How it feels to graduate from high school

By Maggie

Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000
Subject: [efiwebheads] I graduated!

Hello, everyone. Today I graduated from high school. I felt so strange. I hadn't realized that I had already studied in the school for 3 years when I was sitting at the hall today. It seemed to me that everything that I did in the school happened yesterday. I will take the college entrance examinations starting from Friday. That means studying in high school is the end of one part of my life. And I will step into another part of my life soon. How time flies! All these things have happened before I realized it. When I tidied my desk and took all my books away today I felt that something was lost. How strange! But it's also a happy thing. Everyone has to grow up. I will have a new start and write another new story in the book of my life with a lot of good memoiesy that I have had in high school...

regards,

Maggie

Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:37:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sorsah Lah <sorsah@hotmail.com>

Congratulation, Maggie. So do u know what is your major when u go to college? mine, I don't know yet. It's nice to hear from you.

have fun

sorsah lah

Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:57:10 +0800
From: Eileen Wang <eileen.wang@263.net>

Hi Maggie,

Congratulate you for your graduation. Maybe you are preparing the great test for the qualifications of entering the college in July 7,8,9. It is very important for every high school student. Hope you have great success.

Best wish for you

Eileen

Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 06:21:14 +0000
From: Vance Stevens

Congratulations on the change. Life is full of sad endings, but also fresh beginnings. Hope you enjoy the next stage of your life, and that you continue to share it with your Webheads friends.

Vance

Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000
From: Michael Coghlan

Hi Maggie (and everyone else).

I'm a bit late replying to this but I've been travelling and only now have time to look at my email.

Firstly, congratulations on finishing high school.

Secondly, good luck in your college entrance exams.

Thirdly, I *love* what you wrote above! This is exactly how I feel when I finish a phase of my life - leaving a course, leaving a job, leaving a house I have lived in for many years, etc. I find it hard to leave things behind. I like to hang on to things I know and like and trust. But one of the wonderful things about life is that change is nearly always good. It's
>hard to make the change but once you've done it you wonder, "what was I worried about?!"

New starts and new stories will in time become happy memories (hopefully).

I think Vance should put what you wrote on your webpage. Do you agree?

Greetings from a very hot and steamy Georgia.

Michael Coghlan

Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:46:15 +0800
From: Maggie

Hi, Michael. Thanks for replying. It doesn't matter whenever you reply to me. But it's very nice to hear from all of you. Thanks, everyone. I have already had the tests of Chinese, Maths and English in the last 2 days. But I will have to take other tests tomorrow and 13th and 14th. After that, I will be freeeeeee......:-)

Well, of course I like to put what I have wrote on my page. In fact, I like to very much. Because I can share my feeling with other people and I myself also can check it out one day(when I am old....*_*)...isn't it great?

Thanks again.

regards,

Maggie

Maggie reported her results July 31, 2000 …

I received my score of the college entrance examination yesterday (in fact, it was the 28th). I got 699. That's not a very good score. But it's better than I thought that I could do. And if nothing special happens, I think I can enter the university that I chose first. Well, I am happy to get that score.

But at the same time, I also feel strange because some of my best friends didn't do well. And most of them are better than me I think. But they didn't do well on their exams. So they couldn't enter the universities that they like. That makes me feel bad, that our whole life can just be decided by a few pieces of paper. So, what does the 12 years that we have studied mean?

Well, that's the news about my exam. Thanks, everyone. I couldn't do that without all your support.

regards,

Maggie

Maggie became philosophical, August 11, 2000

Hi, Vance and others.

First, Vance, thanks for correcting my e-mail and putting it up at my Webheads web site. And most of you have had the college entrance examination. What are your thoughts about it? I would like to know something about that.

In China, it's a very important thing to children. Ever since we entered the primary, our parents have told us to study hard in order to get a chance to study in a university. It seems that all the12 years that we have studied it is only for the college entrance examination. Of course, I don't think so. Some of my friends didn't do well this time. But I think they didn't lose anything, because what they have studied will remain in their minds all their lives and will never change. I guess that's the reason for the existence of knowledge?

So, what do you think?

regards,

Maggie

Eduardo responds, August 11, 2000

Maggie:

I think that one of the world's biggest problems is that so many people study just for examinations and don’t care about the real meaning of studying. In my personal point of view, studying is a way to improve the knowledge of ourselves and the world that surrounds us, and not a painful task to achieve a particular goal. Studying for the private pleasure of learning will lead you to succeed in many kinds of examinations. Studying just to get a good qualification will, in any case, lead you just to that.

Eduardo

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How it feels to graduate from high school

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