I’ve spent most of this summer alternately working and goofing off. I finished my calculus homework pretty early on, but didn’t do anything else about all my homework until recently. It’s even a little hard to write right now, because I’ve been doing so little of it. My penmanship is much worse than usual, and my hand keeps cramping up.

Over the past week, I’ve been working on my biology homework, since it’s due on Wednesday. It’s so easy to fall back into the homework rhythm. Doing worksheets, answering questions, writing paragraphs. It’s almost refreshing. Somtimes (usually during the spring) I think of how great it will be when I get out of college and don’t have to do any more of this. Deep down, though, I love it. Learning new things, answering questions about them, taking tests . . . it’s soothing. I’ve been doing it all my life, so I’m used to it. This is why I used to wish I was a man born centuries ago, so I could be a scholar. Now, I have to content myself with spending a lot of time in college. I love knowledge, and I want as much of it as possible.

On another note, I’m excited about the upcoming year. Even aside from the fact that I’ll be graduating, I’m going to be taking AP English, AP Calculus, AP Computer Science, AP Physics, AP Biology, and Computer Graphics II. Those are all courses that I actually want to take. No history, and no Spanish- at last! I’m especially excited about computer science because it’ll be completely new. CG will just be very fun, as will calculus (I think). Physics is going to be very small- it’ll probably end up with about ten people. I loved AP English last year, and I’m sure I’ll love it again; and biology will be very interesting. Plus, almost everyone I know is taking it, so I’ll have lots of people to talk to.

I always spend the entire month of August anticipatng the beginning of school. I love the start of the year- new classes, new teachers, new books . . . And I haven’t burned out on it yet, either. I spent the majority of last year with a very bad case of early-onset senioritis, though it didn’t affect my grades. I hope it’s different this year. And I hope I can get my college essays written before school starts.