Ty's post

I have had many memories at Pine Point, but I will only remember so many. I remember the trip to Stourbridge (the trip in 5th grade dont know how to spell it) when me and Tristan first found out we liked video games. That was the start of our friendship. I also remember the time that I made everyone start to say things in leet. It all started with lol with rashad. within a few eeks, it had expanded to other classrooms and has expanded its usage with different words. These are only a few of the many memories that I will treasure for a very long time, and hopefully, forever.

Timmy's Post

This may not be my favorite memory, but a time that really stands out to me is when I went with Scarlet and Ethan to pick out a new pet. We ended up getting two Egyptian spiny mice that we named Porkey and Fodo, but the part that I remember is before that. On the way to Fin and Feather (the store where we got them), we were all laughing so hard at something. I think it was something Scarlet said, mainly because I have to blame someone. After the laughter subsided, I decided I was parched and had to take a sip of the water that was next to me. I had just taken the sip when Scarlet (again, speculation) said something funny, probably connecting back to the earlier funny thing. With the water partway swallowed, I began laughing incredibly hard. Something in this time made my stomach unhappy, so instead of just laughing and swallowing the water, I lost my lunch. At the time, I was very unhappy as you can imagine, but now, looking back on it, it is probably one of the funniest moments I have taken part in. It is also the reason I will never again eat rasberry sorbet.

gabe's post

There have been too many memories for me at Pine Point. SPF9000, Open Arena at the play, baking Dr. Tate's advisory into a fine quiche, drums and bass and eeeeeeeeeee, Doc, (as Tristan said) pretty much every history class, Kyle's afro, DC, England, kickball, listening to Monsieur Hick's son's epic opera/metal band, walking in to the sink broken in the 7th grade science room, and so on. I honestly can say when thinking about any of these I laugh openly.

Tristan's Post!

Blah. I don't like going back through old memories and reliving them too much, but for the purposes of this topic, I will. Hugs with Parker. Gabe's explosion in the hostel at Paris. Another Brick in the Wall Pt. II for 5th grade graduation. All history classes. Rock club. Zachary Dameron. Helping Ty beat the library (see, it wasn't too hard!). My speech. Clap'n Cap'ns. Burger fippin' with Shad. Ege crashing the 5th grade computers by copying and pasting. Julie and my AWESOME handshake.

Julie's Post

I agree with Caroline: Pine Point as a whole will always stay a memory for me. The memories that I have created with the Class of 2009 will not only be memories, but they will become treasures that I don't intend to forget anytime soon. Everything in its own holds memories and I don't think I am capable of picking a favorite. However, graduation is coming up soon and I think that will be the highlight of my Pinepoint career...

Lydia's Post

One of my favorite memories from Pine Point occurred last year on the mountain trip. Our final night in the mountains, each of the groups went out to look at the stars. I remember lying on the rocks with my group staring up at the millions of stars in silence. It was a beautiful moment. Another thing I will never forget was our last night in England. When everyone was supposed to be going to bed, Scarlet and I got dressed up and invited the boys in the room next to ours to a "sneaker night" in the hallway. Just as Tristan walked out of their room with his shirt on his head, Mrs. Toscano came into the hallway and yelled at us to get to bed. Scarlet and I ran quickly back to our room while Tristan received the brunt of the scolding. It was a very funny memory.

Carolines post

I have been at Pine Point for twelve years and I can honestly say that I am not able to pick a favorite memory. There are so many. From watermelon seed spitting in preschool to 9th grade collaboration groups, it would be impossible to choose. I know I have forgotton so much over the years, but the amount that i havent forgotton is to large to even attempt to pick a single best memory at Pine Point. I would have to answer this question by saying that I dont have a favorite, or that being at Pine Point as a whole is my best memory.

Memories :)

I have so many memories here at Pine Point School and here are just some of the many that I can remember. One of my favorites was in seventh grade when we were in Science class and Ceilie went to go wash her hands and the top of the sink flew off and water was going everywhere. I love this memory this because I can just remember all of us doubled over laughing and it was quite the experience. My second memory actually occured a few weeks ago when the ninth grade made the firepit. To me it's always nice when the class gets together and does something fun and productive. I know that there won't be many more times that all of us can eat pizza,soda, popsicles and smores together and play fun games. Therefore, we must treasure these moments. These are the memories that stood out to me most and it's so hard to narrow them down since memories are being made every day.

Teddy's post

My favorite memory is when I went to the Buffalo zoo when I was about four. I was standing by the hyena exhibit, and all the hyenas had left except a baby. The baby and I just stood there, looking at eachother for about five minutes. I'm trying not to sound deep, Zack. I haven't forgotten this memory, and I hope I never will.

In all of these posts everyone is trying so hard to sound deep, esoteric, or clever. Many people are talking about the "emotional baggage" comprised of ties to friends and family and Pine Point. This is well and good and in many ways true, but so many of these things are temporary, formed almost out of necessity and quickly forgotten, replaced. Then some go so far as to say that they will carry no baggage, that they can immediately severe all ties with a their home for so many years. And while I would like to believe that they can do that as completely as they would, they would be goldfish because only goldfish have that sort of memory. What we carry with us out of Pine Point is purpose, friends and memories and suitcases all form the purpose with which we take that step into the knew beginning. Pine Point has given us our doom. It has shaped us into who we are and there will always be a little wringing in our ears that says to follow some path or love or dream or fetish or "obsessive compulsive disorder" (which it isn't!) and will never let us start completely knew again. All we are is a few thin strands of DNA that forms a dais for the reflection of all of our past experiences. Even a person with amnesia has a doom: to find what their past was. We are just so afraid to face the fact that our lives have just become predetermined that we must hide under anything we can write.

gabe's post

I'll bring with my both good and bad next year when I go to Westerly High School. I'll bring the ability to help others with work or the ability to help others with problems, but I'll also have to remember that I'm not with my Pine Point class so sharing our inside jokes with them wouldn't be a good idea. Overall, while my baggage consists of both good and bag, I'm bringing it with me next year none the less.

Ceilie's Post

When I arrive at my new school in a few months, I will be carrying with me both physical and emotional baggage. I will have with me boxes and bags and bins of necessary things that will soon inhabit my dorm room. I will have clothes and shoes living in my closet and notebooks and pencils stored in my desk. I will also have pictures and notes written by the friends I have made at Pine Point. While these might seem like silly reminders of home to one, to me these trinkets will hold memories that no one but me can see. Inside a picture of me and my best friends is more than a simple photograph of smiling faces, but years worth of memories and knowledge, lodged inside one frame. While I won't have enough space in my room next year for every single thing I have gained from my past ten years at Pine Point, a few pieces of memorabilia will be enough to remind me of all the friends I've made, all the lessons I've learned and all of the memories I treasure inside my heart. 

Ty's post

When I leave Pine Point, I will bring more baggage than what is possible to fit in one container. I will have the memories, the friends, and the knowledge that i have acquired at Pine Point. These are the artifacts that help me stay positive about graduating and that they will stay with me forever

I find this topic to be rather vague. i think that the term baggage is reserved for unpredicted departure, and we have known about graduation for a long time. It would be silly to think that we didn't have time to unload this so-called baggage. Although looking into the future, there will be times in which things come to an end and it in these times that we will carry true baggage, not just jumbled emotions disguising as baggage. I found out last week that I was moving to New Jersey in a month. Now here would be an argument for baggage, as although I have a month to say goodbye, how can that ever be enough? Sure, some people may never have enough time to "say goodbye" to Pine Point, but I'm pretty sure that we all had prepared ourselves for this mentally and subconsciously as late as the beginning of this year. But life goes on for everyone, and they have the security of knowing that life will come full circle and be it boarding school or day school, everything will be the same when they return. My problem is, I have no return, for above my own hopes my family is moving, detaching itself from this machine, and I will never be a part of it again.And I will have baggage. As for what that may be, well that's personal, but involves a block of pepper never burned, and memories forever unremembered.

Lydia's Post

Next year, I will bring lots of baggage to my new school. I will have my friends from Pine Point, who I will miss more than they will know. I will have all the knowledge from my 9 years at Pine Point, which will help me through my future endeavors. I will have all the memories of my time here to look back fondly upon. But most of all, I will have more space in my suitcase for me to fill with new friends and knowledge and memories in the years to come.

Wendell's Post

As I leave Pinepoint, I move onward toward my first school. I carry lots of baggage in this passage. Most of my friends are going off to boarding school or a different school, I carry an empty suitcase without them, but the baggage is still heavy all the same. I don't need to make new friends, I know a lot of people at Westerly High School, that is baggage that I have left behind there.

Anna's Post

This topic, for me, has been very difficult. I have always thought of emotional "baggage" in a negative sense, dried remains of distress, cold, haunting regrets, hidden shadows of what used to be. This is the baggage I will leave behind. Any opportunities I have neglected in the past 8 years or things I was to afraid to say or broken friendships I have failed to repair, I leave behind. I will say goodbye to anything I wish I'd done. I will drop the bag that is my failure. I leave regret behind me. However, there are things I will take with me as I depart in three short weeks. These things will be my wallet, my tote bag, a convenient necessity in my life as opposed to the burden that is presented by a suitcase. I will carry my memories by my side and my friends in my heart as I make my way through summer days and early fall. I will take what I have learned with me as I sit through Deerfield orientation and my first high school classes. As restless as I feel, as finished as I am, and as downright sick of Pine Point School my mind is in this moment, I will take this special place with me wherever I may go.

Kate's Post

Next year at a new school I wont have a lot of baggage.  Like Scarlet, I want to start new.  No one there will no me and if I don't bring my "baggage" I can start over and make a new Kate.  The only thing I will take with me is knowledge from the past 12 years that teachers and friends have taught me.  

Olivia's Post

No one really likes baggage, the real kind or emotional. As I leave PPS though, I will have both. Each day I will carry my bag that I took to PPS, and in it, it will carry memories and books. So I will carry the lessons I have learned, memories and and an empty place to fill up.

Scarlet's Post

To my next school I will bring nothing. A new beginning is what I need most right now. So, on the first day of school next year, I will walk into the doors of Stonington High School with nothing but a smile and an open mind.

Julie's Post

The most important items in my "baggage" as I prepare to leave Pine Point are the values that we have been taught at Pine Point. Coming from a not-so-well ranked public middle school in the middle of the countryside, not much respect for others was taught. I have learned that the most important things in life are not how well you do in school, but rather the ability to treat people the right way. On top of the memories, the laughs, and the friends that I will carry with me through the upcoming years, the moral values will also follow me long after I leave Pine Point School.

Timmy's Post

When I leave Pine Point in a few weeks, I will have a lot more "baggage" with me than when I first arrived. I will have new friends, some who I will keep with me, new knowledge from the different grades, new experiences, new likes, new dislikes. I will keep all of this with me. Everything I've done in the past nine years will affect my future decisions, actions, and all else.

Tristan's Post!

You left me battered an broken
Thrown off the cliff of love
You were a demon then, my demon
weighing me down with the baggage of my own heart
You bore the burden too
although I did not know it
You carried it strongly
Using it with other people
for yourself
I hid mine away, where it couldn't hurt me
deep down, like a storm at the bottom of the ocean
You brought it up
And took it away
Thank you.

carolines post

When we leave, we will all have memories and laughs, but we will also have knowledge. Pine Point, being a school, has taught us so much over the years, and hopefully prepared us for next year and beyond. I personally think that the knowledge is just as important as the memories, and we can learn from both of them. The will in a sense, carry us through the year.

Kyle's Post/Poem

They sing and they dance.  From their eyes they do smile.  Holding themselves in a friendly stance.  Each their own unique and distinct style.  When I leave them I'll leave myself no matter the reason.  Those that bring me wealth, in the form of the passing seasons.  The beginning are friends.

I smell it and taste it and see it and love it.  I know it and feel it and watch it and it is a part of me.  The place that houses all memories from the beginning to now.  The end is Pine Point.

Eleanor's Post

One thing that I will certainly carry with me after leaving Pine Point is memories. For the first few weeks at my new school I'm sure I will continuously be thinking back at my Pine Point class. All the jokes we have shared, all the sarcastic comments and silly come-backs that more often or not contain the same few words. All the places we have been over the years from Alton Jones to Boston to the Mountain trip to D.C. to Martha's Vineyard and finally to England. WE;ve all had a blast together and I will miss everyone so much next year!

Hannah's Post

     As I go on to my next school I have a pretty good idea of what my "cargo" will be. I'm pretty sure it will consist of old friends and new ones, my emotions and fears and my sports and academics. I know this won't be easy but I have worked really hard to get where I am and I am ready to face new challenges. 

Ceilie's Post

As the end of the year nears, I have no focus left inside me. I need three months of vacation to take me away from any form of a structured day and instead replace it with sleeping in until noon, reading something other than a textbook and concentrate solely on tanning without burning. I am so close to getting all of this, but I still have three weeks of school left. While not much can get me to stay focused, one thing that is keeping me from slipping under the tide and getting pulled away from shore is the school I am destined to attend next year. Even though the last thing on my mind is the idea that I have four more years of required school ahead of me, I shudder at the thought that if my grades don't pass for the last semester, I'm probably not going to the school I have been dreaming of for the past two years. It about a year and a half's worth of effort to get the needed grades, complete the application, survive the interview, and receive the anticipated acceptance letter and all it takes is some end-of-the-year slacking to rip that out from under me. I don't need forty lectures from each teacher about how we have twenty-one days left or a bad grade on a simple quiz to keep me motivated, just the fact that my carelessness could potentially ruin every one of my hopes for the future. 

Kimo's Post

For me, school isn't any different. Everything is just cruising along, and all I try to do is just keep up. Yes, there may be difficulties along the way, but these last few weeks haven't felt different in any way, just slightly more sentimental. It's been the way it's always been, get what needs to be done, done, and relax when you can.

Ty's Post

I personally don't know how i am keeping my work together to tell you the truth. I "go with the flow" and just keep up on any homework I get. Main key for homework is that I enjoy the time I get while doing it. I listen to music to keep cool with homework. With muusic, I keep all of my work under control.

Zack's Rant

First, I need to congratulate Scarlet for being so bluntly correct with what she wrote. My problem is not a case of "senior-itus" or lack of motivation but a case of frustration which developed in contempt and is fast on its way to becoming out and out disgust. We are, again, at the point in the year when all of the courses are coming to a close and there is not much more to be taught and everything becomes work. I have no problem working as long as there is something to learn, something I can leave school everyday knowing something I had not known something when I walked in. What we're doing now often feels like busy work until exams. We've been writing the same essays since before we left for England and the only new thing we've added is tetracolon climax, and even that we didn't dwell on. The last time we asked why we're writing these essays the only explanation given was because Mr. Salsich enjoys reading them, not because all the practice will make us better or because we will write these for the rest of our lives. Frankly, that's a little discouraging. Then all the projects were doing are just regurditation of mildly useless imformation and the projects themselves are nothing new so there's no gain there either. Basically, learning has come to a standstill while work carries on with no clear reason for it.
But I want to learn. So what I have had to do is create more work for myself, find things I can teach myself. Somehow I have to fill the void left by school work. I've just started pulling books off the shelf and reading them, it doesn't matter excactly what it is so long as it's anything. The best book I found so far is The Sillmarillion because it's so dense and overwhelming it could take the place of an entire school day. The only problem is all this self induced torture takes the place of the required torture and it suffers accordingly, so everyday I have to read for a little over an hour before I can even try to work. I'll probably be fine once we reach exams and there is all the pressure in the world on me so I won't have to think about not learning because the sheer impossibility will be far too enticing.

Timmy's Post

To finish up the year on a good note, I am just going to have to manage my time well. Sure I can relax a bit after school, but I have to get my homework done sometime. I agree with Lydia that a "just do it" motto is probably the best. I have to keep telling myself that if I do my work, I can have more play afterwards.

Lydia's Post

Today, I was thinking about the next few weeks of school and the fact that exams are approaching and I thought to myself "I wish the teachers would give us just one stress free week. One week free of test, projects, and presentations." I have spent the past couple of days envying my brother who has been out of school for a month and wishing I could a vacation as stress-free as his. But as much as I wish the work would end and I would be able to relax for three months, the only advice I can offer to my classmates is to just do it. Don't think about the fact that this project we are working on is the third one due this week, or that it really isn't fair to have our phylum report presentations the day after our math test. Just do the work and get it over with instead of whining about how much we are being asked of.

Anna's Post

As our time at Pine Point comes to a close, my motivation to keep on living up to my academic potential is addressed in Julie's post. I don't want to look back at Pine Point with regrets, knowing I wasted the last, precious moments i had at a place I've called home for years. I don't want to know that I fell apart as I took my final steps towards graduation. However, I think it is also important for students (and teachers) to remember that leaving Pine Point "on a good note" does not only pertain to academic achievement and classroom focus. I want to leave Pine Point with appreciation for the school, with love for my classmates, and with enjoyable memories to look back on. I don't want to remember a month of drowning in homework and struggling to pay attention. However important it is to hold our minds together for the last month of school, we must not forget that there is more to a Pine Point experience than getting good grades. We must leave with enthusiasm for the school itself.

Carolines post

I feel as if the situation is different for eveyone. Many of us do want to finnish off on a good note, but it is hard. Summer is on its way, and next year we will be somewhere new. I think that it is just the thought of leaving that makes us excited. We keep saying, "This is the last time ___" but I dont think it has had an effect on us yet. Once the thought settles in, we will be more likly to want to enjoy our time together as friends and students more, both in and out of school. I think we just need some time.

Kyle's Post

We may all be pretty agitated with math tests, spanish quizzes, science and history projects, music and dance projects, and on top of that exams that are coming up, but compared to future choices and hardships we'll have to live through, this is nothing. I think that the best strategy to live the rest of the year is to follow the example of Rilke and let go all of our frustration and try and leave the strongest mark we can here at Pine Point. When you really think about it this is the last month we will ever be students at this stressfull yet wonderful place and we should appreciate it while it lasts, we should remember the good and the bad times that we've spent here. This is our last month and I don't want to just let ten years go to waste and give up on myself. I don't know about the rest of our class, but I'm going to live in the moment and leave Pine Point in the absolute best way I can so that, one day, when I come back I'll walk down the halls and hopefully hear "Petroni!", or "K.Y.L.E", and of course "Hola Sebastion!"

Hannah's Post

As this year is coming to a close, I am desperately trying to hold myself together. Yes, I have started slacking off and summer is so close and on my mind, but I am honestly trying to keep myself composed. The best thing to do for me when I am getting all out of control is just to sit by myself in my bedroom and either just relax or listen to some music. I know many of us use this technique and I think we find it extremely helpful. So quite thruthfully, I am glad that I am almost done here at Pine Point, in fact I think some of us were ready to leave a while ago. I am ready to start a new chapter in my life but I have to remember that every grade still counts and i'm not done until after June 13th.

Julie's Post

I feel like there is no real "advice" to give as to finish the year on a good note. Summer is just around the corner and I have no more motivation to continue on.  Lunch has now become my favorite subject. However, I think about later. I think about the second day of summer when I will regret the fact that I gave up on school 30 days before it ended. I think about the thirty days that I could have worked to my fullest potential and instead, I finished with a D+ in math. So, as awful as homework and projects and exams sound right now, I know that thirty days is nothing compared to the eight months of school that we have been through. Giving up now would be like giving up on the teachers, the ones that have taught us all these years and disappointing the schools that have been eagerly awaiting our arrival. Giving up now, would be like giving up on a school year deserved to be ended well, with nothing but memories to smile about. 

Scarlet's Post

I have no advice for my classmates because I am completely helpless. Over the past three years I have heard the 9th graders complain about how much they hate this school. I have always questioned them, "How can you hate Pine Point?!" Until now. Now I completely understand this. I hate homework. I hate math quizzes. I hate listening to the teachers tell us that we need to stop slacking off. I hate the fact that all I do is hate. All the hate makes me want to get up in the middle of French class and run for as long and fast as I can. The young and naive voice of my past is now replace by anger constantly ringing and buzzing in my ears.

Tristan's Post!

I agree that we are all having trouble settling down for the rest of the year, and I think that it was all just a phase. I was talking to Mr. Geise the other day, and I told him that our class has gone from the "Yeah! The year is almost over, let's party!" phase, to the "Waking up the next day at the ruins of the party to realize how much trouble we're in " phase. If you couldn't pick up on the symbolism there, I think that we are all now realizing just how impractical checking out now is, and I think we are all going to try to repair the damage. Most of us our on the right track, and those who aren't should be soon, following their classmates.

Sarahs Post=]

That light down the tunnel is getting brighter and brighter as each day passes by. The sweet and sticky summer air is blowing through our minds- summer is starting to get to us. We've all heard the "senior-idus"talk from teachers hundreds and hundreds of times, but nothing is helping. I know it's tough to stay alert during school knowing you already have a home for next year, but that isn't enough. You have to stay true to your next school- you have to show them that you have what it takes to be a wonderful student. No suggestions come to mind when I think of this "illness" all the teachers lay on our shoulders. Just remember: we have about three months of summer fun, let's end Pine Point on a good note. Let's leave saying, "Hey, I did my best". Let's leave this school feeling ready for our new schools, and let's get through these next few weeks together- one day at a time.

Olivia's Post

This is probably one of the most stressful times of the year. We have a bunch of homework, and tests, including the finals and projects due, and just somehow you have to do it. At first, I’m totally angry with the teachers for giving WAY too much to do, and this usually ends up with a bunch or teachers talking to our class about slacking off, and how we shouldn’t because there are four weeks left and you can’t give up just because you got into a school. I get fed up with hearing this about a million times a day. I know they are right, but I’m so tired from sports and the work that part of me doesn’t want to do anything at all. The thing that usually motivates me is music, especially when I’m feeling stressed by the work, music helps me work even harder. For example today, I came home went up to my room, put on some up beat tunes and music that I liked, and whipped out my French and math. I noticed that I was working faster, almost to the beat of the music. Then at 4:45 I was finished and had time to write fortunes for the carnival, take a shower and then work on paragraph for English. This all was finished by seven( while doing this I was looking at something interesting on AOL, too), and now all I need to do is my history project!

Eleanor's Post

One thing I know I do, which isn't good, is that I overexaggerate things. This is the same with homework, so that by the time I get home I feel like a have a lot more homework than I actually have. It helps me just before I start my homework to get it all out on my desk and find out exactly what I have to do and about how long it will take me. This way I get organised and can quickly get my homework done, without the stress because I never have as much as I thought.

Eleanor's Post

gabe's post

As stressful as the end of the year has been, one strategy I have been using is to start work early and maintain focus. When we have to study for a test I'll make notecards a week before and when we have a project due I'll start over the weekend when I'll have time. This also ties in with managing your time efficiently. When you don't put off your homework until late at night you'll turn in better work. Also, not listening to music while I write essays has helped me a lot recently. 

Ty's post (reposted because other had a problem)

I think that in twenty years, I will have been married to the girl of my dreams, and living my life proudly. I will hopefully be teaching so that I will have saved up a large sum of money to support my family. I dont think that I really worry about the future and i usually only think of what is ahead in five minutes and what was in the past five minutes.

Eleanor's Post (Sorry it's late)

Twenty years from now I would like to be working as a successful architect designing homes for people who need them. I would also like to be married with two children and have two dogs, preferably, long-haired daschunds or labs, as I have never been allowed a pet. I don't mind where I live it could be anywhere as long as it's not to cold and the housing style is 'vintage'. (I despise designing vintage houses.)

Timmy's Post

Sorry this is late, but in 20 years, I would just like to be happy. My goals and interests will change as time wears on, so I would just like to have those by my side. At the moment, I could see myself as a scientist or playing lacrosse on a lazy sunday afternoon, but who knows? Anything can happen.

Teddy's Post

In twenty years and nine days, I want to have a Ferrari, but I'll settle for a Lamborghini. I also want to be married and have a house, two kids, a cat, a dog, a chicken farm, and a pot-bellied pig. I also want money so I can take care of my family. Oh, and since I'm only gonna be thirty, it would be nice to keep my hair until I'm in my sixty's or later.

Kimo in the Future

20 years is a long time, though it feels though as I get older, time seems to fly faster, so I presume 20 years will be any day now. I have some dreams. As all my friends know, I love TV. Naturally, I would love to be a playwright or a director. Another crazy dream I have is to be a sports commentator, though I fear I don't have quite the accelerated rotary skills. I like acting, though I don;t think it is something that would carry me vary far in life. I also love science, though my grades say otherwise, and sometimes my comprehension skills fall short. Medicine has always intrigued me, but I fear I lack the work ethic. I want to live in a foreign country. I don't really now what I will do, but rather many things I want to do. But even at this age I know a want a family, and I want a child that I could experience the joys of fatherhood with. Or two. Or three. I really don't know. Life is weird, filled with weird happenings and weird people and weirder events that make you do weird things. But its also one heck of a ride. And I never want it to stop. Oh, and by the way I want to stop rambling.

Lydia's Post

In twenty years, I want to be loving what I am doing. I don't want to be one of those people who hate going to work and cant stand their boss. I don't know what I will be doing, but I hope I am happy doing it. I would like to have graduated from a good university, possibly with an advanced degree. I also hope to be married with children and remain close with my friends from Pine Point and also the ones I will meet throughout high school and college.

P.S.

It would be really cool to have an Aston Martin (silver), but I'll settle for a Mini Couper (blue with the checkered top).

Zack

Zack's Post

It's true; I don't know what the next twenty years hold in store for me, and there is a lot I won't have control over. Realistically I'd like to be thirteen years into a career in the Coast guard, be married and have two kids, older girl and younger boy. One the way I would like to have played soccer at the academy, have done some spectacular climbing, made Eagle Scout, and finished reading The Sillmarillion. Unrealistically I'd like to be with NASA up in space living out all the science ficton I've read. To be up in space somewhere pushing the limits of physics and the human mind is the most spectacular thing I can think of. I know it's crazy, and there are a million to one odds that it will never happen, but I just watched Star Trek this afternoon and it was awsome.

Kate's Post

I don't know what I want to do in 20 years.  I'm not sure about anything involving my future.  I have know idea what job I want, or where I would want to live.  I would like to travel around the world, but that might change.  The only things I hope for is that I will be happy and that I wont be living with regrets.  

Anna's Post

My life 20 years from now is a mystery, and I am thankful for the ambiguity of my future. I don't know where I will be when I am thirty-five. I don't know where I want to be when I am thiry-five. I don't want my life to be planned out, scripted and drafted like a map or an outline. I have no concrete plans or passionate hopes for my future except perhaps that love and happiness stay with me. I will take things as they come in life.

Julie's Post

In twenty years, I want to be able to look back at my childhood and smile. I want to be able to look back at my days at PinePoint school and laugh. I want to be able to remember the good times and wish I was fourteen again. I want to be able to look back at the class of 2009 and miss them as much as I miss them now, even though it's not over yet.

gabe's post

In 20 years when I'm 35, I want to be a successful musician. I am crazy about music and it is a huge part of my life and something I'd like to purse. I also hope to have graduated from college and afterwards, start a family. 

Hannah's Post

In twenty years, I would love to see myself as a sucessful interior designer or realtor. Not many people know this about me but I love looking at houses and all the details. So in my future this is something I would love to do. Also, I would have loved to graduate from a nice college and hopefully be married with two kids. Finally, I hope to have kept some of the friendships that I have created here at Pine Point because it seems so strange to go on in life without them.

Ceilie's Post

I don't know the specifics of where I will be in twenty years, but I do know that I want to be happy. I don't want to spend my life waking up each day and dreading the next twenty four hours ahead of me. Sure, there will be days that aren't as sunny as the others, but I don't want to be thirty-five years old and realize I'm not happy. I would also like to try my hardest to achieve my dreams. Living in regret is one of my biggest fears, and I want to try as hard as I can to at least know that I put my heart and soul into working towards my dreams. In the end, I can't guarantee where I'm going and what I'll be doing in twenty years, but hopefully I'll be living the way I want to, without any regrets. 

Olivia's Post

I know I want to help people when I get older. I want to travel the world, and do something either with archeology or forensics. I also want to marry a rock star and have at least one child (preferably a boy) and go bungee jumping and sky diving and go to college.

Tristan's Post!

In 20 years, I will be wherever I want to be. I trust myself to carry my way safely through the next two decades to go wherever I can, and wherever I want. Preferably, I would be a genetic engineer who rock climbs in his spare time, and takes every summer off to go to Maine, but who knows what the future holds. My main goal is to have free summers, so I may end up teaching.

Parker's Post

A "dream come true scenario" of mine would be if I was in some kind of band by then. Also, if I was to play lacrosse in college, that would also be a "dream come true." But if I don't follow through with either one of these dreams, it would be okay. I only hope to, at least, be well-off in whatever I may choose to do. I hope to have a well-paying job that I can support a household with.

Carolines post

Truthfully, I don't know what I want to be or do in twenty years. I am so preoccupied with the present, that I can't even think of the future. I can only hope to be successful and do good in the world. Right now, I don't even know what I want to do next year. 

Scarlet's Post

In May of 2029 I would like to be an accomplished artist of some sort. Whether it's painting, singing, or acting I am not sure, but I would love to be known worldwide. I would also love to have a husband or very serious relationship with a possible child. And all month I would be looking for the perfect present for my best friend Lydia Schulz who 35th birthday would be coming up soon. These are dreams of mine at this point in my life but who know what the future entails??

Shad's post

A dream come true situation for me in 2029 would be to have a college diploma. This would be very important to me on my long journey through education. I would also like to have a good paying job so that I can support a household. The final thing I would like to have would be any interesting technology that comes out because our future is being built as we speak.

Kates Post

Like Kyle I feel that Pine Point has prepared me to do kind things for people.  For 12 years I have been taught to help people, big or small.  For the three months of summer I will continue to do small random acts of kindness that I have been doing for many years, and make Pine Point Proud.  

Wendell's Post

I have lost numerous items in my life. Everyday, I lose my pencil, but end up finding it in my pocket when I get home. Also, I have lost my grandma and grandpa. Both of these important people in my life died from lung cancer, my grandma from my Mom's side and my grandpa from my Dad's side. I have also lost some friendships. When I came to PPS last year, I lost several friends from Westerly, however, I hope to gain these friendships again upon my return to the high-school in the fall.

Eleanor's Post

A few years ago I went to a camp in Massachusetts for three weeks. I'm not the most outgoing of people so for the first few days I was very nervous and shy. I had lost all my confidence. Whats really annoying about that though is that I was having a great time. I knew that my friends and the counselors would always be there for me, but for some reason I couldn't shake the feeling until the end of the first week.

Timmy's Post

A few years back, my grandfather died. This was a huge loss for my family because he really helped us stay together. We all were concerned as to whether or not our large family would become distant without him, but instead, it pulled us even more together. We united over the loss and were kind to each other to help us resurface from grief. It was great to have kindness be a link back to the real world.

Forum 5.3.09

I have moved many times in my life. I can't even remember. And every time, its the same ritual: Sadness, leave, arrive, awkward transition, missing 'home', more sadness, new friends, life goes on. Pine point as been my longest attendance (3 years) and I know that I've matured enough to accept that I am making a change next year. But now the process has changed, and though I am still sad to go, my friends will never leave me.

Teddy's Post

I lost confidence in myself and I have been uncomfortable in large groups of people for a while. I felt sad and I was really timid. However, recently, because of the kindness of others, I have started to get my confidence back. I've started making new friends, and I'm more comfortable in large groups than I used to be. I have finally been able to feel kindness as a more powerful force in life. Kindness is helping me get back "on my feet", and getting my confidence back.

Anna's Post

I have no doubt that the kindness I have experienced here at Pine Point will stay with me from May until September. There is no question in my mind about whether the things I have learned here- the respect for all people, the acceptance of differences, the day to day courtesies we pay to one another- will follow me in the future. I have no doubt that I will use the compassion I have been taught over the past 8 years this summer. Whether it be in the mundane wave to a stranger or the excited embrace to a friend, the kindness I have experienced at Pine Point will remain a part of me forever. They will follow me "like a shadow or a friend" until the day that I die, of this I am sure.

Hannah's Post

Kindness is around me everyday. When i'm in the hallway, someone always says "hi" to me. When I get hurt or feel bad, a classmate or friend is always there to comfort me. A more signfigant time that I have felt/ needed kindess was when I moved from Stamford to Mystic. That move was devestating to me and the transation was somewhat easier due to the kindess of my neighbors up here in Mystic. I still ocassionaly get sad because I miss my friends in Stamford but then I look at everything I have gained up here in Mystic and I am ok because I know everything happens for a reason.

Ceilie's Post

I agree with Lydia in the fact that just because you haven't lost something significant, you don't truly get what kindness really is. I understand what Naomi Shihab Nye means in saying that once you lost something, an act of kindness can benefit you, but I don't see that kindness as the only type. When someone holds a door for me, they don't do it because I have lost the ability to push a door open, but because they are just being sincerely kind. Sure, there are moments when loss can cause someone to gain a better comprehension on what kindness actually is, but you don't have to be deprived of something to understand it. 

Lydia's Post

I haven't lost much in my life. Naomi Shihab Nye would say that this means that I have never experienced kindness, but I think this is a very ignorant. For someone to say that I don't know what kindness is because I have not had the misfortune of losing someone important to me seems absurd. I can still appreciate a considerate act or offer a kind word to a friend in need. I can still recognize when someone is doing something to help improve their reputation or when it is purely selfless. I find it rather offensive for her to say that I know nothing of kindness.

Julie's Post

There has been many moments in my life where I have "lost things" and I have felt so empty and lonely. However, it gave me the chance to realize that when kindness is there, the only thing you can do is appreciate it to its fullest. To me, on top of everything else, kindness is the most precious action that one can give. By being kind to one another, others will give it back, which is really comforting when in need. Kindness portrays all kinds of comforting feelings and when it is absent through one's eyes, it is painful, but when it does come, that is when you can really understand "what kindness really is".

Parker's Post

I hope I'll have kindness "[come] with [me] everywhere/ like a shadow or a friend" throughout the summer. Hopefully, like Kyle said, it will continue to follow me after the summer as well. I also agree with Kyle's statement about Pine Point. It has definitely molded me into the person I am today, and for that I am thankful. I hope I take what Pine Point has taught me about kindness, and apply it to my high school years.