Adaptation

In a very subtle way, high school is a million times different than middle school. Sure, there are more specified classes and levels, classes are longer and more thorough, the work is much more strenuous, but it goes, often unnoticed, that high school shapes teenagers into independent workers. I'm a freshman at RMHS, and while it is easy for others to call me out on not knowing what to do in certain situations at the high school, everybody seems to forget that every subtle change adds up, leading to a big change in our character. It's just a matter of meeting up to expectations. I'm still settling in, even almost done with my first year, and I imagine I won't be completely comfortable with everything this place has to offer until I'm graduating. It's a continuous learning experience, even outside of school, because you have to adapt to the minimal amount of time you have to complete everything you have to do, something I could just let slide by me last school year. Nobody talks about how teachers often just expect you to do homework, not even checking it, or how if you want something to happen, you have to generate it yourself and nobody is going to baby you your way to meeting your goals. It's a subtle change, but that's for the better, because we're all just different species of class adapting to new schedules, new friends, and new expectations. Adaptations happen naturally in life outside, in the same way everybody inside adapts to a much more hectic style by just doing it. There's little to reminisce and talk with short remember whens... about how much simpler life used to be. If we had someone to tell us of each and every change that occurred as it did, there's no way we'd ever be ready for the real world.