On their last day of high school on Tuesday, seniors walked the bridge, a symbolic event that signifies the end of their high school career. From 2022 to now, the ups and downs of high school show how fast the time goes. A part of high school is knowing that one day it will have to end. After Tuesday, this year’s seniors will not attend another high school homecoming, go to another prom, or hear hall monitors yelling at them to get to class.
For some seniors, life has just started. For others, this part of life has ended. Seniors will wake up tomorrow no longer being seniors. Suddenly, they are freshmen again, this time in college, just joining the military, and so many other places. As seniors leave, they reflect on how they feel leaving high school forever.
“Sentimental, kind of sad because I’m so happy for the memories I have here, but I’m so excited to go to college and make memories there,” Kylie Peck said.
“By now, I think I have really processed it, and I’ve kind of got over the big stuff, like drama club ended already. So by the time I’m here, I don’t really feel anything,” Echo Brooke said.
“I’ve been mostly confused all year, but I think I’ve done pretty well,” Karma Wilson reports.
For a lot of seniors, the biggest challenge has been processing the emotions that go into graduation. All of the memories that make up high school will stay with them, but they will no longer be in them. In another perspective, seniors are free from school work, the late nights, and the early morning traffic. The missing out on all the new memories the next year will bring, however, seems to be what the seniors get stuck on.
The truth is, seniors are free to do anything they want, but the other truth is that they will never be American teenagers again. For some seniors, that’s the saddest thing about graduating, and for others it’s the most exciting. They get to do whatever they want with their future that Liberty has helped hone and shape.
Some seniors have had the same career path chosen from freshman to senior, but others have changed what they want to do because of their experiences, classes, etc:
“As a freshman, I was definitely more introverted and I’m a lot more extroverted now, which is what I wanted to achieve. I wanted to be a lot more out there, and I think I’m doing just that now,” Charles Giraud said.
“My freshman year, I didn’t really know where I was going with my life, but going out of my senior year, I kind of know where I’m headed,” Raven Steinburge said.
The seniors will leave Liberty with their life ahead of them and the memories of this school behind them. They will all leave behind their mark and their philosophy with the classes that have yet to come.
