As I make an attempt to write this letter to reflect on my time here at Milford High I really do not know what to say that will fully capture everything. My name is Audrey Rice and I am a senior here at Milford in my final days with graduation quickly approaching. When I was going into freshman year the thing people told me the most was that high school goes by in a blink of an eye. In the moment I didn’t believe them and I still kinda don’t because these past four years felt like the longest years I have ever experienced. Particularly junior year, was the longest year, at least for me. I was struggling a lot mentally due to things going on in my personal life and then had a death in the family on top of it. Making school the last place I wanted to be; however, that led to even more stress because junior year is the year you’re supposed to do well in class and take all your AP’s. Before you’re a senior and need to get everything ready for college; however, slowly as the year passed things got better because I began to surround myself with people who made me enjoy being in school. Even if it was listening to me crash out, going on walks with them, or just sitting in Mr. Caz flex laughing about something so stupid made me really feel better. So thank you to all those people. 

 Also high school is where I have made some of the best memories with my best friend, Lucia, and almost all of our inside jokes. From falling up the c-wing stairs, watching the ceiling leak into buckets scattered all over the school, sitting in biomed doing absolutely nothing with Lucia, leaving physics almost every single day, her watching movies every single day in that class, me slipping on ice in the courtyard, and so many more the list could go on. Some of these happened this year and some three years ago, but we still sit here and laugh about it. 

Going back to what people told me I also kinda agree with them because it really does go by so fast. I felt like I had so many things I wanted to do but never did because I always ran out of time. That is my biggest piece of advice to all the under classmen: get more involved. Find something that you enjoy whether it is a club or a sport. I know it’s cliche but it’s true, don’t care what others think. I spent most of high school caring about what others thought and not being myself, but as I have grown and really found out who I am as a person I have learned that it’s not that deep. Getting to do something that you enjoy with people you like can be really fun without caring what people might think of you. Even just try and make more of an impact on the school overall, for example get involved with student government, run for president of a club, start a club, but most importantly don’t be afraid to join things. Overall my high school experience wasn’t bad. Did it have moments that weren’t great and times when I really didn’t want to be there, yes. However, letting yourself just have fun with all your friends for 7 hours can actually be enjoyable and make for some really good moments. So good luck to all the other seniors with whatever you do after graduation and to the juniors, sophomores, and freshman you will be exactly where I am before you know it. So don’t ruin everything about high school, let yourself enjoy some things about it, trust me it makes everything ten times better