Middle School....OOF!

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 My Transition into Middle School

By Aryan Mukherjee


   Transitions happen on a day to day basis, and are important for people to grow. One important transition occurs when students go from Elementary School to Middle School, and students always seem to have a rainbow of feelings regarding this transition.


     My days at Elementary School were all play and no work, if I am being quite honest. Being a kid, I approve of that, and the fact that we get to work on crafts, have little to no homework, and get to goof-off with friends during important examinations and lessons just adds to the light ambience and feeling of freedom that comes with the first six grades. When people think of school, they think of a place of boredom, of labor, and quite literally a jail cell. I have a bad feeling that people get that opinion of school from Middle School, and my fears and anticipations grow as the rumors spread. Is Middle School really that bad? I guess I will find out soon.


     The thing about middle school is that it brings people up to the whole next level, like when you passed the beginning stages of a video game. It is not like the boss, but it just gets harder from here. Unlike Elementary School, academic pressure will start to pop-up, and goofing off will be a lot less tolerable. The good news is that a lot of my friends and classmates will be attending the same middle school as me, but with so many teachers and so many classes, I dread that my interactions with them will diminish greatly, and we might grow farther apart. However, middle school is a big place, and there is going to be lots of room to make more friends, so I am not too worried.


     For me, the distance from 6th grade to 7th grade doesn’t feel unreachable, and though the change is inevitable, I can’t help but feel like Middle School will be just another small change out of the many that we will face on a day-to-day basis.




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