Junior year...it's been real.

I’ve actually written this blog 3 other times before this. I liked this start the best “Junior Year.... It’s been real.” Like everyone else has said, it was the hardest year academic year for me. It’s not because of all the homework (there was quite a bit sometimes) but it was more because of lack there of. I actually had to study outside of class. Whhaattt? That was pretty new to me. My second favorite line from another draft I wrote, “With only 3 days left, I reflect on this past year. . . on my successes, my failures, my mistakes, and most importantly the lessons I’ve learned.” I don’t think I failed at anything this year and that’s all I am going to reflect about it. I don’t really think I’ve taken big risks so that’s another topic on which I’m finished reflecting. I made some mistakes this year, but who didn’t? I learned from my mistakes this year and now I know who my friends are. Sure that is not the prettiest lesson since it meant losing friends but it was worthwhile because I gained new ones (yay Disney trip!) I really like talking about my successes, so here are a few. I got accepted into 3 summer programs. The first was UK’s youth researchers academy, the second was GSP, and the third was a 6 week summer program at MIT. I’ve chosen MIT because it’s much more impressive than GSP. I get to meet with the deans of Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Stanford, UChicago, and a few others which GSP could not promise. I also am basically promised admission to MIT and I have much higher odds of getting in to Harvard or any another school of my choosing than other applying students. Less excitingly, I was awarded the Centre Fellowship for Henry Clay which will award me a $14k scholarship minimum if I chose to attend. The year has been academically successful and I’m pretty happy about it. Now I’m more ready for college than ever and after the summer I’ll know for sure where I am applying.