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Regret from High School

I want to be done with this senior so badly. I know there are only a month left of school for us seniors but unlike the other years, this one month seems so long and so boring. I don't feel the pressure of the AP exams coming in less than a month like the years before. I remember literally not being able to sleep because I was stressed over a concept that I didn't fully grasp or a certain question type showing up on the AP exam. But this year, I feel so different. I haven't even started to prep for any of my AP exams yet and I barely even listen to those review videos that I watched countless times last year. It might be from the senioritis or just from online school and it will probably become a big mistake that I will regret in the future. But this thought made me think back to my past years at Troy High and think of some regrets that I had. I realized there are way too many to count.  When I first got into Troy High as a freshman who is barely efficient at English, I had

Am I Waiting for Godot?

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(accidentally read ahead a bit, kind of have spoilers) Everyday, people wake up doing the same routine things. They clean up, go to work, relax, eat, sleep, repeat. This is probably even more noticeable in the daily lives of online students like us. We wake up everyday at the same time, do the same times, go to the same class, eat, do homework, and go back to sleep. Almost everyday is like this. While I am not completely against it, I do think it gets a bit boring at times. Similarly in "Waiting for Godot" I feel like I can almost see the exact same thing I describes. The same people, Vladimir and Estragon, wait under the tree everyday for a Mr.Godot. The same people come each day, Pozzo, lucky and a boy; each time with a change in characteristics. And I felt like this situation is so similar to at least what I experience currently. I work hard every single day for a distant goal in mind. But like the 2 characters under the tree, so far they have no proof that their goal exis