It's the End of Public Schooling as I Know It

This is it.  This is my last blog post.  It feels like just yesterday I was writing about Tender is the Night and John Oliver for the first time.  I wish I could say how absolutely perfect and amazing senior year was but that would be a lie.  This was the most stressful year of high school yet.  If I am being really honest, freshman year was actually the easiest year.

But as cliché as it may sound, easy years do not push you to grow as a person.  Did I love getting easy straight As freshman year?  Sure.  But the challenging AP class sophomore year with all juniors and seniors pushed me to work harder than I ever had in a class before.  I was not used to struggling in school.  It had always been fairly easy.  My first AP class pushed me to my limits, but it is the most memorable class I have ever taken.  I learned not only a lot of the subject material, but I learned how to struggle through difficult material and collaborate with others.  My final project that I had to create and carry out on my own was so hard, but I will always be proud of my thirty page final report.

So as this week comes to a close, and the only assignment between me and graduation is my Catcher in the Rye take home test, I am feeling glad that Senior year is over but grateful for the past thirteen years of formative public education.