Post by Brittany Inglis, a member of our fantastic blogger team.
We are now well and truly over halfway through 2018, but for many students, especially in Year 12, we are looking down the end of the barrel. On Wednesday the 21st of November, I and thousands of other Year 12 students across Victoria will have officially finished our thirteen years of schooling.
Personally, I am terrified to leave the routine I have had for five days a week over the past thirteen years of my life. It’s not only this that scares me – there’s also the fact that friendships I have had for what feels like forever, and even the new ones, will most likely dwindle away when people go their own ways.
The thought of even having to be an adult in an adult world scares me. I’m sure I cannot be the only one in the state who feels this way: scared. However, one thing I can say is that the knowledge we have learnt will take us along many paths throughout our lives. I don’t just mean the biology, the English, the global politics, the physics, or even the math we have been taught – I mean the life skills Year 12 has taught all of us.
It has definitely been a long, sluggish year for all of us, but I know that my cohort (and I’m sure every other one) has come together in ways we never thought we could. The teamwork, compromising, tactfulness through the bouts of explosive stress, the compassion and ways to cope with stress – these things we have learnt will follow us through each day of our new lives.
Change is not a bad thing. It is only the beginning to a different path.