End of High School

Well it's come down to it: April of my senior year and all I have to worry about for school are the AP Tests, a few miscellaneous projects, and my senior project evaluation. Now I'm headed to the small liberal-arts college of Danville, Ky known as Centre. It's a fine institution, with only about 1,215 students or so, and it has a high reputation. Hopefully, I can engage some not-so-sure/open-minded liberal types to join with the Socialist Party, but one step at a time. My goal is to get a Kentucky chapter of the SPUSA started at some point, mainly with some people in Louisville I know who might be interested. Further, becaue Centre uses Sodexo as their food supplier, I could work with the Student/Farmworker Association during their college campus "Dine With Dignity" campaign. In short, I have a lot of options open.
Beyond the travails of political campaigns, the end of my high school career has had me thinking about my school career. I have been to three different high schools, and it has been a strange experience at times. I was a member of my Freshman high school's track team (a 2 mile distance runner, I sucked), and I was also involved in the mock-government Kentucky Youth Assembly sponsored by the KY YMCA from Freshman to Junior year and I loved it. I also wrote for my community's youth section of the newspaper some in junior year, I did the local county teen court, with other various activities here and there. Senior year has seen me do two play productions at my high school and work with a refugee family from Bhutan for my senior project.
In short, although I wasn't a huge fan of the high schools I attended freshman to junior year, my high school career has been pretty damn good overall: I made a lot of friends, I have explored from Ohio, New York, and Chicago to Rome, Florence, Cannes, and Paris, and I will miss it. But if this has been only a taste of life so far, I can't wait for the main course. I love my family and my friends, and will miss them all, but I am about to move past the threshold of youth and enter adulthood.