Senior Cecilio Martinez has four more days left at Roseville High School before graduation. Before he walks the stage, he reflected on all he has learned during his four years. He plans to get a job and start off his first two years out of high school attending Sierra Community College. He appreciates the memories and friends he has made within his RHS classes and looks forward to applying his newly refreshed work ethic onto his college courses.

-Rachel Barber

“I’m just trying to get by before I’m done graduating. You still get major workload but you don’t feel it as much, now that it’s the end of the year and finals are coming up. Now that I’m done with this, I’m onto the next part of my life.

I knew in my freshman year that it wasn’t going to be easy and was actually kind of afraid of the upperclassmen. I was starting lower chain again, but start of my senior year, it was just like ‘Okay I made it through all this.’ I’m a bit smarter now, I’m a bit wiser now and I’ve grown a bit more mature. And looking back on it now, I’m amazed I was able to make it this far. I had multiple favorite classes, they taught me a lot. Guitar class, I had a lot of friends in there and I learned how to play an instrument. For biology, I got some friends, I got close with the teacher Mrs. Durham. She’s like a friend to me now. And for Grove’s class, his jokes, no matter how
cheesy, will always get me.

Now in this next part of life, I’m like, ‘Here we go. Let’s do this song and dance again.’ You gotta start somewhere. The most important thing I’ve learned here would be even if you’re falling behind, just catch up as best you can. I never really did overcome math but I managed to come out on top. My goal [is to] make it as best I can in the world of adulthood.”