Close Reading (CRR)

I really thought about it, and wondered in all my time having English, why have we never had to read song lyrics more for close reading assignments. We all obviously love music so why not. I can say that i have only had to do that one time, and that was maybe 4 years ago. It really amazes me how we don't do this more. Give the class verses to read and annotate for homework and i guarantee that everyone (well mostly everyone) will do it. I'm not saying that I don't like some of the readings we have, because some of them are actually interesting, and i also understand that we have to be reading more difficult things to get read for college, but that does not mean that we cant get lyrics to a song and try to understand the deeper meaning behind it, like MANY song now a days have. If you don't believe me, search up any song, then go to genius.com and read what the artist meant by it and i bet you'll be surprised.

Applications (FC)

So i finally finished all these applications. Now that I'm finished with them, all I can think is THANK GOD, now I have to worry about actually getting accepted. So the stress isn't exactly gone, but that's definitely a weight off my shoulders. On top of that, I've also already been accepted to Onondaga, so now I really only have to worry about finishing FAFSA and finishing high school. If only it were that easy though. But to think that we all struggled for FOUR YEARS now and its almost over is crazy. Now its just one more challenge before we move on with our lives, and i really excited that its finally almost over. Just one more semester in this school, and then were off to college.