It's been almost a month since school started. It's my last year of high school. So far, I've had mixed feelings on school.

For a start, I rarely have classes with any friends. If anything, the only classes I have at least one friend in is my two art classes and gym, and I socialize with my friend in gym while in art, I'm stuck doing my own thing (which I don't mind honestly, as I like to focus on my work, while I have no interest in gym and get by with a passing score each class.), 

In addition, I'm doing alright in my classes. I've gotten As already in most of my classes. Then I have a B in gym, which makes sense as it's not my strongest point, but I credit for at least trying, and then I have a C in anthropology (and I'll point out right now, it's a semester class, so I'm taking this up until January. Then next semester I'm taking government... which I am not looking forward too at all, but for some reason, it's mandatory in this school I'm attending.) Finally, I have a D in science, but I'm switching science classes next week.

Here's what happened.

Last year, I took physics, and I survived with a C. As a result, my teachers decided I should be able to do environmental science which is a college level class in my school. Since I don't mind challenges, I took it. The fourth week of school has finally ended, and two things. One, it's extremely difficult, and two, I find I have no passion for this class at all, not even a tiny bit. With physics, I had a small interest in it, and I took advantage of extra credit. With this science I am taking, no matter how hard I try, I am unable to feel satisfied with the grades I'm getting in my assignments, and I feel bored with this class. I talked to my science teacher and my guidance counselor. My teacher told me she's happy I at least attempted the class, but since I don't feel I belong there, she emailed my guidance counselor to change my science class to something I have more interest in. So next week, there will be a change in my schedule.

In addition, I've been putting myself down for never adding a writing class in my schedule. So I talked to my guidance counselor, He told me he and I can deal with it after my science classes are situated. I really want a writing class, but I feel I have to drop a class in order to gain writing class. If that's the case, I've decided I'll drop music production. Looking at my hobbies, I realize I have more interest in writing than making music, and honestly, I'm getting bored with the class too. Also, adding a writing class will definitely affect my schedule. I'm already gonna change my schedule with my science issue, so I'm ready for that.

Enough with the downside.

On the upside, as it's my senior year, I've decided to try things I haven't done and keep up with the things I like.

I joined marching band this year, and it's been a lot of fun to be honest. I remember my thoughts on marching band in my earlier years of high school. I honestly thought it'd be dull lol then my friend asked me to join with her, and I'm glad I joined.

I also joined an after school activity called "hall decorating." Every year, the grades in school decorate the hallways with a theme for spirit week and homecoming court. Once again, I joined because a friend asked me to, and I found out a decent amount of my friends and people I like do hall decorating. It's a lot of fun, painting designs that will be taped to the walls for the upcoming spirit week, and I get to just hang out with friends too.

In addition, I talked to my favorite teacher who runs a club where they write articles and release newsletters every now and then. For a while, she's been wanting me to draw for the club, and I've been meaning to do that. Not only did I finally submit a drawing for the club, I talked to her about and idea I had, which is for every issue that will come out this year, I will do a drawing that fits with the theme of the issue. My teacher really like that idea, so now I'm doing a job for a club I'm not a member of.

So in the end, I'm making changes to my schedule just to make me like school a little more, and I'm surviving so far. As it's my senior year, I'm trying to make this memorable and fun, and so far, I'm succeeding. As the school year goes on, I'll be auditioning for the musical. This year, my school is doing "The Wizard of Oz." I joined the musical last year, and I had fun, so I'd like to try again. I'll also try to keep my grades up. As I said, I haves As, one B, and one C. (and one D, but then, I'm changing classes.).

So this year isn't too bad. I've found ways to be happy with this school year.

I can't even imagine doing everything you're doing right now.
Over time I got extremely lazy in high school and pretty much avoided any school activities
I mean my grades were enough to pull me through the final years (always around 70% total) but I never tried to raise them, unless I absolutely had to.

It's great that you're liking your final year so far. I personally didn't think anything of it at first but eventually tried to do many things I'd been meaning or wanting to do for the past couple of years that I never got around to doing.

Make the best of it, because you're always going to remember this year in particular~ 

You are SUPER busy! :O Hopefully you get better grades, and enjoy your new science class a whole lot more than your old one.

Decorating sounds like a lot of work! I know you'll do a great job, though! And it's great that other friends help with that too. Best of luck to you in the play, and the rest of your activities!

Not surprised.....I knew you would be this busy and having like mixed unknown things happening to you from one direction to another. Glad to see you are trying to make the best of your situation even with some happy, and sad moments. All we can do is try and it goes a long way when we do things that can bother us a lot.

Good to see you are enjoying your final year at school. (my final year of high school was last year and I had a blast for the most part). I can imagine you being very busy as I was for the majority of my senior year of high school whether it be doing school work, doing volunteering at school or prefect duties (which SUUUUCCKKEED). I hope the rest of the school year is good to ya.

The tough part about the senior year of high school is finding the balance between enjoying yourself and setting yourself up for a successful next step. If you're looking college, getting the hard classes out of the way and just grinding out the world, like your one science class, is a great way to save yourself a lot of time and money. You pass out of classes, you get college credit for them, you keep things moving. Since a credit could be between 100 and 400 dollars, you're saving 300-900 bucks for every AP high school class you take. And you're saving time.

High school is fun and it should be a good experience. College is more interesting. But the real world, with a job and a career, is awesome. That's the place to get to as quick as possible so you can really start living life.

Attack school, keep those grades high and put yourself in a position to succeed in college. That's the goal the next 9 months or so.

Good luck.