With school starting again in a few weeks, there are still way too many things I haven't even thought about starting.

As my summer reading sits on the nightstand, untouched, collecting dust, I mentally try to motivate myself to pick up the book, hopefully before September. But when not looking at my to-do list, I am dreading but excited for senior year.

I'm overall one to be optimistic about all the work ahead of me and try to steer clear of any ounce of negativity in my way. If I get one negative thought in my mind, they pile on and I begin to slow down and suffer through whatever task is at hand. Once I’m in the mentality of working, the assignments don’t even seem that bad. I’m ready to have a regular sleeping schedule again. I love sleeping, I've actually slept through a day once with no regrets, but there's nothing worse to me than waking up at 2 p.m. and not having done anything productive. Those days are OK every once in a while, but I personally tend to feel like a slob after too many. I’m ready to see my friends regularly. With the summer, I get so much time to see my friends, but with all of our different work schedules, it’s the ultimate conflict when only three-fourths of the group can get together. I’m excited to work with them again at school and seeing their (hopefully) smiling faces.

I’m excited to finish my common app. Actually, I’m so stressed about that, so let’s skip over that one. I’m excited to go school supply shopping. New binder smell is on the list of great smells, after new car smell, and fresh cookies. New Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils are God's gift to Staples, along with Bic profile pens (If you know you know). And getting new Five Star notebooks; wow, I didn't notice how much I love school supply shopping. There’s nothing I live for more than feeling accomplished and with the “write” materials, that’s an easy goal to accomplish. So far, I am not ready physically, but slowly picking away at the fact of school around the corner and it doesn't seem that bad.