EDITOR’S Letter
Ah, yes. It’s the fresh new start of a year and I, uhm … want it to end already haha. Woah, sounds depressing. I’m just joking… maybe. Where do I start? No, I’m not hating 2019… I’m just… looking forward to 2020. Disclaimer: this might sound dramatic, but I feel very stuck-inroutine and in a very lame, gray space in life because of school. See, I, like many others, have been in schooling for 12 years now and I just feel ready for a change and ready to leave, you know? I get it, we all have to go through it and I should just push through it. You’re a few months away from the end of your school career. You’ll miss it so much once you leave. I know, I know, but allow me my emotions! Don’t get me wrong, I do not hate school, I have subjects I thoroughly enjoy (like Maths…unpopular opinion) and school has given me the opportunity to meet some real gems of humans. I have been able to accomplish so much with it and I have learned so, so much, but it’s been very much the same. Crazy hard work throughout the term, the end of it draws near and then it’s crazy hard studying for the big tests. Now rinse and repeat. I guess some of it is my fault (I’m admitting it, Mommy and Dadda) because I am a low-key perfectionist. Carefree when creative, but when it comes to handing in tasks or doing things for marks… it has to be basically flawless or I won’t hand in at all. Throughout my schooling career, I have tried to take part in a LOT of things and keep my academics at a high standard too. I did so much for exposure to different things to enrich myself as a human being, but I also wanted that resumé to look…magnificent. Now what this resulted in, Dear Readers, was an insanely busy-allthe-time, stressed human doing too much after school, balancing homework, social life, good grades, sleep, career decisions - the
