How High School Has Changed In The Last 10 Years

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High school is known as a time of change. From friends, to interests, to personality, and even sports, many people notice the amount of change they went through in the year between middle school and high school. I have noticed huge changes looking back on who I was in eighth grade to who I am now. The immense changes in the last year that came with starting high school have led to huge developments in my social, academic, and athletic life.
Going into high school has allowed me to meet new people and gain new friends, which has changed my social life for the better. Last year, my class was pretty small and there was a lot of drama, especially among the girls. I hung around about eight people who I thought were my true friends, simply because they were always around and we got along well. Outside of …show more content…

I remember sitting next to my now best friend for six months in silence, but we were still friends back then and we are now too. Also, I assumed that everyone who I was friends with was still going to be my friend in high school, and that we would still be close. I also probably read people wrong because some of the people who I didn’t get to know are my good friends now. When I started high school at Notre Dame Preparatory, I thought that I would be fine since I already knew a bunch of people, however, I couldn’t have been more wrong. My first lunch, I realized that I knew no one and had nowhere to go, which is a pretty awful feeling. This event forced me to make new friends, which was something that I wasn’t very good at. I also found that it doesn’t matter what grade I was in, because many people have friends outside their grade, and I focused more on making friends with a group of sophomores at first rather than my own grade. There was also more people and everyone came from different schools, so everyone’s friend groups, including my own, changed a lot. Through band and my other classes,

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