Four years of my life were spent in this place called Troy High School. After this year I will leave Troy, worn and torn from the hours of waiting for the votes to be posted, from the arrival of next weekend, from the answer to the question of whether that special someone will say yes to the next dance, or from the unbearable waiting for that meticulous bell to ring. Troy is a place of education, a very good one at that, with its Blue Ribbon Award and national recognition, you would think I would walk away with knowledge that will serve me well for decades to come, but no. I could have learned the same things I learned in Troy anywhere, it's the insight I've gleaned that will take me far. "What intuition?" you ask. It's truly invaluable wisdom, it's a shame that too many people overlook it or take it for granted. You see, there are some basic classes that every Troy student takes, which in the long run prove to be very useful beyond their educational platforms. Take courses at Troy Tech, they offer much more than just facts about 1s and 0s and programming codes. By examining more deeply what you learn in these lessons you can glean Zen-like teachings. Bases, the fact that a "10" can be any number, depending on its base, suggests the idea of ​​how in the real world people appear to be the ultimate characters of greatness, but the more you get to know them and their base, they can transform into someone better or, more often than not, no, something worse than you had initially anticipated. In the course of programming we learn that there are different ways to solve a problem, only that some are shorter than others and others are easier to find bugs, it depends on the commands you use. For example, in life, when you use the right commands, or truths, you get far, while some just take...half of the paper...called faith; you have to have faith. All in all, high school is strange in the way it hides the wisdom we need on a daily basis, noble indeed. I doubt that although half the teachers realize that high school is not a place to ascertain lasting knowledge, contrast high school is the time to gain the lasting wisdom to get you to college where you will then gain the lasting knowledge you desire. Troy is also peculiar in that he misleads his students into believing that reaching the finish line means surpassing a 4.0 GPA, when in reality, as Christopher Morley stated, "There is only one success: being able to spend your life at your way." So, taking flight from this place called Troy, what did I really learn? I learned what Oscar Wilde understood: “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”