Finding Your Theme

“MOMENTS” West Potomac High School, Alexandria, Virginia

When we look back on our high school experience, we won’t think of one specific memory or feeling to summarize our four years. Our time here is made up of individual moments ; snapshots in time that together make up our entire high school experience. From the start of the day at 8:10, we experience moments like running to our first period as the one minute song plays over the loudspeaker. Our days can be characterized by moments as important as scoring an A on your Algebra 2 final after thinking you were going to fail it, to as mundane as beating the buses out of the parking lot. No matter how big or small, our days, weeks, and months spent here were a compilation of the problems we encounter: funny things we Snapchat, happy achievements we share with friends and much more. We sat in the Main Gym on the first day of school for the all-school pep rally waiting for the moment when we would meet our new principal for the first time. Ms. Tanganyika Millard came out with a bang, bringing in a DJ and taking a moment to say hello and make a good first impression. “At this moment,” she said, “we all have perfect attendance and perfect grades. Let’s keep it that way.” This is not to say that perfect attendance and perfect grades are the measure of our worth, but we always have the opportunity for a fresh start, to take a moment to start again on a new foot. We live our lives in uncertainty, but we enter each day with the awareness that in high school, especially West Potomac, things are constantly changing. Though it’s difficult to stay in the moment , we must remember that… The moments we remember most are the ones we experience together.

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