Ramya+R

http://animoto.com/play/2DCVL1xvm4OYgdaZxIUmCQ?autostart=true

I don't remember a lot from freshman year, except for feeling really small. I mean, I'm still pretty short now, but I feel like in high school, you do a lot of growing up in such a short period of time.

I began freshman year at the Annex, with a group of friends that I didn’t intend on changing any time soon. I'm still close to a few of them, but the majority of us went in different directions and I spent a lot of sophomore year trying to find the perfect people I wanted to surround myself with. I joined random clubs and activities, and decided to try out track. I've done it for three years now, and discovered how much I love to run, even though I didn’t exactly try too hard on the team.

Marching band’s where I found my niche in high school. I’m not that great at trumpet, but I joined because most of my friends were doing it and it became a huge part of my life. The last four years, I’ve spent more time on charter busses than I have in my own bed, formed a group of friends that have become a second family, and had the old band director become a huge role model. Senior year I became a section leader, or a captain in band, and became accountable for someone other than myself: a group of smart alecky kids who I've shared both difficult and fun times with, and really care about.

My family seemed to grow exponentially in high school, with at one point nine people living in my house. Out of my family, I’m closest to my mom and little brother, who is four years old. It's weird but it's nice to have someone around who only wants to play Spiderman (or Diego the Explorer depending on the week) when school gets old.

Towards the end of high school, I began to relax a lot more, enjoying the people around me rather than studying. Even though I didn't get into my first choice college, I don't think I regret how many memories I've made in high school. I'll be studying History at NC State next fall ,and really, I can't wait.

Because I'm indecisive and love Conan and Grey's Anatomy equally, I'm ending with a mixture of two quotes:

"...What I wish for all of you is the bad as well as the good. Fall down, make a mess, break something occasionally. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. Until we finally understand for ourselves ...that knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying. " -Conan Grey's Anatomy