High School

In the spirit of everyone graduating I thought I would share what I really learned from high school. High school is a different experience for everyone. Some people loved it others like myself couldn’t wait to get out. We had to take all kinds of different classes like physics, French, chemistry, algebra, geometry, history, psychology, ect. Out of all of my classes I learned basically nothing. French I barely passed learning only how to say I don’t know and I don’t speak French. In psychology I learned that you could tell the teacher had been drinking when his face was bright red and he would stop talking and stare at the wall for a few minutes. If you went to Manhattan High School you know exactly what I am talking about. I didn’t get in trouble much but when I did it wasn’t so bad because I always gave my vice principal candy so he couldn’t stay mad at me for long. The best class to skip was gym because it was right after lunch and the gym teacher really didn’t care if you were there or not because he was always on his cell phone. My favorite learning experience in high school was that if you were to walk around the school with a chair for a whole class period no one would ask you questions because obviously you were doing something very important with that chair. If I ever really wanted to get out of class my junior year I would just say I had to take care of my chicken immediately and they aren’t going to say no to that. If you were going to be a teachers aid do it your first period so you can sleep under the teacher’s desk. I also learned that from freshman year to senior year people change. In fact when I graduated I only had two of the same friends whom are still my best friends. As I am writing this I am realizing more and more that I learned nothing of importance. The important parts of my high school experience weren’t what I learned they were who I met and who I became. One of my biggest inspirations was my wide horizons teacher Mrs. Campbell. She made me want to follow my dreams and not settle for anything less. She taught me that standing up for what you believed in was important. She taught me the importance of taking care of living creatures and the importance of comforting dying ones. Out of everything I learned in high school none of the actually important stuff was in the syllabus, it was the things my teachers taught me that they didn’t even know they were teaching. High school was full of life lessons some important some not so much. Being able to figure out those important things is what matters. Congrats to the class of 2014 you have bright futures ahead of all of you. Don’t forget to remember how you got here.