Katie Reed and Lauren Scott

Sophomore year: you’ve been there, are there currently, or will be there soon. It’s the year of the forgotten. Seniors and juniors don’t look down on you for being the youngest, but freshmen don’t look up to you as upperclassmen. You are stuck right in the middle, overlooked.

We know what we’re talking about because right now we are enjoying our time in the forgotten year. Is being the “forgotten year” bad? Or is it just the break we need? We aren’t frazzled freshman anymore, but we aren’t yet pressured with the thought of college.

Forgotten or not, some sophomores may consider this the perfect year just to enjoy high school. Technically, we’re integrated into high school life, but we can’t or won’t participate, which goes against all our parents’ advice about the high school experience.

It isn’t freshman year anymore, so we must be cooler, smarter and all around better. But we still don’t act any differently than we did last year. Sophomore comes from the Greek words Sophos: wise, and mōros: fool, or foolish. Literally it means ‘wise fool’. We are more self-assured, but also very immature.

Now we aren’t the newbies, so there is more homework and teachers aren’t trying to help us get our footing.“The biggest difference between teaching freshman and sophomores is helping  ninth graders transition to high school. It’s very different coming from being the most mature in the school to being the youngest,” said English teacher Jennifer St. Romain

It may be a little harder to juggle extracurriculars, homework and family, but guys, we are half way through the year.