At the end of my sophomore year, I was extremely nervous about entering my junior year of high school. Some pretty challenging classes loomed before me including this class and when Mr. Logsdon came to visit our English class last year I was very intimidated (no offense Mr. Logsdon) about the high quality work I would have to produce in the coming year in all of my classes, not just English.
As it turns out, I really enjoyed each of my classes this year finding new passions in math and physics as well as discovering my own writing style that I had never really understood before AP Lang. and Comp. Moreover, while my sometimes tangential conservations with Mr. Pope irritated some people in my class, APUSH really made my year a great year academically because I felt that I got to know the American identity as a person, not just a period of time in history. In addition to my enjoyment of the curriculum, I really enjoyed strengthening friendships with teachers and starting new ones while I actually lost a teacher midyear due to personnel issues.
To be quite honest, it was not that great of a year on a personal level and I realized that I have made so many mistakes in the past and I am currently trying to work on them in preparation for my senior year when I hope to be the best person I can possibly be (like Annie Bradford: it is impossible to be angry at Annie). In a way, I plan on focusing on my mistakes from my past years of high school and embarking on my own "quete du soi" or personal quest to truly find myself and while it seems cliche, it is important to me that I know who I am before I begin my life as an adult.
This year turned out to be relatively risk free with the riskiest thing I have done is gone zip-lining if that counts as a risky activity.
Over the summer I am planning on volunteering for a significant amount of time at the Best Friend's Day Center, fundraising for the Walk to End Alzheimer's, working on my mentoring project, and attending GSP (this might change, I am trying to find out if I was chosen to be a Page for Senator McConnell but since the Ashley Judd scandal his office won't answer its phones or respond to emails). I am excited about GSP because I feel that it will be a great time to really experience new subject areas that I have explored before and it will give me some time to find myself personally, which is really my largest priority for the summer. At the end of summer, I will be working on the Common App and supplements, but I have finished all my college visits (yay!).
My biggest goal for next year is seriously focusing on my mentoring project and having all my college applications finished before November 1st. It may be a lofty goal, but it is not set in stone at this point. I plan on reaching these goals by getting as much work done over the summer as possible while staying very organized with a giant calendar for all my important due dates.
BTW: I am kind of sad that this is our last blog of the year. I really enjoyed these expressions of opinion and emotion so thank you Mr. Logsdon for reading each and every blog. I felt like it was a great opportunity to express ourselves in a personal way with each other that was unique and interesting.
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