It is April 3rd, 2016. For the class of 2016 that
makes only about a month left of walking the halls of Kennedy. For our class it
means that our senior year is nearly approaching and soon we will have to make
a ton of decisions about what we want to do with our futures. Will we go to
college? Will we go in to the air force? Will we take a year off? All of us
will go in completely different directions and we may never see each other
again. We are being pushed off in to the deep end with our parents and friends
as our floats for support. It is still so terrifying knowing that in just a few
months I will be writing essay’s to the administration offices of colleges I would
like to attend and next year I will be leaving Kennedy behind? Why does it feel
like just yesterday I was getting ready for freshman orientation?
Senior
year will be filled with a bunch of unwanted goodbyes. We will have to say
goodbye to our favorite teachers that we spent every SMART lunch with because
they became more like friends to us. We will have to say goodbye to team mates
and coaches who were there every step of the way. We will have senior night’s
that seem to go by in a flash. We will have the last performances and the last
games. We will have to say goodbye to the locker that volunteered to hold all
of our crap for the last four years. We will have to say goodbye to the crowded
foyer during passing time, and we will miss this even though we dread it now.
We will also have to say goodbye to our best friends and peers that have been
with us from the start. No more cram sessions, no more going to your best friend’s
house when you need a home away from home, and no more seeing your friends
every single day in your circle. It all ends next year and I can honestly admit
that I am not one bit ready for that next step.
From
the first day of school, we get it drilled into our minds that high school goes
by fast but I never really understood that until today I realized that I am
almost a senior. The long classes we spent counting down the clock have passed
quickly and nobody ever really stops to take in the time. Now, we start writing
our application essays and we start getting ready for our futures wherever that
might be. Next year we will experience all of the “lasts” that will be embedded
in our heads forever as memories. The last first day of school where your mom
cries more than you do. The last football game at Kingston where we’ve spent
the last four years cheering our team on through the freezing cold or boiling
heat. The last Christmas and Thanksgiving breaks at home where you get to put
up the tree and spend time around the table with family and friends. Your last
finals and last cram sessions at Coffeesmith’s the night before. The last
spring break where a bunch of friends take a trip somewhere to try to stretch
it out as long as possible. And then right after spring break comes what is called
the beginning of them end. In a flash prom, graduation, and the last day of
school all come and go so quickly that you don’t know how you got into summer.
All of this is on the horizon for us next year and in all honestly I am not
ready for one part of it.
Kennedy
has become a home for me from the best friends that walk the hall to the
amazing faculty that actually cares. It will be extremely hard to say goodbye
and I can’t even imagine what the seniors are feeling as they spend their last
few months in the best high school in Iowa.
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