End of The Year (Free Choice)

So it is finally the end of the school year, which means the countdown to graduation is beginning to come down to the wire and I have a whole bunch of emotions going through my head. For the most part, I am extremely excited to have been accepted to University at Albany!! I am so anxious to figure out how the school will be for me. The fact that I never visited the school before has me even more nervous than I should be. Just recently, I applied for housing at U'Albany and found my roommate. She's pretty cool and just going through that process has me going nuts.

Although I am so excited to leave TMA and see what U'Alb
any is like, I am still not ready to let go from TMA. Just the other day as prom ended, it suddenly hit me and I realized most of the people I was used to seeing every single day for about 5 years, I won't be seeing their faces anymore. Even the faces I barely had conversations with. It is a very sad moment to think that all of it is soon over. Sometimes when I am at home just contemplating, I frequently ask myself, am I truly ready to move on to college, and without any hesitation I immediately say yes but I wonder, how will I ever know I am ready for college. Like is there a day that you just wake up and say "I am ready to go to college?"  I guess I'll have to find out.

Overall, I will miss so many things about TMA but the one thing I will most definitely miss the most would be Kenny Estevez. He's been such a huge part of my life and it is truly going to be the hardest thing I will have to do as a teenager to finally leave him. It hurts an incredible amount to have to leave a best friend and lover you've met since 7th grade, but I am positive the universe has amazing things ahead of us that will all be worth it in the end.

With that being said, I just wanna say I am grateful to have been a TMA Panther, however, its time for me to become a U'Albany Dane!

I Love Math! (Passion Blog)

Over the past few months, I've managed to learn something new about myself. I love math. When I began to get really high grades in math effortlessly, I realized how talented I was in math. The way math stimulates my brain and makes me think of many possibilities is extremely fun to me. I love being faced with a challenge and having the “aha” moment when you finally find the answer. This same skill I use in math has taken me so far in my own social life and that is why I think I love math now.

However, Math for me is like a roller coaster. There are some moments when I feel completely confident about it and then other times I feel extremely discouraged. So I hope that I don't have to take back what I said earlier.

Apart from being a subject I enjoy, It has taught me many things that I don't only use in math class, but also on a daily basis. Like calculating the Sine of a basketball or solving the function for x as h approaches 0. All essential life skills needed for my survival. (Just Kidding), but on a serious note math has extremely improved my critical thinking skills. It has helped me think harder when faced with any challenge and it has given me the strength to not give up so easily.

Many people take advantage of math and complain about how we learn to solve math problems we won’t ever see again after we graduate, but I beg to differ. Math is everywhere, you just have to look closely.