Grade Twelve Research Paper

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To start it all off, high school is not awful. More specifically, grade twelve isn’t a complete disaster. It is just a given that we will wake up every morning and go to school for six hours. Of course, there really is no challenge in that; it’s just one fourth of our day. It’s been the routine for the past 12 years. We just have to be there, do some work, and then go home. Achieving grades that our parents can comprise with is genuinely that easy. It’s simple. Of course, there are some of us that want to venture a bit further than that. They’re the ones that want to be a part of the extra-curriculars, and put some meaning to their four years. Whether that’s joining a club or a sports team, it’s simply something to say they participated in …show more content…

We just have to write a few essays, each for the numerous applications; but, we all know how to do this from our practice doing it every single day, assignment after assignment. There’s a lot of money on the line, but it’s not like any of us will get it anyways. So, we really just focus on the present. We long for the weekends where we can embrace our teenage spirits. We make new friendships and try to find an unrealistic relationship like Troy and Gabriella’s. All we’re really looking for is the validation that we can look back on these moments and think, “high school was amazing”. Our Friday nights are full of adventure; our Saturday nights are full of stupidity; and our Sundays are built for repenting the previous nights and catching up on every single assignment. We’re living quite the life. So when our parents catch us revelling in sin. Or we forget to do an assignment. Or we flop on one of those important family parties. We may just break. And it’s definitely not because we’re incapable of handling the challenge. It’s because one off-putting comment towards us can ruin the whole scheme that we’ve set up for ourselves in order to manage everything. It’s because we hold so much in and we put up the best front every single day. Little did we know how easily everything can come crashing

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