Uni High Gargoyle Staff Blog

It has finally really truly hit me that I am going to be a senior next year. And that this year’s seniors, the Class of 2007 … well, they’re going to be gone.

There will be no more upperclassmen. The members of the Class of 2008 will be the rulers of the school. There won’t be anymore upperclassmen to talk to, no one to talk to about classes that they had taken last year. This strikes me as odd, and scary, but exciting all at the same time.

When I first walked into Uni as a scr … no, sorry, prospective student, I was in awe of the current seniors. They were so … big. And scary. It didn’t help that they day that I was there, many of them were dressed up because they had senior debates that day. They were big, and grown-up, and completely untouchable.

There was the same aura of mystery surrounding the seniors during my freshman and sophomore years. However, that disappeared this year. The seniors this year weren’t terrifying; they were actual people who I could have long conversations with, commiserate with, laugh with.

And next year, it’s hard to think that I am going to be one of those seniors that I was so frightened of. I don’t think I’m that big; in fact, I’ve grown a maximum of maybe four inches since I came to Uni. And I don’t think of myself as a very scary person at all.

Funny how perspective changes.

— Michelle Gao

P.S. Over the summer when people ask you what grade you’re in, do you say the grade you just finished or the one you’re going to be in? Because I just think it’s obnoxious to say the grade I’m going to be in, because I haven’t actually experienced being in that grade yet; but on the other hand, I don’t want to say I’m in a grade that I already finished. Oyyy.