Activities teach many important life lessons

learned how to put my thoughts and ideas into words.

However, I believe the most important thing I have gained from my involvement is the many friendships I have formed along the way. Juggling the obligations and requirements of so many activities can be daunting at times, but the relationships I formed helped to propel me through those difficult moments.

The last four years of high school were filled with global pandemics, countless new principals and a lot of changes, both in the world and in myself. Sitting in Newspaper Production I, as the only freshman in the

As a freshman, I was a JV soccer player. Senior year, I was still a JV soccer player, but I was also a JV basketball player, a sport that I joined on a dare during my junior year, and a varsity lacrosse player, a sport I thought I would never play again after I took a season off in eighth grade.

Freshman me never would have

So, my advice to underclassmen: finding your place in high school is hard, but you do not have to pick just one place to be. You can be in Drama Club and be a varsity athlete; you can randomly join a team as a dare; you can try new things just because they sound fun. You can try and you can succeed and you can try and can fail, but either way you can still have just as much fun.

Being good at things is not everything. Put yourself out there, try new things and do not be afraid to be bad at something, sometimes that can make everything even more fun.