By Catherine Jou ’15

I don’t know who I am, what I will be like in the future and how I was perceived through this purgatory we call high school. In the eyes of my friends I’ll probably be remembered for being notoriously random and abstract. To most of my teachers, I was more likely than not your typical, quiet and average-performing student. Lastly and perhaps most relevant to those reading this are my peers but who knows what they think of me.

I’m pretty sure my friends make fun of me for some of my quirky sayings like “cry cry,” but at the same time they’ve started using these sayings in conversations with others. So I can’t help but feel content for starting a weird trend of using action/emotion metonymies within my group. I’ve also noticed that after I first dyed half of my hair my junior year I began subsequently noticing others with similar styles. Now I’m not trying to sound pretentious, but I feel like I was the first to do it at our school and even if I wasn’t that doesn’t matter because it’s the thought that counts. So yes, I guess you could call me a trendsetter but if that sounds too egotistical for your liking I guess inspirer is good alternative. I mean it makes me cry cry when people can’t take a joke.

I never actively sought to be different or weird or random. I just did what I wanted to do and whether you know me by my two-toned hair or my bewildered persona can you really say you know me? While reading this you are probably thinking I seem pretty extroverted, but I’m actually only that way around my friends.

Most of my high school days have been bland and uneventful. I haven’t really learned much and still don’t know what I’m going to do in life but have fun, be weird, talk to random people and you do you.