New School Site

I really like the new school webpage! It was a lot more organized, and I felt like it was super user friendly! I found everything really quickly and it looked really professional. It seemed a bit dull because the main color was white, but it looked really nice. I am pleased with how it turned out.

New ASB Cards

I must admit I am not thrilled with the design of the new ASB cards.  From a distance the cards do not look like a Rocklin High School ID card.  They are maroon and yellow. I know it is a picture of the basketball court, but the blue R is not as noticeable as the bright yellow and maroon colors that take up most of the card. It looks nice, but I feel like there should be more blue and silver.

Last Minute Blogging

I haven't been very good about blogging this summer because I honestly cannot remember how often we were supposed to be blogging. I sort of forgot about it, and so I am currently squeezing in all of my blogging the last week of summer. Although I am a pretty organized person, I tend to procrastinate. Luckily I have had a pretty busy summer, and so I should have lots to blog about. :)

Summer is coming to an end!

Summer is almost over and I don't even want to think about school.  This summer has gone by so fast! I feel like it was only yesterday we were getting out of school. A couple months is not a long enough break from school. Although I am excited to see friends and meet teachers, I am dreading tests and homework.  

Living while Dead

What if someone was in like a  horrible accident and slipped into a coma for an extremely long time. What if while the persons body was unconscious in real life the brain kept going as if nothing had happened. As if  the brain created its own world with thoughts and feelings and everything a normal person experienced but set it up in the coma. Then the person woke up and had this complete shock of change and a shock of having to revert to the real world after being in this fantasy for such a long time. But what if also they never woke up and the family and friends of the person in the coma gave up and pulled the plug, would the person in the coma just die like in real life or would his brain have enough time left to create some way for the person to die in the fake world? Would the fake world become reality? What if you or someone you knew fell into a coma. Would you know?  Would your best friend remember you as you were or would his brain have made up changes for you?

NOOOOOOOO, NOT STATS!

So at the end of the year last year, junior year, I signed up for AP Stats. I've heard from countless people saying how easy it was, but in my eyes, it's like heaven and hell. I do not see the easiness in statistics and quite frankly, I'm looking for any way out. I would literally go through Pre-Calc hell again if it meant having to escape the class. It is nothing against Trejo. It is against the math. I have spent countless days and I guess now it's been a month and a half of contemplating whether I should just go with it. So hopefully when I get my schedule, I have some sort of conflict in which I can easily give up stats for something else that I might possibly enjoy. Like that'll happen. Although, I've never had to make a schedule change so I'm kind of nervous if they'll let me. Urgghhh, I really don't want to show up and not do my homework though because I doubt they'll change my schedule ahead of time. There's too many choices to make! I'm not ready for this!

Not to mention college...You know what, I won't even go there.

Summertime Sadness

As another summer draws to a close I find myself contemplating the essence of time. I know everybody always complains about how fast summer passes and it's true, but this depresses me not only because summer is over but because it forces me to think about how fast our lives pass. It truly feels like just last week I was anxiously waiting for the bell to ring thus releasing me to an endless summer and I am already blogging about returning.

How sad is it that for most of us we are just blindly holding on as the hours pass waiting for our next ounce of freedom or big event that will inevitably last shorter than the time we spend waiting for it? Students wait nine months starting on the first day of school for just three months of summer. That means we spend triple our time waiting than we will spend enjoying what we are waiting for. Yeah, I am excited to be a senior but once the rush of a new year passes I know I am going to fall back into this trap of waiting.

Soon it will be, I can't wait for homecoming: an event that most of Rocklin spends a month stressing and planning for that is only one night of our lives. Then it will be, I can't wait for Thanksgiving break, then Christmas break, then Spring break, and so on and so forth. I spend the majority of my year waiting to return to Lake Shasta where my family spends just one week every summer. Literally from the minute I am done packing I think to myself, "I can't wait for next year." Therefore I spend 51 weeks every year waiting for just one that I get to spend in my favorite place on Earth. Thinking that makes me so depressed.

People like to say "live each day like it's your last" and while this is a great theory it is so unrealistic. It would be great to have the luxury of living each day to the fullest, but stuff needs to get done, life has responsibilities. You're telling me that when you are cramming for AP tests, that is how you would spend your last day on Earth? No, but the possibility that it is your last day does not diminish.  The reality is our last day on Earth will most likely be just like any other only with a different ending.