Sadie Mealey's 8 Steps to Survive Hawkins High (and not commit some sort of murder-suicide before graduation) (and also have a semi-alright time): 1. Focus on school and getting out of there 2. Go to school events--only under the conditions that you know somebody there 3. Get a job, join a club or sport, save up 4. avoid douchebags 5. avoid "end of the world as we know it" type scenarios 6. stay under the radar 7. do not get involved in any of this shit surrounding the byers kid, sounds miserable 8. do not fall in love (casual flings allowed--see Sadie's 5-steps to not catching feelings) It was 1984 and Sadie was going into her senior year. She had absolutely no plans except for surviving the monotony of a small town high school for one year. Little did she know, what Sadie Mealey would survive in Hawkins was much less mundane.