<p>I still have to finish reading The Kite Runner and King lear. Crap. I knew I should have finished them weeks ago.</p>
<p>Who’s in ACT prep? What did everyone get on their baseline ACT? I got a 31, but I’m hoping to get a 33+ when I take it for real in December.</p>
<p>Starts in 2 days! 
Or more like one.</p>
<p>Sept 4th is going to be stressful- 1st day of school + 2 EC things that are relatively close together.</p>
<p>I’m studying for the SAT and I need to go register for my EPGY classes, but for some reason the collegeboard site isn’t working when I say I want to send scores. >:(</p>
<p>First day is Wednesday! Today I had a pool party/bbq with my cousins, which was fun, but tomorrow is school supplies shopping and Tuesday is the DENTIST. Filling cavities. With enormous doses of Novocain which will probably keep my upper jaw asleep the whole day. Fun fun fun last-day stuff.
Wednesday is orientation! Wake up at six, listen to the principals gab on about the standards we need to uphold and the fun, fun stuff we’re doing this year and how much potential we have etc. etc. Then we have a get to know you event for the grade, which is stupid because it’s the same 50 kids we’ve had the past 2 years so we KNOW each other already, then a mad scramble for our school books and schedules, then we finally get home so that we can do the ten chapters of summer homework that we weren’t able to do because the book we had to read it in is impossible to find so we had to wait for book distribution to actually get the book to read it. Sigh. It’s gonna be a long, long day.
And then Thursday school actually starts.</p>
<p>First day tomorrow, still have plenty of work to do.</p>
<p>3 MORE DAYS!!! Am getting a little nevous but excited. I really wonder how this year is going to go am gong to be very very very busy with my non stop studying for almost every thing. But anyways I cant wait for Thurdays. My principle sent a email stating there will be a orientation but that never happened before only in freshman year and I don’t think the juniors from last year had a orientation so that interesting.</p>
<p>@Miw: We were given 3(?) weeks to read Kite Runner last year. I crammed ~300 pages the day before it was to be finished. The book was so boring… took me ~8 hours to complete.</p>
<p>@IIdm Gesh Kite Runner? That’s the only book I will never read :/.</p>
<p>Random/ Do anyone watch American Horror Story?</p>
<p>Everyone’s talking about school starting. I’m already 2 weeks into my junior year with the 3rd starting tomorrow. (Of course we have a lot more breaks within the year)</p>
<p>@lldm21 It’s alright so far. I like the Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet 10x better. I still have 150 pages of the Kite Runner and all of King Lear to read tomorrow, and I still have to memorize 20 terms. Crap. I’m too big of a procrastinator.</p>
<p>I need to read up til the American Revolution in AMSCO APUSH Wednesday night. (Does anyone know how many chapters that is?)
I don’t think I’m going to be getting much sleep that night…</p>
<p>@Josiah: I did like the book, but it just moved /so/ slowly. I appreciated it once I’d finished it. Not so much while I was reading it. Also, I don’t know what American Horror story is :P.</p>
<p>@Miw: I’ve never read it; what’s it about? And ouch, I wish you luck. Sometimes procrastinating isn’t a bad thing, though. :)</p>
<p>Does anybody have any tips for the math section of the SAT? I’m absolutely stumped as to what to use to study for it. I’m scoring in the mid/high-500s range, and 600 even is my highest score, so far. I don’t know what book I should get to teach me the formulas for it.</p>
<p>@IIdm American Horror Story is shows on FX and it the best on that network. It’s like a scary meets thriller show :). Also for the tips am using Math 1 and 2 by Princeton Review for my PSATs and I know it’s going to helpful for the math part of the SAT. Its very candid.</p>
<p>@lldm21 Thanks. I always procrastinate, so it’s no big deal. We’re probably just going to do the normal introduction crap and take act practice tests the first 3 days of school. So I should have more time to go over stuff. And for the book, I really don’t know how to explain it without giving too much away. I would highly recommend it though; it was fairly easy to read. It is one of my favorite books ever or even my favorite. I was hooked from page 1, albeit page 1 being extremely boring.</p>
<p>It’s REALLLLLY not a good idea to put off homework (the bulk of which is due tomorrow) until the night of Labor Day. -___- Guess I’m not sleeping tonight.
(why do I always do this to myself?)</p>
<p>@Josiah: That’s cool o: . I don’t watch much TV, but I’ll try to see it sometime.</p>
<p>@Miw: How did your classes go?</p>
<p>@Catch23: Haha, I get you. I haven’t opened my American Pageant since … August 30th. My test on chapters 2 through 4 is tomorrow. This should be interesting.</p>
<p>@lldm21 Pretty bad. It was probably my worst first day of school ever. I just didn’t care that much for some of my teachers and some of my classmates. I also had some issues with one of my friends. Everything just seemed to get worse and worse for me. If this first day of school is an indication as to what my school year will be like, I’m not looking forward to it. </p>
<p>1st Hour- AP chem. The class went pretty well. We just sat there most of the time. Our teacher gave us a syllabus with all of our assignments for the year. I must say, it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Our teacher is really cool too! Unfortunately, we’re down to 7 students. My best friend was the one who left. We need 9 to have a class; we have 8. My chem teacher said she they would be okay with 8 students, but I don’t know anymore with 7 students. I also found out that we have 2-90 minute periods a week. School starts at 730, but we have to be in the classroom or the lab by 7am. It really sucks. And now I don’t have my lab partner. I was looking forward to working with my friend in and out of school. </p>
<p>2nd Hour- Advanced Government. The class was alright. Pretty small though, only like 19 students. I’m disappointed though, the teacher who normally taught advanced government isn’t teaching it anymore since another teacher got a different position in the district and it screwed with the schedules. I at least get to have him next semester for Advanced econ. At least my teacher is using his curriculum to teach us. It’s very college orientated. We have several long research papers. I’m not too fond of my current teacher though. I just don’t seem to like her. She did win the Michigan History teacher of the year award a few years ago, so she’s gotta be good.</p>
<p>3rd Hour- Honors Physics. Our normal teacher for this class is out for the next few months; she just had a baby. I really like our substitute teacher though. She was a health/bio teacher last year, and she is now filling in for my teacher. She seems really cool and passionate about science. I think I’m going to like her. She also has an awesome accent. I’m not too crazy about some of the students in my class though. There are quite a few seniors in the class. Many of them were just being out of control. I really hope this is just a first day thing. </p>
<p>4th Hour- AP English. I love this class, and I’m no fan of reading or writing at all. The teacher is amazing. He does a great job at preparing students for the ACT and AP exams. We’re the only high school in my state, whose English scores on the ACT is higher than all of the other subjects. We already responded to one act writing prompt in class today. He used to grade act essays, so he can really help us well. I’m looking forward to this class.
It’s a big class we have like 35-40 students.</p>
<p>5th Hour- Honors Precalc. Alright. I don’t really like the teacher. My only problem with this class is that there are too many seniors who seem like they could care less in there. It just bothers me. If you don’t care, why not just take art or gym or some other elective? As long as they aren’t obnoxious, I’ll be fine. It’s also a small class. </p>
<p>6th Hour- Honors Spanish 4- My teacher wasn’t here today, she had jury duty. I’ve had her before and she’s pretty good. We just worked on a Spanish word search. I don’t like how full the class is. </p>
<p>Oh well. I hope things get better for me. School-wise, today wasn’t that bad. Personal issue-wise, today sucked.</p>
<p>@Miw: Yeah, my best friend dropped the course too, and I was equally upset. Not so much by the fact that the course might not run, but by the fact that I wouldn’t be able to share my favorite class with my favorite person. My teacher picks lab partners randomly, though.</p>
<p>I’m sorry things went so terribly. My first couple days sucked too, but my classes are getting better, for some reason. That may happen to you, too =). If you ever need to vent or whatever, I’m here; listening & advising are things I love to do.</p>
<p>School STARTS TOMMOROW!!! :):):). I bit nervous to be honest.</p>
<p>School has been in session since Wednesday, August 1st for me, but everything isn’t working out. I’m doing very poorly in a lot of my classes. Hoping I’ll be able to bring Honors Chem II this semester to an A, so I’ll have the best possible foundation for AP chem next semester. (Block scheduling is the worst… 2 hours of chem is killing me!) I’m aiming for a mid B in APUSH, since only 2 kids got A’s last year, but at least 70% of the class passed with a 3 or higher. Guys, AP English Language is really difficult for me. She asks us very nitpicky questions. I learned my lesson, though. My friends who took her class last year said it did not prepare them for the AP exam at all though. </p>
<p>Here’s to hoping I can stop being such a functional ■■■■■■.</p>