Mythbuster: Breaking into reality

all-nighters for tests and have mental breakdowns once a week. Unlike your invigorating experiences in elementary and middle school, high school is no longer just about learning.

High school is just a stepping stone - a huge stepping stone that we high school students have to climb over to finally reach college.

If you fail high school, you fail in life. That’s it. It’s that simple.

interactions. Despite how hard I try to make time to hang out with my friends, our gatherings always end up with all of us deciding not to go at all, since no one can agree on a date nor a time. Plus, it’s really hard to make friends. Despite my friendly-looking appearance of dark, sagging eyebags and greasy unwashed hair, no one wants to approach me. It’s almost as if my appearance alarms them, the way they all shy away from me as soon as I enter through that classroom door. It truly is heartbreaking to see.

Honestly, dropping out of school is probably the best option for students mentally. When the only other option is going to educational prison, I’d rather feel the relief and freedom of being a dropout, unfor- tunately.

At the end of the day, people must realize that students have been working vigorously since birth. We shed blood, sweat and tears to only receive a handshake or a piece of paper, and if we’re lucky, a pat on the back. So please, with all things put into consideration, refrain from attending high school. You have been warned.

As an eighth grader, I thought that high school would be sunshine and rainbows like my favorite movie, “The High School Musical.” Unfortunately, I was hit with the harsh reality of sleepless nights and countless tears. Thus, as a conscionable member of a productive society attempting to save you from four years of heartbreak and sadness, I am warning you not to advance into high school.

High school was supposed to be all about partying, socializing and learning fun things, but instead it is all about having to pull

Not only are we students struggling to maintain the desired passing grades while being bombarded with projects, homework and tests, we are also expected to join multiple extracurriculars and clubs.

I expected to be inundated with a bunch of singing and dancing numbers at big fancy parties held by the school.

But to my dismay, my singing and dancing numbers were met only with stink eyes and loud snickers.

Unlike the stuff you see in movies, it’s not that easy to have a good time in high school–especially when it comes to social

You see, I’ve always wanted to write as if I work at the booming Buzzfeed corporation roaring downtown in our very own beloved City of Angels. Don’t get me wrong: I love “The Bull’s Eye”; but what I’ve always craved some more of was literary freedom—a writer’s freedom. Whatever level of satisfaction you might imagine that I receive on my end from hitting the semicolon key in the middle of that last sentence, which was undoubtedly arbitrary and maybe not even used entirely correctly, multiply that number by 1212 times. Throw in an extra 666 points for my integration of a colon and an em dash in that same sentence! Personally, I’ve never seen anyone dare to attempt the dangerous triple combo in a Bull’s Eye article; and probably because it doesn’t really work.

There are no rules, though. To life I mean. For you, reader, just for you, I’ll be your average existential-crisis-and-epiphany-having high school senior and guide you through your life.

So long as you give me permission to undertake this mission, I fully invite you to keep this article as a bucket list and physically mark it up. Also, use an original black Sharpie for that main character feel.

Without any further delay, I present to you a list of what I recommend you do in this lifetime before transitioning into your next reality of consciousness (if you believe in that reincarnation type of thing):

• Watch “The Truman Show” starring Jim Carrey.

• Tell two people all the good things you think about them but go unsaid. I don’t care that it’s cheesy. They probably need it in some shape or form.

• Break any rule of your choice.

Watch just one episode of “New Girl.”

• Dare to tell me you’re not hooked after watching one episode of “New Girl.”

Stay at a concert until either your lungs have given out, you’ve bid sayonara to your eardrums, or your voice has begun to crack.

• Try the crab rangoons at Thai Twist.

Watch “The Pursuit of Happyness” starring Will and Jaden Smith.

• Listen to “Pursuit of Happiness” by Kid Cudi at least once daily until the end of your high school experience.

• Pursue happiness.

• Drink a Monster. But listen carefully: the Ultra White Zero Sugar one. Close your eyes and listen to HZ frequency songs. Go on and watch your day become 10x better.

• Go to a rage room to take care of anything the HZ frequencies didn’t magically cure.

• Talk to a tree, a cloud or the moon.

This may be leaning too much into what personally makes me happy. Continue this list on your own. Find what makes you happy and not anyone else. Whatever happens, just remember: There are no rules.