Dear Sophomore Year,
Now that you are coming close to the end, I must write this letter. It is so crazy to think I am almost halfway done with high school. It feels like my graduation is supposed to be a million years from now, but it is only two. Two years until it is all over. Sophomore year has taught me so much.
This year has been a year of struggle, but also growth. I have made new friendships this year that I cannot imagine a life without. I have gone through numerous fights with friends, failing grades, and arguments with family, but that’s not all. I have blossomed new friendships, improved my current friendships, and new groups of people have welcomed me in. I simply can’t believe summer of junior year is coming up in less than one month. I got through so many things this year, and I can’t help but be proud of myself.
I got better grades this year than my freshman year, and I have been working extra hard in the second semester to try to make the best GPA I can get for myself. Although it has been exhausting, so many amazing things have happened. All of the football games at the start of the year, those Friday nights, were unforgettable.
My friends and I hanging out almost every weekend is such a blessing because I’m one of the lucky ones who get the best friends in the world. Sophomore year also helped me gain one specific friendship that is so important to me now. I can not think of how I lived a life before this girl was my best friend, which is crazy because we just reconnected this year.
Things have been fun, but I am here to say that the sophomore slump is, in fact, real. I have procrastinated everything lately, and I have been taking more naps after school than I ever have before. I go to bed way too late every night, just to wake up early and come to school drained and exhausted. The only thing getting me through the rest of the year is the thought of summer. There have been many nights of sadness, but also nights of joy. Joy because of the people I met and have been able to be with throughout my sophomore year.
Tenth grade is weird because you are not a new, little freshman, but you are not an upperclassman either. I have become more outgoing this year, and I have opened my social circle to a little bit more than the same four people. Although I did this, I still know it is so important to prioritize my little group of best friends because they are the ones I know are real and will stick around. But if sophomore year has taught me anything, it has taught me to try even when you don’t want to, and that your actions have consequences. So, thank you, sophomore year, for showing me things I would have never known if it weren’t for the 2024-2025 season.
Sincerely,
Zoe Jordan
