Something I learned in High-School

 Hello Everyone,

    It has been a very long time. I don't know why I ever stopped writing these blogs; I love to do it. It is so awesome to have a stream of consciousness and an outlet to express my thoughts. 

    I am in my final days of K-12 education and it is a very weird feeling. I have enjoyed the journey very much and I have really tried to make the most out of it. I mean even the character progression I has throughout the four years of high school have been very important. I went into high school not really knowing who I was or what I wanted and I am leaving high school with a much better understanding of that. Every person I have interacted with, all have taught me a lesson. Some of those lessons are an example of an aspect of them I want to try and emulate and others provide an example of exactly what I don't want to do. When it comes down to it, that's the true value in school. It's not that I haven't become a better academic, because I have. But the social lessons and even lessons learned through playing sports and other extracurriculars are vital to understanding yourself as well as others around you.

    For instance, I feel like I learned more about the functions of government through doing Student Council more than I did in AP Government. I began to understand the complicated process of bureaucracy and that even if you feel like you have the best and most sensible idea, you have to work and compromise with others. It was a hard lesson to learn that others won't always be able to see the value in your perspective, but learning how to show that value to others and also how to compromise when people disagree was something that I feel like I can apply to the rest of my adult life.

 

    The thing is though, that high school is both of these kinds of learning, and they do go hand in hand. Even in this example, I was able to see the different types of government I was learning about in AP Gov come into play, when we were voting on things and seeing the process of how decisions were made. This demonstrates an issue in that school can give you all the information, but it is thinking about and applying that information that demonstrates its value, and most people (including myself in a lot of ways) never give themselves a chance to use what they learned or forget about it before they do. 

    Just like anything else, your education is what you make of it. (Notice how it is make and not made, because education is a life-long journey) In my life, I am trying to leave high school and not forget any of what I learned, whether it was in the classroom or playing sports or in my relationships with others. If I can use what I have learned and apply it to the rest of my life and expound upon those lessons in college, I will be a better man because of it.