<p>We can all suffer together. I have no desire to do anything besides eat and sleep and waste time on the internet.</p>
<p>I should be studying right now…oops.</p>
<p>My online classes start today but my school doesn’t actually start until January 7th.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note: Are any of you doing the American Legion Constitution Oratory Contest? I have been staying up till 3 for the past few days finishing my speech for that and my RSI applications. My local contest is tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be the only one. Nobody at my school is too keen on memorizing a 9 minute speech and 4 minispeeches.</p>
<p>No I’m not doing the ALCOC, in fact, I’ve never heard of it before but it sounds interesting! And yeah I’ve been catching up on sleep and reading books and surfing the web so yeah. So much for the SAT. I’ll regret it later on. :-/ just can’t bring myself to study efficiently for some reason… :(</p>
<p>I had my first day back today. All you January 7th’ers are spoiled. :P</p>
<p>Yeah I go back to school tomorrow too and I just cannot bring myself to start my homework! Forreal though this is bad i need to start… Haha</p>
<p>The girl who liked me… I asked her to the movies, and she said yeah… Lets see how the date goes…</p>
<p>Either after the date, she stops liking me, or we’re in a healthy relationship lol.</p>
<p>Good luck nothingto1! I’m hoping to do that when we get back in school … Hope it goes well for you and me both!</p>
<p>My friend and I were discussing this today … does anyone else find it both exciting and at the same time terrifying that, by the end of this (calendar) year, we will have so much done? We’ll be done with college applications, maybe even accepted if we apply early. We’ll be done taking the SAT and ACT. We’ll be done with application essays and such. I’ll be done with marching band forever. And we’ll be just one short semester from finishing high school–a semester away from finishing school with the people we’ve known for who knows how long. It’s a scary thought, and exciting.</p>
<p>I haven’t had break yet…
But I’ve got midterms next week and I’m really, really scared…
Oysh.
And Flamewire, I mention that to my friend all the time. I’m always like “I’m so excited! This time next year we’ll already have applied to college!” and she’s like “OMGNONONONONONONO…”
ETA: She actually said “Oh my freaking god”, which I thoughtlessly abbreviated only to have it censored out…
This censor’s really on top of things…</p>
<p>Well my break started the day before Christmas Eve, so until Jan 7 is not very long. It’s the same as all my previous winter breaks were - except this time I had finals BEFORE winter break rather than after. </p>
<p>@Flamewire, I don’t know whether to be hopeful or depressed at that statement. With my GPA I may not get in anywhere. However, I will be glad that I don’t have to work as hard that second semester.</p>
<p>@Flamewire Yep! Just knowing that, in a year, all of the standardized testing, fretting over GPAs, applying to colleges, etc. will all be over is what’s going to motivate me through 2013.</p>
<p>So, I have to write my paper now and I need to decide on my topic this week.
It’s an eight page argumentative paper-that is required. I also need to do a product next year.
I can’t decide:
- Excessive Internet communication harms society and should be limited.
- Any idea that you guys can come up with involving math/science/physics.
I might do number one, but I am afraid that I cannot think of a decent product to do next year.</p>
<p>Any product ideas or entire project ideas? Anybody? Please?</p>
<p>@Flamewire</p>
<p>Trust me it’s nerve racking, but it helps to have a feeling of “whatever” just in case she says no (Which will happen ALOT in a guys life). Once you don’t really care that she says no, it’s easy sailing from there. It takes practice, and you have to practice to fail to get used to it 
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<p>Good luck :)</p>
<p>I get back from break tomorrow, and just got my final exams back.
I need someone/somewhere to brag, so I shall indulge myself…aced my AP US final, AP chem final, and AP bio final (missed 2 questions in total)! Nice to be done with one semester…one more to go and then senior year. Weird.</p>
<p>I went back to school today and I am SO jealous of those of you who don’t go back until the 7th. School and I are just not working at this point…</p>
<p>I kept procrastinating on my essays during break. I’m applying to 8 programs: JAX SSP (if I got in, I would just DIE of happiness), Clark Scholars, NIH SIP, City of Hope CURE, and others. I did one of the essays already, but I still have a hella lot more essays to write…I’m slightly pleased with it so far, but I hate reading over my own work so…</p>
<p>I have no idea why we go back on a Thursday. It seems just a little pointless. But I have an early class that starts at 6 and then a choir class that starts at 7:30 so I’m going from waking up at 10-11 to waking up at 4:45. Es no bueno :(</p>
<p>@Brandewyn: whoah. I wake up at 7:50 on a normal school day. My school starts at 8:25, a 15 minute drive in the winter. What is this “early class” business? I have never heard of such a thing…</p>
<p>^You are very, very fortunate. The latest I wake up for school is 5:30 AM, but I usually wake up earlier to do homework.</p>
<p>This is coming from a late sleeper, too. I don’t think I’ve woken up earlier than 12 PM this entire break…</p>
<p>@WeisCool I take a seminary class early that isn’t a school approved thing. But my choir class is for an extra credit. I have a half hour bus ride between the classes too. When I have rehearsal or a meet I don’t get home until 7-8 so I get 5 hours of sleep if I’m lucky must days :/</p>
<p>^ouch. I would suffer. I am NOT an early morning person. I can barely get out of bed at 8 as it is haha. But I guess I could get up earlier if I actually went to bed before 2… :P</p>
<p>I have practice every day in the morning so I’ve been used to it. I only need to get up about two hours earlier around 5:30 instead of 7:30 so I’m good on Monday.</p>
<p>Not that I had much time to relax, anyway. I had 3 all-day tournaments in one week, along with Christmas and three practices that same week. .___.</p>