Lucia Molina & Danielle Sorcher
Features Editors
This year has been a pretty tough year so far. Settling as the new features editors, we have to learn to help the new reporters become comfortable as the eyes and ears of the school. Managing a section isn’t what we thought it would be (not that we thought it would be easy). As we begin to really settle into our positions this year, we also begin to endure junior year’s toughest challenges. Like what our reporter Anne Achenbaum was addressing in her recent article, junior year is like every teen’s own personalized game of “Survivor.” This game has very challenging questions that few can confidently answer. They include the following: can we survive the SAT’s after months of preparatory classes? Can we keep up with all of our extracurricular activities? Are we keeping up with our social life? Have we accumulated enough service hours to impress our dream colleges? Are our grades good enough? How do colleges even expect us to do all of this? Can anyone out there answer these questions? Anyone?
From what we’ve heard, highschool used to be about finding who you really are, doing well in school, and thinking about what you want to do in life. It was about living the moment and taking what life threw to you. You would want to walk into school to see your friends and pester your teachers. This may all sound cheesy, but it definitely sounds better than high school now. Walking into school now feels like survival of the fittest and the pressure is really on. There is just so much to do, people to see, tests to take, SAT II’s to prepare for, and scary teachers to hide from. It’s hard not to disappoint people when there is so much pressure on our shoulder as juniors and as well as any other grade. Pleasing everyone with what you do, what you wear, your grades, your body image, and personality is just impossible. Having perfect everything would be amazing, but that is never going to happen and that’s a fact. Although we’re only two months into this game of junior year, we have some advice for you: just do what makes you happy. Don’t choose a college for its name and don’t keep yourself from having fun every once and awhile— although high school is about preparing yourself for the future, finding who you really are is just as important.
