Junior Year

Wow. I can't believe that I can already make a reflective blog post about my junior year. I could go on and on about how it seems like just yesterday I was starting my first day of freshman year, but I'm sure a lot of others have already written about that. This year has been one for the books and I really am (sort of) sad to see it come to a close. First off, it wasn't nearly as difficult as other people made it out to be. Yeah, sometimes I had a lot of homework, but the overall workload and rigor of my classes was definitely manageable. I was honestly expecting to hate my life after a couple of months, but that surely wasn't the case. One of the most important reasons for this, I believe, was the relationships that I have with my friends. I was able to strengthen many of the relationships that I already had with some students, allowing me to open up more to others, which is something I've never been comfortable doing. On top of that, I have formed amazing relationships with students that I hadn't been able to get to know before this year. In previous years, I was able to arrange my class schedule so that I have a lot of classes with my close friends whom I'm comfortable with (sophomore year, I had five classes with Meredith Scroggin... Yikes. (jkjkjk) (kind of)). This year, I didn't have my closest friends in all my classes, which allowed me to spend more time with awesome people I didn't know as well, but now luckily do. Also, I legitimately like all of my teachers this year. Usually, there have been one or two teachers each year who weren't my favorite, but this year, I honestly enjoy being in each one of their classes. Thankfully, I'll have the privilege of having classes with a few of my teachers from this year during my senior year. Senior year. I will be a senior in a month. I can say that to myself over and over again and still not believe it. I am so looking forward to next year and I know that it'll be just as good, if not much better than this year has been. I can't wait to see what that future holds for me and for all of my fantastic classmates.