Graduation brings upon all possible feelings of relief for Deerfield students. At the time of graduation, high school seniors have a two or three month long break before we get to continue in the next unknown and exciting directions that we are each on. For those of us who were born and raised on the North Shore, it can often be far too easy to lose perspective and appreciation for how lucky we all are, so I want to take this time to think about some of the responsibilities that come with graduating from a school like Deerfield. This past February, I got to go on the DHS home build trip to Costa Rica. I worked on one house for three days, and at the end we presented the home to its new family. The very concept of building a real home for a family and directly seeing how it affects them is quite humbling. However, of all of the things I experienced while I was there, I saw one thing that really helped me understand just how lucky I am. The house we were building was located at the end of a long street with lots of other inadequate homes worthy of our charity. On the side of one of these homes that belonged to a family with little children, I saw lots of intricate and colorful sketches and drawings, which really depressed me the more I thought about it. I realized that some little kid in that house has artistic interest, and artistic potential. They have something that they're good at, and that they enjoy doing. But that kid will never have the opportunities to put his or her artistic abilities to use because of the geographical and economical factors that give him or her access to so few resources. That's really what being a kid is all about; exploring different hobbies and activities to find what you like doing and what you have potential in. When I showed interest in music from an early age, my parents bought me a guitar for my birthday and signed me up for lessons nearby. Because I actually had a guitar to play and had access to s