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So, tonight was my Senior Banquet and Bash, since today was our last real day of classes (classes really end the 13th, but Monday we're doing a BBQ outside, and the 13th is a trip to Six Flags). The bash was awesome, we went to this huge sports center, and there was so much to do. I did karaoke a few times with friends and we just had fun being stupid. I won a candle (door prize), and then two stuffed animals from one of those crane machines.

The banquet was really nice, and before Bash. We heard advisors speak, and one of our class advisors did a roast of many students... which was hilarious.

We then watched a whole slide show of just lots of pictures from over the four years in high school with music from Green Day (Time of Your Life), Sarah McLachlan (I Will Remember You), and Vitamin C (Graduation). Needless to say, I cried. It really made me think about the four years... We had all grown up together those four years, seven for some of us. We had been through the good and bad times, and everything was the same every year; we'd come back to high school next year and go through the same schedule. But this time... when we walk across that stage and take that piece of paper that we worked so hard for, we won't be coming back.

We'll be out in the "real world", and some people we won't ever see again, and we'll lose touch. No more being late for class and still getting away with it, or walking around the halls just one more time on our trips to the "bathroom", or fun times in lunch, or home coming, or assemblies, or pep rallies... It's going to be a very bittersweet farewell for most everyone.

Some people I know I'll still see, since we'll be going to the same college, and they'll still be in town, but others... they're going to college miles away. It'll just be so weird to not have the same class clowns you knew crack jokes, and even if they were old, we all laughed.

I know I'll miss lunch the most. Over the years, this one in particular, I made new friends, friends I'm not ready to say goodbye to yet. I'll miss all the fun times we had doing stupid stuff in the cafeteria, and then laughing about it like it was the funniest damn thing that had ever happened. I'll miss all the times in classes when something, or someone would be so funny and the whole class, including the teacher, is laughing so hard they're crying.

I can't help but be nostalgic about the whole thing, even though I'm anxious to be free from high school. When I walk across that stage and take that diploma, a chapter of my life will be closing, and I'll be faced with new challenges as a new chapter opens.

Part of me doesn't want to leave just yet, but I know I have no choice... and I really wouldn't want to go through another year of high school, even if I'm going to miss it.