Assignment 24: Ally Tripure

       Junior year, what a doozy.
       I started out, as I do every year, with the goal to stay the most organized I have ever been and to study every night. And, alas, as I do every year, I failed to keep up with this goal and at times, became the most unorganized I have ever been.
       There is much thrown at a student their junior year, AP classes, more homework, tougher grading, college seeking, GSP and NHS applications, just the simple fact that we are upperclassmen now. All of this combined really takes its toll. I would find myself buried in homework every once in awhile with no motivation whatsoever to get it started. This "junior-itis" would, in turn, cause more work to pile up until there was no time to push it off. This huge work load taught me a lot though, I can get 50 key terms done in a day, I can memorize Latin translations in minutes, and I can get through the grueling web homework in one night and still pull off a successful grade on the test. 
       However, junior year was not all work and no play. I have had a blast this year. As a third year academy student in class with a number of other third year academy students, I feel that I have grown closer to them. We have struggled through junior year together, we have met successes together, and failures. We have all really bonded throughout this year and it has become fun to have a class full of people you have been through so much with. With this experience in the academy, I have also grown closer with Mrs.Stephens (Mrs.Jacquith, I will always call her both). This is mostly because of the switch of teachers I went through, along with the rest of my peers, in Latin class. This was stressful for everyone, including my grades. My stress and concern brought me closer with the academy administrator and I am thankful for the teacher switch for that reason only.
       Junior year has been full of successes as well. I was encouraged to apply for the Governor's Scholars Program by my 8th grade teacher and ever since I have been excited to get the application and fill it out to the best of my ability. I did this and months later, I found out the exciting news that I made it into the program. I wouldn't hesitate to say that this was my biggest accomplishment of junior year, maybe even high school. It was a very culminating success experience, I got a reward for my 2 and a half years of hard work in high school. Around the same time I got the GSP news, I found out I got into National Honors Society and soon after that I got elected as NHS President. And finally, my streak of successes came together when I received my ACT scores and I got a 31. Second semester of junior year has been quite rewarding.
       This summer I will obviously be going to Governor's Scholars Program for 5 weeks and then will be starting cross country, my mentoring project, and hopefully fitting in some time for my babysitting job here and there.
       I hope senior year is fun, as fun or more fun than junior year. I hope it is rewarding. I hope the college application process goes smoothly. I hope my mentoring project works out. I am excited about this past year and what the upcoming year will throw at me.