Assignment 24: Eli Wrinn

I feel I was well prepared for how difficult this year has been. After such a surprisingly difficult Sophmore year, I spent the last summer preparing mentally for this year. Last year, around early spring, while I was coming home late every night because of baseball or basketball, suffocating under a pile of homework, mainly chemistry and math, with the gargantuan IWA/IMP and qualitative analysis labs looming, I was hearing people repeatedly using the term "junior breakdown." Hearing this, I thought, "what I'm going through right now can't even be classified as a breakdown?" Additionally, I knew that, this year, I would take twice as many AP classes, be a part of the more time-consuming varsity team for both sports, and worry about college. It must be interesting to exclusively teach academy students going through their hardest year while Mr. Lentz gets new students who have no idea whats coming for them, Mr. Behler watches as kids get crushed for the first time, and whichever teacher is chosen next year sees experienced, veteran students, but I digress. I spent the previous summer spending as much time doing as little as possible to mentally prepare for what was coming. I contemplated my mindset as I progress through the same months of late winter and early spring with the even more difficult obstacles. It currently being early May, the end of the year has never seemed further away. I expect to try to do much of the same this summer, take a relaxing approach to senior year, and to finally be prepared for life on my own.