@Cornbread1999 you get to choose who you share with, so you’re generally with a friend. If you can’t find anyone and you don’t get a locker, there’s always open locker week (in which you find an open locker (aka one with no lock), take a picture of it, and go to the leadership room, where they assign the locker to you).
Dude but your school is rich enough to afford that much… Only two buildings have been built since our school’s inception. Our performing arts department relies solely on donations (like, every student in Marching Band–like 200–has to pay $360; I have to pay an additional $210 for Winterguard and our team is still considered “poor”–if you look at S and L (which isn’t even that good in my opinion)'s shows, they’ve got like fancy costumes and props and stuff; our costumes are literally just regular clothes that we buy in bulk and we make all our props). I think they’re planning on getting us a new swimming pool (the swim and water polo teams use the CC pool because ours is small and not deep enough) like, eventually? Ugh. The Macs in our library are actually over ten years old. Same with the computers that were in my old geography classroom.
@Faultystart my classmates (including me) also complain of the same weather. But it is really windy.
Well, our city is ridiculously rich at the bottom line.
Yeah, it would be nice if you had a little more money to fund your academics, extracurriculars and whatnot. Your school really deserves it with the students’ high test scores and etc.
Isn’t your school in a huge district with like, 10 other schools?
I’m studying for my ksp and solubility test in Ap chem tomorrow and i’ve literally been doing practice problems for 4 hours and i can’t stop lol. I’m not sure when I’m technically ready for this test, it’s 10:50 and I’m wide awake and not sure what else there is left to study yet i don’t want to stop. ugh. stupid coffee. i could dance right now, i feel hyper
:(( I think I’ve gotten close to 9 hours of sleep in the past two days, and it looks like tonight will be another late night. I have one big quiz and two tests next week, and I have to read ahead in A Midsummer Night’s Dream so I can write up a lesson plan for English. There are at least 3 books I need to read for projects, Research Check number 2 is coming up in a week and I don’t have any biographical information about my author. I still need to find an online source for my biography. I have one more free period in school this week and so much to do! Sports, sleep, and school work are taking up so much time and one of them has to take up less time. It looks like it’ll be sleep. Sorry, you can ignore this rant.
@Cornbread1999 we have four other high schools in our district xD Not that big. We also share a rivalry with two other schools in single high school districts nearby, though, since they’re really close by (closer by than some of the other high schools in our district in some cases).
Lol our district’s logic is that the highest-performing school should get the least money. The worst school in the district has nice buildings + a block schedule.
But our school has the best homecoming + art around the school.
Ugh. Just got my semester project for AP Euro. 40 slide powerpoint on a chapter we’re assigned in addition to 30 slide quiz, and 850 notecards for the entire book. Not too bad if I split it up, but I know I’ll put it off until the last month.
Hm, let’s see…
I have a midterm in Economics, English, Chemistry, Spanish, and Government next week. English will just be writing a monologue, but Spanish and Economics, yikes… I’m fond of Chemistry though, and Government is a joke.
I got my physical PSAT scores in class today as well (I already checked online). I got 185, what about you guys?
I also get formally inducted into the National Honor Society in two weeks, coincidentally the same day as my Science Fair, so I only have to dress up once, yay.
I got a 191 I was slightly disappointed because I was hoping for the 200’s but I improved 20 points since Freshman year so that’s a good thing… My writing score and reading score went up A LOT and my math stayed the same - 64 -_-.
And yay!! Sophomores are getting inducted in NHS hopefully soon – we were promised some time this semester. I’m guessing it will be just around the corner. Good luck in science fair as well! Several of my friends are participating in that. Our school has a whole class just for it.
I got a 202. I wanted to do better in math, but I’m not complaining because I improved 30 points from freshman year. I just took my English midterm today, and tomorrow I’m taking chem and religion.
@topaz1116 wait what is so good about a block schedule? I like my school’s rotating schedule.
Also, our school’s logic is that the science and math departments, which are arguably the most successful departments at our school, should get the least amount of funding. More money goes to the humanities at our school. I guess they figure that we will want to be engineers naturally, and that we will be successful at math and science regardless of how much money they spend on those departments. English at our school is ok, history classes are hit or miss, even with brand new technology, PE is not even real exercise, and World Language classes really need to be restructured.
@SirSly I wasn’t allowed to take the PSAT because that was a “junior only” thing at our school. The counselors expect that all of us '17ers will take the new PSAT in preparation for the new SAT junior year. It’s really weird because we were the only district to do that in my area.
I got a 227, though I didn’t take the PSAT freshman year-- my sister was a junior taking it for real that day, and my parents didn’t want to add to her stress.
@SirSly I got a 217. It was my first time taking it but I did prepare a little with a prep book. Now that I think about it, I shouldn’t have. It doesn’t even count for anything and they’re changing the test.
@pseudoprimal I read a lot of interesting things, though you probably wouldn’t like them because it’s usually young adult fiction. A lot of people talk about how horrible YA fiction is, but I don’t care. As long as I enjoy reading it, right? Plus, a lot of it is actually good.
@pseudoprimal I don’t really have a favorite author but some of my favorite books and series are:
Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
Abhorsen series by Garth Nix
Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
@pseudoprimal I’m reading “The Chosen”, by Jerome K-something.
It’s a pretty lengthy book, and it describes history of the college admissions process at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. It’s a good book. Did you know Princeton University was once called by a college admissions officer in the early 1900s “the finest country club in all of North America”?
I’m writing down all the books you guys mentioned; I want to diversify my book choices lol.
Some books I’ve read that I enjoyed:
The Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
1984 by George Orwell (it was just so cool)
Rebecca by du Maurier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (all time favorite)
Memoirs of a Geisha (all time favorite)
Fairest by Levine
The Weird Sisters by Brown
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
Divergent series
Les Miserables
Beautiful Creatures
To Kill A Mockingbird (favorite book I had to read for school!!)
The Help
Sorry that’s a lot of books and I have more but didn’t want to bore you guys. I love reading!
i’m currently re-reading 1984 because my APWH said I could write an essay on it for 5 points extra credit on my semester average. Sounds good to me lol
I was slightly disappointed because I was hoping for the 200’s but I improved 20 points since Freshman year so that’s a good thing… My writing score and reading score went up A LOT and my math stayed the same - 64 -_-.