Graduation...how do you feel?

[JustJack]

As I sit here, ready to graduate...I feel uneasy. I feel like everything is going to just disappear. The safety & comfort of being a child under a parent's house & key...the switch from small public schooling to a large heartless college. I dunno, my friends & I have all decided we want to "stay together"...but I still feel like, day after graduation, they'll all be gone. My girlfriend doesn't go to the same school as me, & she's not even in the same grade...but, I even feel like she's going to be gone, with me outside of that whole high school life. Already I can feel the hard slap of reality hitting me, and things don't seem the same. I guess I'm "too mature to enjoy things" now, which is something ina graduation card I got said. heh...how true. Some of the old school jokes just aren't funny. I hope this wears off soon, because it feels funny to walk into the real world. Oh well.....here's to the future!

[Lucky Bob]

Onward ho!

[Twilight]

I felt the same way when I was graduating from high school. I was very comfortable at home and with the people I knew. I was afraid of going to college and preferred hiding under my bed for the rest of my future life. The next step to adulthood freaked me out. I was afraid everything was going to change, and I didn't want it to because I was happy with my life.

I finally went off to college. It wasn't as bad as I expected. I did a lot of keeping in touch with people from back home via e-mail and AIM/ICQ. Looking back at my first year now, I wish I wasn't so afraid and stayed at school more instead of going home on the weekends. My second year was definitely more comfortable than my first year. I made more friends and was less lonely. I stayed at school more and went back to my hometown less. I also drifted from some people I considered good friends from high school, but there's two that I still keep in touch with even now.

From my experience, I think it's natural to feel some apprehension of what might change when you leave high school and go off to college. I would say that things will fall in place after your first year. Keep in touch with old friends, whether you guys stay as friends or drift will depend as time goes on. So it's not wasted effort, but I really appreciate the two friends I still are in touch with from high school. We're better friends now than we ever were. The ones I drifted from... well, we just didn't have enough in common to stay together and it just happened. I also love the friends I have made in college. Since I pretty much live with them, they have become my second family.

Best wishes to you and to all the graduates this year. Life can be scary, but it also has a funny way of working things out in the end. :)

[Carnage]

Maybe I'm just too naive or something, but I can't wait to graduate and move away to college. Sure I'm gonna miss all my friends and stuff, but I'm hoping I'll have an internet conneciton so I can stay in touch with them. And you can't be too mature to enjoy things, you can be too boring to enjoy things, but not too mature.

Carnage

[Depth Charge]

Deathly afraid for all the same reasons mentioned above... but.... thousands of kids my age do it every year... so.... I guess.... it is not an impossible task (at least that is what I tell myself). But, I try not to let this get the best of me. I refuse to work myself up in a tizzy.... I will adapt.

[Djm912]

Terrified. It's less than a month away. I don't know what's going to happen afterwards. So many family issues. I don't know where I'll go after this and after I turn 18 in Sep.

[Melon109]

I have mixed feelings about graducation. I am ready to get out of high school, but I am also sad to leave my friends. I am nervous about starting college this fall.

[optimal321]

Last year, i felt the same apprehension you all felt when thinking of graduation. But now, with only two and a half weeks left of school, i'm really ready to get out. I'm not worried about losing anyone because i guess i feel like i've already done that. I'm over all of that stuff that will keep me grounded to high school. I'm not moving anywhere for college, but i doubt i'll keep up with anyone.

I'm just ready to finally set my lifelong dreams in motion, and have stopped worrying about my adolescent dreams of always being with a group of friends.

I'm excited, happy,... and just a little sad :rolleyes: .

[Barb Gordon]

I've had a lot of people ask me,"Are you excited about graduating?","Are you scared? Will you be sad?", "Will your friends?"...and honestly, I just don't know. I won't know how I feel about any of those things till I graduate! Sure I bet I'll start realizing that I wont see any of my younger friends...well, at least not like I use to everyday at school. I might top by and see my junior friends who'll then be seniors, just to say hi. I'm not going to miss family because I'm staying here in Cali, and I'm staying at home. I can not wait to start college, I love school, yes, I know that's sick,lol. I see it as the next big adventure, one I'm glad has finally arrived. When I am actually graduating, I know I'll be sad, I may even cry, because I wont see any of my senior friends ever again. I may email them, but I wont see them everday like I used to, or in class...but well, that's what happens in high school, that's what happens when you grow up.

~Barb

[Danielle]

Um.......does graduating into high school count? :D

[ccffan01]

Im graduating middle school and belive me I am HAPPY!!!!!

[Chris Sanders MSX]

I'm a Junior Now. I'll be making a similar thread next school year.

I renember graduation from 8th Grade. I felt like everything was changing and it was. But now I still hang out with most of my close friends from elementry school, and i have mostly aquatences in school. The thing your going to miss is the people but as long as they stay close it'll be okay.

College will be a different thing because your going to be spread all over the place. I won't care or miss anyone from HS but it'll be hard going on without some of my other friends.

[DerekPowers]

you guys have nothing to worry about, youll LOVE college, believe me. I was in you shoes 3 years ago and it only gets better.

now graduating from college (which i will be doing 2 semester from now, :o ), thats something to flip out about, your REALLY in the real world after that.

but i suppose it makes sense to freak out about hs graduation. but college is fun, so don't freak out to much and enjoy the summer! peace.

[Galaxia]

Happy as all heck - I couldn't wait to get out of my school last year!

[DR. BELCH]

One thing I've noticed since graduating college is that I've done a lot better than some of my friends, whose lives really went to hell after high school. Most didn't bother continuing their education. Two are in jail...one is dead from a car accident, and another girl I rather fancied then was badly crippled in an auto-related mishap (I'm told she walks now with a severe limp). Not to mention the innumeable ones I've lot touch with...pretty sad in a way, but there is a sense of accomplishment in knowing I'm at least better off than some people I used to know (tempered with slight guilt at that, wondering exactly why two people who start off at the same place with seemingly the same advantages end up at totally diferent places).
Regrets? Many. But one thing I wish I had when I marched in college is that special girl by my side to share the moment with...and all the others since.