Essay about Graduation: A Defining Moment

On the evening of June 5, 2015, it was the day of my graduation at Our Lady of Refuge Catholic School. I was somewhat nervous, but yet confident and proud of myself that I made it this far in my academic career, and to graduate was a bittersweet moment in my life. The sweet part was that I graduated and I was about to start a new chapter in my life which was high school! However, I didn't want to leave the school because everybody at that school was like a part of my family. When that day finally came, I was ready to enter in the Church with my class to begin the ceremony.

In one of my class at high school, I knew a guy that had studied in that class for few years but he couldn’t pass. That class was about improving reading, writing, and listening skills in English. He was also an immigrant like anybody else in the class. It wasn’t that bad for him because everybody had the same problems that they encountered. The graduation day was so significant that I felt really happy when walking on the street that I walked for one and a half year. The street didn’t seem that long like normal and I started missing the classes that I had taken. Although it was a tough period to go through, it gave you a feeling of victory of winning a battle. One and a half year aren’t long compared to four years in university, but it certainly contains more feelings and memory than the longer period. The day I graduated from high school, I felt more confident and ready for new challenge compared to the first day of a high school class. My parents were also present in

To all the high school seniors about to graduate, I first want to start off by saying you should be proud of yourself. There are plenty of people who never get to graduate from high school so don't take it lightly. Not only did you suffer through years of countless tests and pointless homework, but you also made it through the bullies, the breakups, and the endless drama. Don’t pretend it wasn’t a battlefield out there. If there’s one thing that I learned, it is that endings never work out the way you want them to—that they’re terrible, and this one is no different. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing the last chapter of a good book or the last afternoon of summer. Endings are like flat tires and wet pairs

Losing friends, meeting new people, first job, first car, boyfriend, getting my license. Throughout the last four years of high school I’ve experienced a lot of new things and learned a lot on the way. I remember walking into school on the first day of freshman year; I was thinking that these are going to be a very long couple of years. I was wrong; these past four years have gone by so fast, so I guess my dad was right when he said they’d fly by.

Noticing the waving hand of my friend, I headed to the far right corner. The procession started with a leading music. Everyone was restless to observe as the graduates walked in, especially their parents. Some were cheering intensely for their kids while others were acting serene. I saddened when I saw my Dad taking videos of other seniors on their way in. It wasn’t fair. And then I thought of my mom. She was more heartbroken over the guilt of being unable to provide enough by the given time. I didn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, my senior friends started doing their senior song. I smiled thinking of the whole last week that we spend to practice that. Watching them embody their song with a Dab and Milly Rock was truly cheering. After that, the

I was glad to see the summer finally end and my final year of college begin. As my senior year began, I had so many questions and so few answers.

Graduating high school is supposed to be the time in your life when you start to get everything together. I’d like to think that I’ve had enough examples in my life to learn from. But, in my experience, the longer you live, the more troubles you have to face and deal with. One of my very first experiences that has impacted my life and still does was my parents divorce. Now a days getting divorced is quite common and many children experience it, but everyone doesn’t experience it the same way. It was September 1, 2010 when the divorced was finalized. This was a very hard thing I had to cope with as well as my brother. It was quite scary actually. I was so used to my parents together and them being apart was a drastic change to my life. Things started to get rocky in their relationship and I

In the closing of my senior year, I experienced an emotion that I had not expected. I began to feel overwhelmed by disappointment. The last year of high school was meant to be memorable; unforgettable because of the excitement, not the disheartening moments. And yet, when surveying the previous months, those times were all I could remember.

It was right after eating yet another mediocre lunch, when it hit me that it would be one of my last. There were 4 days left until graduation and only 2 hours left until my Latvian language proficiency final. I then realized that in half a week I would never see the same group of people again. On the mile long walk back from the dining hall, I enjoyed the sound of the cicadas from the forests around me. I thought about the empty summers coming up that will not have a 6 week long Latvian summer high school to fill them up.

My friends and classmates, the people I'd been studying with for the past three years, all went to their first period classes and sat down. They were probably excited and ready, had probably been dreaming of this for so long, senior year, kings of campus, dancing at the edge of adulthood. Just one more year left til the real world. Carpe diem.

August 31, 2016, the first day of senior year. Just knowing that this is my last year in high school frightens me and worries me to death. It's scary to think that after this school year, I would have to go out into the “real world”. All throughout senior year, all that was being talked about was college. This scared me because I didn’t have a clue on what I wanted to do in life. I had no idea on what career I wanted to do neither did I know what college to go to. With all of this, college applications, college essays, financial aid, scholarship applications and all of the deadlines. It was stressing me out. All of this was happening now, and I needed to start figuring out what I want to do.

Graduation is one example of a time of celebration and honor. It is the reward you receive for multiple years of difficult work and perseverance. It is also an extremely bittersweet occasion because often times you are required to make difficult decisions. Decisions that could take you away from everyone and everything you have ever known. This is known as a time of transition. Honestly, it seems a bit anticlimactic that after all the emotions and preparation you do beforehand is all summarized within a few short hours. This is how the majority of my fellow upcoming graduates are feeling right now, but I do not.

At times the path to graduation may have seemed never-ending, characterized by unexpected obstacles and barriers. But there were also the many highlights to

My high school graduation was potentially one of the most eventfully tragic events in my school life. The months prior to my graduation were not at all uneventful, to say the least, but on one chaotic stormy night in May of 2017, my high school life ended, unlike any way I could’ve ever imagined it to be.

Dear graduates, just between us, tell me: are you done with High School? Are you ready to move on to new endeavors? I thought so. Perhaps some of you were ready months ago, right? Or even some of you thought that you were already ready when I was your soccer coach in Middle School! I promise I won’t tell that to Mr. Johnson or Mrs. Heilman. / However, on the other hand, that is how life works. Our life is full of temporary things. You keep moving on to the thing as the years pass.