Reflection

Yes, the past year has been kind of hard, but honestly, it didn’t feel as brutal for me as it was for a lot of others. I’m not that into large gatherings or hanging out with others besides close friends, so staying at home didn’t really have much of an effect on that part of my life. And with a relatively easier school year (considering workload), I had a lot more time to do college applications. But now that I’ve finished those applications and am just waiting for decisions, more often than not, I find myself asking, “what should I do today?”

It’s a pretty simple question, but one that I have a lot of difficulty answering. The only thing worse is at the end of the day when I ask myself, “what did I even do all day?” The best answer I have is basically just binging the most random YouTube videos from really bad drivers to how to build a nuclear reactor, but I probably should do better from now on. I’m off to college in just over half a year, and so, I will be beginning a new journey that is more oriented to what I want to do for a career. And though I am still uncertain exactly what I want to do in my job, I know it should heavily involve economics and math.

Yeah, I know it doesn’t sound that interesting, but honestly, the applications of these two subjects is literally infinite. I don’t think we’ve had a single Socratic seminar/Harkness discussion without mentioning innate human behavior. What if you tried to quantify the effects of what we know about human nature in regards to market operations and probabilities of future consumer actions? This does start to get into more technical detail, but my point is that even now, with whatever knowledge I do have and will gain over the remainder of senior year, I can begin to somehow apply that to my interested concentration. That’s how I’m hoping I will spend the rest of my free time.