@Greninja How long does the speech have to be?
Speaking of speeches, in speech class, I have the big Major Persuasive Speech coming up soon. It’s supposed to be 8-10 minutes long and 35% of my quarter grade 
I don’t have any ideas either…
Talk about politics. Controversial science ideas (ethics, for example, are a great subject). Something you’re passionate about (it makes it 5000 times easier to talk about).
@Faultystart It has to be around five minutes for me.
@topaz1116 My teacher said that, since all we learned about this year were depressing things (racism because we read To Kill A Mockingbird, the fact that we read Lord of the Flies, etc.) she didn’t want us to talk about anything sad. 
So politics are mostly out of the question. I think I’ll talk about it though for my speech for academic decathlon next year.
@Greninja You’re on Acadec? How cool. I don’t know anyone on this site that’s involved with it. I think my speech topic this year is going to be either ethics or politics related.
My school doesn’t have an academic decathlon team…
Looking into it, I don’t think my school would be able to provide three C-average students who are motivated enough. to join Academic Decathlon… Less than 20% of the school has a 2.99 GPA or below, and most of them are people who really, really, really don’t care.
My school has Academic Decathlon. It sounds kinda fun but apparently you have to do speeches so I wouldn’t be very good at it, hehe.
On another note, I just started Daredevil and it’s really good.
I know what I’m going to be doing instead of doing homework, especially after the normal runs of the rest of the TV shows I watch finish…
Ahh I just got back home from prom. It was very exhausting and fun. 43 bobby pins to do my hair. Took like 15 minutes to remove them all. Did no homework so far this weekend–have all of it to do tomorrow. Happy and not happy at the same time rn.
Very tired.
@Faultystart you went to prom? That’s so cool.
Good luck to everyone stressing this eve before AP Week 1!
@dsi411 If you’re really interested in it aside from the speech, go for it! It’s really fun. I was actually considering quitting because I was scared of the speech, but the speech portion ended up being my favorite part of the competition. It was pretty hard for me but I think you’ll be able to do it. If it makes you feel any better, while I was saying my speech I dropped my notecard so I had to stop my speech and pick it up. :((
@topaz1116 Yeah, the GPA thing is a bit of an issue at my school. We always do poorly as a team because we barely have any varsity members, so during team events the other schools have an advantage because they have more students than us.
Also, I really want to watch Daredevil as well. It looks really interesting and Daredevil’s one of my favorite Marvel heroes, but I’m kind of squeamish so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to watch it, haha.
I really need to study for AP World History. I’ve noticed that I’m performing worse and worse in my class, I wasn’t even able to finish a timed essay last week (though it was only 35 minutes long because we didn’t have enough class time to take it in 45 minutes). I’m also doing some practice questions and I forgot a lot of material from the past chapters. I’m still hoping for a 5, so I’ll try to spend every single day before the test studying for the exam. If I end up with a 4, at least I tried my best unlike last year, haha.
@Greninja it can get a bit… gory… at times, but I think you can skip through the parts/close your eyes if you want to (but the action sequences are amazing–incredibly well-filmed and choreographed). It’s a really great show, though.
I watch far too much TV–pity that it’s going to have to stop next year.
My mom just got me interested in a tv show and it’s now a month before finals… Ugh, now it’s just going to be harder to not proscrastinate and instead study. Thanks, mom.
Took the AP Enviro test, it was definitely a breeze. Did anyone take Psych or Chem?
@sprights I took AP Chem. It was alright. I think I got a 5, at least a 4.
@sprights I took AP Chem as well. I estimate I got a 2, a 3 if I’m lucky. The MC was OK, but the free response will probably prevent me from getting a 3+.
My friend said the FRQs were pretty bad for her since her teacher skipped over 2 chapters in the book (that the FRQs were on). By the way, I love your user (fellow violin player!) @dsi411 @violinvirtuoso3
Apes was def not a breeze, probably because I basically taught myself the whole course in 2 days (I just crammed).
The multiple choice was alright, I felt short on time for some reason, but the FRQs were so great, I thought they were really easy. Now I just need to get 185/200 on the final for an A in the class…sigh. @shussain2