Words from the Wise

Focus on school. Seriously I was way too worried about my social life and instead I should've been worrying about getting my 64 percent in Anatomy and Physiology up in the last three weeks of school. Take it from someone who knows from experience, FOCUS ON SCHOOLWORK. Junior year is the hardest because really it is your "last" year of high school. Not to say that senior year is a going to be a breeze but senior year starts to get you ready for the real world. It's a practice test to set you up for adult life. Junior year is the most important college wise. You take standardized tests that colleges look at and they look at your grades up through your senior year. My grades haven't been so great this year and I don't want to blame it on anything but myself but my parents separated and divorced this year so I'm sure that that was part of the issue. My life got completely overturned on top of me so it makes sense that my school studies might have dropped. All I'm saying is just seriously focus on school. If there are things going on at home or with kids at school, dive into your schoolwork. Don't get caught up in other problems. It will only make you depressed and upset and then you come to find out that you're failing on top of it all. When that happened to me, it was almost too much for me to handle anymore. This has been the hardest year of my life with my parents divorcing, being in a bad relationship, having the courage to leave that person, finding someone who I fell in love with just to be let go again. I found someone else who filled that hole in my life and then he left. My best friend moved to Florida and now I'm losing him too. So again, I say, this has been the hardest year of my life and I urge you sophomores to just focus on you and your work. I spent way too many hours crying and moruning over people and relationships when I could've been studying for that test or working on those last few questions that I kind of halfway tried on. Please just do the best you can and ask for help if you need it.