“I have come a long way”: Tanner Cole, Sports Editor

I struggle to wrap my head around it.

I have a single digit amount of remaining days left of high school, yet it feels like yesterday I was fast-walking up the hill to get into school and in between classes because I had a fear of being the last student in the classroom. Though, I have come a long way for turning assignments in. Freshman year, I would turn in assignments about a day before they were due and would never turn in something late, except the occasional late.

Now, I am able to turn in assignments right before they are due. Mr. Pietrofitta posts an assignment due at 8:30 AM; it gets turned in at 8:29 AM. Sherm makes a senior send off a writing piece due; I do not do it until she yells at me in the hallway. I have come a long way.

Now to give the paper some love because I am supposed to. The Holly Spirit, despite my obvious senioritis, has opened a whole new interest for me. I would have never thought in my freshman year that when I was upset about Philly sports, I could write about how I felt about it. I hated writing, and still do, but being able to write something that you are passionate about is indescribable.

Big ups to Sherm, who, in junior English, became a teacher that I had liked, which “Tanner-Cole-liking-an-English-teacher” is rare. I hope all the underclassmen are themselves, and that is all. Hopefully, being yourself is being a good person and being yourself will be able to be happy. Thank you Sherm, thank you RV.