For decades or maybe since the beginning of time, high school students have been classified in classes of a social system.

There are always the cheerleaders who make life look so perfect.

Then, of course, the athletes or jocks who seem to have the world right at their fingertips. Last, but not least, the smart kids or brainiacs as I have heard us called before.

You know . . . the ones everyone comes to for the answers. So far, I’ve come to the conclusion that high school is more or less a popularity contest.

Cheerleaders . . .well like I said, make life look so perfect. They hang in most of the same little circles. Forever smiling or laughing as if life is just so fun! It’s really not.

If it’s fun to them, I want to know why, where, and when I can have some?

High school seems like a smaller version of the real world, because there are the cheerleaders, and then there are the jocks or athletes.

Like the cheerleaders, their worlds seem so perfect. Physically fit and all of the above, leveling with the cheerleaders on the social ladder, making life look like it is all about getting the ball in the hoop or scoring a touchdown. Athletes are just people with extra talent. They seem to have their stuff together.

Nobody has their stuff together like the smart kids or brainiacs.

We are all over the social ladder, but we are the people everyone calls on at a certain point.

The ones people get their answers from when they can not figure something out.

Some of the high school life is boring; we do things to liven it up a bit. We might be smart, but we have lives, too.

I am almost out of high school.

People think high school is all about fun. It’s not all about that. It’s about learning how hard work pays off and cherishing memories.

This is the last year I will be seeing all the people I love in school everyday.

High school, in a way, has prepared me.

Now, I know what to expect from people.