I wish I had known to relax more throughout the academic year so that I could really interact with the fascinating material in classes and think about how it can be applied to the real world. A challenging class that helped me really enjoy the material for what it had to offer was Phonology I, as I got to analyze the complicated phonological patterns in Luxembourgish for my final project. While I was initially stressed about doing a final project, I became more intrigued once I saw the different phonological alternations and thus kept on trying to think of different possibilities as to why they occurred. Though incredibly difficult, this experience taught me to relax more throughout my experience here because I can learn a lot more through this and really understand the material.