Oh the places you'll go

I was nobody. When I first came to Millbrook I had no Friends and no one to talk to. I had just moved to Raleigh from Cary and had to start from scratch. Luckily though, i was outgoing enough to make some friends to sit with at lunch and talk to in class. My favourite part of freshman year was the non-honors English class I was in. I'm 95% sure I was adopted by a gangster. His name was Travis and he would come to class high af and call me "son". Kind of creepy but he showed me the ways of the streets and told me that one day I was going to be the realest thug there is. S/O to you homie. I'm pretty sure he dropped out to be a professional street thug. That class was full of ratchets and i haven't taken an academic class since. But at the same time I am glad to have gained the perspective of the hood. Outside of school freshman year was boring. The only real benefit of it (other than life lessons from Travis) was the social skills that i gained from having to make new friends. That contributed heavily to my personality. Sophomore year was better because I made some real friends and hung out outside of school. I took a stats class where I learned that asking your class if anyone had gonorrhea will get you an F on your project grade. Just letting you know Mrs. Early that the rubric did not specify what we had to survey people on.

I would like to say that high school really began when I started the IB program. The first year was kind of messy due to me not knowing any of you guys. And English was boring because all we did was read feminist articles and annotate. I did have fun debating with people tho *cough* Annie. Towards the end of Junior year I had made some new friends and had become adjusted to the lifestyle of IB.

Senior year is where it's at though. I learned a lot about writing and literature from Mrs. G and a lot of history from Hoskdog. I "learned" a lot of "math" from James and bio from George. While I learned a lot and learning is great and you mainly go to school to learn, information isn't really what i took away from this year. I learned a lot about my self and made some of my closest friends. I honestly didn't know it was possible to have such a close relationship with your classmates yet I find that it will be really hard to leave this family behind next year. Thanks for the amazing senior year fam.