Ah wowww!

Hey Hey!!

Here, we are wrapping up the semester, and ready (or not ready, because it's harder) for the new semester and the new classes.

So, I'm here and I just want to ruminate and think about how much I have changed in this first semester of 2014-2015 school year.

1. College Applications- This is a dreaded, exciting, tiring, and an illuminating experience wrapped in one. I felt that throughout the process I grew as an individual. I gained a clearer understanding of what I wanted to do and who I wanted to be. An understanding of the things that I valued and morals that I held. In a nutshell, it was all thoroughly enlightening.*

2. 18 -When I turned 18, it felt like, suddenly, I was alone. Before 18, I was a child, protected by my parents, and my actions were excusable, but from the moment clock struck 12:00 and forever, I am on my own. I can be charged as an adult and put in jail!! I can get married without consent!! I can go get a tattoo!! I don't have to have my parent sign a transcript release form!! What is this freedom? It's too much.

3. English AP 12- So the hardest class of the school, and I'm signed up for it next semester. Few months ago I trembled when I was told stories of 2-4 hours of homework, and then today all my fears evaporated away. I watched as some of my classmates, who are currently in the class, did a presentation and I was left speechless. It's hard for me to imagine that I am going to be just like them in a few months. They were so articulate, moving, and wise. They presented stories and literature in a way that I have never seen it done before. Their voices were clear, loud, and had important humanitarian messages. Some of their mothers were in the room, and it seemed to me that we shared the same sentiments; I wanted to jump up and hug them and tell them that they were amazing in more ways than they knew. So if you have any doubts about the class, embrace them, and let Moliere sway you with his words, 'The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.'

My grandma recently said the most beautiful/relevant thing ever which sounds more poetic in Punjabi but I want to share it anyway,

The sun didn't change, The moon didn't change, neither did the sky,

the only thing that changed is the man.

To wrap things up, the Tappy Events for 2015 include: The Open Mic, a Career Speaker, the Publication, and the Publication Party.

-Jaagrit

*I realize I'm only 18 and sound like a joke, please bear with me.