By Shannon Hagedorn
Sports Web Editor
You see the seniors discussing college applications. Then, you see them lugging around their AP books. You see them wearing their college sweatshirts. You wish you were one of them but think, nope, I’ll never get there.
Then, there’s this magical moment when it finally hits you. As everything you’ve known for the last four years comes to a close, you realize you’ve made it and you’re moving on.
Everyone always says that high school flies by and that you should, therefore, appreciate every moment. Maybe there should be a different connotation for the saying – perhaps it’s not the same “appreciate” as when you are savoring a dessert, but rather valuing the lessons and the life skills learned along the way.
After four years of cross country and track, three years of Model U.N. and two years of journalism, I have tested my limits, grown as a person and prepared to venture into the real world.
Above all else, I have learned that things happen for a reason and that life has a way of guiding each and every person. If you are true to yourself and honest in your pursuits, you will be rewarded appropriately. The process works; the journey prevails. So don’t resist it, don’t sweat it and just go with it.
With help, support and inspiration from our teachers and our peers, we make it. The people who understand the pain, who share in the joy, who impart the wisdom of their life perspectives, these are the people who define the journey and, ultimately, define the individual.
Thank you, Mira Costa. Thank you for the friendships, mentors, lessons, experiences and knowledge. I am ready for Notre Dame and the rest of life!
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