Senior reflects on trying new things in high school

thought I did. I knew what colleges I would apply to, what major I would choose, I had a complete 10-year plan all neatly written out in a notebook.

Looking back now, as a senior, I do not think a single part of that plan is still true. I did not apply to any of the colleges I was going to, I changed my major from medical examination to theater design and technology and I do not have that notebook anymore.

entire class, I had no idea what was to come and I could not have predicted how much I would change from my freshman to senior years.

As a freshman, I was in the ensemble of the WHS Drama Club’s production of Grease Senior year, I found my place backstage, and I fell completely in love with technical theater.

thought any of this was possible, and senior me is so incredibly thankful that it is.

When I imagined high school as a little kid, I thought that by my freshman year, I would have everything all figured out, and during my freshman year, I