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For four years I’ve awaited my Senior year and it still feels like it’s only starting just when it’s ending. The experiences I’ve had here are innumerable as they are priceless. Between falling down the stairs as a Senior in front of a bunch of Freshman, which had to have boosted their egos and the heart-wrenching experience that was Senior retreat, it’ll take a brain injury to forget what has happened in my time at SHA. Even my detentions, my treks home on the bus, my failed attempt at full IB; even if I regret them, they were integral to my high school experience and only made the good times better. As I move on to my next year at Loyola University Chicago, and then to my life in the future, the one thing that will always stick with me is the nostalgia. As Sally Sparrow once said, “I love old things. They make me feel sad. It’s happy for deep people.” I can’t deny that I’ll miss the sisters I’ve made at Sacred Heart or the bonds with teachers which, truthfully, has helped me maintain my grades, but sometimes the memories are so much sweeter than the experiences. Sacred Heart is just one more chapter in my unfinished book. I wish I could tell the current 8th graders how paradoxically short and long these next four years will be for them, but the truth is, you can’t really know until you’re there. SHA has meant so much to me and I’m grateful for the opportunity my parents gave me when they sent me here. As the Doctor said, “You lot. You spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're going to get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible: that maybe you survive.” Thanks to Sacred Heart, I’ve survived. I’ve survived my lowest points and certainly my high ones. And thanks to the preparation I’ve been given, I’ll survive the rest of my career as a student and beyond. My Sacred Heart experience has been survival. And now I’m ready. Thank you.

My senior exit speech.
I started the year with Doctor Who, and now I'm ending it with Doctor Who. haha.