No. Pot only stays in your system for up to 30 days and there are no long term effects from smoking it unless you've been smoking for a long time. Your 17 so there is no chance of that.
Good luck at your new career.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.