For any senior out there, graduation is an exciting time, whether or not you want to graduate and take on the responsibilities life plans on throwing at you, or if you wish you could stay a kid forever, carefree and untroubled. However, graduation is also an exciting time for us underclassmen. Some of our senior friends are leaving for college and maybe even a brother or sister is about to leave to some faraway place.

However, the excitement might also be caused from another source, perhaps, something related to the pressure freshmen receive from the seniors or the lesser attention they receive. Seniors are a big part of Wenatchee High School because of the fact that they’re about to embark on the journey of life.

But, high school is a big part of a freshman’s life, too. This is the year that school is becoming something more serious and less laid back. This is the year that they become the underdogs instead of the older, more matured eighth-graders. In my opinion, the freshmen could have a bigger focus too throughout the school year, for our only real focus is during the very beginning of the year when we have the freshman orientation. And during that time, our small fame is just expressed to the teachers, not the rest of the school who thinks that we are just annoying newbies to the whole high school thing. In reality, we’re just adapting — just preparing for the next four years ahead of us. The seniors of 2014 were just annoying freshmen too; nervous and apprehensive about what’s to come.

Now the class of 2014 are freshmen at a different scale. College freshmen. Most likely just as nervous as we once were.

I do see, however, the other side of the argument; that seniors deserve as much fame as possible. They’re the experts at high school, assuming we can make “high school” a verb. They’re the ones who know most about everything that happens around here. They have experienced more than anyone else at WHS just because they’ve been here longer and have had the chance to witness these things and have had exposure to more than any of the underclassmen.

It’s been a big year for everyone; both upper and underclassmen. But now the year is almost over and all we can really do is sit back and reflect on what a year we all had.