✧ CONTEMPLATING THE PAST AS YOU MAKE YOUR WAY OUT OF THE IRON CAGE:

• last year was rough. you had deal with the issues of love, betrayal and people talking behind your back, and the lost of your grandfather. but you had some wins with your lessons too. not only that, but it's time for college application season to come and go. you spent the last month meeting up with friends, both old ones from middle school and ones that have gone off to colleges. you passed your exams and classes while also having celebrations and fun all time around. you look towards the next year with many aspirations, goals, new habits, challenges, and a lot more. but honestly, be proud of yourself, it looks like you're becoming stronger mentally with your lessons. you're keeping the promise you made two years ago.

✧ NEW YEAR'S FLOWERS AND THE SCENT OF VICTORY:

• 01/01/2024 ➣ you played minecraft with friends, planned trips, and got new years mori, randou, and ozaki, some good shit. you wake up, play some games, eat well with some sweet potato fries, and you got a good vibe you're feeling. but, let's finish harvard and columbia. you got the scholarship out the way, but it was very tiring, now can you finish the applications?
• 01/02/2024 ➣ you finished harvard and columbia. you prepare and sleep for the next day and you go to sleep. now you got some other things do and games to play. but you start jhu, cornell, and yale, let's see if you can get them done.
• 01/03/2024 ➣ you finished jhu, cornell, and yale, now time for minecraft and gaming. you fall asleep, wake up, do work around the house, and get some more scholarships done. are you ready for the school year, are you ready for the applications, just try to chill out and continue working.
• 01/4/2024 ➣ after playing minecraft with friends and getting full netherite armor, you chill and relax until you head to bed. then you wake up, drive around town going to walmart and publix getting stuff. then you chill, play a lot of brothership, and prepare your plan for the upcoming school year.
• 01/05/2024 ➣ you sit in contemplation after watching tons of college reaction videos. while you watch your winter break end, you work on some scholarships and you finish your applications to stanford and upenn. you find the contact of your old teacher and decided that you'll will message her soon to thank her. you also went to church and your stomach was killing you while also dying of embarrasment about the situation with "ivan" and your church lady you guys take to church. it took many hours, but you finally finished your applications and other sat stuff.
• 01/06/2024 ➣ so today is a very stressful day. after eating ice cream and finishing you prepare your self to return back to your school and finish what needs to get done. you work a little bit on a bridge but run around all around school trying to get stuff done for this magnet open house. before then, you went around various classrooms giving teachers a welcome back snack and/or drink. you then worked on the bridge and stayed after school for an sga meeting. it was fun and your grade level hyped you up as the valedictorian. you returned home, and worked on your application only to find out your recommender didn't do your transcript form and that was quite unfortunate. you rushed to find people to help you out and even though you found a solution, the end product was ultimately disappointing. it felt like the school you appreciated and romanticized so much was just thrown anyway for the silliest reason. it was like you made the smallest mistake kill your application even though you probably weren't gonna get in. you then submitted the application, finished uchichago, helped your friend with her essay, and went to bed.

✧ DISCARDED DREAMS:

• 01/07/2024 ➣ you were just so exhausted from yesterday. it was like all of your care towards an institution was thrown away but it's fine. you go to school and decide to start building a bridge for competitions. during that day, you heard your name of the annoucements and got shouted out for all the schools you got into. you talked with your teacher and friend about stupid schools and sat scores and feel like you're not getting into the top schools. it was this and a headache that bothered you for the whole day. after checking in with your brace advisor about the incident last night and other situations with your ap calc class, you do some work, see the kid that called you a super senior that one night when you were chilling with your dad. you go home, and just relax the entire day because you're stressed and overwhelmed and exhausted. at least you helped a friend with her senior quote and recovered from the stress.
• 01/08/2024 ➣ you woke up and decided to stay home and not go to school today. you were chilling and decided to pull for citlali and got her. nice going. you now work to get a lot of stuff done. you get frustrated about the fact that it seems like you can't get a day off to yourself sometimes. after a lot of scholarships, including a short film and an essay both you and a friend rushed to finish, you got a lot of work done. you also fixed some issues with your application and transcript to mit and prepared more things going forward.
• 01/09/2025 ➣ you wake up refreshed and get ready to go to school for a nhs meeting. you come to school a lil late, but it seems like the meeting you came for got cancelled. you just ended up building bridges while you waited and did other stuff while you waited for the day to end. you walk around, talk with friends, get some stuff done while talking about college.
• 01/10/2025 ➣ a free day off means some time do some work, play some games, and chill out. "shout out to the girls that i led on. for occasional head and always keeping my bed warm. and tryin' they hardest to keep my head on straight. and keeping me up enough 'til i had thought i was airborne. how many raps can i write 'til i get me a chain? how many chains can i wear 'til i'm considered a slave? how many slaves can it be 'til nat turner arrives? how many riots can it be until them black lives matter? when niggas click, clack, splatter, pew, pew that nigga. life a game of basketball, you better shoot that nigga. 'cause if that cop got trigger, he better pull. 'cause when i get pulled over, i usually play it cool. 'cause i know what i'm driving is usually paid in full. and my ego and possessions, will not let me be one (nah). because i got a mansion, my mansion got some rooms. and rooms got some windows and my windows got some views. and views get some stairs and my backyard does too. and if you walk to the bottom, you'll probably see a pool. you better not drown, keep them ten toes up. 'cause if those ten toes down, that mean that you fucked up. and that's what i swim in. and if i drown and don't come back who's gonna know? (maybe then i'll know). and if i crash and don't come back. who's gonna know? (maybe then i'll know). and if i fall and don't come back. who's gonna know? (maybe then i'll know). i'm wondering if i don't come back. maybe then i'll know. don't come back. don't come back. ayy, don't come back. don't come back, no, no."
• 01/11/2025 ➣ so you guys play minecraft and do whatever. you get some work done but you go to school for a trivia tournament. you supported your underclassmen while saying hi to other friend and seeing their smart friends compete. afterwards you sleep and work on some more assignments before killing the enderdragon in minccraft.
• 01/12/2025 ➣ so after slaying the enderdragon and bringing allays home to the world, you go to sleep. you wake up, finish brothership, play a lil bit of dicey dungeons but click with slay the spire. after all of that, you do some calc assignments, a scholarship, and prepare for the upcoming week.
• 01/13/2025 ➣ you wake up tired and exhausted, but you still end up going to school anyways. you were quite tired but you spent most of the day prepping for the magnet showcase tomorrow. this meant making slips, getting drone batteries, and going around the school getting materials. some teachers tell you to do the contests and the scholarships while others complain about trying to get students to come to the high school even though there are fights everyday. speaking of which, there were three fights and you were stuck in the magnet office because of one of them. you were invited to the future parties and graduation parties, that's so sweet of them. "nah, i ain't heard of that. i hit the beach in a furry hat. she got a guy but she purring back. i'm looking like, "where he at?" nigga, get out the way (way), that girl my hay (hey). rock on my hand, nah, this ain't dwayne (hey, hey). this shit neon yellow like pee on it (hey, hey). on both sides, yeah, you could say i'm beyond it (hey, hey). got whips like slaves, the garage like, "yee-haw". horses, more car keys than a piano. and one came with an umbrella like rihanna. nigga, let's be honest (um), be honest." you spent the day building an amethesyt geode in minecraft.
• 01/14/2025 ➣ you stayed up late to finish your amethyst geode in minecraft, now you go to sleep to prepare for the long day ahead of you. on two hours of sleep, you are just working on bridge stuff and helping people around the school. you walk around and listen to some music while testing bridges holding tons of pounds. after that, you sat three to a eat to and from the magnet showcase event and flew a drone around a bunch of kids, you came back home with your ass hurting and a major headache.
• 01/15/2025 ➣ you come home and prepare for the long day ahead. after some bridge building and one of your friends arguably being a hoe from, you get ready for magnet open house after going to various teachers and setting things up. it really puts a strain on your feet after walking tens of thousands of steps in church shoes. it was a good event and you even heard from family members that will kill children to protect their child from your school so it is quite insightful. apparently your aphg teacher's son got into mit but he doesn't even want him to go there, talk about a slap in the face. but you get accepted into purdue engineering, from the easier campus, do two scholarships, finish the css profile, and go to bed. btw, you felt ass cramps from yesterday.
• 01/16/2025 ➣ you wake up still exhausted from yesterday but you're ready to go build a garden. after working on a bridge, you help your magnet coordinator clean her office and drop off some paperwork. you walk around feeling very tired but you get your stuff done. you're tired of people getting into relationship drama.
• 01/17/2025 ➣ you needed to stay home and get some stuff done. after playing some minecraft and some other games, you dance, get some discussions done, and work on the extracurriculars for next week. it looks like triple a batteries girl got into a fight and bit someone quite badly. you're confused on why people are talking about the fight in the main chat. you just play a lot of slay the spire and see while you like some of the classes in the game.
• 01/18/2025 ➣ after playing slay the spire for quite awhile, you wake up to play some games and decorate the amethyst geode you got going on in minecraft. you get some physics work done, respond about the interview, as well as get some other work going. you feel bad about your friend and how you hurt them, you also feel bad about how you felt about their friendships with everyone else in comparision to yours. tik tok is gone and people are incredibly sad.
• 01/19/2025 ➣ after a boring day at church and a scary encounter with that one guy who keeps telling you to put your phone away, you get home, play some genshin, and work on calculus, physics, and philosophy while talking to friends about random stuff. also, tik tok came back, and the world is rejoicing.
• 01/20/2025 ➣ as you prepare for your yale interview, you get word that you're getting an interview at harvard. crazy work. your stomach hurts you as you get ready for the interview. the interview went well and you chill, go eat out food with family, and come back home crazy tired.

✧ STUCK IN A WORLD WHERE COMPROMISE DOES NOT EXIST:

• 01/21/2025 ➣ you wake up ready to go to school with some plans for your professional future and a new president taking charge.