College was the school that came after high school, I had learned that much here. I also knew it wasn't required of people, but that high school was, even if I wasn't sure why they couldn't force people to go into both. Mostly it had something to do with age, I expected, and I hadn't been to high school yet, but I thought I would want to go to college. And I had been told in order to go to college, you had to finish high school first.

"I think you should do it," I said. "Because maybe three years from now you find out college offers classes in something you really want to do, but you can't go because you didn't graduate. And maybe you don't, but I think it's worth it to have. Just in case."