Personal Narrative: Life After High School

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"Why are you doing this? Why don’t you just stay the extra year? You know colleges don’t like high school students who haven’t been in high school for four years?” These are just a few of many questions that I get when I tell someone I’m graduating early. I have received a ton of support from my family and friends, but I have also received a lot of criticism from people. Either way, I believe I have made a great decision. I am a person who’s constantly seeking some sort of challenge. So when my father proposed the idea of graduating early, I leaped at the opportunity. I was taking high school classes while I was in middle school, and I was already planning to take summer school classes. When I started high school, I started talking to my counselor

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