Recently at OU we hosted our annual High School Leadership Conference, and lucky for me, I had the chance to listen to the incredible speakers brought in.  Dean and Rochelle reminded us of the importance of living life.  The importance of not thinking of things as a “have to” but as a “get to.” Bearing that in mind, I thought back to how drastically my life has been altered since my junior year of high school.  I thought about how drastically my life has been altered since senior year.  I thought about drastically my life has been altered since LAST MONTH! I also thought about how the juniors sitting in the room would experience such great changes in their remaining two years of high school. How the seniors graduating in a few short months are in for such amazing growth over the coming year.  That’s when it hit me that there are things they deserve to know.  Things that I wish I would have known before leaving the safety net we all know as high school.

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