As freshmen, everyone told us these were the fastest four years of our lives. At the moment, you do not realize how fast it is going to go until two weeks from graduation, and all you can do is look back at all the memories created. With only a couple of days left, here are our favorite memories, lessons learned, advice and everything in between.

Walking into LHS in the fall of 2022, I am sure we were all a little nervous. Whether the big, scary seniors were walking next to us or we were just attending our first football game, we did not realize how fast and how important these memories were coming at us. 

In our freshman year, all the firsts were the most memorable part: the first high school sports season, the first time in the high school choir/theater, the first time in the student section and the first high school dance. 

By the end of Sophomore year, LHS students accomplished many things to help us remember the year: winning State football, boys soccer, baseball, softball, boys tennis, girls tennis and the One Act winning Superior play. 

Junior year brought many new things to remember the year: the addition of the Homecoming dance, getting a main parking lot pass, taking the ACT for the first time, the marching band traveling to perform at the 2024 Macy’s Day Parade, traveling to Rapid City for the boys basketball tournament and taking home two state titles in boys soccer as well as track and field.

In our senior year, we will remember running the school! We now get to sit in the front of the student section, go to school for three periods a day… sometimes less, experience senior sunrise/sunset, go to prom for the first time and attend the senior class party.

Each year taught us countless lessons and gave us irreplaceable memories. Some advice we would share with younger generations is the following:

Have as much fun as you possibly can. Go to everything; you never know what you might have thought you wouldn’t like, but you actually love. Make as many friends as you can; time goes so fast. Do not waste your time and energy in the wrong places; high school is the perfect place to learn and grow. Take those hard classes; challenge yourself because you might be surprised by what you can accomplish. -Julia Hedrick 

Be who you are and do not try too hard to fit in. Do the activities you want to do, go to the events you think are cool and be friends with the people you want to be friends with. High school is a great opportunity to branch out and figure out who you want to be, so take it! Make the most of these moments because you will remember them for the rest of your life! – Lucy Hennies