A New Start -By Kaleigh West
As my head hit the pillow on the night before the first day of school, adrenaline pumped throughout my body as I realized what was waiting for me on the other end of what was certainly going to be a restless night. What was I about to return to? The same bus, school, cafeteria, and homeroom were all waiting for me. Despite all of these similarities, I couldn't help but remember all of the things from freshman year that I was about to leave behind. Rather than trying to solve the murder of fictitious character Anna Garcia, this year I would build a manikin to show how all of the body systems work together in order to allow for my existence. Instead of learning about Napoleon and the French Revolution, I would learn about the colonization and development of the United States. I wouldn't do any labs where I had to balance chemical equations or use kinematics to predict where a marble would land. Labs would now be about cells, living organisms, and terrifying, yet intriguing, disea...