STUFFS ON SKOOL

  I'm finally here, readers. I have finally made my way to my first year of High School.  After a whole year of figuring out class schedules, school of choice, car pools, and life goals, I'm finally here... and I'm okay. It's not nearly as bad (yet?) as people have been warning me. It's like being a 6th grader again except smarter, taller, and less sheltered. The teachers jump right into the material instead of dragging it out with get-to-know-you-games, 50 million syllabi, and other work sheets. Also everything is much bigger. The halls are bigger, the lockers are bigger, the kids are bigger. It's pretty intimidating now, but I know one day I will grow into it.

I've found some kindred spirits to be friends with. I'm sharing a locker with my favorite ginger, my buddy Gecko (BTW we have the coolest nicknames...) I haven't died. I haven't failed. There is so much hype about this rite of passage, this legendary place featured in so many movies. But it's not nearly as amazing as any of those things. I'm not going to call myself an expert on High School just yet, but here is the advice I have compiled from friends, family, and myself on the very place:
HIGH SCHOOL STUFFS
1. High School is fun if you make it. -Senior Friend
2. Work hard, play hard. Work harder, and harder, and even harder again! Work so hard you  feel you cannot work again. Then pay! Play harder. than. anyone. -Kevin from Desert Bluffs
3. Respect the Upperclassmen. - An Upperclassmen
4. Find your group. -Cousin
5. Just follow your heart. That's what I always do. -Napolean Dynamite
6. Suck up to the teachers. It works. -Friend