The fourth quarter has come, marking not only the end of the year but also the end of high school for graduating seniors.  This reality is both exciting and terrifying.

It is almost that time to say goodbye to the class of 2014 and send them into the world. For all, this will be a difficult transition but attitudes toward the situation differ.

Some seniors have been prepared, but for others, it’s taken longer to come to the realization that high school does not last forever.  These seniors have a different view on the limited number of school days left.  As a whole, many are anxious and feel mixed emotions.

Senior Seth Hoagland said, “I am very excited because I get to move on further in my life and achieve at what I want to, but I am also nervous that some of the kids I know now I will never see again.”

Being in the same setting for a whole four years creates a routine.  You know every hallway, which water fountains and bathrooms to use, and see the same faces.

“It is not easy to let go,” said senior Katt McCabe, “I’m definitely going to miss my classmates, teachers and hometown, but I am so excited to start the next chapter of my life.”  The hometown setting is hard to separate yourself from, but McCabe is someone who is ready to embrace the change.

The next part of life is something that should be exciting.  CJ Hersom said, “I am very excited to get out of this death trap, it’s a suicide wrap and I have to get out while I’m young.  For tramps like me, I was born to run.”  Hersom will be attending High Point University next year and is ready to detach himself from high school.  “I know that I will stay in touch with my true friends.”

Seniors are not the only ones with mixed feelings about the end of the year.  Juniors know they are next in line to hold the throne as kings and queens of the school, but they will be without their elders whom they have looked up to for years.  Junior Griffin Beaney said, “Dealing with the seniors leaving is going to be tough.  A lot of them are my close friends and it is going to be weird not seeing them every day next school year.”

Graduation is coming and will inevitably happen. It is a good thing to let go.  Life will continue in a different setting, whether it is a job here in Connecticut or school in the Florida sun.