. I’m about to pop my bubble and take a deep breath. Life outside of high school, outside of Rocklin, outside of my own personal comfort zone, is foreign. I’m excited and terrified. Society is making me leave the nest and spread my wings: I hope I don’t fall.
College applications are becoming important and necessary. I need to know what I want to do, who I want to be, and where I want to be it. Every junior is now expected to make an appointment with Mr. Floyd to discuss senior classes and our plans for college. This is a frightening concept. Didn’t I just begin to acknowledge the idea of leaving my bubble? I never said I was ready.
I personally have been planning my future since sixth grade. Always changing. And ever since then, my teachers had been saying, “Oh Ashley, you don’t need to worry about that yet. You have plenty of time.” Well the one year where I really don’t know exactly what I want to do is the year the teachers decide to tell me I better have a plan and I better be ready.
PSAT sign ups are here and college applications have begun. College? You want me to know what college I want to go to and where I should start my life? But I still don’t know where I’m going for Christmas break! The point is, we are abruptly being forced to face the facts, to try hard, and to live life. We’re shoved in the middle of a busy highway and expected to know what to do. I hope I brought a helmet.
All we can do is take precautions, prepare ourselves best we can, and know whats coming. You can do it! Millions before us have, now it’s our turn to climb the mountain of success and stick a flag in it.
By ASHLEY FINE
