While I may miss being able to vote by two months, this year’s election is extremely important to me and should be important to all high school students. I know that this may sound like something coming out of an adult’s mouth, but it’s true. Issues like healthcare, taxes and economic reform used to seem like something your parents worried or complained about but if you think about it, every single Niles North student reading this article will be in or starting college by the end of the newly or re-elected president’s term. This means that the decisions our new leader makes will directly affect you, not just your parents.

To me, this is somewhat terrifying. I have to worry about taxes?! I just learned how to fill out a 1040EZ in Consumer Ed a year ago. Most of us can’t even decide what to wear in the morning half of time, and now my friends are deciding who will be the next Commander-in-Chief? This doesn’t seem like reality.