Senior Schedule

     Happy Saturday! Day three of my four-day weekend has been relatively uneventful. I finally finished all of my homework (oh my God that feels so good to say) and as a reward for myself I bought a headband and a belt from Vineyard Vines. They were both super cheap (like 75% off) and I don't usually buy things for myself, so I thought, why not? I'll be very excited to get my purchases in the mail!
     So the hot topic at my school right now is our course selection for next year. Usually, this isn't such a big deal, but this is the big one: the senior schedule. Why is this such a big deal, you may ask? Our schedules as seniors are super important because colleges that you apply to are going to see how seriously you are about academics. At first, I had no idea what I was going to take next year. For example, I've been taking Latin since I was in sixth grade, and since Latin isn't exactly popular at my school, there has been only one class, which means that I've been in Latin with the same other kids since sixth grade, so we all know each other really well.
     But the problem is that I just don't love Latin anymore (if I ever really loved it...?). And next year I would have to take AP Latin. I have absolutely zero interest in taking Latin college, so I just really don't see the point in taking it. Also, I've heard that AP Latin is extremely hard. However, I'm pretty good at Latin, but I'm absolutely terrible at every single science class ever. Like, really bad. But I'm also not very good at math... And none of the history classes looked very interesting, which left me with...English. That was the only class that I was sure I was taking. I was kind of secretly hoping there was a way that English could be my only class...alas, no, I have to take at least five core classes. Darn it. So I talked to my advisor, who also happens to be my college counselor, and the results of the conversation are thus: I will be taking AP Environmental Studies, Calculus (yikes!), AP English, Chorale (fancy name for choir), Introduction to Psychology (which is a Global Online Academy class - super excited!), and AP European History. It seems like a pretty hard schedule to me, but in all honesty it's probably one of the easiest senior schedules, so I'm content with it. Wish me luck (I'll need it)!

Carpe Diem,
Brooke