The End of A New Beginning

Prom, graduation, summer, and college. The four most important words for a high school senior. Those four terms skim the front of our minds, flow out through our pencils, and tie into any homework assignment or essay needed to write. They overload our whole physical and spiritual beings. Our postures become more slouched, homework becomes way past due, our attitudes become more laid-back and lazy, even our words become more slurred with each tantalizing drop of freedom that we are allowed to taste upon our tongues. But what happens to everything else? Movies never show a glimpse of the aftermath of summer. As soon as the that final bell rings and papers are thrown into the air, the reel cuts. What happens to that group of friends voted "friends forever," or the grades that fell to rock bottom, have they been magically erased? So, as a high school senior, I have come to write my experience. I will shortly be 18 years of age, an adult and another step to becoming apart of the real world. I have come to show you an inside glimpse of the last month of high school and the last summer before we become twisted into the ropes of college and society.