Four Months Left
First semester was a shock. No longer was I thinking about Econ tests or writing essays every single week in English. It was quite relaxing compared to the last semester of Junior year. Realizing that I stressed out a little too much last year, I decided this year I would take a step back and ask myself: “is it really that serious?” And you know what it never was…? That serious. It was never that serious ← that’s a tiktok reference everyone. Yes, there were some stressful parts of senior year, but not the things that everyone had prepared me for. Writing college essays was not a big stressor for me because once I decided I would finally start writing them, I gave myself deadlines for each essay and submitted them with ease. I think that is also the reason I liked the midterm project deadlines. They stopped me from waiting until the last minute, they split the work up into manageable chunks, and the final submission did not feel like a big important date because 90% of it was already wr...