Lilly

At school, when we have more than one or two important tests or papers due in a single week, my friends and I will often deem it a “Hell Week” and resign ourselves to pushing through it together.

This, however, is a Hell Week unlike any I’ve ever experienced. I have more than a dozen odd assignments, quizzes, exams, and essays—I counted them—capped off with a lovely three-hour-long standardized test to begin deciding my future on Saturday morning.

I’m making it. Soccer is my biggest reprieve from studying; there’s no time to worry about my physics midterm when I’m burying a shot in the net. At home, I clamp my headphones over my ears and forget the rest of the world for half-hour blocks of time.

Only a few days until spring break.

Back to calculus. ♦