Bang! The End is Coming?

I’m sure everyone is excited about spring break next week and how much fun they will have. Don’t get me wrong, I will also be having the time of my life in Cabo, but spring break also signals one more thing that is approaching. That thing is graduation. So in this blog, let me explain the highs and lows of my high school experience. 

Freshman year was probably one of the weirdest years I’ve had. All I remember is that this was when Covid hit and when we went into quarantine. While I do wish that Covid-19 never occurred, quarantine was honestly top 5 best moments for me personally. It was weird not seeing others for a few months, but being able to just be by yourself was so relaxing, especially with all of the work given over e-learning. I would wake up around 9:30-10ish and then finish my work by 1:30ish if I genuinely tried doing it. Then I would have the entire day to do whatever I wanted. I watched so many movies and tv shows that I think that is where my love for movies came from. Another thing was that my brother was home. I personally like having my brother home, because he is usually the one who backs me up when I get in an argument with mom or dad. Although he did make me go crazy more than a few times, it was nice having him there. Also, not having to stress over school made the entire experience 100x less stressful. Of course, I wish this pandemic never occurred, but what was produced from it was an experience that I genuinely loved. 

My sophomore year was the weirdest year I would say. This was the year when we started school again, but instead of e-learning, we did zoom. Honestly, I hated zoom with a passion just because I could feel my eyes slowly deteriorating. The good part was that I could go get a snack or go to the bathroom when I wanted most of the time. I also got closer with some people during the first semester of sophomore year that I’m still friends with. Then when we did in-person combined with zoom, I think I had a worse experience than the first semester. Being able to see some people I hadn’t seen in a while was nice, but the way we had to do things in the school such as the hallway walking made me wish I just stayed home. I’m delighted that I also decided to wait to take ceramics til senior year because if I had to continuously take my piece home and then back to school, I know I would have broken it and my room would be a bigger mess than it already was. The last thing I remember about this year was that the summer that followed sophomore year was probably one of the best ones I’ve had.

I think I’ll talk about junior and senior years in the same paragraph, but let’s talk about junior year first. Junior year was when most of us came back to be fully in-person and I really saw so many more people than before. Also, the workload was crazy different than what I remembered, because I would say that most of my teachers gave less work during sophomore year and then the teachers during junior year just dumped everything on us. They say that this year is the hardest year of high school, but I genuinely think the first semester of senior year is harder. Finishing college applications while also doing schoolwork was the most stressful semester I’ve had. I even forgot to submit an application to some schools, because I was focused on other senior activities. Then I got the flu before thanksgiving break which made me miss the senior roller skating night and then the entire next week I was stationed at home while my family went to see all of my cousins. Thankfully, that semester is over and I’ve been relaxing more than ever now. I even have time now to take at least 3 hours every day to do whatever I want after school when I don’t have activities. 

High school has been weird for me. I know I complain about it, but I also understand that the class of 2021 and 2020 had it a lot worse as covid was big during their senior year. Hopefully, this semester ends well and the summer can then be the best one yet.