I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Things looked pretty bad at the beginning of the year. I’m talking, I’m going to need to send in all of my medical papers from the start of this year in with my college application and say that's why my geometry grade was a disgrace to possibly even get into a D1 school. Yes, I’m already worrying about making sure my application will look very good when I apply to Penn State. The things I learned so far this year could help me for future years, and also teach me valuable lessons.

First, let's get the big one out of the way. You were born with two eyes. Please learn to use them. You will never truly understand how you did not see a huge metal pole in front of you, but apparently you didn't. You also couldn't see the six-week concussion coming either, but who really did? Even the trainer told you he thought you wouldn't have a concussion. In his defense, he was the Woodland Hills trainer.

Second, school dances are nothing like the movies. You didn't get the most popular guy in the whole school to fall in love with you and take you to homecoming, let alone even get a date. Also, let's just say there's no cute little slow dances. But the amount of drama that came out of homecoming? Totally worth it.

Third, you will discover that if you want to look the part of being a high schooler, wearing your graphic tee shirts everyday will not work out. One of the hardest things for you to do was to go through all of your pretty awesome graphic tees and get rid of the ones you thought wouldn't cut it any longer. These are the tee shirts with cats on them that say something like “You're purr-fect”. It's one of those decisions that you look back on and thank God you made that decision. But between us, you still kept a good amount because you never know when one could come in handy.

Fourth, your friends will start to date other people. Yes, you will be spending less and less time with them because “hanging out with their boyfriend is more important”. Also, it’s a pretty strong chance that at this stage, you may not like their choice in “significant” others. Just don't remind your friend every single day how much you hate their absolutely horrible choice in men. Out of all the guys in the school, they pick the one who has no respect for me, no respect for other women, and basically thinks he’s an “all-that” jock. You know it's a high school relationship. You know it's not built to last. But will that get in the way of your anger? Not a bit.

Fifth, you will get called names that shall not be repeated in this list because they are not exactly appropriate to repeat, all because you did something you really did not do. It's not your fault that something in someone else’s life didn't work out and go as planned, so why does all the blame go to you? You have no clue, but you bet it's jealousy. If this person still wants to call you these false and actually kind of funny names, that's fine with you.

Sixth, you will start to develop these really weird things called feelings. No, they don't all have to be romantic-related feelings, but any type of feelings really start to come alive. You will stay up at night wondering what these feelings are. You will text all your friends all the symptoms you have because you think you're actually coming down with a really bad cold because you have terrible insomnia, but they'll tell you you're just overreacting and you'll live.

Seventh, you will finally learn what these feelings are. To get a sense of one of these feelings, let’s put you in a real-life scenario. It’s about 9:00 at night. You just got home from your volleyball practice. You head upstairs to start working on your Coffee House revisions. You go on to your phone and see the dreaded text. It’s from Verizon telling you you’ve used up 90% of your data. Oh well, the new plan starts tomorrow. You will be fine. Or will you? You start to wonder.

“Why am I just getting this message now. I’m in my house with wifi, aren’t I?”

Then you look up. You have been on data this whole time. So, you go to settings and attempt to turn your wifi back on because it somehow got disconnected from your phone, but it won’t turn on. Congratulations! Your internet is no longer connected, so it can not be used. But you are not worrying yet. You know your dad can fix it, he deals with this stuff daily at his job. Then you realize, your dad just left for Philly that morning so he can’t fix it until he gets back late Sunday evening. So, your mom calls Comcast to start complaining and they say that there is nothing they can do for a while. Then, you have another realization. You own a hotspot, so you can just use that until the wifi gets up and running again. You go up to your dad’s office and see the box there. You open it, and just to your luck, your dad took it to Philly with him. So, there you sit for about an hour until your mother gets off the phone with the horrible people from Comcast about their terrible wifi and Verizon about not overcharging us this month because you need to use your phone as a personal hotspot to be writing your Coffee House. So, in case you could not tell, the feeling you noticed here was anger. Maybe a bit of hatred, but mostly anger.

They say that you learn something new everyday. In this case, that's extremely true. I probably learned something new every minute, whether it be academically or personally. So, let's just hope that next year will not be like this one, and I can make it through the rest of the year without needing to add to this list.