Mid-School Crisis
One moment in my past that changed my life was the transition from middle school to high school. Before finishing 8th grade, I’ve basically had the same classmates since 3rd grade. At that time, I’ve known these people for almost half my life. Every school year I went through was with familiar faces. I knew things were going to change eventually; however, I naively thought nothing was going to be different until maybe high school graduation.
Me, my friends, and most of my classmates all planned and expected to go to one high school. If you wanted to go to that school without being in the magnet program, you had to be chosen through a lottery. We all understood that it was a lottery but remained optimistic. Up until all of us received our acceptance/rejection letters, all we heard was, “Did you get in?” Most of us, being in the gifted program, were not lucky and ended up having to enroll in another school. The discussion was then, “Where are you going to go?” The first choice school was by far the best school in the city. Many alumni from this school went on to enroll in several prestigious universities and I was planning to follow in their tracks. Not only was my environment of peers sliced up, but my planned educational career was potentially disrupted. The 13 year old me thought he was watching his life “fall apart”. …show more content…
My friend group shrank from around 15 people before the transition to about 5. There were fewer familiar faces I saw every day. What I felt was never going to change, changed in to something that I would have never predicted. Now I understand why people say nothing lasts forever. It has taught me that I should always appreciate the present and that I shouldn’t hang on the past too tightly. From then on, I expected things to change at whatever time and I was ready to accept the change at whatever
One moment in my past that changed my life was the transition from middle school to high school. Before finishing 8th grade, I’ve basically had the same classmates since 3rd grade. At that time, I’ve known these people for almost half my life. Every school year I went through was with familiar faces. I knew things were going to change eventually; however, I naively thought nothing was going to be different until maybe high school graduation.
Me, my friends, and most of my classmates all planned and expected to go to one high school. If you wanted to go to that school without being in the magnet program, you had to be chosen through a lottery. We all understood that it was a lottery but remained optimistic. Up until all of us received our acceptance/rejection letters, all we heard was, “Did you get in?” Most of us, being in the gifted program, were not lucky and ended up having to enroll in another school. The discussion was then, “Where are you going to go?” The first choice school was by far the best school in the city. Many alumni from this school went on to enroll in several prestigious universities and I was planning to follow in their tracks. Not only was my environment of peers sliced up, but my planned educational career was potentially disrupted. The 13 year old me thought he was watching his life “fall apart”. …show more content…
My friend group shrank from around 15 people before the transition to about 5. There were fewer familiar faces I saw every day. What I felt was never going to change, changed in to something that I would have never predicted. Now I understand why people say nothing lasts forever. It has taught me that I should always appreciate the present and that I shouldn’t hang on the past too tightly. From then on, I expected things to change at whatever time and I was ready to accept the change at whatever