First Day Not Nearly As Bad As Anticipated

Freshman Hell - Part 2

There was a time when I thought of high school only one thing came mind: duct tape.

I had always imagined that my first day as a freshman would be spent hanging upside down in some senior’s locker. I heard all the horror stories and believed every one of them. So you can imagine that on my first day of high school at Lewis and Clark I was so nervous I thought I would wet my pants.

The thought of going into that maze of a school all by myself chilled me to the bone. So, the night before, I frantically called my friend Anne and begged to join her carpool.

I had picked out what I was going to wear, like, two weeks before, and calculated the time it would take me to get ready down to the millisecond. When my ride pulled up, I turned and gave my parents a sad wave and headed out to the car.

The ride seemed to take forever and the whole time I was so nervous I thought I would hyperventilate. I managed to get out of the car with a little coaxing from my friends and walk though the front doors.

Once I was in, I knew it was too late to turn back, so I checked my schedule and managed to make my way to homeroom. One of my biggest fears was that I wouldn’t know anyone but as soon as I walked in, I saw my friend Abby and sat down next to her. I breathed a huge sigh of relief and started to think, “I can do this.”

So when it came time to move to first period, I slapped on a confident freshman smile and made my way through the halls. I was beginning to let my guard down just a little when I felt a pull on my backpack. With a gasp I thought, “Oh no, I’m being attacked.” I whipped around only to see my friend Rachel standing there, giggling. False alarm.

Overall, my first day went really well, considering that I found all my classes and only tripped on the stairs twice. By the end of the day, all my bad thoughts about high school were completely gone, and I knew I had been worrying over nothing. Most of my friends and the people I talked to felt the same way. Here are some comments from other frosh who survived the harrowing day:

“I wasn’t really nervous the first day, but I have an older brother to show me around,” said L.C. freshman Robby Crotty.

I found all my classes, that was no problem, but I didn’t have a sixth period on my schedule, so I had to go and sit in the library all by myself,” said Brittany Winters, a Ferris freshman.

Marques Johnson of North Central said his first day was pretty boring. “We did nothing but listen to the same thing from every teacher, I felt like I was in second grade.” He also said he tried really hard to stay out of the way of the seniors. “They were kind of scary.”

“I walked around forever trying to find this one class until I realized I was on the wrong floor,” said Carly Burns, a freshman at L.C. “And I kept tripping over my own shoes, which was not smooth.”

So hey, some stuff went wrong, but freshmen, I think we deserve a round of applause. We survived the first days of high school! And I hope I speak for everyone when I say nothing awful happened. I know I had a really great first week, and I didn’t even see one roll of duct tape!