High School Teenagers

"Teenagers are the most misunderstood people on the planet. They are treated like children and expected to act like adults."

"My favorite quote at the moment is, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.' It's from a pretty famous movie (Ferris Bueller's Day Off). In the context of our busy academic schedules, we tend to forget the most mundane, heck, just human aspects of what makes us us. So many times in the stats (statistics) room in the morning I'll be stressing over something, and then just look around the room and just realize how lucky I am to have so many friends I can just walk up to and start a long conversation with."

"I started trying (in high school) super late. I didn't care about my future until last year while the people I surround myself with started caring from the beginning. They have a plan (for college and their future) and know exactly what they have and what they can do while I'm still in the process of figuring that out myself. But, like, I've reached a point where it's like, 'I'm where I'm at because of what I've done.' The mistakes I've made have put me in my position and you just accept it eventually and you try to make do with what you have. It might be too late for some things but it's never too late to try your best with what you have. People end up where they are meant to (be). Things may not go the way you want but whatever happens happens for a reason, and you just have to trust the process."