A Blast from the Past: Sophomore Year

Today, I want to do something a little bit different. Recently, I looked back at my planner from sophomore year and found all sorts of wonderful little snippets. I hereby present to you...Lydia's Sophomore Year.

Stickers and jellyfishes=a fairly typical overly-decorated planner page. Highlights include "Boris: The Tortoise that Just Keeps on Trekking' and "What if soy milk is just regular milk introducing itself in Spanish?".

More stickers! Highlights include "Put your heart in the art"  (I think my choir teacher said this.) and "'I don't steal dreams; I crush them'", which is a direct quote from one of my friends. (My friends are so great, you guys. Like, you don't even understand.)

Highlights of this page include "Es un buen idea le haces la tarea el tiempo primero" ("It is a good idea for you to do the homework the first time") and a really long quote from Hobbes' Leviathan (I thought I was so deep.)

A quote from one of my classmates from when we were studying European history.

I have a weird way of dealing with stress. In 10th grade, this weird way included putting pictures of babes in my planner.

A tribute to Valentine's Day! I made the sticker using an image of fireworks from a magazine. The slip of paper reading "I wanna hold your heart in both hands" was found near the middle school boys' locker area at my school. The bottom image is a Princess Leia made out of balloons that I cut out from a magazine. 

If anyone ever makes a documentary about my life, I want these words to be used for the opening sequence.

There was this one time when I took a really intense history-based final with a lot of short answer and essay questions. After passing in my final, I played a game of Tic-Tac-Toe with the person next to me. Notable details include the cats I drew over the Tic-Tac-Toe boxes to indicate when it was a cats' game. 

In my sophomore year, I didn't just focus on doing homework, making stickers, and writing down goofy things people said. I also worked on self-improvement quite a bit. Here is a list of short-term life goals I found: 

This list of goals is interspersed with advice from my classmates; at one point during the year, we had a really long Facebook comment discussion that turned to giving me helpful life advice. I'm proud to say that I have finally completed most of these "short-term" life goals. 

I came into my sophomore year thinking that it was going to be the best year of my life. Um...it wasn't. Still, it was one of the years where I grew the most as a person and as a student. Although I struggled through the year at some points, I became a better person as a result. Thank you to all the people who made sophomore year amazing! You are wonderful. 

~Lydia