What's it Like to Join a Commuity?

Joining a community can be a mix of emotions and feelings. Personally if I am joining a community in which I do not know much of the community’s rules and customs then I would be really nervous. If I have a little more background knowledge about the community I’m joining and the way the system works within a community I would be excited and anxious to join but I would still feel nervous for the new experiences. A community that I joined was a community that transitioned from middle school into high school. I have known my friends in middle school for a long time and I was scared to go off into a place where I would know no one and have to start all over again. I took many steps to get into high school. First, it was the shadowing process. I had to go to the schools that interested me and shadow a person for the entire day, which meant that I would follow them from class to class learning their material and see how it would be if I were to go to that school. I shadowed three different school. The one that I liked most was Arrupe Jesuit High School. Then came the application process. Here I applied to all the high schools that I would like to attend. I got accepted into all of them. After deciding, I chose one. Transitioning from a small community where I had twelve people in my class to one hundred was very nerve wracking. The good thing was that I made friends quick. A coupled friends stayed and most left towards the end of my senior year. This type of community was one where you had to be accepted in but not all of them are like that. I think that these types of communities are better organized and have a lot of control over their population.