Which year was the most daunting for you to start?

<p>Title says it all. I'm going to go on a tangent about how all of my years were daunting to start (and then conclude which one was the most daunting), so if you don't want to read it you can just skip it and answer the question. </p>

<p>Freshmen year was daunting for obvious reasons, but I came from a school that typically filtered in like 4 students to the high school rather than the 300 students that come from the main middle school (we have weird district lines). I only knew 5 kids at the start of school, including 2 seniors who live next door to me. They basically took me in freshmen year, I was grateful, but I didn't know anyone in my regular classes. It was really daunting to start over in a new place. Sophomore year, my senior friends left so I was basically alone. It was like starting freshmen year all over again except without an upperclassmen companion. Junior year, I literally thought I would die from the work. I cried after my first day of school. All of these years got better with time, though, and I ended up making a lot of friends!</p>

<p>I'm starting senior year in a couple weeks! I'm actually excited (is that weird?) I mean I don't want summer to be over but senior year has more pros than cons, in my opinion. I'm excited to get into college and do all these senior activities.</p>

<p>My reactions to the first week of school freshman-junior year were pretty dramatic (crying, really?) but I'm really bad at starting things. Once I get into it, I'll actually find myself enjoying it. This is true for mostly everything I do. I remember starting a camp a couple years ago, at first thinking, "It's okay, I only have a few weeks left and then it'll all be over with," but by the end I was trying to make every second last because I didn't want to go home.</p>

<p>But by far, I think my sophomore year was the most daunting to start. I sat alone at lunch my first day of school and that experience is worse than any amount of stress or homework overload that you can experience. </p>

<p>Junior IMO.</p>

<p>Sophomore year.</p>

<p>sophomore yr was BY FAR the worst</p>

<p>Why?</p>

<p>@QuadMaster‌ @RunningForLife‌ If you guys don’t mind me asking, why was sophomore year the worst?</p>

<p>Junior! Classes are MUCH more challenging than Sophomore year. I’m still excited though.</p>

<p>Junior year. I switched schools and had a more rigorous courseload so it was a pretty rough transition.</p>

<p>Freshman year because of the biology class I had filled with sophomores (now seniors) who 1.) wouldn’t let me touch lab equipment 2.) would question why I’m in their class all the time 3.) would constantly blurt out how much they hate freshman
This only lasted for a few weeks into the school year. I eventually found out there were other freshman who were in that class with me and I got to become friends with some of them. </p>

<p>SO glad I’m done with freshman year though. Now I just need to get through junior year, senior year, and I’ll be done!</p>

<p>I’ve never really been daunted, just excited. I was a bit nervous for Freshman year, but that’s it.</p>

<p>I was most nervous for senior year (much more rigorous courseload than in years past, and I had a kind of reputation to live up to), but junior year ended up being the most stressful/difficult because that’s when things started getting serious (in terms of planning for the future), I think.</p>

<p>Junior year by far </p>

<p>My daughter is daunted by her junior year, because she has had it drilled into her how important a year it is for college, and how hard it is, too.</p>

<p>This upcoming senior year, I have to fill out applications for college and try to raise my test scores</p>