Dear Future Cathy,
Right now, I am writing this at the beginning of my eighth-grade year. You should be reading this towards the end of the school year. I am writing this letter to myself to see who I was in September of 2025 and to see how much I’ve grown. I know this new school year will have lots of challenges, but there will be many opportunities to grow and to learn new things.
As of now, I am at a new charter school, I play volleyball on a club team, and I will hopefully still be playing by the end of the school year. Towards the end of the year, you/I should already know what teams want to recruit me. I hope it is a top team like Skyline Royale 2 or something good like that.
I want to see how much I’ve grown, not only as an athlete, but also as a student. I want to be able to get through physics, biology, history, and math this year without getting anything lower than a 90 in physics, biology, and math, and nothing lower than an 80 in history. If I look back on this at the end of the school year, I hope to be able to tell myself that it wasn’t that hard. I hope I can get through listening to my physics teacher going off topic about stuff that he thinks is review for us, but we never learned in public school. I hope that my old history teacher can finally learn how to spell basic words like “tomorrow”, “tobacco,” and “handouts.” HOPEFULLY, she will either get fired for not being able to teach us, especially since she probably doesn’t have a teaching degree because she can’t spell. Or at least that she stops spelling tomorrow as “tommr” and she stops giving up on writing “Thursday.” I want to make sure that next year’s eighth graders won’t have to suffer through her and that she can spell “handouts” accurately, and not “handhouts.” These last sentences were difficult to read.
By this time, I should remember the start of my school year again, and be able to see whether it got worse or better. I want to succeed by passing my Comps and obtaining a GPA of 4.0 or higher, and to be able to qualify for nationals and potentially win.
I hope I am proud of myself and that I didn’t play that much 99 Nights or doomscrolled, and finished my homework on time. I should be proud of myself, and I kind of need some luck right now.
– From September 2025, Cathy
