A lot can happen in four years. No matter what grade someone is in, everyone has grown a lot in the past four years. Obviously everyone has grown a lot physically, but everyone has also changed a lot mentally and emotionally. Things like friends, activities, and goals have changed a lot in the past four years as well.
Since freshman year, senior Peyton Trost has participated in soccer, cross country, and track. She is also one of the two senior representatives for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
“I feel like I’ve branched out socially and become more confident and social, and really branched out of my shell,” Trost said. “Career wise I wanted to go somewhere into the health care field but I wasn’t sure where. Now I want to be a doctor so I’m planning on going to medical school. In the medical field I just kinda wanted to go as far and as deep as I could, which being a doctor going to medical school. This is kind of weird to say but I like being in charge, so the doctors are kind of like head honcho, they do the diagnosis, they do all that stuff so that’s just kinda what interested me.”
After high school she plans on going to Trinity University as a member of the cross country and track teams. For every senior, including Trost, there are things that they will miss about high school, and things that they are excited for.
“I think what I’m going to miss about high school is just this community of people that I’ve known since I was younger. I know in college I’m gonna make friends but it’s not the same. I’ve known these people since like kindergarten so it’s just going to be a new environment in college.” Trost said. “I think I’m most excited for the academic opportunities, like branching out and being able to research and stuff like that. Because just like the academic opportunities are a lot greater so I’ll be able to expand outside my comfort zone I guess.”
Since starting high school, senior Harvey Flynn has joined the engineering club and National Honor Society. He is also one of the two senior representatives for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
“Back when I was a freshman I used to only care about my grades and studying and now I realize that though grades are important it’s also important to maintain relationships with your friends and with your family,” Flynn said. “Also in my faith, just growing closer to God as I’ve been reading my Bible and telling a lot more people about Jesus.”
After high school, he plans on going to Texas A&M University. To become an electrical engineer, something that wasn’t always his plan.
“Freshman [year] I wanted to be an entrepreneur, someone who made my own hours and made my own products. I’m leaning more towards electrical engineering now, so, I don’t know what that would entail but definitely something in that field,” Flynn said, “I was taking a lot of marketing classes and all of the intensive vocabulary and trying to make it to the top in a business place, just didn’t really fit my personality.”
When senior Bailey Huddleston was a freshman she joined theater and hasn’t dropped any activities since freshman year. After she graduates high school she plans on going to the University of Texas Arlington.
“I have definitely come out of my shell, when I was a freshman it was very intimidating just being here and I was too scared to talk to anyone. But then I got comfortable and now I’m the silliest goose you’ll ever find.” Huddleston said. “I’ve become more involved in the theater department since then, it’s very fun for me, it played a big part in helping me become more comfortable here from my freshman year. I wanted to go to college and get a car, but now I realized that I don’t like driving and I am really scared to go to college.”
Theater didn’t just help Huddleston make friends, but it also helped her rediscover an old passion that could also be a potential career choice.
“In theater I started becoming a bit more open about myself and I rediscovered my love for dinosaurs.”, Huddleston said. ”I wanted to be a veterinarian my freshman year, now, still a veterinarian but maybe a paleontologist.”
Freshman year, senior Alexander Dominguez joined automotive and joined theater his junior year. Throughout the past four years, his knowledge and plans for both college and his career have changed and adapted.
“I have realized the importance of actually being efficient with my work,” Dominguez said. “I want to either own my own restaurant or work in some aspect of formula one. Formula one has become more of an international spectacle since it has been around the world for the last seventy five years but, in the USA, in the past ten years opportunities have begun to open up to capitalize on more job markets.”
After high school Dominguez plans on being a business major and going to Austin Community College for two years then transferring to texas state for two years.
“I found out that ACC is offering two free years of tuition so I was like, I’m gonna do that instead of paying for four years of university,” Dominguez said, “I’ve always had an idea that I would be in business, that’s what my dad did, he’s always been in business.”
