JoJo Kent
Most students, at some point, feel like high school is a waste of time and energy. But you can’t think like that! That kind of thinking puts you in a negative place not just mentally, but in your life that you don’t want to be in. High school can be the most beneficial four years of your life if you do it right. The moment you step onto the school grounds you have access to all sorts of resources that can help you do incredible things with your life. Every person has a vision for what they want their life to look like, whether you think a year in advance or ten, you’ve got a vision. The adults you find inside of a high school are your biggest asset in reaching those goals, so use them! Your administrators, your teachers, and especially your counselors, are looking out for your future as much as you are. Their job is to help you build what you want your future to be. They are there to help you, not hurt you. I leaned that lesson later than I should have. I had some things I thought I wanted to do with my life, and I had a definite list of things that I did not want to do after high school. I figured that out when I was a sophomore. However, I thought that the counselors were there to make sure I had a full schedule with no problems and talk out my feelings if I needed that. It wasn’t until senior year that I learned differently, and I wish I had known much earlier. While registering for my senior year classes she asked what I wanted to do after high school. I listed off the possible careers I had thought of, and then I told her what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to be broke straight out of high school, I didn’t want to go to a university, and I did not want any sort of office job. It took that short little explanation of what I did and didn’t want for her to open up and give me a whole list of paths that I could take to get to that point. I went further into what I wanted and she gave me even more specifics. After a short conversation we had a plan in place for my senior year that would lead me right to where I wanted to be at graduation. This was my vision and no one else’s. I was one of those people that felt like what I wanted couldn’t be given to me by a place I didn’t want to be. I wish I had known sooner that I was so wrong. Graduation can feel like forever away, but one day you wake up and it is tomorrow. It is extremely easy to wake up that day and look back thinking you got nothing out of high school. It doesn’t have to be like that, and it takes only a little effort on your part to change that trend. Take your life by the horns and do what you aspire to do. No one is waiting to watch you fail, and no one is holding you back. The easiest way to get something good out of high school is to make sure you and your counselor are on the same page about what you want. Then all you have to do is be a good student, which doesn’t mean having the highest grades in the class or being the ‘teacher’s pet’, it simply means being respectful and doing the work. Take advantage of what you have while you have it. Life doesn’t help you plan for your future, so do that now before you’ve got all the other things to worry about.
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