Becoming a freshman is one of the hardest and scariest things you do as a teenager. It’s not only an awkward and strange time in your life, but you’re more vulnerable. When high schoolers get older, they get asked what advice they would give to the freshmen and “unspoken rules” of success in school. Although at the time they might not take the advice into consideration, later down the road they look back and may actually think it was useful. 

There are different things freshmen look forward to in high school and plenty they are probably scared of, but might not say. Freshmen should know they aren’t alone and probably not the only ones that feel like that. 

Freshman Anahi Villa Olvero didn’t know what to expect when coming into high school. She didn’t know what to expect when it came to her teachers. “I didn’t know what to expect, I felt like teachers would give a lot of homework and give different kids individual attention,” Villa Olvero stated.

Villa Olvero said she found the advice “stay on top of work” helpful when an upperclassman told her. 

Freshman Hailey Hout found high school scary because of making and finding new friends. “Making new friends was scary because I came from a school where I knew everyone,” Hout stated.

Hout found “believing in yourself” helpful when starting high school when an upperclassman told her. Keelee Becher who’s also a freshman found going into high school scary as well. “ I didn’t want to be lonely and the older kids scared me,” Becher said. 

Senior Meah Delgado appreciated the advice she got her freshman year. “ AVID students told me that freshman year is important because it sets up your cumulative GPA and to take it seriously,” Delgado said.

Advice Delgado would give to freshmen is, “Challenge yourself and take those challenging classes, in the end it pays off when you work hard and get a good grade,” Delgado stated.  

Senior Jeremy Keener valued the advice of getting involved. “Getting involved was helpful, also doing good in school and taking things with a grain of salt,” Keener said. Some advice he would give others is “ get involved and explore different things.”