Uncovering It All

Throughout the course of this year, I've come to learn that high school kind of sucked and it's actually nothing like the movies. Just kidding! (Am I though???) It wasn't a completely horrible experience though: I had my friends, extracurricular hobbies and family there that made school tolerable, but if I had to be completely transparent, it was definitely NOT easy. Stress over school and college apps, a fear of being disliked and constant senioritis even before senior year all kind of reigned supreme in the last four years, even though it really shouldn't have. But I guess all of that was worth it because now we're finally graduating and leaving high school behind. That's definitely a plus. I will say though that there were genuine upsides to high school: sporadic movie days in class when no one wanted to do anything, my lunch table where we laughed over the smallest things, and going sledding randomly on school grounds during Mid-winter break (where I almost ...

2026: Pride and Prejudice I really want to read this book in the next year because I've heard so many good reviews about it and recently just finished watching the movie (it was AMAZING). I just really want to open my perspective to other pieces of literature other than just what I've stuck to for most of my reading journey. 2027: One Hundred Years of Solitude I have heard an insane amount of positive reviews about this book because it's so well-written and depicts family history so well. I heard that it talks about repeating history and the cycles in family trauma that I'm really interested in hearing about through a writer's perspective 2028: Lolita I know this book is EXTREMELY controversial but I'm genuinely so interested in reading in the perspective of the protagonist in this book. I definitely don't really think I'm at the right age level yet for the book, so I definitely want wait a few years before reading it. 2029:  Normal people This is probab...

All my life, I’ve grown up thinking that those in college were truly superior. They had independence, a flourishing social life, laid-back classes, and of course, what I viewed as the real plus, amazing writing skills. With my attachment to writing since before I could walk (over exaggeration, but whatever), I actually viewed complex writing as this perfect thing when it came to college. But, as I’m getting closer to graduating and meeting new people who are currently either in or graduated from college, they all tell me the same thing: the writing sucks. You don’t actually write the way everyone thinks you do, you just write barely passable paragraphs that are thinly strung together and hope for the best. Now, I understand the concept of BSing something, I really do, but I didn’t think it extended to simple writing assignments in college. And it’s not just friends who say this, my sister also agrees. As mentioned previously, she’s a current GSI at the University of Michigan, an extrem...