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This was in desperate need of an update. So, here we go! Hey there, readers! I'm Meagan Savage, a 2006 Chaparral High School graduate. I'm currently a freshman at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa (Go Bulldogs!!!). I'm double majoring in magazine journalism in English and I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I started using YourHub.com at the beginning of the summer and I've pretty much been hooked ever since. I also have a photography blog that (oops) I haven't updated in a while, but if you'd like to see those photos it's called the Shutterbug blog. I love to take pictures and I'm a photographer for the campus paper the Times Delphic (check out my work at www.timesdelphic.com) and for DrakeMag Associated Collegiate Press' number one student publication in the country. I'm not on as often as I'd like to be since college is pretty much a whole new world compared to high school, but every now and then I'll have some down time and my blogs will come in spurts before some less hub-active time. So, check it out, tell me what to think and thanks for stopping by :) :) By the way, you can Check me out on Brendan's List

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Forward to school

Contributed by: Meagan Savage   on 8/8/2006

Well, the other day was Chaparral High School's 2006-2007 registration and my little brother Nick had to go up to school. Naturally, being the older sister, I too, was obligated to attend. Actually in no capacity did I have to go at all. In fact, Nick almost begged me not to, but, c'mon. Would I ever pass up a chance to walk those halls again? You'd better believe not.

So, up I went. Registration always impresses me. It's so quick and it gets faster every year. I don't think it took longer than ten minutes to get through everything we needed to do.

And we might have even left the building in ten minutes if it wasn't for me.

I found some of my underclassmen friends and a couple of teachers and had to get one of those shoulder-shattering hugs from Peterson that I said I'd miss so much. And I had to peek in 308 just incase I dreamt that Mr. Williams moved. I half-expected him to swing around in his office chair and beckon me into the room for a high-five. No such luck.

With the "back to school" feeling in the air, I've started to think about what it means to not really be going back. Obviously I'll be going back for hugs and kisses and last good-byes, but it's not really the same at all, is it? It's not to be considered "school" any more. It's "alma mater" now and I am an "alumna." I've never spent more than two and a half or maybe three years at any one school and I spent four at Chaparral.

I'll go back in a week, again in November and December, and I'll pop in in May when I'm home for the summer. But never again do I have to sit in one of those desks that you can't scoot up to 'cuz the chair is attached to it and be forced to learn some concept that escapes me with twenty other kids (instead I'll be sweating in an unairconditioned lecutre hall with one-hundred and twenty other students being forced to learn a concept that will still escape me). I won't get to laugh when I notice the clocks have mysteriously stopped at 2:32 from the previous day so nobody in the room will be able to tell how much longer we have in the class period. Nor will I be breaking the rules by playing Frisbee in the courtyard of the 300 pod during lunch.

Not going 'back' means I won't spend my freshman year rubbing aloe over the second degree burns that developed after I decided that 99 degree weather for eight consecutive hours didn't merit sunscreen.

Not going 'back' means I won't spend my sophomore year writing "yay band" on every single page of notes, doodles, worksheets, papers, and exams.

Not going 'back' means I won't spend junior year panicking about AP classes, band competitions, yearbook deadlines, college visits or sickness.

Not going 'back' means I won't spent my senior year pulling out my hair by the roots because of miscalculations leading me to believe that the staff was short more than one-hundred yearbooks.

But I guess what not going back means the most is that my life is undergoing some very exciting change ... very scary, very exciting change. When you think about it change is really one of the only dependable things we have in life ... consistent inconsistencies.

What I'm trying to say is ... I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

*** You may have noticed that it's been a few days since I've last posted. It's taken me a long while to write this one just because I guess I've never really thought about this before. Forgive me.***


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Submitted By: Bill Boucher
posted on 8/8/2006 @ 7:34:15 PM
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To quote Rush, "Changes aren't permanent, but change is." What did you play?
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Submitted By: Rob Guthrie
posted on 8/8/2006 @ 5:52:57 PM
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You have a way of describing things that really takes me back, Meagan (and we're talking 23 years, so that's a lot of taking). I'm betting everyone here, like me, is excited for you!
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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 8/8/2006 @ 4:48:37 PM
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Wow, Meagan. Suddenly it's 1998 and I've just left Grand Junction for Parker, high school very officially behind and college tentatively ahead. Great entry. I particularly like your descriptions of memories of each year of high school.
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Meagan Savage has posted 78 blog entries and 61 comments since joining on 5/26/2006. Meagan Savage 's average blog rating is 5.
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