Reflections of a True Millennial

     Standing as the utmost test for college readiness, Junior year has historically been pounded into our heads as the hardest year of schooling. National Merit, SATs, ACTs, tons of AP classes, and thinking about where to spend at least 4 years of your life next highlight a laundry list of endless tasks that students have the responsibility of completing. Being a well rounded student is rolling from everyone's grasp as juggling everything becomes too much. Sometimes there are those days where you get home past 7 and have no motivation to do anything really. Like today, or pretty much everyday for the past few weeks really. And going to a school like ours helps, but also doesn't.      Unfortunately, it seems that everyday we get more and more stress building up, it feels like layer upon layer of work is mounting up. Not just a figure of speech, literally layers of chemistry papers are building up. It feels like the only way to get any relief is to clear everything out and get

     While the autumn months are bringing a passing of nature, General Conference this weekend compels every listener to make a fresh start. Cheesy sentence yes, but complex sentence? Also yes. Thank you English.      Anyway for those who have no idea what "General Conference" means, it is a worldwide Mormon event that occurs every six months. In it, the living Prophets and Apostles of this time speak to members of the Church and anyone else who cares to listen. Yes we believe in a living Prophet, but no he's not a dinosaur left over from the first century AD or anything. He's just a man called by God to be the Prophet, but that's a whole different topic. So General Conference is an event in Salt Lake City that is broadcasted all over the world and delivers inspiration and doctrine to those that watch. Each speaker at Conference is not assigned a topic and can pick to speak about whatever they feel needs to be spoken about. However, I find it interesting that com