Priyank+P

People say ““We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.” This quote perfectly describes my four years in high school because over the years, I slowly became my own person. I went into freshman year with all the same friends that I had in middle school so I didn’t really have those “awkward” moments when seeing all these new people. I pretty much stuck around the same people that I was used to being with. We also discovered this thing called rapping and started a group for fun. It was serious at first until we heard ourselves. To sum it up, we were just immature teenagers, who saw focused more on the weekend than the pressures of school. I even enjoyed going to school because I never worried about grades or college. I just assumed that I would slack my way into Carolina. Sophomore year was when I slowly started to branch out and actually took time to get to know people before judging them. I played on the baseball team, and met some new people who I remained close to throughout high school. Though we all thought it was going to be an exciting year, baseball became unimportant for most of us. Me and Zach would rap in the dugout instead of focusing on the game. That’s probably my best memory from baseball, which is kinda sad. Junior year was exciting too as I got my license in the summer. From that day on, I try to drive every chance I get. I still enjoy it just as much as I did the first day. This was also the first year I had to do a thing called study. I slacked off ay first and realized I wasn’t going to get by this time. So I actually put in the effort and did well in school and on the SAT. I also asked this girl to prom, which is something I had never done before. The idea was just never appealing to me. I had always been too busy goofing around to even think about girls. But I decided to take a chance, and it ended up working out really well. And now here I am in my Senior year, with a group of friends I started with and another group of new friends that I made. I got into Carolina, but I never would’ve thought that it would be such a close call. After looking at my transcript after junior year, I realized that I should’ve worked harder in school. But I am thankful and truly feel blessed because I know a lot of people who probably deserved it more than me. And I’m also blessed to have some of my closest friends go to Carolina with me. I know people say that you should meet new people in college, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to forget my old friends. They have been with me since middle school and I don’t think that anything is going to change in the future. So Good bye Green Hope, I love you all but I think Carolina is going to be way better.

[|Animoto]