Sophomore Year

Wise Fool Sophomore Year is know as the forgotten year of highschool. Well, that is according to Urban Dictionary. The word “sophomore” is Greek, sophos 'wise' and moros 'foolish’, meaning that sophomore students are wise fools. That is how I felt Sophomore year. Afraid to speak in class, because people may laugh at you and think you are dumb. It's frustrating; yet, we try to stay above it all. We laugh when we are secretly embarrassed, and we try to seem cool when we have no idea what is going on around us. That is how I felt at the beginning of Sophomore year. Trying to stay above when I could feel myself drowning in confusion of who I could trust, and who I was going to be one day. It was a downhill spiral of fake friends and feeling lonely in a crowded room 99% of the time. The start of my wise fool year, I found myself at the

But then I realize, it was not because I was on Ellen, it was because I make my own opportunities. I work for my dreams, and even if I was never on Ellen, my old friends would of shut me out when I got national attention for bringing back the Acting classes back at my school with actress Debra Messing, or national attention for helping a family raise money for their son with muscular atrophy, or becoming ABC Hometown hero in the state of Rhode island, or landing the role as Elle Woods in my school play of Legally Blonde as a junior, or winning Miss Rhode Island’s Outstanding Teen 2016, and getting to compete in a National competition and represent the state of Rhode Island. I found myself to lean on. I walked down the hall with my head held high, and my prison became my school, my place of opportunity. I learn that each opportunity presented in front of you, is what you make of it, and to never take it for granted. Sophomore year may be the forgotten year of high school, but I sure made it a year to never