Wow! Dang! Oh my goodness! Where has all this time gone?

Yesterday, I was an obnoxious freshman who did not know anything and was too excited to come to high school. An hour ago, I was a young sophomore who was so glad to start a new year fresh without any regrets. Two minutes ago, I was a stressed junior who stayed up until 3 a.m. every Thursday to work on my APUSH packet. Yeah, I was one of those kids, a procrastinator.

But now, I am a senior. A second semester senior.

Oh my!

My fellow seniors, let’s just stop for a second. Let’s look around us and take in every moment and appreciate it to the max because next year, we will be off to a new start. Next year, nobody is going to be stopping us at the door asking us for our ID instead of saying good morning. Next year, we won’t be worrying about a class shirt… -___- Our second semester is going to go by so fast, and we really need to take every moment in. I know we are all so stressed out and overwhelmed by college decisions, work, activities and homework but all of that is going to pass. Yesterday,  a nice lady said to me, “Try to enjoy every moment now no matter how hard it is because later you will look back at these times and think that it was a piece of cake.”

Little youngsters, you underclassmen, enjoy what you do and do everything to the fullest. Appreciate those teachers around you and cherish every minute of high school. Cherish those corny jokes that Minkus makes in desperation of good laughs, dreadful APUSH packets, awful in-class essays, “boisterous” pep assemblies, itchy annoying lanyards, late buses, cafeteria food, your homeroom where most likely nobody knows anybody, and most of important of all, cherish that McTague slogan, “we are one.”

Don’t let yourself be carried away and lost by the major events in your life. Stop every once in a while and look around you. Pay attention to that nice student that kept the door open for you while coming into school, that bus driver that wished you a good day, and that nice teacher that let you in late. Because all of these things are going to be over before we know it.

So don’t miss out Vikings! Stop and take a moment to…