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The semester is over and I am now a junior in college. A brief thought entered my mind a little while ago: I've now spent a longer time outside of NCSSM than I did in. Science and Math was a place I thought I would remember vividly forever, but here it is only two years afterward, and the effect has faded substantially. There I grew as a person, I found myself and began listening to my own "voice". Most of my memories from that school were, however, simply of people -- people from whom I've drifted. My memories of those people are fading and now NCSSM seems more like a vague attachment than a true connection. Maybe in the future, if I somehow attribute anything I do to my attendance at that school, I will remember it differently.

Today I feel was an important day. Ever since I was young I've always seemed to have a problem with picking up hobbies and interests, little projects here and there, but never completing them. The closest hobby I had ever really come close to, in my mind at least, completing was playing violin. Now, though, I see that I'm not progressing even in that interest. But today, today is the day I completed one of my projects! This is the first time which I've completed something from conception, to design, to purchasing of materials, to the assembly.

I decided a few months ago that I needed to create a hanging light structure to house my 105-watt CFL bulb illuminating my hydroponics system. My father helped me get only a few parts [electrical, mainly] since I had very little idea of how the structure would be built. After a couple of weeks of not working on it, I cast it aside as another one of "those projects" that never get finished. That was until a few days ago when my friend, Leah, suggested we do something and building that light structure popped into my head -- I went with it! I sat down and drew out some plans, figured out the materials I would need, and bought them. A bit of labor later and I've got a new hanging light structure to use with whatever plants I decide to grow next in my hydroponics system.