Rules for High School #1: Middle School Graduation

So I'm really very good about updating this riiiight?

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I just have nothing to say about anything! So let's start a new segment.

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Rules for High School to be Cool and not a Fool like a Mule at a Pool.

As a high school senior, I'd say my ethos is pretty high! And I have learned alot, mostly that it's nothing like what people tell you it's going to be. Truly, it's something you have to experience for yourself. Also, I realize that my two named followers are both also high school seniors and definitely don't need to be reading this, but maybe some anonymous apprehensive middle schooler will stumble upon this and learn a thing or two. Plus it'd be fun to write :)

1. There is absolutely no reason you should cry at your middle school graduation.

Just throwing that one out there. While there are a few events during middle school where it is acceptable to shed a sophisticated tear or too (when saying goodbye to a life changing teacher or watching the slideshow of pictures of you and your friends), the graduation ceremony itself is no time to begin the waterworks. First of all, chances are that you have brought your entire family, and that your friends and even those kids you don't know have also brought all of their families. This ends up being a lot of people and a lot of awkward pictures in front of the venue. If you cry and end up looking like a wet raccoon, you're only going to add to the awkwardness of said pictures and you will not look back at graduation as a warm and fuzzy event. Secondly, a middle school graduation isn't a warm and fuzzy event. It's a weird thing where you're not really graduating from anything except from some of the most awkward years of your life. You can't stop schooling after middle school and expect to get a job with that flashy middle school diploma.

But the most common reason to cry at a middle school graduation is the fact that you might possibly never see some of the people again because they decide to transfer schools for whatever reason. I have one response to this excuse: get over it. A middle school graduation does not represent you "leaving the nest" or going off to some big city to start a new chapter of your life, it means that you're going to the big kid school down the street from your old school. And guess what? 99.9% of your friends are going there too. Sure you might be losing one of your school buds to an expensive private school, but also realize that there are 3 months between the graduation and the first day of high school. You and your friend will have plenty of time to see each other over the summer and surprise! It is possible to keep in touch with friends that don't go to your school. If you really care enough about a person who is moving away, you will make an effort to see them no matter the distance. And if you're not willing to go that distance, it's not worth wasting your tears on them at graduation.

So there you have it folks. Rule number 1. No crying at your middle school graduation.