It's a big school after all.

You only get one shot at life. Which also means that you only get one chance to experience your freshman year in high school. All my life, I've been looking forward to being in high school, and now that I'm here, its definately not all that I imagined it would be. I thought that I would walk in the first day feeling like a new person, but unfourtunatley I had set my standards to high for high school. Through all the things I've been told and prepared for over the years, I can say that there are rumors and there are truths about high school. As a middle schooler, there was always the constant rumor that the upperclassmen would pelt us with pennies as we pathetically and nervously raced through the hallways on our first day. Luckily, that turned out to be false, (although I would've liked to be a rich girl...) and instead us freshman walked the hallways on the first day with empty pockets. One rumor that proved to be true is that the high school building is quite large. When I was given my schedule, I decided to take a day to come in a tour the place and see where I would need to navigate every day. Even with no students shoving through the hallways, I panicked at how huge the place was, and wondered how in the world I was supposed to make it from one corner of the school to the next within a 6 minute passing period. Being in mid-october now, I've grown to be flexible in the overcrowded hallways and I easily became used to traveling in the hallways- only with a little help from some trusty shortcuts. But, a high school is definatlely one big place to learn. Freshman year is one small step for future, and one giant leap from being a middle schooler.