Today marked the official beginning of the last semester of my high school career, and I honestly couldn’t be happier about it. I know I’ll be sad when it’s all said and done, but for the most part I find myself looking forward to college more and more every day. I think a lot of this has to do with my independence; I’ve always been very self-sufficient, so I can’t wait to be on my own. (Although I know this is naive and I’ll probably break down a million times my freshman year because I miss my family.)

Anyway, before this semester even started I could sort of feel the senioritis setting in…and I don’t want to fall victim to it, I really don’t. I have put far too much hard work into school to start slipping now! But even so, I realize now that I really need a new perspective when it comes to school. I tend to almost take it too seriously, to the point that it consumes my thoughts and worries. One B on a little assignment and I become seriously upset, which is not right. I need to keep in mind that I am not perfect, and I will never be. That being said, some of my goals for this semester:
- avoid procrastination
- balance work, homework, and Menagerie duties (our school’s literary magazine, of which I’m editor in chief)
- relax more often! (yoga, meditation, etc. I get stressed out far too easily and this takes a serious negative toll on my health/mood)