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Caption: Freshmen Feelings Students reflect on their first semester
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Caption: Zhenda Hu "I think leadership really helped a lot because it's a really close class and I got a lot of encouragement from upperclassmen friends."
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Caption: Aarushi Agrawal "You hear all that stuff about finals ... and then the finals come you just don't want to actually studying for it and you just end up like procrastinating a bunch and then you end up failing. So I kind of hated finals."
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Caption: Kira Israni "I would say [last semester] was probably right in the middle. I did do some things well [first semester], like I did most of my homework which I could not do in middle school. But then again, I didn't study for some of my tests so it kinda of balances out."
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Caption: Sebastian Erasso "It was a lot harder. I think it was mainly academic stuff like homework [which] was really hard [and] classes were just harder for me."
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Caption: Natalie Zhou "Compared to 8th grade food, the food is like way better."
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Caption: Emma Schuyler "The teachers are nice and they are there for help, but if you don't listen in class you are kind of doomed. But it's your problem if you don't listen in class."
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Caption: Albert Xu "Overall, I feel like it's not really what my older friends make it out to be. I feel as if it's a lot easier and it doesn't really live up to the high expectations I had for it."
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Caption: Janya Budaraju "It's a little stressful. Just because all the clubs here were so interesting. And I decided it would be a good idea to join like seven. And then I had to balance [the clubs] out with all my coursework and stuff."
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Caption: Maria Danilak "I would say the transition from eighth grade to ninth grade, socially was harder. Especially from going from Lawson Middle School to here because not a lot of kids went here and all of my friends kind of just went to different high schools."
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Caption: Cheryl Leung "[In] middle school ... the teachers [were] constantly on your backs. They made sure they knew what you were constantly doing. But now not really."