Leap Day!

Hey! It's Leap Day! I love Leap Day because it really makes you think. For instance, thinking about Leap Day made me realize that when the next one occurs in four more years I will have already graduated from high school. Isn't that crazy? Well, it might not be for you, but it is for me!

This week is my February vacation, and so far I have thoroughly enjoyed my time off from school. I hate to say it, but it's true. A lot of adults have told me that my years in high school will be some of the best years of my life. Well, from all that I have experienced, this is not the case. High school for me has consisted mainly of stress and drama and bad teachers and homework and a lot of other stuff that I am not overly fond of.

The thing about high school is that you have to deal with four times as much drama as you did in middle school and all the years before that. In middle school (at least at my middle school) each grade is sort of in their own little world. You have different hallways, different classes, different teachers, different everything. This large amount of separation means that overall, you really only have to deal with the drama that occurs within your own grade level.

But in high school, everything changes. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors are all mixed together all day long- same classes, same hallways, same lunch times, same teachers, etc. This means that at the end of the day, you are ultimately dealing with drama from all four grades. The drama itself is stupid, but it's also distracting and annoying and it's all people ever want to talk about! I'll be trying to have a conversation about books or schoolwork or whatever and they'll be like, "Have you heard that so-and-so broke up with her boyfriend?" And I just want to shout, "I DON'T CARE!!!"

Ten years from now, it won't matter who was going out with who, or what rumors people were spreading. What will matter is who you become and how you choose to spend your life. If you choose to spend the rest of your life gossiping, then by all means, get a head start now. But if you're hoping to do something productive and meaningful in the future, then stop arguing over whether that girl is pregnant or just fat! Stop spreading stupid rumors and poking fun at others and worrying about your social status! You can have fun and hang out with your friends and still have good grades and be a good person. Some people may think it's impossible or completely unachievable, but it definitely is not.

So this post that was supposed to be about Leap Day has turned into a rant about high school... sorry about that. And I hate to sound all negative, because some things have come out of high school as well. I've gotten closer to my friends and I've made new ones, and I've actually met some nerdfighters, which is amazingly cool. So maybe high school isn't all bad. It's just different.

Where will I be on the next Leap Day? I hope it's somewhere really awesome, with a library not very far away.

Yours,
NutFreeNerd