Quaranteened Seniors

Hey guys! I haven’t posted in a while and honestly it’s totally because I’ve been busy (not because I forgot my password to tumblr😌). February is notorious for being the most stressful month of IB, and I was not surprised that this legend was fulfilled. IAs filled this month’s schedule. It has honestly been such a stressful month. I feel as though I represent all of us when I say that every week feels like a month, not only because we get a months worth of work within the week but also because it’s just exhausting.

On the bright side, my friends and I are planning a fake and socially distanced prom! We are all dressing up and having a photo shoot so we can feel better about ourselves 🥰 and spring break is only 3 weeks away! Only 21 days !

In the end, IA a season will hopefully be done by the time spring break rolls around, and I can gladly say that surviving this month was one of my best accomplishments!

Good evening my friends. I hope this week treated you well. It certainly did not to me. I was busy attempting to finish my History and Chemistry IAs all while simultaneously writing and memorizing a speech for my Speech and Debate Competition that I attended today. It was quite a busy and stressful week, and I am glad that tomorrow I can relax. I am running on three hours of sleep today, but it’s just another chaotic day with Radio Rebel. I feel quite tired yet I want to stay up and watch an episode of my kdrama, but I think perhaps I should get some sleep so I don’t end up getting sister sick. I am not going to bother organizing my thoughts into well written paragraphs in order to convey the true essence of my most authentic self lol. I was quite tired today throughout my competition. It was stressful, given that I get nervous easily and therefore, I stumbled a lot while presenting my speech. At least I get CAS hours for attending hehe. I also got boba today, which made my day 100 times better. I love boba. My favorite drink to get is a mango milk tea with honey boba. MmmMm. Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, and I am probably not going to watch. I am not really a big football watcher nor really any sports fanatic. I will, however, tune in for the halftime performance. It’s been quite an anxiety ridden week and I am so ready to just lie in bed and either sleep or watch shows. I am quite thrilled that Monday is Senior Skip day. We are going to be (Radio) rebels and ditch school, but just for that day of course. I believe most teachers know, but I am not sure about some, so I hope there is not much work to make up.  Anyways, how many of you remember me from my iconic film back in 2012? Comment down below your favorite moment from my movie for a chance to receive a shoutout from the MORP queen herself! XOXOXOXO

Here is today’s quote of the day:

In the words of Radio Rebel(s), “I’M RADIO REBEL!”

Hey again. Looks like consistency is not my thing, and I am just destined to never post on a bi-weekly basis. That’s okay, though - at least I’ve gotten (almost) all of my work done over the last couple of weeks. I’m not gonna lie: second semester is hard. Not really content-wise, but work-wise. It’s crazy to think that, as a junior, I imagined myself breezing through the end of senior year. Instead, my reality is filled with an endless tower of work, which mostly consists of IAs that I am struggling to write. When I actually know what I’m doing, I’m fine, but I have no idea how to write some of my IAs, which is mildly concerning! 

This week has felt especially exhausting, but I’m not quite sure why. Most of my classes have been study halls, so in theory, I should have been able to manage all of my work. Nevertheless, I always seem to have something to do. Sometimes it feels like I am holding my breath for the entire school week, waiting to finally have some relief from the stress. Respite from the seemingly endless work finally arrives at the end of the day on Friday; I can finally breathe again, or at least somewhat de-stress until I tackle the work waiting for me over the weekend. Then the process repeats all over again.

It’s at times like these that I become incredibly grateful for my friends. Sometimes I imagine the speech I’m going to make at our fake graduation and start to tear up a little. Or I actually just imagine myself tearing up, but don’t physically do so (I’m not a super emotional person). I don’t think I ever will be nostalgic for high school, especially this crazy year, but I will definitely miss the friends I made very much.

I’m going to end this on that semi-depressing note because I’m all out of optimism for the week (I probably ran out around mid-Tuesday). That being said, I have a couple shorter weeks coming up, which should be nice for everyone, even though our off days will be filled with writing our IAs. 

Bye for now!

Hello everyone, sorry for the long break from posting! I promise I will try to post regularly from now on! I hope everyone has had a safe holidays and New Years. I have been doing well in terms of school. I have gotten accepted into a couple of colleges already which is very exciting, but I am still waiting for many other colleges. 

School has been quite busy as we have been focusing on our IB Internal Assessments (IAs) which is very stressful as they will be our deciding factor for our IB diploma, if IB exams do not happen (which is highly likely). I have been working quite long hours to ensure that all my IAs have been as good as possible because I really would like my IB diploma!

School has been good especially because we are officially done with our TOK classes and we have a JA now! I really miss seeing our sweet Radio Rebel (RR), SF, and many others, but I really love my JA because I am very productive in that class!

Well in terms of other news, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made it to the Super Bowl which was very exciting for my family because we are very big Bucs fans! I am hoping that they will win the Lombardi trophy this year because they really deserve it (especially the defense) It is very cool also because this is the first time in history that a Super Bowl team is playing in their hometown! So good luck to the Bucs and hope everyone enjoys the game! Bring it on to the Chiefs and Go Bucs!! 

Anyways, stay safe everyone and take care!! 

Hey guys, long time no see. It seems that blogging is not something I naturally make time for in my daily life, especially on Fridays, when after my classes I proceed to either a) complete last-minute essays due at 11:59 or b) do absolutely nothing. This blog post represents my reinvigorated motivation to be productive in school (we’ll see how that works out).

I have officially been accepted to college! I applied Early Decision, which is a binding agreement, and I have already dipped into my college fund to pay my enrollment deposit. The best part about my acceptance, aside from the fact that I get to spend the next four years of my life at a great school (far away from home!), is that I no longer have college applications to stress about. It also didn't hurt to be able to withdraw my state flagship application; that was almost as satisfying as receiving my college acceptance itself.

Now that I have been accepted to college, I just have to make sure my grades don’t drop too much. It is possible to get an acceptance rescinded if failing/subpar grades are received, so I still have to do all of my schoolwork for the remainder of the year. I don’t feel as stressed about it, however, since I don’t need the perfect grades like I needed for my college applications, but I still would like to maintain high grades just for my own satisfaction. The fact that there are no semester exams is very helpful in this regard, since I don’t have to worry about those scores impacting my semester grades anymore.

Now looking at my classes, it was a bit of a shock to come back to school after winter break and to have a bunch of work due all of a sudden. We have mock IB exams in a couple weeks, so some teachers have shifted their focus to teaching us how to correctly do the exam papers. I’m a bit worried about my ability to remember all of the material for the exams, but I know there is a decent amount of time until the real exams, so I am not too worried about mocks. That being said, it is very apparent that my knowledge is lacking in most, if not all, of my classes, so I definitely will need to step up my game if I actually want high scores. Luckily, a portion of our scores is from our IAs, and the IAs that I have done so far are pretty good. We are starting all of our remaining IAs now, which feels like a lot of work on top of our normal classwork, but most of them are not due for a while so I can spread out the work to make it manageable.

So that’s about it for my (hopefully) bi-weekly musings. I’m looking forward to the start of the new semester, since that means there will be only one semester left of high school forever! I’m using that little piece of optimism to get me through the tough times to come.

Bye for now!

Hola mi gente!!! Espero que esten muy bien😁

This week was pretty decent since we didn't have much to do,and the last two days of the week were even more decent since school was canceled for the FTF people. I don't have anything to complain about today, surprisingly I know.

The thing that's stressing me is College. I submitted my first application, and I'm superrr scared. I hope that at least one university accepts me🙏. I still have apps to finish, and I'm going to take the SAT once again. I'm praying that I do better, if not, I'll just do test-optional. But senior year is scary, at least to me, during this time I start thinking about my life and my future. And I'm like, "will I be able to get into a good college?" and that's what worries me the most. But I'm going to be hopeful and see what happens.

On a good note, Thanksgiving is almost here, and we'll be able to take a break from school, and I can't wait. I'll be able to forget about everything for a while, and have fun and eat a lot of amazing food, etc.. so exciting. We just have to get through this week, and then we'll have a break. I hope you guys have a good week, and until next next Sunday👋

-blessings,

This is late but yesterday was a day I’m pretty sure a lot of my classmates will remember because it was our math teacher’s last day. He just became a teacher at our school when we entered as freshmen and has stayed with us since then. We had many funny moments with him, and he got mad at us from time to time, but it was out of love for us. He was one of the teachers in our school that really cared for us and wanted us to succeed unlike other teachers who looked down on our class and saw us as hopeless. I have never met a teacher like him who was down to earth and was assertive when he needed to be. I honestly was never able to build a deep personal connection to most teachers because they just taught what was required for their job, but our math teacher was very open-minded and made it comfortable for us to open up to him. Though I didn’t talk to him as much as I would’ve liked, he still had a warming and comforting presence that I rarely felt with other teachers. He made me feel like I mattered, and teachers don’t often make me feel this way, so I’m very grateful for what he has done for me and the class of 2021. He accepted an offer from a school that gave him what he deserved because our school has given him so much work without compensation, so I hope his new job will pay him what he really deserves. My classmates and I were really hurt by his departure, but we knew it was for the best and he would still attend our graduation, so it was a bittersweet goodbye. Though most of us couldn’t say goodbye to him in-person, I knew we would see him again. Throughout the years, tears were shed and laughs were shared. I will always remember you JW and I wish you the best for the future.

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

I don’t know what to title this post so why not title it my favorite person...myself! Anyways, I hope you are all doing well even though it’s just my 6 friends that read this blog (and my sister) lol. Yesterday was election day, and needless to say, I am quite disappointed with how it is going. I figured that one of the candidates would’ve possibly won by a landslide, but you know America, home of the privileged. I am hoping results are out by Friday. 

Moving on, today was a decent day. I got to nap during my first and second block which was quite nice. I dreaded Spanish today though, because she gave us such dumb classwork and none of us understood it. I figured she would be in a better mood in my class because we are her favorite but she was a little strict. I wanted to throw a chancla at her. Please pray for my grade because this teacher puts in the most random grades (like most of the other teachers who don’t know how to grade). I also have my Economics IA due today, which I have not started because I don’t care. I will probably make up some crap since I chose a super easy topic because I don’t know what is going on in that class and I also do not care enough to pay attention; plus, his loud breathing makes me not want to breathe anymore. 

Also, during my nap today I had a dream that some of the popular girls from my middle school were there being rude to me. I haven’t had much interaction with them in the past, but it’s like the aura they possess really makes me want to vomit. I’m glad I chose this stupid program and met my circus mates rather than go to high school with those th0ts who do not know what basic dress code is. 

Anyways, I think that about covers my spectacular day. Before I end this post, I’d like to post a quirky white girl quote as I have been inspired by TJ to post a quote and to uphold the “quirkiness” that courses through my veins. I think many of you will relate to it:

“Honestly, I don’t play an active role in my life anymore... things just happen & I’m like “oh, is this what we’re doing now? ok.”

So remember, sometimes, is ok to not be ok.

Hello Everyone! Happy Tuesday.

I usually post on Sundays, but I forgot to post, so here I am. Last week wasn’t that bad, I didn’t have a lot of homework, and most of my classes were pretty chill. The only two classes that gave too much unecessary assignments were History and French. It took me a while to do history because we didn’t have any instructions nor knowledge to the questions that we had to answer, but I eventually figured it out. And in French, I really don’t know what’s going on with our teacher, but she has become so unbearable, and it’s becoming too much.

Let me tell y’all, last week and this week, she has been giving us an attitude for no reason, giving us homework that doesn’t even makes sense, and even giving a lot of kids zeros for no reason. She got mad at one kid because he proved her wrong, and now she’s being really petty because of that little event. She’s mostly being like this, because most of us are doing Elearning and aren’t at school, which is not a valid reason to treat us like that. But besides that, everything else is tolerable. Oh, and our tok teacher can’t use technology apparently, so we have been getting the wrong presentation dates, so that’s great. Talking about presentations, I really don’t want to do mines, because I haven’t been instructed properly in how to do it nor I know how to write, so my presentation is a whole mess. But it’s okay, because nobody knows what we are doing in that class either, it’s great when our teachers don’t do their job.

Besides all of that, my weekend was decent, I relaxed, didn’t have as much homework, and yesterday I was even able to skip school because I had to get ready for my Senior pics, it was great not going to the classes that I dislike. Hopefully my pics came out decent, because I even woke up early to get my hair done, and it hurt because I have a pretty sensible scalp. I agree with the saying, I don’t know the proper phrase in English so I’ll say it in Spanish, ‘la belleza duele.’

Blessings,

Hey everyone!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and if you celebrated on Halloween, I hope you stayed safe and enjoyed yourself! I had an amazing weekend and I got to spend a bunch of time with my family which was very nice!! 

Last week was extremely exhausting and I did a lot of homework all week, so I was really looking forward to the weekend. On Saturday morning I did something very unique that I enjoyed a lot. I did the New York Virtual Marathon with my dad! I got to bike alongside my dad while he ran 26.2 miles. It was truly a wonderful experience because I had been training with my dad for a few months and finally I had the opportunity to put that training to use. My dad started around 4:30 a.m. and I joined around 5:45 so I biked around 13 miles with him. It was extremely cold outside, it was 50 degrees which is very rare for Florida weather, but it allowed us to finish in a easier manner. When we finished the marathon, I was very sore, but it was definitely worth it! I definitely recommend that everyone try a half-marathon once in their lifetime as it is a life-changing experience. On Sunday, I just relaxed at home and did some homework. 

I am looking forward to this week because I am planning to donate my hair sometimes at the end of this week, which is something I love to do. I have donated my hair 3 times in the past and each time I have donated around 12 inches (1 foot) of hair. This year, I plan to donate 14 inches which should be very interesting! 

Anyways, I hope everyone has a good day and thanks for reading!!

Take care,

The 1st quarter is finally over! Just 3 more quarters and we graduate. I honestly can’t believe we’re near the end of 2020. This year was just a blur after March when COVID spread and lockdown happened. Today was ok, but I had Spanish today, which is always stressful. She scolded someone for submitting an assignment in the wrong place, but she didn’t explicitly say where to submit it was. She gave him a 0, which sucks because the quarter just started so his grade would be heavily impacted. I also had a Physics test, and I did pretty well, so I’m happy about that. Halloween is coming up and I hope that those who go out practice social distancing guidelines and wear a mask. Personally, I’m just staying home because I haven’t gone trick or treating in a long time and want to minimize outside exposure. The presidential election is also coming up, so I hope those eligible to vote go out and vote because this will determine the fate of the U.S. Also, some of my favorite artists just released new music and I would recommend listening to them.

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Hello Everyone!

Hope everyone had a good and relaxing weekend!! I have been so exhausted from all this school work and college preparation. I feel like the work never ends! Anyways, I had a fun weekend because I did what I love to do most...spend time with my family. We watched a few football games and even ate some ice cream 😊! Also, I did no homework this weekend, instead I prioritized working on my college work and making sure that I am up to date on my deadlines. For those of you who don’t know, I am planning to go into medicine and becoming a pediatrician (a doctor that works with children). I know medical school will be hard and the entire journey will be exhausting, but I am sure that it will pay off in the end! At the end of the day, I think that we should always do what we feel passionate about. For me, I know that I want to serve and give back to my community and when I become a doctor, I will be doing that every day! What are your future goals?

School has been getting extremely difficult, especially last week. We had so much homework and tests and on top of that, no teacher was being reasonable in the assignments that they were giving us. But, as always, perseverance will always get you through, even the toughest tasks. I realized that I was dropping in productivity last week as I was burnt out, so I took the weekend to myself and now I am fully prepared to get all my work done! Burn out is something that everyone experiences and it is one of the hardest things to overcome. But, the only way to get over it is too, take a break, do something you love, and then regroup! Afterwards, fill your mindset with positivity and keep on going!! 

Lastly, the motivational quote for the day: “Winners never quit and quitters never win! So put your positive pants on and keep going.” So to everyone out there reading this, you got this! Even if your dreams seem impossible, just keep going, work hard, and stay strong and you will definitely succeed! Thanks for reading and have a great day! 😊

Hello everybody, and happy Sunday night!

     I’m writing super late today, which is something I don’t do, but the reason is that I had a pretty busy Sunday. Since early morning, I’ve been moving to another room and it took the wholeee day and then I had to do homework. So I’m pretty exhausted, and more since I have knee problems(I’m literally an old lady) and they hurt super bad and I’m probably going to sleep earlier than usual today. But still, I didn’t want to not write today.

These past two weeks haven’t been that stressful, besides TOK and my French class. I’m sure you guys know how much everyone in this blog channel dislikes TOK, and now even more because we have to do presentations. I have to revise my whole thing, because I’m pretty sure that it is terrible, and that’s because I literally don’t know what I’m doing. I mean, none of us know what we are doing at this point. And French, ughh, I really dislike that class now. The teacher has been getting super mad at us for no reason and it’s always yelling at us for the littlest thing. This is all because she really doesn’t like E-learning, and she would like all of us to be in the classroom, but still, she shouldn’t be that mean to us. Besides those two classes, the rest has been okay, not great but at least okay. I really can’t wait until I finish, because every morning I just want the day to be over and I’m always super tired, especially in my first two classes.

I don’t like sitting in front of a computer for 8+ hours everyday, but we gotta do what we gotta do to finish right? I really can’t wait until I go to collge, I’m really wishing that we get less work and more time to do other stuff not like in High School, especially IB. Talking about college, I have to finish the little I have left in order to submit my apps, because many have deadlines in Novemeber, so I have to get that done, which just gives me more stress. I also have to take the ACT this Saturday, and I’m not ready for it whatsoever, especially after I didn’t do well in the SAT and that made me loose motivation to study for the ACT. I don’t want to take no tests, but since Florida schools require them, I have to do it.

I’m not looking forward to these upcoming weeks, because I know that they are going to be stressfullllll, but we are almost done with the quarter and it’s almost November which means we’re going to have a little break. Which reminds me, during that break I have to finish my CAS hours cause I don’t want to get kicked out off the program after struggling for 3 years already, all my work and stress will be in vain and I don’t want that.

 I hope you all have a great week, I;m sure it’ll be better than mines and I’ll talk to you all soon, hasta la vista!!!

-Blessings, 

Hey guys! It’s me again hehe 

I’m drowned in college applications. (Buddha please help your poor girl) Before writing this blog, I revised one of my college essays, and I absolutely love it. It was a roommate essay where I have to describe myself to my future roommate. Let me tell you, I think I can kill it hehheheh. I wrote about boba milk tea, not my love and hate relationship with it, but how it symbolizes me. PS: don’t worry! I didn’t mention my horniness. After I’m done revising my essays, I need to study for the ACT. I hated it, but what can I do :( 

Besides schools, something interesting happened in my life. I began gaming….. To be honest, Among Us is really not that fun. My joy mostly stemmed from killing my friends in the game and seeing their angry reactions. I haven’t killed big mama yet, but she is my next target hehehhe

We are almost done with the first quarter of Senior year, and today,  we finally took our group senior picture today. It was a hassle. In the end, we got some good pictures and I posted it on my IG. I guess today is a good day? 

Best wishes,

Today was pretty chill because I did nothing in Economics, TOK & Math, so I was able to do some work and catch up on college stuff because deadlines are approaching quickly. I can’t believe we’re almost halfway through October. Senior year is just going by & it feels even faster since I’m doing e-learning. It’s also getting stressful because I’m taking the SAT in November & I’m constantly getting homework, so it’s difficult to review. I also have to work on my college applications because I’m quite behind on essays and supplemental essays. Hopefully I can slowly work on them this week because I have no school on Wednesday because of PSAT. Additionally, we have a TOK presentation happening in the next 2-3 weeks, which is very stressful because our teacher hasn’t really helped us. It’s quite ghastly that he doesn’t really help us because this presentation is an IB graduation requirement, so I want to pass. We also have a virtual club rush at 6 pm this Wednesday, which is stupid because most of the clubs are clueless about what to do. With COVID-19 going on, clubs are unsure about what to do because they have to appeal to both e-learners & in-person students. Some clubs won’t even be able to function because competitions were cancelled due to the pandemic, so clubs this year are not really important this school year. I want to end this blog on a positive note, so here’s a motivational quote I found!  ◍•ᴗ•◍

“Staying positive doesn't mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on the hard days you know better ones are coming”

It’s the last day of the seventh week of the first quarter of school, and I feel drained. I’m not physically tired, since I have been actually getting at least eight hours of sleep per night, nor mentally tired, because to be honest the work is not that hard this year content-wise. I’m more emotionally exhausted; I jump from feeling optimistic to angry to frustrated to exited to depressed to ecstatic to bored to entertained all in one day. It’s hard to stay motivated to do any schoolwork when all I can think about is literally anything else. This is the first day I did my homework on the exact day it was due. I felt like my old junior-year self, when I would joke that I had senioritis even though I wasn’t a senior. Now I truly know what senioritis is: you can’t focus on the present because the future (college) is just within reach. At least ten times a day I think about college, and I may be exaggerating a little, but it’s all I care about right now. I’m pretty much guaranteed to have all A’s this quarter, which doesn’t even matter for me most likely because the school I’m applying to Early Decision doesn’t even look at any senior grades. That being said, despite the minimal effort and attention put into my classes and homework, I can’t manage to completely not try on an assignment. My good grades are probably due to eLearning being much easier than in-person school, but I still think that being a good student has been ingrained in my identity for so long that I am having trouble letting that part of myself go, even though it won’t have an effect on my future at this point.

I lied before when I said I only care about college, because I also care about my cats - my favorite cat especially. And let me tell you, she has been making appearances in all of my classes so often that all of the teachers are noticing. My TOK teacher in particular is OBSESSED with my cats. He literally talks about them every. single. day. And it is getting real annoying real fast. I’d much rather him talk about my cats than actually ask me content-related questions, so at least that is a positive. Maybe if I attach a picture of my cats to every assignment I submit he will give me extra credit. Not that I need it, though, since that class is pure busywork and is almost impossible to fail. I say fail in regard to grades on my transcript, though, because I’m pretty sure we are gonna fail our TOK essays and presentations. We have been given almost no guidance whatsoever on these assignments, and now he expects us to have them all polished and perfect. I’m very stressed about my TOK presentation specifically because I have not made my powerpoint or started practicing, but to be fair, he hasn’t even told us when we will be presenting. That coupled with my history IA and college applications looming over my head is making me feel stressed out. I keep having to remind myself that I don’t need perfection, just passing, but like I said earlier, it’s hard to not aim for perfection at all times.

So that’s it for my bi-weekly musings (although I did forget to blog two weeks ago - I’m pretty sure because I was finishing my psych IA? - so please forgive me). Remember to wear a mask, not die, and take a power-nap if necessary. 

Bye for now!