Assignment 24 - Lia Jacobs

Overall, I think it's been a decent year, not great but not terrible. I came into this year thinking that the stress of junior year would be the end of me, but honestly it's not as bad as it's made out to be. Sure, the classes are a bit more stressful and there's a bit more work. But aside from a couple of late nights, the homework demand was business as usual. All things considered, this year has been academically successful, and I'm very grateful for that. Other successes include raising a sweet little seeing-eye puppy and making a couple new friends. In the grand scheme of social activity, though, high school has been somewhat of a colossal failure. I've never attended a school dance or a football game, and while I have plenty of friends as much outside of school as I would've hoped. Young me always pictured high school as this amazing experience, but it hasn't really turned out as I'd hoped. With that said, I'm hoping to be a bit more outgoing senior year, but there's only so much I can do having known most of my Academy peers since elementary school. Also we might just be doing online learning next year, so who knows if that's even a possibility. I wouldn't mind online school too much, this quarantine has kind of been a blessing in disguise. As most can assume, I'm a rather introverted person and don't exactly thrive with the constant social niceties required in high school. Of course, I miss seeing some people on a regular and my parents are kind of driving me crazy, but I wouldn't mind too much if senior year was online or semi-online.