It is crazy to thing that it hasn’t even been five months since I first found out that I got into Teach For America and that I would be teaching high school math in Newark. Since then, it has been a crazy whirlwind of emotions as well as a hectic time with lots to do before I finish college and begin this next step in my life.
When I first got into TFA, I was overjoyed. I literally walked around with a huge smile on my face for weeks, without even realizing how happy I was. Then, the reality hit me: I was going to be teaching people who were not even that much younger than me. Students who