This Friday seniors are getting their graduation caps and gowns to celebrate and cherish their transition from high school to either the vast job space or college. Either way, this wardrobe is an outlook on the accomplishment that is graduating from high school.
Senior Jonathan Squires is one graduating senior who feels that the cap and gown is, “ a symbol for making it so far” and that it feels “pretty rewarding” to have made it. In reminiscing, Squires says that if given another chance would have “tried a little bit harder, trying to get a little more well-rounded experience instead of focusing on one area. Instead of taking so many computer classes I probably would have taken more art classes to do expressive stuff more.”
In the words of another graduating senior Aditya Sharma, he feels that it is instead a, “symbol of maturity, growth [and] a new chapter.” He said that he has grown to “mentally overcome challenges” and boasts that because of this, he has now become the academic legend in relation to the way Michael Jordan is to sports.
Given an opportunity to redo high school, Sharma said he “would have tried to have a little more fun…maybe get involved in fun extracurriculars, sports. Not everything is about academics.”
As for where they plan to go after picking up this regalia, Squires plans on going to Cedarville University to strive for a physics degree as he has a great scholarship, while Sharma stated that he plans on working on pre-medical studies.
If the seniors could talk to their younger selves before, Squires would pass down “to be a good example to others around you,” while Sharma would have told himself “Learn to have fun. Enjoy yourself. It doesn’t come back again.”
