Graduation Speech High School - 1027 Words

I’m Going Through Changes Four years is such a small portion of many people’s lives, but the four years of high school can greatly impact one’s life. High school ,for many people, is a time to mature physically and mentally. Many find out who they are as a person and maybe who they want to become. High school teaches life lessons that can not be taught anywhere else and that people would not want to be taught later in life. I started high school as an anxious freshman and transformed into a confident senior in four short years. Freshman year started, and my bad attitude towards school continued from eighth grade. I came into high school with the wrong mindset towards school. I believed that I could give a bare minimum effort and still†¦show more content†¦Playing freshman basketball was some of the most fun I had ever had on a basketball court. Once basketball was over I went directly into baseball where I would play on the junior varsity. Baseball for m e was something to keep me active and occupied in the spring. Once baseball ended, there were only a few weeks until my freshman year would come to a conclusion. Sophomore year was an exciting time for me. I had finally started to mature physically and I was gaining confidence in everything I was doing. I was no longer the bottom of the totem pole. The beginning of sophomore year went very smoothly. I had kept up my grades while still doing the bare minimum to get by and I was enjoying all my classes. Sophomore year was heading in the right direction until winter came around. Once winter came around everything seemed to change. By winter everyone had their license and there was some sort of get together going on every weekend. My friends and I were always in the middle of everything going on. We would be out until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning every Friday and Saturday night. We were always doing something that we knew we should not have been doing. After every weekend we would come b ack to school and talk about everything we did that weekend and laugh it off. Words started to spread quick and it seemed that everyone knew exactly what we had done that weekend. It was a fun and exciting time, but I would end up