So its your last day of high school, ever. You wake up and get ready for school for the last time. You get in your car and drive to campus for the last time. You tell your friends hi and smile (or frown) at your principle in the hall for the last time. You've taken your last tests, eaten your last school lunch, read your last school books, and taken your last high school classes. For most people, this day is filled with excitement, fear, happiness, and tears. Here's an account of my last day of high school, ever.
6:00- Wakeup next to my best friend. She slept over last night so we could go through this emotional last day together.
6:15- Eat breakfast (biscuits and bacon), Get dressed (in our last day t-shirts), Brush our teeth, Take our Meds, etc.
6:30- Attempt to leave the house. Get stopped by mother to take a picture. Then get stopped again because my sister wasn't in the picture.
6:40- Leave the house. Finally.
7:03- Arrive at school for the last time (other than exams, but I'm ignoring that for all intents and purposes)
7:05- Walk to the front of the school where the rest of the seniors had already began setting up for "seniors go camping". Several people brought tents, kites, bubbles, silly string (more on this later), music, etc. I brought an inflatable couch.
7:30- People begin spraying our principle with silly string. This will last all day (part of our senior prank)
7:45- Principle starts yelling because we have to get to class. People begin deconstructing tents and inflatable couches. We also decide that now is the perfect time to take pictures.
8:00- Go to first period. I have physics with Mrs. Academic Advisor. Senior prank two- Set phones to go off at random times during class. Mrs. Academic Advisor thinks we put a live chicken in her desk and proceeds to tell us she will let it die because she wont deal with it. We all laugh and tell her its a phone and turn off the first alarm.
8:30- Alarm goes off again. Mrs. Academic advisor ignores it this time and it proceeds to ring for the entire rest of class.
9:15- Alarm finally gets turned off as we move to our next class.
9:20- Enter Dual Enrollment Math class. A class of 11 girls who have cried and laughed and learned an insane amount and worked way to hard get together for the last time. Our teacher pulls out a bag filled with our favorite candies (she asked us earlier this year for it) and gives us each a personalized, handwritten note. We cry one last time. Then, we party. We break out the spinach dip and chips, the cheetos and doritos, the candy, and drinks. We pull the phone prank on her as well. She tells us the story of how she met her husband and shows us pictures of her baby nephew.
10:35- Bell rings, we leave Dual Enrollment for the last time. Move to religion.
10:40- Mr. Religion Teacher attempts to lecture us. This is also his last time teaching seniors because he got offered an amazing job that he had to take. If your reading this Mr. B, congrats on your job (and your baby) and I hope all goes well. I'm writing this as I sit in your class trying to think of an answer to your question of the day "What do you hope to accomplish in the next four years". I think I'm going to say I want to do one crazy fun thing that may not benefit me in any way other than to say I did it.
11:45- We leave class early to go to lunch. We block every entrance to the cafeteria with our bodies so the underclassmen can't get in. Everyone complains as we stand in the doors. We jokingly ask for everyones lunch money (we don't actually carry lunch money around at our school, its paid for at the start of the year)
12:00- Seniors are allowed to leave the cafeteria to go to the courtyard. There, in the rain, we pile into a wet, cold, bouncy house. We are warned ahead of time that we will not be excused from class if we are uncomfortably wet and that if we see lightning, we must immediately get out. It was much more fun than I am making it out to be.
12:25- Lunch ends. I take the elevator with m friend up to the third floor to enter my one non-senior class of the day.
12:50 I handwrite one minutes worth of Margaret Sanger's "The Children's Era" even though I won't be here to present it (because the freshman in my class will have to present it later in May) and I add onto this list the events from lunch.
1:25- I watch youtube videos in class instead of studying for my finals on Thursday and Friday, because Senioritis is real.
1:36- Our school gets sent an email that says its from the IT department. Many students open it and click allow (we think its regarding the deleting of our accounts over the summer). We then get a notice saying our computers have been given a virus. Our emails have been hacked on a school-wide basis. Good job IT.
1:50- The bell rings. Its time for us to move to our last class of the day. Seniors pour into the halls in front of the main stairs. Someone's brought a speaker and Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" is blaring. The tardy bell rings and nobody moves to go to class, not yet at least. We dance to two more songs together before deciding its time to finish.
2:00- 19 Seniors walk into english class late. Our teacher tells us we are all going to be marked tardy (an automatic detention in our school) we freeze. She laughs and we sit down, realizing she's joking (at least we hope she is.)
2:10- Our teacher asks us to sit on the floor in front of her and she pulls out a children's book. She reads to us "Oh the Places You'll Go!" by Dr. Suess. Then, she reads us a letter she wrote. Most of us start to cry at this point, I know I do. We ask her questions about college and life. She tells us to stay safe and make good choices.
2:45- Seniors are called down to the office. We rush to grab our phones out of our lockers (or backpacks if you're a rebel) and pile in 83 girls to the office.
2:58- The principal tells us she is about to turn on the intercom. Our class president says our afternoon prayer for the whole school one last time.
2:59- We begin to count down from 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2.
3:00- 1. We scream, cry, sing, dance, and cheer. Emotions of all kinds are shared as we hug each other and thank god that high school is over.
3:10- We leave the office with tears down our faces and do a school cheer. We leave campus slowly and wish each other good luck on exams. The lucky ones leave without having to return until graduation practice. The rest of us will be back tomorrow morning for exams.
So that's it. It's just like any other day.
You see your classmates, you do your work, you learn, you grow, you laugh, you cry, you move on. When it's time for you to experience your last day, remember that this isn't the end, its the beginning. Good luck.
~Caitlyn