From Staff Seniors: High School Reflections

If I am being completely honest I was not excited to go to high school, especially to Olathe West. When I left middle school in California, it all went by so quickly.  I didn't get the chance to say goodbye to a lot of my friends. I wanted to go into high school with them all and experience and learn so many new things.  My friends were not the only ones I left behind. I left the place I calle...

I am in my fourth quarter of my senior year of high school. Naturally, I am ready to get out. When I was in middle school, high school seemed so big. Especially Olathe West, which is a school unlike any I’ve ever seen. The massive layout and moving classrooms were especially intimidating to me. It really wasn’t until I had been in high school for months already that I realized it wasn’t that ...

High school is a weird four years with everyone telling you to treasure these fleeting moments of adolescence, but that you have to have a full life plan at the ripe age of 17. I wish I could tell you the key to high school or how to ace all your AP classes, but I truly have no idea myself.  In my freshman year, I thought the key to high school was through honors classes or winning “Romeo and ...

As much as I would like to say I have always been the independent girlboss I am today, that would be a blatant lie. Throughout middle school I very much cared what my peers thought about me. I would always overanalyze what friend group I was in, who I wanted to have a crush on, even what shoes I wore. And as I was thrusted into this fish tank of roughly 1,600 kids, I carried those thoughts with me....

It hasn't quite hit me that it's coming to an end. Even though I have spent the past year preparing for my future, I still can comprehend that I am almost done. It's gone by so fast, yet there is so much that is different now from freshman year. So, this is me now talking to all of my past selves, the good and the bad, and advice I wish I would've known then. I am far from done growing into myself, ...