This I Believe: Life Lessons Essay

This I Believe: Life Lessons The summer going into my freshmen year, I was more nervous to go to school than I was on my first day of kindergarten. Being so much younger than the seniors at our school was going to be scary. I had no idea what people were talking about when they said that these four years would be some of the best four years of my life and I did not believe them. I remember one day specifically, about a week before my new high school experience started. I was talking with a couple friends about how things were going to be so different once the school year began. It seemed like it would be forever until we became seniors like the people we looked up to. I was only fourteen years old so going to school with kids who were eighteen made me really scared. I felt like I was still a kid and they were already adults. When I went on my tour during the freshmen orientation, the seniors who were giving it told us to make the best of high school because it flies by. They said these years were some of the funnest they have yet experienced. I remember joking around and saying I was going to sit on the senior wall just to make them all mad but they seemed to not be joking at all about any of this. Throughout my freshmen year I tried having fun through high school by goofing off and not really doing my work. Then it started to show when all of my grades were going down. Towards the end of the year, I saw that one of my groups of friends who were taking things more seriously were getting ready to run for student government positions and executive boards of clubs. That is when I made the decision to run for sophomore class secretary. I wrote a speech, and even though I ran unopposed it was extremely nerve racking going in front of all of my classmates to read it. After the elections happened, Mrs. Dugan called my over to tell me that I had the responsibility of joining student