Sophomore Year: A Thought About the Future by Natalie Blaszak

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Sophomore year is an odd one. It’s a year where you can start to think about colleges and SAT/ACT preparation, but there isn’t too much to worry about, other than maybe tests and grades. Sophomore year is somewhat of a “rest year” between starting off high school and thinking about your future. At least that’s what it seems like to me. When I think about how the rest of high school will be, I think about looking at colleges that interest me or seem best suited for myself, but I don’t set my eyes on only one. When I think about the SAT and ACT tests, I wonder who or where I might go to prepare, but I don’t look too much into it. So what do I do in sophomore year? When I was a freshman I didn’t look into all this, but I was too busy getting myself situated with the whole high school thing.

Now I have time. I guess all I really planned on doing was studying and making sure to keep my grades up. I have looked at colleges and I have ideas of where I might want to go, which is one of my main motivations to do well in school, but should I be focusing more on it? Should I be paying more attention to how my future might play out? My thought is yes. When I really think about it, I understand how as I get further into high school, I will have less and less time to think about my future. By junior year I will have to start that preparation for the SAT and ACT testing. By junior year I will be starting to focus in on a few colleges I may want to apply to. By senior year I will be applying to those colleges. By senior year I will have most likely figured out where I want to go or maybe even what I want to do.

So why not start now? Why not get ahead of it? I guess it really just makes more sense to have everything planned out early before I get too stressed and worry too much about it. Before it comes so fast that by the time I realize it, I am graduating. For the most part, the future will plan itself out, but if I can have an impact on what happens, it seems best that I do what I can.

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