4 Years

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Across
  1. 2. A common girl’s name starting with the letter ‘O,’ also the name of one of your best friends senior year.
  2. 5. The date during junior year that you called Faith crying over someone you’d never met.
  3. 7. The common name of the species B. anthracinus.
  4. 10. The three emotions: frustrated, flustered, and ______.
  5. 12. The movie you watched with your twin on a Saturday night that you secretly cried about. It was supposed to be a comedy, but the loneliness of high school didn’t seem so funny at the time.
  6. 15. A person who came into your life twice but left three times. There’s no bad blood, but there is a confusing amount of nostalgia for a time in your life that you’re much happier to be out of. You knew her whole family and were often inseparable. She always knew how you were feeling, even when you didn’t say it.
  7. 16. breakfast club The famous 80s movie that your lunch group was named after when you all started to meet for lunch every day in your coach’s classroom. You’d bring pasta salad to share once a month and had parties around each holiday. Everyone brought gifts and shared their favorite foods.
  8. 17. A common guy’s name starting with the letter ‘M,’ and the but of the running joke of guys to avoid at all cost. (But he’s doing well now, and you’re honestly, genuinely happy for him.)
  9. 20. The sport that you played for hours in Nathan’s garage with people you never knew you’d become friends with.
  10. 21. The thing that you got back into during spring of your senior year. You went through more books in one semester than you had in the past 4 years.
  11. 22. Your old teacher, one of the kindest people you’ve ever met, whose friendship you’ll hold in your heart forever. Also known as the goat.
  12. 24. Adj. feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated. What you felt when you got your grades back each semester, knowing the stress was worth it.
  13. 26. The coach who let you have lunch in her classroom every day for a year. (Another person who you’ll be thankful for forever.)
  14. 28. The sport you didn’t try out for but somehow made the team anyway.
  15. 29. How many dollars you won on HQ while waiting in the nutritionists office.
  16. 30. Your favorite art teacher who let you take your time with projects because perfection is hard to achieve.
Down
  1. 1. The brand with a fitness watch that you probably should’ve never bought. It started with 12,500 steps for fun and ended in 5am workouts and 200 calorie days.
  2. 3. The month you had to be more honest than you had been in your whole life.
  3. 4. The school year that you learned how to meet new people.
  4. 6. Two words that are synonymous with stress and anxiety, but somehow also brought love and growth.
  5. 8. Your favorite summer vacation where time doesn’t matter and company is always welcome. It’s something you look forward to every year.
  6. 9. The last sport that you decided to learn how to play.
  7. 11. A person you see every couple weeks who knows you better than probably anyone you’ll ever meet. You stopped seeing her right after you graduated, but after about a year and a half you remembered that you needed her.
  8. 13. The class you had together freshman year.
  9. 14. The term for the decision to abstain from eating meat and fish. You started at the same time as your best friend, and it’s been over 6 years now. (It was also a secret way to punish yourself.)
  10. 18. A starchy tuber plant native to the Americas. (Also the subject of the greatest procrastination paper you made.)
  11. 19. A sport that brought you some of the best and worst times of your life.
  12. 23. Three letters for what Jack Nicholson is diagnosed with in As Good as it Gets.
  13. 25. Four letters representing the name of a place none of your friends were going to.
  14. 27. In psychology, this is a broad personality style characterized by a person's concern with striving for flawlessness and perfection and is accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. Something that became present in everything you did.
  15. 28. The summer job you picked up just after your 16th birthday. You learned everyone’s names in the neighborhood and hung out with your friends every day.