LOOKING INTO THE PRESENT
At this moment, I am currently sitting in a freezing cold classroom in Margaretville. I am sitting next to Julian Rauter, a fellow senior, science research classmate and a very good friend. Julian has been accepted by many prestigious colleges including Harvard and Brown. Down the hall and to the left, lies my apparatus #sixty-five billion. It consists of two grow lights, test tubes with soil, nutrient solutions and a few plants beginning to sprout their first set of leaflets. Although, I am nowhere from where I need to be. I am somewhere. I have made it from nothing to something. Perhaps minuscule and unimportant to anybody else, my work has impacted the way I learn and approach school and knowledge. Over the last 10 weeks of my senior year, I will try to, at least, conduct one trial on a few plants and continue reading and researching. I will be closing in on decisions on which college I will attend, which looks as though it will be Rochester Institute of Technology. Our Science Research Classes Symposium is coming up in June. | Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. |