I.S A.

Ismael San Antonio

“What I’ve kind of realized is that there’s a lot more to being a teenager, there’s a lot more to being in high school, there’s a lot more to growing up than I might have thought coming into high school. There were a lot fewer types of people in middle school because it didn’t allow for self expression as much and kind of boxed students into acting a certain way and being a certain way. And that might have just been a middle school thing, but I know that a lot of high schools are the same way. The thing about Community is that it really allows students to kind of be themselves as they’re transitioning into adulthood, and it allows them to sort of figure out who they are and who they’re gonna be. I would end up randomly talking to someone I didn’t really know in the hallway. Sometimes I didn’t even know their name. I guess there were some class discussions where I got to hear what people think, how they think, what they want to be. There were some people that really made me realize that the most important thing is, if you want to do something, you have to not just have a clear vision, but have to put in the work to do it. It’s always a tough thing to hear, you know.”