End of year reflection

My junior year has been a great year. I have made so many great memories and done a number of new things; not to mention I learned a lot. However, we are still in school and finals are only two days away! Yet, it feels like it's already summer break, meaning my laziness is at a peak high. Good thing we are reaching finals week. With summer being so close I can't help but imagine all the fun I will have. But now I need to concentrate and drag myself back to the present and speak about school, no more dreaming about what great things summer will bring.

This school year from an academic standpoint was my most difficult. Large loads of homework filled my time and papers plagued my weekends. Looking back at it, I realize I have learned a lot this year. I wouldn't go as far as to say my efforts were worth it, but I did learn. This semester in particular I felt that I took the most out of our non-fiction writing class. My quality of writing definitely improved as did my knowledge of potatoes. This was by far my favorite English class that I have had at Uni. The papers were much more enjoyable than those for other classes and they were not just analyzing books. The blogs in particular were a nice change of pace. I learned how to write for a more general audience and to be a little more creative with my writing, throwing humor in occasionally. I gained experience writing about new subjects that I had never written about before in my blog posts that helped me develop my writing. I think the non-fiction writing class should continue being offered at Uni because I truly think that other student like me could benefit from it.

Although I did like the class I am overjoyed that I am finally done with the work. I hate hate hate writing papers and I'm so glad summer is almost here.

Summer Jobs

Summer is fast approaching and it seems like the big debate is whether or not getting a summer job is a wise decision. At our age it can be hard to find a job where you are going to make a very substantial amount of money so job selection can be tricky. If you are like me you probably would rather not spend a good deal of your summer working. Finding the right job to  fit your summer schedule can be a challenge, especially if you are like me and have a number of trips planned for the summer (like lollapalooza! oh yah!) that can really get in the way of things.

I have already secured my summer job "working" Gatorade at U of I youth sports camps. Basically I'm going to be paid to sit at a table and every once and a while fill up paper cups with Gatorade.  Sounds great, but trust me that can extremely boring. This will be my second year working and I'm hoping this time around I can get some more indoor shifts where I'm not surrounded by a million bees attracted to the hot sticky Gatorade that campers have managed to spill all over everything. I'm not going to be making much more than minimum wage, but working Gatorade is perfect for me because it fits my schedule. I can choose basically whenever I want to work and I can easily find someone willing to take a shift for me. Gatorade  doesn't typically require you to work that long, most days I only have to work a few hours so I have plenty of time to do other things during my day. Jobs are a responsibility and I'm happy that I have one where I can't really mess up and get fired.

I'm interested in what other people are doing over the summer. Are you planning to get a job, or do you already have one? What is your ideal summer job?