Good afternoon everyone, I'm Isabelle Rowe, and this is Tucci, my senior project. Tucci was released from the Guide Dog Foundation because of a heart murmur she’ll never grow out of, so now she’s my pet. Tucci showed up to more classes than most of the kids here, so she deserves to graduate, too.

I’d like to say that we have matured into adults ready to take on the world, but that wouldn’t be true. We’re kids. An amazing group of kids. We’re inspirers, rule breakers (our class is a little smaller than it was in September), dreamers, teachers, and lovers of learning. My peers, a very accomplished group, might I add, have won national USA rowing competitions, art awards from the Parrish and Longhouse, awards in the New York alliance high school film festival, millions of dollars in scholarships… But we’re still kids, and departing …show more content…
We’ll all be going our separate ways after we walk through the doors of the CWB. That’ll be it. Because of that, I urge you to leave here with the good memories. I know our year has been dramatic, but now that we’ve reached the end, all that nonsense is irrelevant. The friendships that were made, the lessons we’ve learned, and the passions we’ve discovered, this is the legacy we must carry with us. In my 18 years on this planet, the most important lesson I’ve learned is to hold onto the good. High school was a trek, and it is was easy to get swept up in the madness. The exceptional opportunities might have been taken for granted because they were seamlessly intergraded into our lives. From our fantastic senior projects to the life changing Field Academies, and of course the really, really good lunches. We’ve all gone on the Ross journey