Sohil's Story

     As senior year draws to a close I don't feel the excitement that I always thought I would feel in younger grades. I thought that the end of senior year would mean that I would fall behind on work and not care a lot about school. Instead the end of senior year is pretty much like the end of any year. Most of my days feel the same; I log in to class from 7:20 to 12:25 then I study, watch some TV, sleep and repeat the next day. The days seem to blend together and it's difficult finding motivation.      I hope this will change after AP tests. After that, I won't have school and I won't have anything to study for. While this may seem like a good thing, and I hope it is, I worry that without any goal to work towards I will have nothing worthwhile to do. In the past, I would be so excited for just a little free time where I could go play basketball or go biking or something fun with friends. With the pandemic, I worry that instead of making the most of my free time, I wil

      The play Waiting for Godot  centers around two characters, Vladimir and Estragon as they wait for a man named Godot who never shows up. The play displays the meaningless nature of their wait through a jumbled speech from Lucky and a drab setting. Through the play, I was able to see how pointless waiting for something can be.      Many people set New Year's Resolutions every year, such as budgeting better, exercising more, or reading more books, and try to stick with them for as long as they can. Sometimes people are able to succeed and build a lifelong habit. However, according to some studies, around eighty percent of New Year's Resolutions fail in February. I believe the primary reason for this is that people wait till New Year's to institute a change in their life. Even though they may want to read more in November, they say to themselves "I should leave this as a New Year's Resolution". Then when the time comes around, they aren't as passionate a