Cyndi Loza

Jared Spratley was torn Wednesday.

“I kind of want summer to end and I kind of don’t,” said Spratley, 15, as he stood in line to register for his second year at Galena High School. “I guess at school I can see my friends more, but during summer I don’t have to do anything.”

Spratley was among Galena sophomores registering for classes. Galena staff began registration Monday, but other Washoe County high schools will begin next week in anticipation of the first day of classes Aug. 25.

“It’s not as easy as showing up Aug. 25,” Principal Thomas Brown said. “It’s like going to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). Sometimes you get to the front of the line and find out you don’t have all the proper paperwork.”

Registration was a reminder that summer is coming to an end for many Galena sophomores, who approached it with either anxiety, anxiousness or muffled groans.

“I just want to get my schedule and go,” said Makenzie Davis, 15. “I don’t want to be here.”

Recalling her registration experience as a freshman, Emmy Quinn, 15, now a sophomore, said she sympathizes with those registering today.

“(Last year,) it was stressful because you didn’t know what to expect and there were people everywhere and it was just crazy,” Quinn said. “But now, it’s kind of just relaxed because you know what you’re doing.”