End of the Beginning

What this senior year has taught me is that there isn't a true end for our education in life and the relationships we all have made with each other throughout the experience. There is only an end to the beginning of it all. We now have the tools for success, it is in our hands.

I find it kind of funny how no matter what the staff may say about not bringing beach balls or things like that to graduation, and students still bring them. This just goes to show that the graduating class has a mind of their own. If they want something to happen, they won't let some guy in a suit tell them they can't do that, innocent as it may be. I'm just as guilty as anyone else that brought something to toss up as my friend and I snuck in two bags of tortillas (yes in our pants) to toss up in the air. It wasn't to spite the principal or to make a mockery of the ceremony, but to just simply have fun with people I usually never would have laughed with and to celebrate a little early. Having minds of our own is more or less what makes things happen in this world, to move forward.

So to the class of 2014, it is now up to us to make these coming years truly count, lets make it our own. You can really do whatever you put your mind to, and if it is good in nature and you truly want it, it will happen.

Masterpiece Essay

Harms 1

Taylor Harms

Doctor David Preston

Expository Composition

1 June 2014

                                                Entering the Other Side

            The beginning of senior year would fill each student with excited, anticipation, and ambition for the year to come, some students more than others, but it was universal. Coming into the Expository Composition course I was under the impression that we would be doing a lot of reading of articles or books, to be responded to later on. Singing up for it the previous year, I just basically picked a class enei-minie-moe style, but I couldn’t have chosen any better as I now have learned. I had no idea of what was about to come. When Dr. Preston explained what the course would really consist of, I was shocked. Never would I have imagined a course that actually encouraged electronic usage in the classroom and the internet as a basic medium for most of our work. He would remind us still that there may be substitutes for mediums and the method of learning, but there is no substitute for raw hard work and the most basic and efficient style of learning: when it comes natural. When it is relateable and doesn’t feel like our previous connotation of the word “learning”.