Senior's+Moment+of+Truth

=**Here we are at the moment of truth. Everything is up in the air- college acceptances, future plans, jobs, staying or going. Write about your experiences and feelings at this moment in time.**=


 * Boy 1**
 * I feel really excited to graduate high school. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. I want to be out on the water every day. I will not have to deal with all of the drama of school.**


 * Boy 12**
 * I can't wait to get out of high school but I think when I get out of high school I am going to miss it. I think high school is going to be about the easiest time in my life besides all of the drama and stuff. I wish that I could have learned more stuff that was actually related to something I was going to do in my life.**


 * Boy 7**

I am happy that I am graduating, And I am really happy for all my classmates that we are all finally graduating out of school and going out into the world. In honesty I am going to miss all my classmates. I might see them around, either out on the road or hanging out, And I hope I do see them alot. I have been with this class since I was in 4th grade when I moved here from New York. I basically grew up with my class. I will definitely miss all of my classmates when we all leave for the world.


 * Boy 3**
 * Seems like its gone by so fast. I remember the first day of kindergarten. I feel like its the end of something great, but the start of something even better. I'm about 40% scared and 60% excited. I knew it couldn't last forever and my dad said it would go by fast, but I didn't listen. I think the last few months have been so fun and it gets even better every day. The moment I applied for the Coast Guard I thought I was on top of the world. But then I got rejected, and I told my uncle. He's been in the Air Force for 30 years. He's the E9 Master Chief of the Chicago base and he invited me out to work on the base with him, and he said I'll be able to get in the Air Force. He knows who to talk to to make that happen and that make me happy that I have a family that loves me.**


 * Boy 13**
 * The real moment of truth is being yourself over being popular. Being yourself and having fun, makes you stand out. Falling into all the fads doesn't make you cool. It makes you just another person. You should do what makes you happy. Your morals should be the only thing that counts to you. Being true to yourself is the real moment of truth.**


 * Girl 12**
 * Realization sets in. Graduation is around the corner. After graduation, reality sets in, it's just the beginning of my life.**

Girl 007

I feel like a backup dancer in a Lady Gaga music video.

Girl 67

Stop asking me where I am going to college, because I don't know. I don't know what I want to major in, what I want to do with the rest of my life, where I want to live, what job I want to have. So don't ask. People expect big things from me. They want intelligent, thought-out answers about going to Harvard and becoming a brain surgeon. I'm supposed to have planned my entire life and it's supposed to be successful and prestigious. But who cares? I'd honestly be fine with finding some nobody to marry, settling down in some nowhere town, and becoming a complete nobody housewife. Success isn't defined by diplomas and money. I would probably be the happiest becoming a broke artist. And I'm only half kidding when I say nearly everyday that I want to be a hobo or a hermit. The simple life is the best life. I don't want to be stressed out always competing with the prep-school kid next to me, putting everything I have into being an “over-achiever.” I don't want to be constantly involved in breakthrough research and innovative whatever. I really don't. I want to slack off in college and blend into the background. I want people to forget that I could have, should have become something great. When people ask where I'm going to college or what I want to do with my life, I groan because I don't know. But I also groan because I do know. I know that I don't want to become anything. But that isn't the answer they want to hear.

Girl 360

College. It isn't exactly a life changing decision but everyone treats it like it is. I mean every college is essentially the same. They all have good professors, a wealth of opportunity. I will be happy anywhere. I will get a good education because I know how to take advantage of opportunity. One of the great, yet few things growing up on this island taught me.

So how come everyone else is taking it so seriously? I applied to quite a few colleges, I got into some very good ones. I'm pleased. But somehow I have failed everyone's expectations. I am so excited when I receive my first college acceptance letter. I tell everyone. It is a really good school, hard to get into. But they are only interested in me getting into this other school. Giddy with excitement, I tell them my news, and they all respond the same way, " Uh huh, but what about so and so school?"

I mean come on, be happy for me. I'm happy. I'm excited and pleased. Wait until I tell them I was rejected from that school. Then what will they think?

I have always wondered why I care so much about what people think. Why I have this need to please people and live up to their expectations. I guess this is why. I am happy with how things have turned out. I have to keep reminding myself that because of how other people have reacted. I don't know. It's just frustrating, and a little disappointing

Girl 007

Being a senior is seriously compromising my health.

Boy 720

Well, here I am, a senior. Well, I can't say it's been a really easy road, because that crap just isn't true. My freshman year, no complaints really, met my first real love, Julie, then everything went to hell from there. We were fine, I had some good friends, then I became homeless. Well, lets say it was tough on me, as it would be for any kid that is a sophomore in high school with no place to really go. Spare couches, beds, floors, anything really, it was a tough time. Then things started to look up, I moved here, then left again, then moved back. Yeah, I'm a complex kind of person, but hey, I wouldn't want it any other way. I've lost a lot of stuff in my life, but my personality is not one of them, I'm an enigma to say the least. Sure, I would change some things, but knowing the people I know now, and knowing the helpful things in life through experiences, I really love this life and can expect anything.