What do you plan to do after high school?

“After finishing high school, I plan to attend university and major in elementary education. I want to become a teacher. Someone my students can trust, someone who makes them feel safe, understood, and valued. I believe that a part of me will always carry with it the version of myself. I hope to be making a difference and becoming someone I would be proud of. At the same time, I know that a part of me will continue to look back on these years and miss them more than I expected.”

How was your high school experience?

“I loved spending time with the people who matter to me, because I’ve learned that those moments don’t last forever. The little things, laughing out loud, random conversations, and sleepless nights are the ones that end up meaning the most.”

“I don’t think I have just one favorite memory. It’s all the moments I didn’t realize were important at the time, the laughs in the hallway, the conversations that felt endless, the ordinary days that somehow became everything. It’s strange how the things that felt so normal are the ones that are the hardest to let go of.”

“I will miss the people and how easy it was to see them every day, without realizing that it wouldn’t last the routines forever, the sense that tomorrow would always be just the same. It is hard to know that, on some ordinary day, we all walked out of there without ever realizing that it was the last time for so many things. High school wasn’t perfect. It was a little bit of everything: chaotic, noisy, emotional, and, somehow, it became a part of who we are, and I think the hardest part is knowing that, someday, we will all wish we could go back, even if only for a moment,” senior Fernanda Uribe said.