Morgan612 has reached the end of high school.

Hello, my name is Morgan and I am approaching the end.

On June 5, I will officially graduate from high school. It's hard to believe. Throughout all the years, you start the school year in 7th grade, 8th grade, maybe 9th, and you think, this is just another year and next year I'll start again, but one grade higher. But the numbers keep getting higher, and soon enough you find yourself in 12th grade. This year I started school and I thought, "Wow. I've always known where I was going to be in a year or even in two or three years but this year . . . I have no idea." It was the scariest thing to look ahead and have only the vaguest idea of where I would be in one year.

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Seabolt writes about a common summer problem.

Summer's just around the corner, but it comes with a tax; sunburns. We all love playing in the sun, maybe at a beach or swimming in your pool, but if don't take the right precautions we can end up with a nasty red burn on our ill-prepared skin. Though painful, it may not seem like that big of a problem, and most of the time it isn't. But it can be.

What is a sunburn, anyway?

The outer layer of skin (the epidermis), the one you can touch and can feel, is dead skin cells. But just below these are living cells, which are easily killed by the ultraviolet light coming from the sun's rays. And when you expose yourself to UV light, you're basically damaging/killing your living cells.

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