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Wood-Ridge High School Analysis

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There are no words that can express my desire to end my last year of schooling at Wood-Ridge Junior Senior High School. Recently I was chosen to speak at a prospective student's event where I had to explain to an audience of parents why I loved being a W-R Blue Devil. Frankly, I was shocked with how much emotion and attachment I have towards W-R. I always have known that my years roamed around those halls would imprint in my mind forever, but I would have never thought of crying at the thought of exiting them for the last time. But as you can probably predict that is what occurred. I will write to you what I told the audience as I deem it relevant to our purpose. Wood-Ridge High School isn't Bergen Academies or in this case Pascack Valley. The fact is Wood-Ridge isn't simply a school to me. I don't even consider …show more content…

Opportunities I have been lucky enough to have. Currently I am president of The National Honor Society, Environmental Club, the Yearbook editor and Debate captain as well as a commissioner for the Bergen County Status of Women. All of which I treasure with my heart. In each and every one lays my blood, sweat, and tears. Those hallways have seen me endeavour some of my greatest successes and my even greater failures. But that's just the surface of what this school symbolizes and represents. Yes, I love participating in every single activity I do and prosper in, but it's beyond that. It's about walking through the front doors in the morning, opening my locker, and Mr. Colarusso announcing the designated block letter for the day even though regardless he knows I'll ask again at least three more times. It's about truly knowing my teachers, my coaches, and my advisors. As much as they have seen me mature, they have also been on the journey with me. It's watching Ms. Barrow's be promoted from Guidance Counselor to Vice Principal and still be so dedicated to my college

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