How To Successfully Throw A Pity Party
As a young and naive darling of the world, I was brought up to believe that all the stress of parents, school, and life in general, would melt away with the ease of a single application to my college of choice. I’d simply grow to the tender age of 17, begin a year of classes that weren’t rigorous or challenging, maintain my honors level GPA of a 3.56, and without a doubt get accepted into my dream HBCU - Howard University. But like that white lady in one of my favorite memes said: Senior year is currently only one week away -- even though it feels like it has already started with all the AP (Advanced Placement) homework I’ve had to complete. AP work is the right of passage all students who are “Academics AF” must go through; consisting of terms lists, progress tests, analysis of experiments for AP Psych. Then reading, essays, and annotations for AP Literature and Composition. Which in total contributed to the minor panic attack I had over the summer. I decided to write down...