The Anticipated Walk

I have been dreaming of this moment since I was a young child and it had finally came. It feels like a dream and I can't believe it finally came and gone.
When I first entered high school, I thought I wouldn't make it. My classes felt boring and I could not stand high school. The first week finally went by and before I knew it, it was at the end of the school year. My freshman year was the year I learned to stop gloating and to choose my words carefully. I can specifically remember being in biology towards the end of the year and a bunch of us were huddled into a corner where we pranked called Dr. Pepper.
My sophomore year finally came and I was ready to start learning my career program. Little did I know I would have thoughts of leaving that school and never come back. Teachers quit in the middle of the year leaving us feeling hopeless.
Junior year came around the corner and it was a year closer to being a senior. Teachers came and went in my magnet school (that I went half day to) and taught the wrong material from the wrong text book. I was making decisions in SPHS to drop my physics class to take forensic science, which I absolutely loved. I can recall a time over in my magnet school where a bunch of my classmates put a skeleton in front of the door to try and scare the substitute teacher and let's just say the whole class was laughing at her when she screamed it wasn't funny. It was that year that I realized nursing wasn't for me.
Senior year finally came this year. The most anticipated year. I wanted the year to fly by and to get into my dream college. At the same time I was taking online classes as a concurrent enrollment student with BYU-Idaho. I did get into BYU-Idaho and I can remember the sheer excitement when I got my acceptance letter. Senior year was a year that went back quickly. I really, really wish I didn't wish it by so fast, I wish I could have taken it more and just have enjoyed it. Now, I am realizing that I will be out of this house in three months and I will be all on my own. It's crazy, but I guess I'll have to fend for myself.
Today was graduation. Like I said, it feels and felt like a dream. As they told us it was time, my heart started to race. It was happening, the moment that I dreamed of. I was towards the end of the line and as I got closer to the stage my eyes started to water. I am not going to see most of my classmates for a long time, it is odd since I went to elementary and middle school with most of these people. I was the sixteenth person to get my diploma! Anyway, we, the class of 2013 did it! It's been crazy, but it has been worth it. As one chapter closes, a new one opens. We have taken our first steps into adulthood. This September I will be finding myself in a whole different state, attending college at BYU-Idaho for Communication.