Oooo guess my height
@petitlion 5’8"
Yep all fantasy and scifi for me
I actually am 5’5"!
On the subject of favorite literature: if you had asked me a year ago, I would have replied YA without a second’s hesitation. However, my horizons have broadened since then, and I love a lot of books; some are YA, some aren’t. For example, I’m in the middle of Gone Girl and it is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I absolutely love the story.
I’m 5’10! I don’t play basketball by the way, even though everyone says I should. I have awful aim.
My favorite work of literature is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I think it is the most descriptive, most elegantly written book to this day. I used to read YA all the time, but I’ve been reading classics this past year, and my vocabulary has really deepened, and I feel as if I have become a better critical reader because of those books. Some of my all time favorites are Wuthering Heights (who DOESN’T like this book?!) and Catcher in the Rye.
Catcher in the Rye is great <3 I also love Brave New World and 1984, in part because of the whole dystopian thing. Plus both of them ended depressingly 
I also love Khaled Hosseni’s books, for anyone who’s read them–they’re simply superb (the Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns…).
I didn’t get the Model United Nations officer position I was hoping for, but at least the person who got it deserved it (aka at least it wasn’t one of two girls who I really don’t think should ever get an officer position in that club).
Also, I get my preliminary schedule (with all of my classes, although not the order they’re in) tomorrow; I really hope I didn’t get booted out of any sections. Apparently my soon-to-be-senior friend didn’t get any of her first-choice electives, which is really weird. I shouldn’t have a problem, but I’m still worried.
I was supposed to get it today, but I wasn’t there third period (when they hand out important stuff: essentially, homeroom or something of the sort) because I was performing in our school assembly, and I couldn’t find my third period teacher anywhere.
Catcher in the Rye is great <3 I also love Brave New World and 1984, in part because of the whole dystopian thing. Plus both of them ended depressingly I also love Khaled Hosseni’s books, for anyone who’s read them–they’re simply superb (the Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns…).
I didn’t get the Model United Nations officer position I was hoping for, but at least the person who got it deserved it (aka at least it wasn’t one of two girls who I really don’t think should ever get an officer position in that club).
Also, I get my preliminary schedule (with all of my classes, although not the order they’re in) tomorrow; I really hope I didn’t get booted out of any sections. Apparently my soon-to-be-senior friend didn’t get any of her first-choice electives, which is really weird. I shouldn’t have a problem, but I’m still worried.
I was supposed to get it today, but I wasn’t there third period (when they hand out important stuff: essentially, homeroom or something of the sort) because I was performing in our school assembly, and I couldn’t find my third period teacher anywhere.
@topaz1116 oh my gosh I love Khaled Hosseni!!! He is such a great writer, and his books make me cry… a lot
Haha me too, I’m 5’5" 
A Thousand Splendid Suns was divine but I haven’t read The Kite Runner yet!
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@athenanv13 IB Chemistry 1 is the first year (IB classes are divided within two years, usually junior and senior years) so it technically counts as “Chemistry 1 Honors” since only .5 is added to my GPA, not 1.0 as a regular IB class would. Next year, I would be taking IB Chemistry 2 and take the IB Exam at the end of the year. Then, senior year I would take something like IB Environmental or IB Health since it’s only one-year-long.
Anyhow, my worst classes this year are as follow:
- Gym/Health/Driver's Ed: Gym, oh god, I hate it because we had to play basketball and I suck at that sport. Badminton was okay, but still I'm not that athletic so it was awkward. At least I got an A and it was only two quarters. Health was 1 quarter, and was too much work due to the very strict teacher I had. Driver's Ed, for 1 quarter (currently in it right now) is useless since the teacher has only taught us 2/10 modules and we have 2 weeks left of school. The only reason I'm in it is because I need the DEC-1 Card at the end to take Behind-the-Wheel and get my license.
- Pre-IB Government: All we do is learn from the textbook. The teacher is literally never here and when she is she still makes us take notes from a textbook. I hate it, I hate the subject, it isn't ineteresting.... Just ugh.
- Pre-IB Algebra 2: This class is sooooooooo boring, I hate it because we learn a new topic every class and there is NEVER any breathing room. It's work, work, work, quiz, test, and the cycle repeats. We just finished the State's Standardized Test for Algebra 2 and we are learning more, which sucks (then again, I'm in Honors so we need to learn matrices). Can't wait until I'm done with this class, although it'll probably only get worse.
I didn’t get into Human Geo and now I’m freaking out because there aren’t any other courses I want to take (I originally put Spanish 4 down as my alternate, but it’s absurdly hard and I don’t want to deal with that).
There’s Ethnic Studies, but I have mixed feelings about the teacher and I’ve heard mixed opinions about the class, Creative Writing/Public Speaking, which I’m not exactly sure about, and AP World History (I’m not sure if there’s space in this class, but there might be), whose difficulty isn’t exactly clear. I’ve heard it’s pretty easy, but I want to know in relation to Human Geo.
Actually, apparently AP World is a good alternative, so I really hope that there’s space in that class.
Sheesh you guys have to deal with not being able to get into classes? i guess thats the perk of a small school… you never run out of room in a class (but sometimes in a certain period). at the same time tho, we don’t even have human geo to begin with.
btw thanks for 140 notifications… twas a good way to procrastinate :))
and i think i win the height contest lol 6’2 and I’m a girl and no i don’t play basketball
My school has around 3800 students and we don’t have to worry about not getting into classes, I’ve never heard of a time where someone didn’t get the classes they asked for. As long as you submit your course requests in time you are pretty much guaranteed to get that class.
@dsi411 Can’t even imagine that with my 240 student school. Do you really have 190 classes going at once or is the class size bigger than 20 I imagine it to be?
Sophomores… make your junior year count. Suffer now, relax later. Lol.
Everyone’s schedule at my school is messed up. I haven’t heard a single person say they don’t have a messed up schedule. They forgot to put in a class for me. My friend doesn’t even have an English class or a history class or a math class. They screwed it up sooo badly. The problem is that the counselors don’t want to deal with it right now since it was the last day of school. They said that “No schedule changes will be done until August 3rd.” That’s like 2 months away on the first day of school!
@athenanv13 that happened to me last year. With a week of school (finals week) left, I had to submit 3 different schedule change requests. first I didn’t have a 3rd period class, than once that was fixed i didn’t have an english class, than once that was fixed i didn’t have a math class. thankfully on the last day of school my consular finally called me down in literally last period of the year, and reviewed my schedule with me to make sure she didn’t screq it up a fourth time and it was all in order