Kneesocks 2017-18

Make Your Mark By Hannah Lee 6M

“Look up to the stars, not down at your feet!” I know that looking up to the stars is not just looking at huge fireballs up in the sky. It’s taking a look at another world, another place. Stars, sprinkled across the sky like spilled salt on a navy blanket. We are starting the year and, in a way, school and the cosmos are related. Both are vast and original, always shifting and altering, but never that different. A student’s like a star; growing and changing and eventually, maybe this star will become the ultimate source of light for a planet, or perhaps this student will find a cure for a cancer people long feared. Opportunities come, like a hurling asteroid; you can choose whether or not you’d like to take the challenge. There are nebulas, other places, other schools, but in all, we are one community. This year, the galaxy has truly shifted. Planets are forging, new moons have been formed. Five other stars and I will work to produce a light that will be shared. Projects will come by like comets, and I will dig deeply into these, hopefully creating something extraordinary. This place, this school, this galaxy, this community is laden with opportunity, and to think that this is only one of the many worlds out there! “Look up to the stars and not down at your feet.” I realize that looking up to the stars is not looking up at all…it’s looking around, at the beautiful world that we live in, the beautiful world that we are a part of. After all, we are all human, all one, all made of star dust.

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