The Limit Does Not Exist

Editor’s Note: Every year seniors on the Norsestar staff are given the opportunity to write a goodbye letter to the school in the print editor. However, this year to do a technical glitch, Katryn Dobkin’s goodbye was not published in the print edition.  We are publishing her goodbye right here. Also, when you view the print edition online, Dobkin’s goobye will be published there.

The Limit Does Not Exist

by Katryn Dobkin
            Do you guys remember the movie Mean Girls? The movie about the over-exaggerated high school cliques? Of course you do, who doesn’t. Well Parkway North Class of 2013, what I want you guys to remember is that “the limit does not exist!”

            Even though Lindsey Lohan’s character Cady Heron was talking about a math problem, we can use her words and apply it to our lives. The class of 2013 is an overall ambitious class and there is no limit to what we all can accomplish. And as I sat down to write this Senior Goodbye, I realized that I didn’t want it to be much of a goodbye, but more of a good luck.

Good luck to everyone on their endeavors, whatever they may be. Whether it’s becoming a “mathlete” in college like Cady Heron, a leader like Regina George, a rebel like Janis Ian, or being an overall well-liked person like Glen Coco.

I’ve been in Parkway since kindergarten so I’ve known most of the class of 2013 for a while. I grew up with you guys. Not only have you all been my classmates, but I feel as if we’ve all learned life lessons together by growing up with each other like “calling somebody else fat doesn’t make you any skinner and calling someone stupid doesn’t make you smarter. And ruining Regina George’s life definitely doesn’t make any of us happier.”

My biggest lesson learned at North is that none of the drama is worth it in the long run. All drama does is distracts us from bettering ourselves. Every high school has its drama and gossip but I feel that as a class we’ve been people that have been more focused on bettering ourselves than tearing down someone else. That’s what makes our class amazing. The competition within our grade wasn’t about who can dress better or who has the more expensive lip gloss, but about who can get the better grades, which in the long run motivates all of us to try harder and do better.

Anyways Parkway North, it’s been real, but I want you guys to remember that the limit does not exist. There are endless possibilities of what we all can achieve. Graduating high school

is not the end but rather the beginning of the rest of our lives. It’s been four long years. “Four for you Parkway North, you go Parkway North!” Good luck.