The Future

               As cliché as it is, junior year has flown by. I remember dreading the first day of school and dreading the monotony that this year would surely bring but now all I want to do is go back to the beginning and have little more time to figure out what I want to do and to de-stress a little. Junior year marked our upperclassmanship, and dang, that is crazy.

               The biggest success of junior year is not pulling all of my hair out and having an emotional breakdown in the middle of school with the amount of just stuff that’s been thrown at me. People always say that junior year is the toughest academically and I’ve been able to deal with it, so that’s always a plus.

               Failures have such a negative sense of finality to them and I just don’t like it. Maybe it’s because I don’t like to admit defeat. However, I can own up to the hundreds of mistakes that I’ve made this year. I really should’ve dedicated myself more academically instead of getting so easily distracted by literally all the things. I should’ve taken more initiative in my outside activities and put more effort into them. Hopefully next year I’ll keep these in mind, but by this time next year I can already see an awful case of senioritis taking root in me.

               This year has been quite risk free. I think the riskiest it’s gotten is …… starting Physics web homework a few hours before it was due? It wasn’t the most stress free Sunday night ever. Well actually, I officially started driving this year. There’s a pretty big risk. From that I learned that people can get incredibly aggressive when they can’t see your face and that they can be quite self-centered.

               I’m planning on traveling a bit over the summer to do college visits, but the bulk of my summer will be spent at GSP. And doing summer homework and volunteering at the hospital if I can. Summer marks the beginning of freaking out over college things, so it should be fun filled and happy times. Yay.

               My biggest goal is to get all of my applications done before the hour before applications are due. And in order to do this I’m going to have the most organized planner ever. I’m thinking about getting an agenda just for application dates and things, but that might be overkill. My second goal is to not become terribly apathetic and contract senioritis, and so far I haven’t got a game plan for that, but it’ll worked on sooner or later.