By Hunter Haskett, Business Manager

I’m going to be honest here. I have no motivation to be writing, as I am currently starting this a week after it was assigned to me. But isn’t this always the case in the last nine weeks? My motivation level is in the negatives. It’s an all-time low for me. But I have hope, because I know I’m not the only one currently suffering from early-onset last-nine-week-itis.

The last nine weeks of school are the longest, slowest days of my life. You always think that spring break is just what you need to get through the end of the school year, but it’s the opposite: It’s like this nice sample of summer for a week and then, BAM — before you know it, the free trial period is over and you’re in first period again.

And as you begin forcing yourself back into the constraints of the school day, teachers are frantically unloading mountains of work because, of course, the worst has yet to come: AP exams.

Currently, a good portion of the student body is enduring countless practice exams in multiple classes. AP U.S. History, AP Physics, AP Lit – and God forbid you forget Calculus. Each exam drains all the energy from the body, leaving behind a fried brain and a shell of a person. All just in time for you to wake up and do it again the next day.

The monotony of the school day is getting old. I’m fed up with it. Wake up early, eat breakfast, drive to school, go to school, have brain fried, extracurricular activity, go home, eat dinner, stay up till the witching hour finishing insane amounts of homework, go to sleep and repeat.

I’m so ready for summer I can practically feel the sunburn on my nose and the sand between my toes. I’m craving days spent at the coffee shop, on the beach, and movie nights on the green.

After an intense 30 more school days, summer will finally arrive and we will finally be free (until next August, that is). Hang in there First Flight, I’ll catch you on the other side of this awful nine weeks.

Junior Hunter Haskett can be reached at hasketthu0318@daretolearn.org.