Assignment 24--Daniel Mendoza Vasquez

Other than the fact that I can’t really complete it because of this pandemic, I have few complaints about Junior year. I began the year with low expectations, as I had been hearing that 11th grade was the toughest and most stressful year of high school my entire life, and spent the first week anxious about what was to come and how I would handle it. I would soon learn, however, that what I had heard was not really a universal thing and was much more so just fear-mongering. Because I decided to take the same amount of AP classes as sophomore year, the workload was similar and I now had experience with it. Contrary to what many people say, I feel that I was most comfortable this year balancing school with other things, and so I enjoyed it the most. I do regret not trying out for the soccer team, but I was in no shape to make it, so in a way I avoided disappointment. What’s worse is not playing any sports at all; it would have been beneficial to try something new like track or cross country. On the other hand, I did succeed in maintaining A’s in nearly all my classes (Physics sucks) and being granted a scholarship by the Congress-Bundestag Exchange that allows me to study abroad in Germany for six months next year. The program usually lasts a full year, but coronavirus messed that up as well. So, the only bad part about this year that I can think of is the worldwide disease putting everything on hold.