Senior Graduation
High School Graduation and the Senior Prom
Some of the greatest parts of your senior year of high school will be your high school graduation and your senior prom. Your senior year is a time of growth and a time of change. This is when you will choose your college and discovering who and what you want to do for your career in life. This is also a time when you will have to prepare to leave most of your friends behind as you move into the world and discover new friends.
While your senior prom will be a time of celebration and your high school graduation gown can also be a time of celebration. It is a celebration of your change from being a high school student, to becoming a member of the adult world. While it may be years before you grasp what being an adult fully means, with the hard choices, you will be getting your first taste of it at your high school graduation.
Your senior prom, basically a party, with food and music, is also the beginning of your time to say good bye to the friends you have made in these 4 years since you started as freshmen four years ago. You are celebrating the change that will eventually lead you into adulthood. This is a time when you grow from being a high school student, a big fish in a small pond, to a college student, a small fish in a big pond. While you will always remember your high school sweetheart and your best friends, you most likely will have to say good bye to them.
Your high school graduation is also a time of celebration and change. As you sit through what, at the time, may seem like a very boring ceremony. You will come to look upon this time as a beautiful moment. You will see your high school graduation for what it is, your community coming together to celebrate your change from a student to an adult.
When it comes time for you to attend your senior prom, then on to your high school graduation, take the time to make memories. Enjoy your remaining time with your friends and let go of them with pride, knowing that although you are leaving behind the friends who have been there for you these past four years, you are stepping into a world where you will make more friends. As we grow, we change and with this change comes the letting go of the old and embracing the new.
I know that change can be scary, especially when it seems that you are doing it alone, but instead of thinking of it like it is something that will just change you, think of it as growth and maturity that has lead you to this point. Although your friends and yourself will be going different paths that may never intersect, this is the way of adulthood. This is a time of letting go of the past and moving on to the future.
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What are your wild high school graduation/senior trip stories ?
Hello.I'm in high school and in 2 days I'm going on a high school trip with my mates for 10 days and hope I will have some wild fun.We're going in Budapest,Paris,Munchen and Luxembourg.What are your crazy stories?
That's awesome, you're very lucky to have such a trip! Have fun, be safe, take pictures!
Well, my story is, I never went ;[
Why no one answer? Well, my senior trip was supposed to be to a lake I think. I can't believe how awesome your trip sounds, must be a good school
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Choosing Graduation Announcements That Reflect Your Personality
When the years of study are completed and it's time to choose your graduation announcements it's important to make your choice stand out as a reflection of your personality. After all your hard work, it's important to proclaim your accomplishment with an announcement that doesn't look like the same one every other student in your graduating class may send!
When choosing a graduation announcements, there are many options available but there are a few factors to consider before taking the plunge.
First, are you graduating from high school or college? High School Graduation Announcements are very differently-styled than college graduation announcements. Whereas graduation announcements designed for high school students often include features such as the word "Seniors", a senior crest design and a class motto and often feature bold colors and design, college graduation announcements are generally more refined. Graduation announcements for college may feature designs that reflect your field of study, the year you graduated, or traditional college-related icons such as ivy or columns.
Home school graduates have even more flexibility in choosing their announcement style. Not tied into particular school or class colors, or even mascot designs, they may choose to strike out in personalizing their announcement with a special Christian design or icon related to their particular extra-curricular interests and can choose to personalize their announcement with their favorite colors and sayings.
Are you more traditional or modern? Traditional announcements have been the standard style for years but are losing ground in recent years to more modern styles as young graduates seek to express their individuality. Traditional announcements typically feature a French-fold paper with foil designs and thermographed ink printing. Modern printing techniques now allow for digital printing with multiple background color options, photos printed right on the announcement and layout options never-before realized in traditional graduation announcements.
What is your budget for announcing this momentous event? Your school may make graduation announcements available to you at a very inexpensive price, but there are drawbacks. When ordering through the school's chosen supplier, you must make your decision very early, often before winter break! And they offer you exactly one style of announcement to choose from, one ink color, one typestyle. Fine if you want your announcement to look exactly like the one the kid sitting next to you in Senior English is sending out. Not fine if you are an individual with unique ways of expressing yourself. Fortunately, there are options available for truly personalized announcements ranging in price from very affordable to all-the-bells-and-whistles, and when you're working with a stationer specializing in graduation announcements, you can have your very own uniquely-personalized graduation announcement in as little as one week so you can find the perfect paper to announce your graduation!
About the Author
Joyce Buczek is the president and owner of Invitations4Less.com, an online discount stationery retailer since 1999.
