Taking a Break

     You know, for the past few days I have been trying and trying to figure out what I want to do for this blog post. I had a couple of different approaches too. Do I write about how many scholarships I did or didn’t do? Do I write about where I went to prepare? Do I write about what homework I did?

     I finally settled for this approach. What did I do over this short one-week break to prepare for college? Well, I gave myself a break. Sure, I tried one or two scholarships and I went to some UNR Fall Preview thing, but I really didn’t even feel like doing those. School has been rough for me these past few weeks, and this quarter. I don’t feel like I am ready to tackle being a real adult, with a job and college and everything else that goes with it. If it was up to me, I would be a high school student forever…

     But that really can’t be the case. By the end of the week before we went off, I was so overwhelmed that I nearly gave up everything in frustration. The break we had? It soothed my nerves. It settled my anxiety. It made me calm enough to focus on what I needed, and what my responsibilities were.

     So a lot of other kids may say “Oh yeah I like totally signed up for like fifty scholarships and sent out like a hundred scholarships! [sic]” but I sat back, watched a little television and chilled out in my PJs for half a week. I went to Sacramento and got some materials for a couple projects I had been meaning to work on. I read a couple books and dived into the depths of my imagination. I did exactly what the break was intended for.

     Took a break.

     So now it’s time to push through until Winter Break. The extended three weeks is going to be really nice, and I have a trip to Pasadena that I am really looking forward to. But I gotta focus on my school work and other related responsibilities first.
     Hobey ho.

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