consider this your back to school reality check

@madsmonagh

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Why it worked

The video taps into the relatable anxieties and excitements of starting a new school year, particularly the final year of high school. The creator's energetic and personal delivery, combined with the "reality check" framing, creates a strong connection with viewers who are likely experiencing similar emotions. The promise of a "glowing and growing" series also encourages follow-up engagement.

Summary

The creator, a high school senior, shares her excitement and anxieties about the upcoming school year. She discusses her plans for senior year activities, the need for better self-care and structure, and her desire to mentor others. She also invites viewers to share their feelings and questions about starting the school year.

Structure

1Introduction and realization of limited time before school starts
2Excitement and plans for senior year activities
3Focus on self-care and mental preparation for the school year
4Announcement of a new series 'glowing and growing'
5Reflection on the unique experience of being a senior and offering advice
6Call to action for viewer engagement and sharing of feelings

Call to action

Let me know if you want to see more high school content and any questions you have for the coming school year because I'd love to help out any way I can. I think one of the cool things about being a senior is like everyone's been where anyone else is now and I think that's so cool and I'm super excited to like give people advice and kind of have that like ability to mentor other people and I would love to do that on here too so let me know if you have any questions. Honestly, I'm a little bit excited because I feel like summer I just have nothing to do and then I get all like sad just because I don't have structure and so I'm super excited to have the structure. Anyway, let me know how you're feeling about the school year starting because I just can't believe it's here already and yeah, I hope you guys stick around and that we can have more high school chats like this. Love you, bye.

Original caption

it’s high time we talk about back to school season…i literally cannot believe we go back to school in 3 weeks! soaking it all in because it’s my last year 🥹 also i thought the intro was so funny please laugh #backtoschoolshopping #highschool #senior #senioryear #grwm

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Transcript

We have three weeks left until the start of school. Um, one second, please. *screams* Alright, I'm good. Let's talk about it. For those of y'all who I don't know yet, my name's Maddie and I'm going to be a high school senior and I am feeling so many emotions right now. I'm so excited for the school year, but I'm also like shocked it came so quickly. Frankly, I think it's just impossible that I'm already a senior, but here we are. And I'm so excited. Wait. I cannot wait to take you guys along with me on all the senior festivities. Me and my friends are doing the whole week of planning and prepping for senior year. So we're going to do like our memory boxes, our crowns, the whole nine yards. I live in the DMV area, so we're gonna do senior sunrise like at the monuments in DC, which is so fun. Fellow seniors, if you want a little list of like fun senior crafts you can do, let me know because I feel like I have it on lock. As for the rest of y'all, we really need to get moving on all the back to school supplies, on the summer work. I just can't even believe it. But I have to go shopping. I do my summer work. I haven't done that yet. Even if I'm honest, it's not even just the summer work that I have to do. I really want to get myself in good shape mentally before the school year starts. I really want to get like my sleep schedule locked down, like eating, meal prep, all those things because we're about to be in the eye of the hurricane. Okay? And I just can't be having this like, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to eat, my sleep schedule's all messed up. None of that, okay? We're not doing that. Alright, too. We're not doing that. Saying up till 2 AM. It's not going to do anything for you. I'm speaking to myself here clearly. If you're feeling similarly, feel free to follow along because I'm starting a series called glowing and growing where we glow up and get ready for the school year together. But yeah, I have a really good feeling about this year. Obviously, it's going to be crazy busy because of college apps and senior year and everything else, but I could not be more excited and regardless of if you're going to be a junior, freshman, whatever. This year's going to be so good. But of course, let me know what kind of, you know, back to school content you want to see and any questions that you have to cause I'd love to help out any way I can. I think one of the cool things about being a senior is like everyone's been where anyone else is now and I think that's so cool and I'm super excited to like give people advice and kind of have that like ability to mentor other people and I would love to do that on here too so let me know if you have any questions. Honestly, I'm a little bit excited because I feel like summer I just have nothing to do and then I get all like sad just because I don't have structure and so I'm super excited to have the structure. Anyway, let me know how you're feeling about the school year starting because I just can't believe it's here already and yeah, I hope you guys stick around and that we can have more high school chats like this. Love you, bye.