Good Night and Good Luck

Wow.

Another year flies by. It’s hard during the year to think about whether or not it was a good one. For me, it usually takes a while before I can fully appreciate, or not appreciate, a school year or a summer vacation or something like that. But I have good feelings about this one.

For one thing, when I think about my year as a whole, I can’t help but smile, which probably means I’ve had a good one. But its just so weird to think it’s over. My third year.

But I can’t help but say the one thing I feel like I missed this year, while I had a good out of school social life (I always had something to do with my free time) , I can’t help but realize that I have formed very few bonds with the kids in my classes. Maybe it’s because three of my four classes were majority sophomores. Maybe it’s because everyone is so wrapped up in “junior year” that we didn’t really stop and enjoy the people around us.

I know that sophomore year, I made friends with people that, to this day, I still spend all my free time with. I have so many great memories from my classes, meeting people, and laughing so hard in class the teacher yelled at us. But I’m not saying I don’t have good memories from this year!

I especially liked all my teachers this year. I got along well with every single one of them, and that makes me either really lucky, or….. really lucky. I know I’m going to miss my chemistry teacher a lot, and both of my American Studies teachers. I just have to keep telling myself I’ll see them around school.

Overall, I have to say, junior year wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Sure there’s the college thing, but I am way too excited about college to even have time to be nervous or stressed about it. While this year at times was annoying, disorganized, and confusing, I’m lucky to have kept my sanity. I know kids that have cried every night for like, the last two months! I’m grateful for my sanity.

And so, as I venture into another patch of unknown waters, I look back and remember my good year, and my good luck, and look forward to a crazy summer ahead. As what will probably be my last post of junior year, and my last post for my American (Integrated) Studies course, I hope I made a good impression on the people around me, and that I don’t just become another student that took American studies one of those many years. I could ask for nothing more, for everything else has been given to me already. And so I conclude, Good night, and Good luck.