How to Graduate at the Top of Your Class AND Have Fun with Booksmart

While we

ourselves may be well past our high school and college years, I know that everyone can relate to figuring out yourself as you embark on a new adventure or life experience.

Whether for you it was college, or traveling, or working towards any goal you have long had your heart set on.

Like Molly and Amy, the protagonists of the movie Booksmart, we all know what it feels like to be on the precipice of something long awaited.

especially when it is an accomplishment that took blood, sweat, and tears, and sacrifice beyond anything else we've ever done before.

Unlike many high schoolers, though, Amy and Molly have experienced high school differently than so many of us did.

It was a time full of awkward moments and so many firsts and daydreams continuing on that have already been a long while in the making.

Maybe just started coming true.

Yet something still feels amiss.

Whether we can pinpoint exactly what that is is a different question.

As you'll learn alongside me today, Booksmart so expertly teaches us some rules for life because the movie does what all of the best coming-of-age movies do, puts us in the shoes of the protagonists, so we root for them the same way we would root for a best friend or ourselves.

What says coming-of-age movie more than teenagers realizing they really messed up? So whether you're on the eve of your high school graduation or on the eve of finally being able to apply for AARP, let's take a walk through our own lives and try and recall a time we made a mistake so big we were shocked beyond belief.

And what says growing up like learning from our mistakes? If you've never seen the movie Booksmart, don't worry, I'll clue you in.

Our protagonists are two plucky and incredibly intelligent high school seniors, Molly and Amy.

The movie begins on the night before the girls' class graduates from high school.

Soon the girls will be off to the Ivy League universities they both worked so hard to gain acceptance into.

Molly and Amy are riding the high of their accomplishments.

They're at the top of their class and they sacrifice so many things to be the top brains among their peers.

However, after Molly learns that a lot of kids in their grade who partied hard and had a fun high school experience also got into many Ivy League universities or otherwise impressive colleges, Molly has a brief moment of insanity.

After telling Amy that they were wrong for having chosen to have fun or just do well academically, Molly guilts Amy into going to the big senior class party that night before they say goodbye to their classmates at tomorrow morning's graduation, though Amy is reluctant to do so.

The night proves to be full of shenanigans galore and a million missteps before the girls arrive at the infamous party.

as Amy tries to warn Molly that their respective crushes are not actually into them.

The best friends get into a very loud, very public fight right before the cops come in to bust the party.

Amy gets arrested, taking the fall for many of her classmates, finally identifying herself with the rest of the kids in her grade, and Molly bails Amy out the next morning.

The girls rushed to graduation, just in time for Molly to give her graduation speech.