Day 300 (something): My Love For Trigonometric Ratios

Zahrah Hussain (10th Grade) 

I didn’t count the days that I have been at home and staring at my screen properly. However, it feels like I’ve been counting the seconds until school opens again. It’s been almost a year since it was announced that schools would be closed in New York and I have been doing remote learning since then. Now I’m home on a zoom meeting with many lovely people from BHSEC. Unfortunately, I always remember that I’m still home whenever I look away from the Zoom screen.Maybe I’ve been home for too long. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love staying home with people I love and care about. I love that I am closer to my bed. I wake uplate in the morning compared to the “regular” school year. I wouldn’t say I’m trapped but that doesn’t mean I am happy either. Staring into a computer screen and watching a Khan Academy video about trigonometric ratios makes me feel like my mind is about to explode. I never thought I would be able to understand it!! I still feel like I’m about to procrastinate again. I’m in my room but I feel like I’m in another world with trig ratios that I never met before as if I was the strange one. 

I need this done now so I don’t have to do the assignments the next week when it’s actually due. I’ll be able to rest and understand what we are talking about in class tomorrow. It’s almost done and then you can rest the whole week! 

I know what you’re thinking: IT’S DUE NEXT WEEK AND YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT THAT NOW?! Yes...yes I am. I do this all the time and every week when professors post new material that they will discuss in class that is homework for another day. I could just turn off my computer and rest now, but for some reason I feel like it would count as missing if I didn’t do it right this instant. Speaking of missing work, am I the only one who gets annoyed by seeing an assignment in Google Classroom that says Missing with the bold, red font? It scares me as if I unintentionally forgot to submit the assignment. At least it is reminding someone that they didn’t do the assignment and that they should probably turn it in. Maybe it’s not too scary since I have been avoiding seeing them by doing the assignments early similar to today.

I don’t think I’ve been too stressed with finishing my homework. My days at home require going to the zoom meetings which is the shortest traveling I ever done in the history of my student life. I’m not complaining much about remote learning since, during the first semester in freshman year, I had to travel for an hour(that’s if there is no traffic) to get to school. I honestly do miss the BHSEC building. I didn’t have to worry about whether or not I went to the right link to enter a “classroom.” I remember the times when I would say hello to the officers when I walked into the building. I hope everyone is doing well. It’s been long since we last saw each other. 

Ah yes. Thanks for reminding me... I should go back and finish the last practice problems instead of getting distracted by my new book (did I mention I have been reading books more often). Wish me luck! Also good luck to you all on your own homework assignments! Let’s hope to see each other face-to-face soon! 

Now back to SOH-CAH-TOA.