It is April 2026, and I am almost done with junior year. Junior year is infamous due to the fact that most take junior year as the time to focus on their futures. So to most, that means putting all their eggs in one basket, figuring out their major, and spending all their time on that one singular topic. This leads to people quitting their hobbies, such as playing an instrument or a sport. But focusing on your future doesn’t have to mean devoting every part of yourself to the one profession you were “meant” to take. 

For me, I’ve always been focused on my future, and I used to think exactly like this. I used to believe that since I liked law, I shouldn’t sing or play an instrument, since it isn’t useful for me. I wasn’t meant to like math or think it was interesting because, after all, I’m a law person, not a STEM person. However, the reason why junior year has been so rejuvenating for me is because I realized that the only thing concrete about my future is me, not my career. So instead of focusing on my path that I was “meant” to take, I focused on myself and made sure to make myself into the best possible person I could be in every field. 

After realizing this, I started to enjoy the content at school: I was no longer set on disliking or hating math and science. I expanded my interest in business, and joined business clubs. I no longer searched for only law-related activities but cast a wider net. Surprisingly enough, this actually further cemented my passion, not diminished it. My stress towards my future magically disappeared. 

Junior year, however busy it may be, only has to be stressful if you make it so. Forcing yourself into a one track path is one of the largest ways to do so. I implore you guys to focus more on yourself than your career because after all the only thing confirmed in your life is you.

“Summer or winter” is a typical icebreaker in the beginning of school. It’s never “spring or fall.” Spring and fall are two seasons that are consistently forgotten about.

For my entire life, I have grown up in a prevalently Indian community. And for the most part, I have thoroughly enjoyed this aspect of my life.

Everyone has their own favorite subjects. For example, I typically gravitate towards history and English classes. I don’t really enjoy math, but I don’t hate it either. However, I especially don’t enjoy science. I don’t enjoy the abstract nature nor even the math incorporated.

Up till recently I’ve always been looking for a sob story in my life for my college applications. To be frank, I truly don’t have any.

As people, our flaws don’t make us inherently pathetic. Every person who lives has made mistakes.

The inherent nature of humans is to want to be comfortable. Everyone’s goal inevitably is to be truly comfortable in some way.

Bittersweet when it comes to taste is defined as sweet with a bitter aftertaste. But I would like to create a new meaning.

As a kid, I absolutely hated kids’ shows. I hated watching them because I thought that it made me look too young.

For me, nothing in this world is as comforting as food. It has a never ending capability to be a solution for every problem and an answer to every question: a celebration meal, a consolation binge, an energizing snack.

Something that is always in my purse is Tide Pens. Tide Pens are small capsules shaped like a pen filled with bleach in order to rub away stains.

When I was nine years old, I started doing the nerdiest thing of all time. I started training for math competitions. Math competition classes are exactly what you’d expect: boring. I hated it. I skipped every class and never did any of my homework.