The Future - Alex Wyllie

My year has been great. It has passed with a speed that upon reflection seems unbelievably quick, even as the few remaining days drag out before me, as I, and many of you begin our preparations for the most arduous tests that we will take this year. I am of course, talking about the AP exams, of which I am taking six. There can be no overstatement to their difficulty, especially in numbers, but I believe that all of us who try shall succeed, as we all have seen these tests on the horizon for quite some time now. My year has prepared me well, I do think, as we now enter the final stretch of review. And after these monstrous behemoths, we have a straight run for the finals and the seemingly sudden end of another year of high school before we part ways only to be reintroduced in our fourth and final year of high school. 

For those curious to know what I have accomplished in this year, of which seems to have been far too short to have really happened, I have challenged myself with five AP classes - including this one of which you know all about as my presence alongside you in here has indicated. I, as have many of you, have taken AP Physics - for my basic knowledge of the natural sciences would be incomplete without, AP Chemistry - for if I can not survive two concurrent science classes this year then there is no chance of my survival in three maths next fall, AP US History - in which we are all saddened by Mr. Pope's decision to retire at the end of the year as many of us wanted to take his AP Macroeconomics class, AP Calculus - for every advance in mathematics is an advance towards the coming plethora of work available to me in this digital age. My last class, almost an AP in its own right for the work that I have invested into it both inside and out of class is Latin 3, of which many of you are aware I have taken far beyond the norm, as I now preside over the Kentucky Junior Classical League, and with a dedication unmatched in our state, I seek now to further that cause to its ultimate. And so, this summer, I shall lead the Kentucky delegation to the National JCL Convention in San Antonio, Texas, where I hope we shall seize victory in some aspect of competition and at the very least enjoy ourselves in all of our endeavors. I shall also be journeying much further from home as my family travels to Iceland that very week before, for the reason of finishing giving our gift to my nana for her 70th birthday as she and my grandfather continue to show that old age will not slow them down.

As for next year, I shall be taking a full load of classes, undaunted by the additional requirements of the Senior mentoring project, as I finish a program of courses that I have set upon myself that will allow me to travel to the college of my choice with no shortening of my stride. Among the classes that many of us shall be taking (those being AP English Literature and Composition and AP Calculus 2), I shall be (hopefully) taking AP Physics 2 despite having fulfilled my science requirements, AP Statistics - as I have heard it is far better to take that now than in University, AP Computer Science - as I intend on pursuing said field beyond High school, and last, but most certainly not least, AP Latin 4, in which I shall continue the translation of Vergil's Aeneid I have so recently begun this year. And without a doubt, I shall make this coming year of JCL the greatest in recent history, as much as for my own wishes as for the duties of my office require. I expect this coming year to be all that much harder than this current one, but I look forward to it with great enthusiasm, as I hope many of you do as well. For one very short year, we will be the top of our totem pole, before we return to its very base as university freshmen. For one very short year, we will embody the aspirations of the incoming freshmen, and I do hope we will be a great positive influence on our school, as much for our sake as for theirs. And so, with high hopes for the future, I, and all of you, shall continue our lives past this great coming event, as many of us journey into uncharted waters, both personally and academically. But for now, my rambles have continued on far too long, and so with all due haste, I shall bid you farewell, until my next post.