{"id":12297,"date":"2021-05-19T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T14:44:45","slug":"the-final-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/05\/19\/the-final-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it\u2019s over huh.\u00a0 Junior year is wrapping up and, to be honest, I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m ready.\u00a0 I never thought I could possibly enjoy school as much as I do here.\u00a0 Sure, I wish we didn\u2019t have to get up so early; but I get to spend half of the day doing what I love instead of doing meaningless busy work in classes I didn\u2019t really need.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m emotionally prepared to be a senior.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been excited to finally move out of my toxic household and be free of their helicoptering on my life but now that it\u2019s almost over, I\u2019m worried.\u00a0 Senior year means college applications, writing essays for scholarships, classes that are more difficult and no time to be getting ready for college; forget taking care of yourself!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe I\u2019m just letting my anxiety get away from me.\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 I\u2019m just constantly worried, no real reason why most of the time.\u00a0 I won\u2019t lie and say school here is easy, but I\u2019m not struggling with my grades.\u00a0 I\u2019m just worried my work isn\u2019t good enough.\u00a0 I feel that I\u2019ve improved, but is it enough?\u00a0 <em>Am I enough?\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer to all these questions that are whirling through our heads is yes.\u00a0 If you weren\u2019t talented, you wouldn\u2019t be here.\u00a0 Keep your head up darling, we have an amazing year ahead of us.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to experience MSA without all the covid crap.\u00a0 Honestly I feel the experience will be strange, but in a good way.\u00a0 I will miss our lovely seniors, but it\u2019s their time to move on, and we have more friends coming into the void they left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the incoming juniors I guess I&#8217;ll take the rest of the blog to talk a little about myself for a bit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I play basketball. I know I know, an artist who is also an athlete?\u00a0 Whack right.\u00a0 Well, I&#8217;m just a tad different than your average person, I have interests that are normally conflicting, but they all make up a different part of me.<\/li>\n<li>I LOVE animals. Like probably more than people.\u00a0 If the cat that comes to visit is outside, you can probably find me out there petting him (I think it&#8217;s a guy&#8230; kinda hard to tell with cats, though).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a gamer. I play everything from Pokemon to Fortnite.\u00a0 Yes, Fortnite, I can see you groaning from the other side of the screen.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s been done-in by cringe culture but it&#8217;s actually fun to play with friends.\u00a0 If you avoid the toxic people (you can block players) and just find a nice group of people to play with it&#8217;s actually very enjoyable.\u00a0 I play with a group of people from a bit younger than me to a few adults.\u00a0 That may sound a bit weird, but it&#8217;s more like a weird gamer concloberation.\u00a0 If someone is being toxic, we just don&#8217;t play with them anymore.\u00a0 In a way, we have become some kind of weird kind of family.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m autistic. So, if I say things that don&#8217;t make sense, try to be patient with me.<\/li>\n<li>I hyperfixate on things. Like all the time.\u00a0 I become personally attached to fictional characters or to one specific thing in a group of the same thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s weird, I know.\u00a0 I used to be a lot worse, it&#8217;s led me to be a bit of a hoarder, but not like those packed places in American Pickers.\u00a0 If you insult the characters I have become attached to, it&#8217;s like insulting my best friends.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I am very excited, and nervous to meet you all.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not very good at talking to strangers, so if I seem like a weirdo that&#8217;s why, I&#8217;m just trying to start a conversation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it\u2019s over huh.\u00a0 Junior year is wrapping up and, to be honest, I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019m ready.\u00a0 I never thought I could possibly enjoy school as much as I do here.\u00a0 Sure, I wish we didn\u2019t have to get up so early; but I get to spend half of the day doing what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/05\/19\/the-final-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Final Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12347,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12297\/revisions\/12347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}