Reflection of Senior Year So Far

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 I cannot believe that June 2021 is only like 4-5 months away. So far, this senior year is going by so quickly and I have mixed feelings about it. I want to just get high school over with, but at the same time, I feel like I am missing out on what previous seniors have experienced during their last year in high school. So, one goal that I have for the next 4-5 months is to make them as memorable as possible. I still don't know how I can do it, but it is definitely very important. Hopefully as vaccination numbers go up, we can gather at Troy High one last time to say farewell to the classmates and staff we spend 4 years with. This way we can have a memorable end to our high school life. Personally, this year had some toll on my mental as a few of my interests/hobbies were effected like Tennis, maybe Track, and volunteering. Thankfully though, I have expanded on hobbies that I can keep doing in a quarantine like music, cooking, gaming. I even picked up reading as a new hobby thanks to 12 AP. I wouldn't say I am a full-time reader because if there is something more interesting for me to do, I would probably put reading to the side and come back later. Still, I try to keep reading everyday. I think this short break from all the online drama allows me to think about what I read in the book, what I learned today at school, what my plan is for the next few days, and how I should improve in all of my activities. I often think about how I can improve my writing skills in 12 AP by taking important passages from a book I read and try to form a rough draft in my head. This has improved my writing skills a lot because when I was cleaning out my desk this weekend, I found my 11 AP essays and noticed a huge difference. I am an extremely slow reader and writer partly because English was not my first language. Especially on those high diction passages, I could spend 15 minutes trying to understand what happened in the passage. My 11 AP essays are full of errors and questionable analysis. I then looked at my recent essays and realized that my analysis is much more complete and reasonable and has less errors. I think this analysis skill has improved my "hidden-meaning" detection skills in the real world. I can see the hidden meaning behind a sarcastic message or symbolism used in media/art. 



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