I’m not sure why I decided to open up AoPS again considering I never really use it, but I was surprised to see two comments on my last blog post that was around a year ago. So, I’ll reflect on where my life has come up to some more.

I’m no longer struggling with college apps, but have now begun college. (Hint: well-known engineering-heavy university in Indiana.)

I’m a business analytics major right now. When I started this blog, I wanted to be an astronomer. When I stopped being regularly active on this blog, I wanted to go into biology. When I last posted on this blog, I was planning on majoring in data science or statistics. Moral of the story is, your interests can change and sometimes (often) for the better.

My boyfriend and I attend the same college. As do many of my close friends (weird considering we are from California). Yay!

I find college to be considerably easier than high school as of now, at least this first month that I’ve been here. I went to a VERY academically pressuring STEM-focused high school that churns out T20 college attendees, so I feel a lot more relaxed here.

I miss my family a lot but I’m getting over my homesickness plus I will see them in two weeks.

Today, I got rejected from the student council for the business school. I originally didn’t really care about the club since I somehow got into Women in Business, but once I somehow got to the final round of interviews, I was way more invested, so the rejection hurt. It also hurt a lot because student council is something I’ve been doing since third grade, and I was even class president last year. In a way, I think this rejection is good for me because I’m a huge perfectionist and rejection is something I admittedly don’t handle very well. Though it definitely stings a lot right now, I hope that it will make me a better person and that it’s ultimately for the best. Rejection is redirection, as they always say.

I shook hands with Richard Rusczyk in fourth grade! I just remembered this. That was about eight or nine years ago.

Every time I write in this blog, I feel like I’m always looking back to the past and reflecting on what’s changed. My responsibilities before were homework, tennis, prealgebra, and the clarinet. My responsibilities now are homework, laundry, calculus, and biweekly Target trips. I wish I savored my time back then.

I hope there are people out there that still see this. If you stumble across my blog, please leave a comment/shout and PM me. I think it’s nice to come here and just talk about my life—it’s very comforting*, in a way.

Bye

*(edit: used to say common but i did not mean that i was very tired)

So, it's been a while. The last time I posted here was my freshman year. Now, I'm in my senior year of high school, struggling with college apps, and to be honest, I haven't thought of this blog in years.

So life updates!

Since the last time I've posted in this blog, I've grown one inch.

I still play the clarinet, and I've toured throughout Northern/Central Europe because of it.

I haven't touched a waffle or thought of a waffle in ages.

I have gotten a boyfriend, broken up with him, and have gotten with another boyfriend.

I make money off of photography now. (visit my photography business website https://adwithi28.wixsite.com/photobyadw)

Nobody has referred to me by the nickname "Addy" in about four to five years...

I'd say my high school experience was defined by the Legend of Zelda games. I started playing Breath of the Wild during my freshman year (maybe 2021?) and now I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom. I love these games so much

I was an extreme introvert back when I was posting this blog, so it might surprise my 13-year-old self to know that I am now class president and talk (scream) on a microphone in front of hundreds of kids.

It was really interesting looking at all of the shouts that were posted on the blog in the time me and charzar were gone. I don't really keep in touch with charzar, but I hope they see this sometime. It really felt like taking a trip down memory lane into ancient AoPS history. It surprises me how this blog actually managed to take off and be somewhat popular. It's also interesting to see me talking about events that, if I hadn't written about them then, would be lost to time. Some of these things happened nearly five years ago.

If you do come across this, feel free to PM me or anything (I get email updates so I will see it). If you can give me APCS help, PLEASE PM me.

Finally, my procrastination habit hasn't gotten any better.

Until next time,
Addy2805