We honored this year’s bloggers at a special breakfast event this week.  While Shelby, Jason and Olivia will return for their senior years as bloggers next year, we had to say goodbye to our seniors.  Most of them were on-hand (except Ashley K. and Mica).  They really did some awesome things this year and will always be remembered as the FIRST Ohio Hi-Point Career Center student bloggers and the first to document their journey as part of the Hi-Point Journeys campaign.

The seniors had their final step on the journey of their high school careers last night when Ohio Hi-Point held their Convocation ceremony. Here’s photos of some of our bloggers at the ceremony.

We congratulate our senior bloggers: Daniel, Taylor, Mica, Mikki, Ashley B., Shana, Ashley K.,  Michael, Samantha, Rebekah.  Best wishes on the next part of the journey.

Senior Year! It is almost over. How was the journey? When thinking of my senior year many feelings and emotions go through my head. In one way, I feel this year drug on and it was a tough one, I kind of feel excited that I will be done with school. At the same time, it is sad and scary. It is sad to think that the days of school and friends are part of the past and are just going to be memories. Ending my senior year is also a very scary thing for the fact it is time for life-changing decisions. I have to decide where to go from here and what I truly want out of life.
After school, I plan to work at the same salon that I do now as a receptionist full-time until a chair becomes open. When that happens, I will work as a commission girl and build up my clientele to soon be on my own and rent a booth. Since I will be receiving my Cosmetology license right out of school, I will not be attending college right away. A long term goal that I have is to eventually go to spa school and get into a more spa environment.
Overall I am truly excited for graduation and the next couple weeks! Attending Hi-Point has helped me to feel a lot more secure for my future and know truly where I belong in life. It has helped me to achieve my goals and maintain a job in my field right out of high school. I couldn’t have accomplished what I have without Hi-Point!

Well, well, day after day we get closer and closer to graduation and I never know what the next day is going to bring. This last Tuesday I was recognized at Clark State for an outstanding tech prep student award, and then Thursday I had a banquet and recognition for the top 15 students at Hi-Point. In between that I worked Monday and Wednesday and had a track meet on Friday. Whoever said that the end of your senior year was a time to relax and just enjoy the ride was lying. It seems that the end of the year is bringing my busiest times and is luckily keeping me on my toes and not letting me slack off. One thing that is going to make the end of the year even more difficult is the task of trying to juggle the graduation activities at my home school and at Hi-Point all at the same time, all while finishing up my last track season. All I can say is that when all of this is over I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself, it will be such a letdown to not be busy all of the time, I’m sure I’ll enjoy myself for awhile though. All I can say is bring on the graduation and bring on the summer fun.