Jessica Le is a freshman, but you wouldn’t know it by her involvement. She’s in Key Club. She’s a freshman board director. She plays volleyball. At pep rallies, she’s the one screaming loudest.

Le tries to help in any way possible.

Yet some of her upperclassmen would still see her as nothing more than a first-year high school student who will always act a certain way.

“Freshmen,” said junior Laila Collins,” are childish.”

At Bowie and other high schools, students often view one another differently because of their grade. Freshmen are viewed as immature and childish because it’s their first year of high school. Sophomores are seen as chill and getting a better handle of high school. Juniors are considered to be more pressured academically. And seniors? They simply want to leave.

Collins knows she can do better than she’s doing. She wants to do better because now she knows high school is something serious.

“As a junior, you see how serious it actually gets,” Collins said. “High school is actually not a joke.”

Even though she knows she has to prepare herself she still wants to be a good example for freshmen. A sophomore thinks the same about freshmen.

“I think they are babies,” Anjola said. Even though she said that she also wants freshmen to go the “right way.”

“We have to show them the roads to take,” Anjola said. She wants freshmen to be more mature but is a bit scared of upperclassmen. Not all but some. She knows that she is mature and everyone gets some type of judgement, not only freshmen.

Senior Ariana agrees about getting judges. “They expect them to be more mature, and I am compared to the grade levels that I was before,” Ariana said.

Even when it’s your last year, it’s so much work, many students have said. Ariana just wants to leave and find new and different experiences.

Most seniors don’t care that much about how younger students view them. Like Ariana, they are just ready to move on. Nothing is bound to change how freshmen, sophomores and juniors feel about one another. They will always have different opinions – both good and bad.