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Lunches have been more crowded; the food is different; halls are crammed, classes are packed, even the chairs at lunch are almost all filled.<\/p>\n

You can only imagine how tough it is, and was, for the freshman coming into a new school, new environment, new people, new teachers, and \u00a0new classes.<\/p>\n

They come in knowing that it’s going to be hard, but when the first day came around some had no idea how hard it was going to be.<\/p>\n

“When the first day rolled around the teachers were all really nice and they helped us around a bunch, but it was still all confusing,” said freshman Steven Lawrence<\/p>\n

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Leslie Spiker had a difficult transition.<\/p>\n
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“When I first got here, I had the worst day possible,” Spiker said. “I honestly hated it, because everyone was everywhere, and I had no idea where to go. It seemed like everyone was just so rude to me.”<\/p>\n

Lawrence had a different first day experience<\/p>\n

“I had the most amazing time, except for the seats at lunch because I could not find one single chair, but luckily I found a seat with the few of my friends that had my lunch,” \u00a0he said.<\/p>\n

More of the students, rather than hate their first day full of pressure, responsibility, and tough but instructive words, decided to take the instructions to the heart.<\/p>\n

“Our teachers warned us about the school, meaning how crazy it would be, when we first got here, we could handle getting around the other students,” Lawrence said. “But my main trouble would have to be that fact that I had to go to open house meet my teachers, find my classes, and when the day came to remember where all of my classes were.”<\/p>\n

Whereas others were very upset about having to go through all of the hardships they had to endure.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t like the lunches, the classes were hard to find, and the teachers didn’t seem to acknowledge the fact that I was a freshman,” Spiker said.<\/p>\n

School starting is always hectic and add sophomores, juniors and seniors to the mix and many freshmen were overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

“It was a hectic day there were people everywhere; half of the student body didn’t know where half of their classes were,” Lawrence said. “It seemed as if everyone was mad at each other.”<\/p>\n

The more the students got into the groove of going to class, and remembering who their teachers were and who their classmates were, they had a better time with school.<\/p>\n

“I pretty much just followed a few of my friends around. Well, the ones who knew where their classes were, if I had any classes with them,” Spiker said. “For the times that I didn’t have any classes with them, I just wandered around until I figured it out.”<\/p>\n

When everybody figured out where they had to go, the shortcuts around school and how to speed walk, \u00a0it seemed like everybody had a better day, and the school went back to normal.<\/p>\n

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