Senior Reflection: Lalandra Verser

–30– has been traditionally used by journalists to indicate the end of a story. For seniors -30- will signify their last story on the Prairie Dog staff.

I remember when I walked into Grand Prairie High School in August of 2015. I was a little girl excited for High School ready to get away from middle school. I was ready to start the new chapter of my life. Even though I was so excited for high school, in the middle of my freshman year I realized I wasn’t ready for this I missed middle school. High school sucked.

I honestly just wanted to be done with school so bad. High school wasn’t hard, it was just a different environment. No one was chill everyone just got on my nerves. It was different from middle school because I knew everybody. Now I knew a few and there was so many people. One thing I did like was the work was so easy and to be honest, I was more free because there wasn’t someone watching my every move.

Years passed and I just became more and more impatient. All I wanted was to graduate. My sophomore and junior year became more chill. As they passed, I felt a little better from when I first walked in. Finally, I became a senior and I was like "finally, I’ve been waiting for this." I kept asking myself what took so long for me to get here. There’s was one thing I realized I didn’t prepare myself for and it was college. I became stressed when I realized all the things I had to do just to simply get accepted in a college.

Thankfully I had teachers to guide me, but it didn’t end there. I had to figure out how I was going to pay for college and thank god we have FAFSA and scholarships. College has made me want to stay in school and get everything organized and well planned out. After some months though, I finally have it down. I know where I’m going to school, my tuition is paid off and I have everything scheduled and planned out. After these four years I can say I’m proud of myself. I’m so thankful for all my teachers and my parents and mostly God for helping me through this chapter. Now I’m so happy and ready to become an young adult.

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