@SallyStephens lol, I meant egotistical people who exaggerate their achievements, cheat and lie about classes to “enlarge” their public image, whether they have a mental illness or not.
Despite my hatred of reading, 1984 was a very enjoyable read. Debating on whether the ending was happy or sad, because Winston said that he loved Big Brother because he was brainwashed, but at the same time, he lost his identity and is about to be executed. Perception?
Also, I got a 95% on my English essay (it was an in-class one). I basically wrote a study on gender roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, and I think it’s one of the best analyses I’ve ever written (and apparently the teacher graded this one harder than usual–a lot of people who usually get As on their essays got Bs or even B-s). I didn’t really like Cyrano de Bergerac, though. I never thought I’d say this, but I prefer Shakespeare. His writing style and characters are more interesting (except Romeo and Juliet. I hated Romeo and Juliet).
@topaz1116 Nice! I have an in class essay about A Midsummer Night’s Dream tomorrow. I still have to make my outlines, do chemistry and finish math. Looks like it’s going to be another late night.
Haha I have to write an opening speech for MUN, study for a math quiz (because fractional decomposition and matrices are ew), finish my chem homework, and work on a history project (although I’ll probably do most of that after I finish the math quiz). It’ll be a long night for me, too.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was great! Actually, you just reminded me that I have two acts of Oedipus Rex to read. Great. I’m not getting any sleep tonight…
@topaz1116 You just reminded me that I should get working on my projects (which isn’t happening soon).
I never want to hand graph a rational function that has an oblique asymptote again…
The semester is finally over for me! Four day weekend, here I come!
…Except I have a 100-question Algebra quiz to do over the weekend. Sigh, I can never get a break…
@Faultystart when functions have asymptotes (no matter if they’re vertical or horizontal or oblique or parabolic), I tend to graph around two points (three if there are several distinct areas divided by asymptotes) to get a general idea of the shape of the graph looks like. Then, I sketch the general shape of the graph.
I’ve decided to use parts of my position paper for my opening speech for MUN, but it’s proving difficult. I’m about 100 words over what I should be to make it approximately 1.5 minutes (plus, I need to be able to cut it down even more after that, since we don’t know how much time we’ll have to speak).
I hated 1984 but I did like Romeo and Juliet, so you’ll probably like 1984 
. Congrats on the grade! =D>
@topaz1116 Yeah, that’s what I do. I just don’t like dividing polynomials. Can you cut wordy phrases down to one or two words?
@SirSly That sucks 
I found out that if I take AP Chemistry, I’m going to have summer work that somehow I turn in before school starts… I don’t know how that will work…
One of my extracurriculars is going to start up again, and it’ll just add more work for me to do…
It’s just like any other AP class. You do work over summer, then turn it in on the first day of school.
@mrnephew My teacher specifically said that she would grade our work and return it to us on the first day of class. I was expressing my confusion on how my classmates and I would turn in our work to her before school starts.
@topaz1116 haha, we read Cyrano de Bergerac last year in class. I think that was my lowest essay score ever. C- ftw.
I usually get B’s and A-'s
also, I’m curious what gender roles there were in Cyrano de Bergerac. I don’t remember much from the play.
My essay was about how Cyrano’s selflessness and willingness to help others eventually led to his downfall. It wasn’t very good because I spent, like, a half hour brainstorming and writing the whole thing out (it was a take home essay for us)
And we’re reading Romeo and Juliet right now.
@Cornbread1999 well, Cyrano takes the role of a poet, a profession that is often thought of as “feminine” in today’s society. In addition, Ragueneau (the baker) acts as a sort of foil to Cyrano–both are poets, but one is a swordsman and one bakes; however, both are very much men. On the other hand, Ragueneau’s wife is portrayed as his “boss.” Basically, this play broke gender roles before it was cool xD
oh lol
@topaz1116 I read Cyrano de Bergerac in 7th grade! I loved it but I never glanced at the different gender roles in the play! (Or maybe I did, but I don’t remember).
For one of my group projects we had to write Act VI of Cyrano and perform it in front of the class. SUPER embarrassing. Basically Roxanne becomes this complete jedi ninja who kills De Guiche while Ragueneau dances around the room reciting poorly-written poems.
@The5458Captain that is actually hilarious xD We had to do something where we used the language as an example of what happens in our school. My group did ours on precalc, and had De Guiche as the teacher. Some groups’ presentations were… interesting, to say the least.
I didn’t particularly like Cyrano de Bergerac, though.
Oedipus is more interesting, but I already know the story.
@topaz1116 Before now, I hadn’t heard of Cyrano de Bergerac. It seems interesting, though.
…Very late night tonight (2:22 as of this post ugh)
@Cornbread1999 That’s a really good way to put it. That’s definitely what he does 
Omg I know. I can’t tell either. It was a “wait what” moment–I reread the ending like 7 times. It seems extremely depressing because they took away everything from him and then they killed him. And everyone just kept on going regardless.
I’m feeling so relieved, so happy right now. My ex-girlfriend and I just had our first civilized, positive, direct conversation in months and it wasn’t awkward, it was natural and happy. There are no more undercurrents of drama or pain-- it took both of us way too long, but we’ve shared and let go of all of the emotional baggage. Oh thank goodness.
I can finally do my Calc homework now lol.
Hahah whoa, well I’m happy for you. @pseudoprimal