Pranatee Shah Week 16 - Reflection of the Year
As junior year comes to an end, I would like to take the time to reflect on the experiences I have had this year and the memories I have made.
At the beginning of the school year, I was constantly stressed. After only experiencing the workload of one AP class sophomore year, I did not feel prepared to face the wrath of four AP classes. The gazillions of annotations due each week, blogs, current events, and timed writes all thrown on me at once was overwhelming. AP Lang felt like the work of seven classes combined! Semester one seemed never-ending. However, it wasn’t all that bad. Small moments, such as watching the little 3-5 year olds I teach dance to kill it on stage; Thanksgiving break, where my dance team met up for Friendsgiving; and my birthday, when I spent almost four hours in a trampoline park with my friends have made the semester memorable.
Then, semester two came around. I remember being anxious over the fact that AP tests, finals, and the SAT were all approaching in the next few months. During POAS season, I remember sleeping at 6:30AM after working on the research paper all night, taking a nap, and waking up at 7:00AM every single day for a week. My sleep schedule was so messed up that it took almost three weeks to fully recover, and I swear my brain cell count was down to 0.0000000000001. Semester two went by so fast though! Between now and January, it feels like no time has gone by at all.
I now understand why people say junior year is the hardest year of high school. Despite the struggle, I am still grateful for the things I have learned this year. This class specifically was fun, engaging, and taught me so much. All my incredible, kind teachers have truly made this year a memorable one.
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| This is trampoline park similar to the one my friends and I visited for my birthday. |
Hey Pranatee, your blog is super relatable, because I 100% feel like you do about this year. That first semester was tough man, it was tough. Assignments and essays and tests were never ending and in the back of our minds, we knew there was still soooo much time left before the end of the year. But again, I definitely agree with the fact that second semester was so much more lenient. We had time to breathe, have fun, and I think I enjoyed the texts and novels of second semester so much more than first semester. At the end of the day however, we're here. We're almost almost almost done. So just hang in there and maybe in a few years we're going to remember the pressure and stress of the year in more of a nostalgic light than a scary one.
ReplyDeletePranatee, I can definitely relate to your experience of feeling overwhelmed by our first semester workload. Out of curiosity, did you feel more stressed/tired in first semester or second semester? I thought second semester was more stressful, but I’m not completely sure if this was just me—life/work/Urinetown also took up more time and made me feel stressed, so I can’t easily compare second semester to first semester. What are you looking forward to doing next year? Thinking about how we’re getting so close to senior year, I can’t help but wonder what you are thinking about in your last year of high school.
ReplyDeleteHi Pranatee! Reading your blogs have been such a pleasure this semester! My personal favorite was the one about your Ducky Blanky…top tier, indeed! Thank you for sharing your end of junior year reflection, I loved how you acknowledged that it has been a rough year, but that there is so much to be grateful for. That time at the trampoline park sounds so fun and like such a nice break for your friend group and celebration for your birthday! That trampoline park looks so cool, where did you guys go? I would love to go there! Anyways, I want to say that it is amazing that you balanced four APs this year. That took so much hard work and dedication and I’m proud of you for making it through. I loved blogging with you this semester and thank you for sharing!.
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