Lauren Hodes- Week 21- Growing up

  Recently, it has come to my attention that I sadly can’t keep delaying the thought of college. Everyone always asks where do you want to go to college and I wish I knew the answer. It seems like so many people are set on a place and have a plan. So many names are being thrown at you at once Maryland? Florida? Michigan? Miami? Georgetown? I genuinely do not know how I am going to make a decision that will shape my entire life so soon. Where you go to college changes the direction of your life. I think I will just take a gap year. I want to go on Bar-Ilan gap year so much. I just don’t know if I want to start college at 17 and that’s okay. That is why I think a gap year would be a good option for me. I can’t believe that we will be seniors in a few months.

    I was walking to my car today after school and I look around and envy the little kids on the playground. When I was their age all I wanted to be was older but now being older I would do absolutely anything to be on the swings wearing a red dress and headband that says DKJA in sparkles. When we were in Kindergarten, in 2009, we got shirts that said “class of 2022” and that year seemed unimaginable. But here it is right around the corner: 2022. I have been on this campus ever since I can remember because I went to preschool here and was always here because of my older brothers. I found a picture of myself the other day from when I was 3 in Dedication plaza when Ellie and I took ballet together. That’s crazy to me because I sit there everyday and it will just be weird when this isn’t my everyday life.