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The first day of freshman year was a new feeling coming from the feelings of being the top dogs and now at the bottom again. The first sight of Dubuque Senior was as though I’m going to the wrong place. This place wasn’t a school. It was a prison with a big parking lot. I had excitement because of my thoughts on what high school could be for me because of the movies that my older siblings watched. Once I entered the school I could feel the potential and the aroma of great people who walked through these doors and became something great and useful to the world. The pressure pressed more when my teachers gave me my expectations. The school had walls as white as the snow on a mountain top. High school was this opening to make choices. High school …show more content…

High school is a lot like a wild jungle! You find so any different people who have been in so many different experiences. Each and every person acts a different way to you and gives you a different scenario. Every person you talk to is a new level on a video game and there is no restart button. In this game you increase difficulty every grade. If you try reaching a new level without keeping up with your peers it would be like playing Pac-man for the first time with a friendship on the line. The freedom to pick your schedule and travel the whole school is an excitement in itself. No one knows you are completely clueless on every subject. In my first few classes the transition from middle school to high school was easy and eye opening. The smell from both guys and girls trying to show off or hide their body odor made it extremely grows. It was worse when someone would not wear deodorant or just smell bad in general. By lunch time, I felt I had worked hard enough to want food. The smell of cafeteria food filled the halls. I met with my friends to debriefing of my thoughts and feelings of the school and

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