New teachers, new halls, new faces, four new schools.

The only way to even dream about making it through high school is having friends. For senior Sarah Hyde, this is extremely difficult because in her four years of high school, she has been to four different schools. Having to say goodbye to new and close friends is hard after only being able to spend a year with them.

“It is very hard to change schools every year because you make friends and have to leave them and then do the same thing at the next school,” said Hyde.

Academically it has also been hard for Hyde, because every state has different requirements for their schools; classes she thought she would be taking as a younger student she ended up taking as an upperclassmen.

“I had to take World History as a Junior, which is a Junior class,” said Hyde. “And ,I am not able to take the AP United States History exam because technically, I have only taken half of the class.”

It is incredibly tough to adjust to a new school every year because all the people and the atmosphere are different. There are always tricks to know how to fit in and personality traits that are necessary to acquire.

A shy and quiet person normally doesn’t survive long in a new high school. A good trick that Hyde learned quickly was talking to a lot of people in her class right before lunch that way she wouldn’t get lost in the crazy place known as the cafeteria; lunch is a time that is always spent with friends.

“I had to learn to be outgoing. Once I had it was cool because I was able to meet a lot of new people from all kinds of different cultures,” said Hyde.

Making friends isn’t the only struggle in a new school. There are bullies in every school that tend to make themselves feel better when they make fun of people, even if they are just joking. Sometimes it is hard to succeed when there is one person who always makes fun of you.

Being nice to them is the best way to make the bullying stop. In Hyde’s tenth grade year there was one girl who made fun of her but after the bullying stopped they ended up being best friends.

“First impressions of people are never right,” said Hyde.