When you see the movies, the shows, the pictures, the stories, highschool seems like this big thing, a gigantic monsterous thing that happens when you grow up.  You could think of it as a great thing, where you will learn and thrive and have a good time. But most of us expect it as something like the void. You go in, and when you come out you want to forget everything and anything about it.  There's dissapointments, drama, and cruel teachers.  It is where you are forced to grow up and choose your future, as scary as it sounds.  But the thing is, all those rumors and stereotypes and fears, they aren't as bad as they seem.

   High school is a strange subject.  It can be portrayed in several ways, have many topics, and give different opinions.  But what nobody seems to figure out is that when you first go in, walk in those big doors on the first day, it is never what you expect.  

  The football captain for the rec team is expecting girls, pictures, popularity, friends.  The shy, smart girl who would sit in the front of the class and get spitballs to the back of her head every day is expecting getting pushed down in the hallway, getting laughed at, becoming even more elusive than before.  But the truth is both of them will be treated the exact same way.  

   People won't care who you are or where you came from. You're just another freshman doing your freshman thing and they have more to do than awe over you and make you seem better than them. It's just the truth.  It could definitely change within a short anount of time, but it's all the same in the beginning.  It's really nothing to be worried or scared about though, it's a good thing.  Don't try to prepare for it though either, just let it come to you and accept the unexpected thing about highschool.