Surviving High School

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As a senior in high school, I have a lot of advice on how to survive high school that would benefit incoming freshman. The first piece of advice I have to offer is to figure out what is most important to you. If you want to be a star athlete, push yourself every day in the gym to be that much better than you were before; others might want to be a doctor so they spend a lot of extra time in the classroom getting all the help they can get. No matter what path you choose, figuring out the person you want to be after high school is the first step to surviving high school. The second piece of advice that I recommend, possibly the biggest one, is to walk on the right side of the hallway. Nothing bothers upperclassman more than students that walk

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