Juniors

     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 back to 8 hours of sleep each night, and normal schedules. While this option sounds appealing, we've got to realize that it's probably not going to happen. Perhaps you've gone to local Vista View park sometime. Let me enlighten you will an anecdote about the park (yeah, studying with English vocab).

     Vista View park was previously a large trash dump. When the dump became filled to capacity, it was not an option to clear out the land and start over. Instead, it was made into a beautiful park with more hills than in practically all the rest of the county. Imagine if perhaps, the trash was cleared out, and a flat park was made. Would it be as nice of a place with just a large tract of flat land? Probably not. What makes it unique are the multiple hills criss-crossing around the park. What built this park was literally garbage.

     Sometimes everything we do feels like a load of garbage. Pile upon pile of pointless work come to us. Hours and hours of school work consume all of our time. We are made by what we do. Instead of being a flat person, we work hard to become something unique. It's a time-consuming process, but the end result is breathtaking. So don't complain so much about your responsibilities. Be confident in yourself and who you will become! Be awesome, because you probably are! Anyway, go and finish your chemistry lab or study those english vocab words. Or whatever you have to know. But for each mole of solute dissolved, or acknowledgement of chiasmus or invective, you're building yourself! Yes, that was a little sarcastic. But go do something like that.