SINGHS THINGS
By Katy Singh Sports Editor
enabled me to participate in sports during high school. It wasn’t until a few days ago that it finally hit me; I am forever done with high school sports. These past four years have gone by FOREVER! way too fast, but I must say that I’ve Since seventh grade, I would give up a learned many things during my high couple of hours every day after school school journey. to practice whatever sport was going I can remember the first day of my on that season. I have done this about freshman year as if it was yesterday. every day for six consecutive years. I’d walk the crowded halls and see On top of practice, games, and tournew faces all while trying to rememnaments, I have learned how to manage ber where my next class was. That my time between sports and school first week was very overwhelming for work. And that is something that I am me, but with time, I got used to the proud to take with me in Austin. crowded halls, and the once unfamilSports has changed my life teachiar faces soon became close friends. ing me about sportsmanship, respect, Thinking back on how scary the persistence, hard work, practice and first few weeks of my high school exfriendship. I know with these abilities, perience was worries me about the I am capable of having a successful fuwhole college thing. ture in whatever I may do. I plan to attend the University of I am extremely grateful for the Texas at Austin. Going from a school blessings that God gave me to be able of 400 to 50,000 students is going to to play sports and be part of a team take a little longer to get used to. Oh, that grew into a family. I will always reand I can’t forget the 350-acre cammember my teammates and the many pus I’ll be trying to navigate around memories we share. along the way. “Graduation is not the end; it’s the I have to thank my parents for keeping me active as a child which beginning.” — U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch
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E’ C By Jacob Sanchez Editor-in-Chief Wow, what a blur the past four years have been. When we started high school the world was a different place. There was a Bush in the White House, Sarah Palin was still the governor of Alaska, and Obama actually had black hair. Now Obama has gray hair, Rick Perry ran for President—“Oops!”— Biden has yet to keep his mouth shut. Some things never change, I guess. Now our class is about to experience the biggest change in our lives so far— graduation. When we graduate there is no turning back. Walking across that stage is the point of no return. Many of us will be attending college, and in four more years there will be another graduation. After that it will be time to look for a job to put our new found skills to work. Once we find a career, we work and work to pay off any debts,
and support our new families until retirement. During retirement, we just relax and spend the last decades of our lives in paradise. After retirement is of course the inevitable— death— but that may be 100 years away for our generation because of science. This is life.This is what we have waited 18 years for, and when put into a simple paragraph it can make anyone seem hollow and insignificant, but it is truly exciting. Life is not that easy to summarize. Everyone will have a journey in life, and every single one of them will be different from the next. Some people’s journeys will be straightforward while others will twist and turn. No one can predict how their life will end up. All we can do is enjoy the path that is in front of us and walk into the unknown. So this change that will happen on May 25 when we cross the stage at graduation will be very crucial to our journey. Trust me, it will be a “big deal,” to quote Vice President Biden.
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