With the Class of 2014 graduating, some of the senior staff members on The Bucs' Blade decided they wanted to share their final thoughts on life as high school students. Click on any of names below to...

The night of my last cross country banquet, I looked down at the small framed photo given to me as a parting senior gift. Like most running action shots, it really served to capture my natural beauty....

When I first started high school I had one thing in mind, I was going to be number one in my class and go to Yale--end of story. I was going to get all A’s. I was going to participate in every single...

High school goes by fast. It seems like yesterday I walked into the huge rotunda with about six of my close friends, clinging to my backpack for dear life. Now I’m about to be gathered with people...

How many in your party? Take row six. Row six? The top row, two steps up? Why not the front row with the handicap rails? I pinched my face at the Walt Disney World employee. For the first time...

Four years ago I remember walking into the high school for the first time as a freshman. I put my backpack in my locker. I talked in the guy’s bathroom and I stood in the middle of the hallway in the...

I started off high school with three friends. That's not an estimate, I literally had three friends. It was the most terrifying time of my life. I was extremely sheltered, frizzy haired, no makeup, braces,...