Freshman year is the year when it all starts. People make a huge deal of your first day of high school, but is it really that big of a deal?

Picture this: You are moving into a brand new school that’s three times larger as your last one. The night before you go over your new schedule trying to place out all of your classes. You are feeling anxious not knowing what’s to come. The next day you wake up early just to get ready and you already have your outfit set out. Finally, it’s time for you to go to school – your nerves are now getting the best of you. You are texting your friends in order to meet up before class starts.

When the first bell rings, you start to walk to your first class, even though you don’t know where it is. You start wandering around the school with your map, stressing out about that one class is. Surprise!  You passed your first class three times. Once class starts, you finally take a breath knowing you’ve made it to your first class. The teacher starts to do role call and you think you have made it! It turns out you were wrong; your whole schedule got changed around for no apparent reason. Instead of having your first period in P building, it’s now in K, all the way across the school. Now, all of the classes that you’ve mapped out the night before don’t even matter. Your teacher orders you to your new class and luckily gives you a pass, but you still don’t know where it is.

After walking all around the school, you finally find it. You are 12 minutes late to class and everyone is looking at you – so much for being inconspicuous. Uncomfortably, you walk to your teacher saying you got a schedule change. After that traumatic experience, you take your seat next to some random person you don’t even know. Luckily, class just starts up again putting you at ease.

The next few periods go as you planned, except that all of your classes are not where you planned them to be. Your third period goes smoothly as well, except you don’t know what lunch you have. Some of your friends are telling you that you have first lunch and others say you have second lunch. You start to walk to your fourth period not knowing which lunch you have. Once you get there your teacher says you have first lunch right now. Well, at least you know now! You text your friends to see what lunch they have and with your luck, you only have one friend at that lunch. I mean at least you have one friend, right?

You meet up with your friend and go try to find a table to sit at, but all of them are full. Shocker! So, all you can do is just sit outside a building on the floor. Lunch wasn’t that bad, even though it was blazing hot and you couldn’t find a table to sit at.

The rest of the day goes by. You get 6 syllabuses from teachers who you don’t even know their names. At the end of the day, you’re going home thinking about your first day, but it wasn’t that bad, was it? Then you realize that you have to do this all over again tomorrow.