For many students, navigating high-school life can feel like walking through a maze. They face constant pressure from exams, assignments, and the challenge of balancing academics with personal lives. Without guidance, some struggle to manage their time, make the right choices, or even understand the material they are learning, alongside with getting lost with what paths to take for their future. This lack of direction often leaves them feeling lost and overwhelmed.
However, help is closer than they think– especially from upperclassmen, who are ready to share their experiences and guide them through these challenges.
Nathea Masse, a fellow senior at our school-Palm Beach Central-expresses the importance of getting involved at school, while pushing negative thoughts of other people’s opinions away.
“It’s important to stay at your own pace and keep your high-school years full of experiences, as you may look back to regret it in the future,” she explains. “In addition, keeping your classes to the minimum in your senior year is illustrated as being crucial. As long as you put in hard work in your earlier years, everything will pay off in the end.”
Moreover, Massee conveys the significance in how starting your own club at school will benefit you. Not only will it give you an extra boost on your college application, it will also significantly boost your overall view as a person and how you feel about yourself. Starting a club is very hard work, and if you can achieve it, this is definitely something to look back on.
Alexa Jassenta, another senior at PBC, stresses the importance of focusing on your classes. According to a personal experience from her, she had slacked off in freshman year, and spent her sophomore and junior year making up for it.
In short, her message is, “Set yourself up for the future that you want here.”
Jassenta also recommends aiming towards the AICE Diploma if you are still a freshman.
“It’s definitely hard, but it really is worth it to be able to go to college for the first four years, for free,” according to her.
Ultimately, Jassenta says many younger classes in highschool tend to focus on getting a job, which is not as important, especially for sophomores and juniors who tend to overly focus on it.
The reason for this is because Jassenta claimed, “Being a student is your job. Because you have the rest of your life to work, so there is no point in rushing it now to try to grow up faster than you actually need to.”
Special thanks to these students, they are motivated, influential individuals who are kind enough to help younger underclassmen transitioning to the next grade.
