Spirited seventh grader Christian Xiong, left, wears silver antennae on his head while eating lunch with classmates in the amphitheater at Alta Sierra School in Clovis Monday - the first day of classes for Clovis Unified School kids. Seventh graders have it pretty rough. They go from being the big men on campus at their elementary schools to very small fish in a much bigger pond at their new middle school. They're also learning how to not be kids and transition into young adults. I still remember seventh grade and I think that year does more to shape who you will become more than any other year.