You Will Die Here

What makes this so scary? Could it be the thousands of other students bumping into you like a pinball game? Could it be the adult seniors looking down on you as just a "stupid freshman?" Could it be impossibly hard classes that destroy your life (if you had one)? Could it be the eight feet tall jocks who you couldn't see over if you had stilts? Anyone of these things could cause the post-trauma anxiety and therapy that sometimes comes with the transition into high school.

Well, Dr.Bird is here to tell you that you have no worries. Contrary to this title you will not die. You may be brutally injured, but that's not a problem, is it? I understand that this will be a scary time of your life, but we have lots of advice to answer all of your questions. Today's topics include:teachers, seniors, getting involved, and work load.

First of all we need to talk about the teachers. Now that you are maturing, hopefully, as an adult your teachers are going to look at you differently and you need to adjust. They no longer babysit you and hassle you over every little assignment. When it comes to your work, you do it or get a bad grade. Teachers no longer care more about your grade than you do. In fact, you could almost consider them your peers. Some freshman will still look up at them as the super heroes and mediators of our every little bit of life, but they aren't. Now, they are just our mentors there to teach us something new. You can treat them almost like friends, but don't get too personal.

Secondly, we want to talk about the uppper classmen. During your stay at high school, you may think that upper classmen will always be hounding you and bullying you because you are smaller. It's not like that at all. Most seniors have matured enough to know how you are feeling and also don't worry about you as much. In fact, they really don't care, in an apathetic sort of way. You may get targeted as being immature though and that is just because it is probably your nature to do stupid things and still act childish. If you want to avoid comments like that behind your back, just try to be a little more respectful and decent, but dont' can your fun side either.

The thing you will probably her most in high school, as the number one advice is get involved. When you're sitting in the homecoming assembly on hard bleachers for two hours, and you're bored half to death, they will ask the seniors for advice for incoming freshman. You will hear approximately sixty times, "get involved." They'll tell you to do as much as possible before you leave high school. Well, that's only partially true. You can't join "Feed the Squirrels" if you hate squirrels, and don't go to games if you don't like the sport (unless you're really spiritful.) You should do a lot in high school but only do things that you're truly interested in. Otherwise, school becomes boring.

The last thing we have to discuss is the most important. In middle school there were a lot of people who got away with doing minimal work and gettting great grades. Not going to happen in the big school. Teachers want to see you learn and progress. You can't think about breezing through high school with great grades. Here you will be pushed right off the bat harder than before (but definately not the hardest) and you will have to step up to the plate and realize that you're going to be challenged. Do the work, learn the material, have fun. You are working in classes you chose so you should want to do the work. High school has to prepare you, and you if you won't let it prepare you, and slack off, you will utterly fail and be one of the sixty billion teenagers who fail school anc become hobos.*

So this has been Dr.Bird's school transition session. Please come back next time when we talk about bomb threats and biology.

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*Fictional statistic created for dramatic effect.