First Thread! - Page 2

MilesAndEvans13 · 12-16-2008, 10:08 PM

Oh man, you guys are so lucky. I have school up through the 23rd!! Arrrrrgh.

Begoner · 12-16-2008, 10:10 PM

23rd? You're the lucky one -- I have a half-day of school on the 24th.

MilesAndEvans13 · 12-16-2008, 10:13 PM

Are you kidding me????? That's nutso! Where in the country are you?

elenduiel · 12-16-2008, 10:16 PM

Ouch! That's awful!

My school mainly gets a long break because we have a lot of boarding students (who are either international or from other parts of the U.S.) who tend to go home for winter break.

neltharion · 12-16-2008, 10:30 PM

I'm out at the end of the week, with half-days (for finals) on Weds, Thurs, and Friday.

Still, finals. Ugh. I've got 5 essays to write for tomorrow and then 5 more essays to write in class tomorrow for my AP Lit final. Each around 500 words, which isn't bad. Could've been worse. Meh.

On the other hand, we get absolutely no snow (go Georgia!). We just get small flurries and call those "snow." And school is canceled whenever we think it's going to snow, but then it doesn't get canceled when it does snow. (I love this logic!)

Begoner · 12-16-2008, 10:58 PM

In NY (at a public school, not some sadistic private school); then again, 30% of students skip that last Wednesday before winter break, so it's not such a big deal. Also, we get to take our mid-terms right after we get back from winter break.

Silvykins · 12-16-2008, 11:54 PM

I have finals until Thursday and I can't study at all because I'm too excited! (or maybe it's because of the maroon nail polish fumes?)

pekingnese09 · 12-17-2008, 02:05 AM

I don't get my finals until after the break

I have an AP Macro and AP Calc test on the last school day this year =_="
(along with one seriously long Bio test that I'm about to fail tomorrow)

thegreentrombone · 12-17-2008, 03:17 AM

Oh but how do I raise holy h**l when I don't believe in h**l? That is quite interesting.

Neltharion I have the same schedule as you. And am in the same situation with the AP English essays. What do you know.

I live in California... actually if I go high enough there is snow, we saw some snow last night (by driving up to a mountain but you know). It hasn't snowed where I actually live.

Man I hate finals. Done already with Calc II and German, I think they went decently. Tomorrow's web design... a class we haven't learned ANYTHING in and I missed the review for what's going to be on the final so I have absolutely no idea.... then AP English... ARG!

MilesAndEvans13 · 12-17-2008, 04:42 PM

Wow, I don't have mid-terms until about Martin Luther King Day.

Then again, we start school in early September and get out mid-June (though as a senior, I'm done at the end of May), and classes are year-long, not semester-based...four quarters a year, and only gym/health/etc. are for a semester. I also go to lowly public school, although mine is pretty good for the state (if ridiculously bureaucratic and papered in red tape).

mrich09 · 12-17-2008, 08:05 PM

Haha, I already stopped at UChicago's library downtown and bought about $80 worth of gear. I got my sweatshirt, my tshirt, my sweatpants, my coffee cup, and my water bottle.

I'm so excited.

Machiavelli12 · 12-18-2008, 12:33 AM

Hahha i wish I had bought more stuff when I was there. I only bought a sweatshirt (one of the cheaper ones, haha didn't want to invest too much into it if I wasn't accepted)

spazzity · 12-18-2008, 12:41 AM

Isn't "holy he11" a bit of an oxymoron?

:P

MilesAndEvans13 · 12-18-2008, 11:58 AM

I enjoy oxymorons, it's true.

elenduiel · 12-18-2008, 03:11 PM

I just got the actual letter in the mail. I've been hearing a lot of my friends complain that their EA/ED schools sent out small acceptance letters and it was disappointing, etc. This one (folder and all!) is pretty impressive!