The Golden Gazette

This school year I have learned more about myself as an individual than I have all of the rest of high school combined. I made decisions that were really difficult but necessary, I reflected on who I wanted to keep in my life and who I didn’t, I found out a lot of bad news, I found of a little bit of good news, and I would not be even close to the person I am right now without this past year. For better or for worse. If I were to still be surrounded with the same people in the same environment as last school year, I have no idea who I would be as a person. Well actually I do but it’s a fake masked version of who I thought I needed/wanted to be that was quite literally the opposite of who I am. I feel like this past year has been 10 seconds long yet 20 years at the same time. The amount of emotional growth and realizations I’ve had during quarantine and not being in school has been wild, and it hurts me to think that leaving high school can’t really continue this. Not to sound all privi...

I’ve always hated goodbyes. Now it’s time to say goodbye to high school and I feel like I haven’t even fully met it yet. Right when I got adjusted and stopped feeling like a freshman that didn’t belong in the building, I went right back to square one. Junior year was the most typical “high school” year for me. I was finally fully adjusted and comfortable with all aspects of high school, I was hanging out with my friends basically every night of the week, I was going to all the football games, school dances, I was an upperclassman, and I was just overall having a good experience. I had a solid group of friends who I loved more than the world itself, and we had the absolute best times together. Then someone named Miss COVID decided to pop in and tear everything to shreds. Now I was missing out on all the activities I finally decided I wanted to partake in, I couldn’t see my friends and teachers everyday at school, I couldn’t hang out with anybody, and it was as if high school didn’t even...