Maturity Level and Rome

If I had to pick a word to describe my day today, it would be uneventful. According to thesaurus.com, I could've also used quiet, routine, unexceptional, humdrum, uninteresting, unmemorable, or unnoteworthy.

I went to sleep at 2:00 AM last night and woke up this morning at 6:50 AM, thanks to a splash of water on my face from my fantastic dad. I really do appreciate the water splashes - I've never been able to keep a normal sleep schedule for long, and part of it is because I find it so difficult to get up in the morning...

I went to school, talked about A Tale of Two Cities in English, and did a lab in Chemistry. Then, we started the reproduction unit in biology. It was here that I found out how truly immature I was. I'm hoping that by the end of the unit, I won't have to hold back laughs at certain biological terms. The class isn't an accelerated class - I take Regents biology along with Chemistry Accelerated. While being in an academic class doesn't say anything about one's level of maturity, it does have a different atmosphere - I feel like Regents classes are more open to slight interruptions interfering with the pursuit of knowledge. It's not necessarily a bad thing - we still learn the basics of biology, which is what we should want, but there's less curiosity in the class. It's hard to put into words. I'm still an amateur writer.

After Biology, I went to AP World History - my one AP class this year. I'm particularly fond of this class, and it's not because of the subject, but because of the workload. I don't know why, but there's something immensely satisfying about knowing the tremendous amount of work we'll have completed by the end of the year - at the end of this year, I can point to my 900-page textbook and say, "I read this." As for the outlines, I feel like outlining a textbook is an important skill that I'm going to need in college, so I don't really mind them as much as some of the other students in my class.

After AP World, French. French comes very naturally to me for some reason. I notice patterns in the language very easily. We learned about passe compose (sorry for being too lazy to insert accents) with the reflexive tense today. Like most other things, I picked it up pretty fast. After French, I went to CPR - this class is pretty light in terms of workload, but I want to stress that I get everything right in case I'm ever in a situation requiring First Aid.

After French, math. My favorite class of them all. In math, I'm transported to a sort of Rome, where I watch as roads are built all around me, and I'm blessed with the privilege of navigating them to go from problem to answer.

What else happened today? I went home, slept, started my outline, watched the premier episode of Cosmos, and started writing a blog post titled "Maturity Level and Rome", which was about my day. Blog posts won't normally be this regular, but I wanted to document what a normal day is like for me in my current life. This is one of the few blogs where I write about a day that I might describe as mundane.

A Resurrection

The last time I blogged, I was in 8th grade. I've changed so much since then, it's hard for me to believe I wrote half of this stuff. Still, I remember sitting in front of my computer on dark mornings, playing League of Legends and dreading school the next day.

Doesn't sound much like current Arnav, does it?

I could dwell on that stuff forever, but I want to blog about other things. Firstly, I want to address why I'm blogging again. It's fairly simple, really - I've just been influenced by MIT Admissions Blogs. I've been reading them for a while, and I thought it would be a fun thing to do. However, that's what got me started with blogging in the 8th grade, and that wasn't such a huge success - I didn't really follow through with it.

What makes this time different?

This time, I plan on blogging for myself. Previously, I had blogged in a more social manner - everything written on my blog was written for other people's eyes, and I spent far too long making sure the site was visually appealing. Since then, I've come to realize that I'd like to blog for the reason I think most people might blog: it's like keeping a journal. I'll be writing more for myself than for others, and should therefore enjoy writing more. This will lead to blogging being less of an obligation, resulting in more blogiation. I made that word up because I saw the letters in obligation. Heh.