5 Years Later

I had a mini-epiphany the other day that it's been half a decade since I graduated high school. To kill the time before my final this morning, I decided to make a Facebook Group for the Hart High School Class of 2002. I figured since we didn't have a real reunion planned, we could at least use the addition that is Facebook to have like a virtual reunion space. Nearly 40 people have joined so far, and it's crazy to see where everyone is, what they're doing, what they've done, or even who they're married to.

As for me, am I where I thought I would be 5 years ago? Yes and no. The bigger picture is pretty spot on: I knew that I wanted to go to law school and I'm pretty sure that even then I wanted to go to law school in DC. People probably even knew that I would be in a million clubs and run for student government in college (though I actually won in college, unlike for ASB President).

But a lot of the details inbetween high school and the path to the professional career are the things that even I, the ultimate planner, never saw coming. That I would become such a political junkie, take Vietnamese as a language, have a boyfriend who's white but really more asian than me, and even who I keep in touch with- lots of the people I thought I would be friends with forever I'm not and people I never thought I would talk to again are some of my closest friends today.

It's hard to assess who you were and if how you have changed over the years, but the people who knew you "back in the day" are probably some of the best resources in figuring that out. So I'm glad I made the group, even if it was out of boredom. I'm particularly happy to see old friends finding each other again and adding them as friends because of it. I can now say that I've fully completed my job as the ASB Class of 2002 Secretary.

[And yes, I did have a final today. I think it went fine. I have a 24-hour take home tomorrow...wish me luck]