As you look back over this school year how do you feel you have changed?

I've learned to let ppl in. Before, I was closed off to the world b/c the school I went to, eveyone knew me, and had a mold that I, like the zombie I was, automatically fitted myself to. Then, I changed schools. My entire life changed the first day. I could be whoever I wanted to be, and I was. I now have friends that I would trust with my life, and I've got a guy that absolutely makes me melt, and I'm letting him in, I'm telling him about me. I'm still working on being able to cry though, my whole life, I have never been able to cry in front of ppl, it was just too personal. I'm still like that, but I'm trying now. I guess mainly, I've grown, like most ppl do, but in my own way, and in my opinion, that is the meaning of life. Change is inevitable, but even if you change, stay yourself.
Rayne

Over the course of this last year, I have found out who my real friends are, and who those that I really don't care about are. I've decided what I want to do with my life, and I've started to become more organized. I've found myself in a way. I know what I want and what I don't want, even though I have to put up witha few things that I don't want until the end of the school year. As graduation approaches, I become more and more anxious to move on with my life, and leave high school. I know I've matured because I can tell how different I am from the underclassmen. Their antics annoy me, and I find them to become younger each day. I've definitely changed.
Ana

When I first entered my sophmore year of high school I was the little punk girl that everyone loved but nobody understood. I liked it that way and I thought that it made me more populer. In the middle of the school year I lost all of my punk friends and I began to see things clearly. I started to dress how I wanted to dress and I became my own person; which is what I had been fighting for the whole time. I learned a lot about myself and the power of true friends this year and I'm greatful that I learned this lesson now instead of later.
Angie

Well.... I dunno if I'm supposed to answer or what but I feel I've done a lot of things I never would have done if I didn't come to this new school.... just a lot more things I never even thought about and not all of them are necessarily true. I also learned a lot more about friendships and real life... but I got into some trouble too.
Nicole

Oh, what a question....I was just thinking about this today. I am a completely different person than I was a year ago. See, last year I was homeschooled. So this was my frist year of highschool. Over the year, I have made great friends, opened up more and become more outgoing and confident, and learned how to have fun. I've gotten closer to my two best friends. This has been my first year in band, and now I realize that I would be such a depressed person if I wasn't in band. It's where my friends are, and it's given me such a love for music. Last year I cared so much what people thought, I just wanted to be "popular", but this year I've learned that there is no "popular", you make friends and you have fun as long as it harms no one, and that's what matters. I'm also about to have to say goodbye to the graduating seniors, including my sister. It's going to be so hard. I feel good that I've changed so much and that I've got my life ahead of me, but then again I'm so afraid to have to deal with more emotional challenges. *sigh*
Casey

When I look back on my junior year in high school i see alot of things about me that have change dramatically. Last year at this time i was the picture of innocence. I was always in school i was always up doing the "good things" and i was totally devoted to school. Then i got my license. Then the weekends got crazy wild, i started to cut class whenever i felt the need, i study when i feel like it but still manage to pull a 3.0 and I do things that i sometimes shouldn't do. I am not a bad person now. But, I choose to think of myself as having changed to a more liberal and open minded person. I am not so discriminative to people and i have learned to love more people who aren't like me at all as a result of my changes. i ahve learned alot of lessons over the last year but i am glad it all has happened to me and i hope to grow as a person more in my senior year.
SugarBaby

i just realized how stupid a lot of girls can be. i'm a girl myself, & sometimes am ashamed of it, because of how stupid they can be... They get so attached to guys. & they do whatever they say. i guess i've changed in the aspect that i have more respect for myself than I used to. & i'm kinda a feminist now... but it's me, so it's OK
MaRiOrItY

i have opened up more. talking is part of healing. i am healing.
abberation

I have realized that i am more messed up then before. I have got all the 'wrong' attidudes about life now although I think I have matured a little bit and now have the right idea of what being a true person is.
Diana

I just stopped caring about what everyone else thinks about me because if they truly are my friends they won't care how I talk or dress.
Alizae

There are LOTS of things that have changed. But mostly, for me, it's my point of view. The way i think now compared to the beginning of the year; how i USED to complain about my friends, my body, my lack of talent...now i've learned to just ACCEPT them as they are instead of sitting around and pitying myself. And that's important - for now and for the future...to just move on.
sunshinegurl

i think that i have chnged but in a bad way maybe....cause i have become less outgoing in one area opf my life and i don't know how. it just happen.
jello

I realized that the people who say they'll always be there end up leaving anyway, and the only person you can truly depend on is yourself. I came to the conclusion that you should never let another person rule your life, because once they go, you're helpless.
Sarah

I am more independent when it comes to guys now. Before I was a big deal, but now I realize I can live single.
l4s2d0

My attitude about skool is different cuz I just wanna graduate and get the hell out!
~*Meri*~

I am once again living for me, and not anyone else....something I hadn't done since...1997. I'm soooo old now!
Zoya

I think learning more of me who I am and not who I am not. This school year wasn't easy because my dad died and I learned alot from him
Minna