This isn't late, right...?

Looking back on my Junior year, and really my high school experience as a whole, I still can't believe how fast it has gone by. It is as though yesterday was the day when I first stepped into Henry Clay, stumbling around frantically to find my classes. And here I am now, about done with three-fourth of high school.

In contrast with the dissatisfaction I had with my freshmen and sophomore years, I feel reasonably proud of my junior year. I accomplished what I set out to do; I earned decent grades in all of my classes and feel like I scored well on the AP tests. I had a lot of fun in my classes too, thanks to little things like Mr. Pope's ever so whimsical choice of diction. The fact that I had half a class each day dedicated to playing cards was a pretty nice bonus, and I hope you current Calculus students have as much fun in Calculus II as we had.

I feel glad that I tackled AP Chemistry this year, despite the excess amounts of pain and suffering I've endured on test days and test hand-back days. I felt so smart getting As on some of these chemistry tests, but then I look at Patrick Lutz, who takes AP Chemistry, Physics, and Biology in the same year and constantly scores the highest in all three classes, and I get reminded of my rather mediocre intelligence in comparison. Nevertheless, I do feel proud in passing the class with an A.

Although I would say that my junior year has been my best so far, there are still many things I want to go back and redo (how's that Time Machine coming along, CERN?).  I have found myself repeatedly daydreaming about how awesome it would be if I could be reborn with the same knowledge I have now. Not only would I avoid some of the mistakes I've made in school that haunts to to this day, but I would also be some of sort of kid genius. I could graduate college at the age of like eleven, and spend the rest of my life traveling the earth and solving the world's greatest mysteries or something, but I digress. So yeah, time machine, it doesn't matter when, but someone please invent it?