Assignment 24-Eliot Smith

     Junior year is commonly known as the hardest year of your high school career.  I can honestly say that I agree with this claim fully.  While I wouldn't say that the content was "hard" per se, the amount of work and studying was clearly raised.  There are few days I can remember that I actually had no homework--there was always some test or quiz around the corner or a paper or assignment due.  The work really wasn't too hard to keep up with; however, compared to the last two years, the work was mentally tiring, and I can say with utmost confidence that I am ready for summer, and I am ready to be done with the ACT, SAT, SAT II's, and kind of BlankBlankT's.

     My biggest success of junior year was attaining the rank of valedictorian.  I have worked very hard for this achievement, and attaining it during this work-intensive year was a big relief.

     I had two failures that really come to mind: I didn't do as well as I should have on the SAT, and our tennis team failed to qualify for the state tournament.  Although I compensated for my SAT score with my ACT score, there really was no excuse for not studying as much as I should have.  Regarding the lack of qualification of the tennis team (of which I am the captain), my partner and I lost a match during the regional tournament that we should have won--because of this, we did not qualify.  Although this really isn't a huge academic failure, I feel that I let my team down, and will continue to work during the summer in order to guarantee a qualifaction for next year.

Next year, I really just want to relax, focus on applications for college, and soak up the experiences from my ultimate year of high school.