A Word about FRESHMAN

Okay, I haven't updated my blog since last summer, practically a year ago. But, I am (somewhat) more responsible, so I plan on keeping up with it this time.

      

 I am going to describe a small scenario...

           You're walking to the store to buy some icecream for your mom. (She is pregnant, and therefore craving icecream, and therefore violent.) You notice a big pit covering most of the road leading up to the store. Well, you have three options: you could go home, you could walk into the pit and call for help, or, you could find another way around the pit.
Since we're moving on to high school, I'm going to talk about FRESHMAN.

Dictionary definition (Dd): [noun]1. a beginner; novice 2. a student in the ninth grade in high school, or one in the first year of college. [adj] of or for first-year students. famous syn: freshmeat.

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Of course, it's the same old problem: freshman being traumatized, beat up, and "scarred for life". It's like what happens in movies: people at the top fall to the pits. From reigning superiority in middle school to lint on somone's shoe. Sad, but part of the process. The only comfort in all of this is that everyone has to do it. I would love to say that it's not true, we're all equal, and that the freshman hazing never happens outside of movies. However, this blog does not support, encourage, or create fairy tales for those looking for Nothing But the Truth. Could I tell you how to survive freshman year? Pshh, NO-I haven't even been there myself!
But I did put up a link with some tips from someone more experienced.

                   Going back to the story, let's say, you decided to go home. As soon as you open the door without icecream in hand, a china dish goes flying over your head. A chair aimed for your abdomen goes crashing into the wall as you run up the stairs and lock yourself in your room. Then you realize that you wanted some icecream...you WANTED that Rocky Road! (Or Strawberry Delight or Cookies n' Cream, whatever.) With your mom raging downstairs, scaring your poor father to death, you regret not attempting to surpass that pit...of course this whole scenario symbolizes your high school experience. The pit describes your fall, which I described earlier. If you think you can't take high school, give up, and go home, you're going to regret it. Why-because the icecream symbolizes the friendship, good times, high school memories, and diploma that you can obtain. And you WANT that icecream! "I scream for icecream" takes on a whole new meaning. Plus, the rampaging mother scene symbolizes the hell you and others will have to go through if you don't finish high school and get your credits. Okay, no more sap!

           Then let's say you try to walk around it, or worse, do a running jump, but fall in anyway. It's going to hurt, but eventually you'll either be able to climb out or someone will help you. When you get to the store and buy your icecream, you find that it was worth it..especially on a hot day like this. So obviously, you're going to try and avoid freshman turmoil and suffering, but you eventually will get a dose of it. No matter how tragic, horrible, or humiliating it seems, the icecream will be well worth it. I can't tell you (obviously) the satisfaction of walking by the kids who didn't get the icecream for whatever reason. You will be glad you got your diploma, knowledge, and friendships in a cold world like this...

           Now you're probably thinking it would be pretty easy to just walk around the pit without falling in. You're right. In that scenario, you could totally do that. But when talking about the freshman experience, it's easier said than done. I wish everyone good luck with this school year wherever they are, freshman or not. :)


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