Getting Ready for Freshman Year
Aug 19th, 2009 by Travel Reporter
High school can be a really scary experience. As a first year, you have to battle a lot of fears and preconditions about your new school. Our society likes to paint false images of high school through the media. Popular television shows the popular girls trekking around with Louis Vuitton Replica Handbags, and Balenciaga Replica Handbags making fun of everyone else. It had everyone separated into groups and cliques that can barely intertwine without something going wrong. You have to overcome fear from the rumors of freshman being hazed into the hallways. The first year of high school is a coming to age experience, not a painful one.
The social infrastructure of high school isn’t as confusing as it seems. Unless you fall into a twilight zone, it’s very unlikely that your high school will have rigid lines of separation. Cliques are pretty much things of the past. Everyone has the close knit group of friends, but there are no rules that say you can or cannot be friends with other people. If people like people that is all there is to it. In some high schools everyone is friendly to each other. It is a dime a dozen, but there are high schools where everyone knows everyone.
If you don’t think you can fit into a high school with so many people that you will never know everyone, you can go to a smaller one. If your community is too large, you can enroll in private school to get a smaller community. At a private or small school, you get the opportunity to branch out to everyone and get a hands on experience.
In addition, freshman don’t get hazed or bullied like people say. It is against the law to haze people anyway. Second of all, most high schools like to fuel healthy competition between years for fun and sometimes to be productive, but never to cause anyone harm. The battle between upperclassmen and the younger kids should never go beyond healthy bantering. Its is clearly wrong for any physical contact or extreme bullying. Principals and teachers will put a top to anything that could cause someone harm. Plus, what high school wants to have everyone ganging up again each other?
Managing your new work loads will be the scariest part of high school. Most people do extreme overtime in high school. You have to be an athlete, a good students, a friends, and a club member. Never before have kids been pushed to do so many things at once, but it is doable. What is high school without being stressed?
People just have fun trying to make freshman nervous, that’s all it is. No one will pick on you or tease you for your outfit. High school is a positive experience.
