...and I am screwed. I go to one of the best high-schools in chicago, and am taking an a.p. u.s. history test that i am totally unprepared for. Not only that, but I have to take the trig and spanish III finals that are year 3 (junior) classes (I am a sophomore) My parents ar elaready pissed because i am not getting strait a's, and i am pissed off at school in general. I really freaking hate high-school. And its not because I dont have freinds, or am an outcast or anything, i am pretty popular, and one of the best basketball players in the school. I just feel shitty for some reason. Also, sorry for this post...I kind of had to vent...
Well... that's one of the major reasons I didn't take that class my sophomore year! If it's the basketball that is making you tired after school, I'll tell you something I once did. During my freshman-sophomore year of football (American), I would take a shower, quickly eat, then go straight to sleep after school. Make sure you set your alarm! That's the mistake I took and sleep for 12 hrs straight! h: The process kinda made my week boring, but it helped on one of those "test everyday" weeks. As for the straight A's thing, you're still a sophomore! The AP class already looks good on your resume, so don't sweat it too much! :icon_bigg
Well, man, should you run into any trouble in anything Humanities-related, and most especially in Spanish, contact me and I can help you. But your feeling of emptiness is something that tends to happen in High-School. You're a man in search of meaning, and you are not likely to find it inside the institutions. Meditate about your place in life. Clearly, the social pressures of "success" and the expectations that are due of you, accomplished as they are, don't fill you up. So... you need to re-evaluate many issues. At least that's what happened to me at that age, so I can say I really identify.
Ah man, you'll do fine on your AP Exam...I took the Chemistry AP Exam last year and scored a 4 on it. Right when you get through with some of the first multiple choice questions, you will realize that it isn't so bad. The first free-response question got me(equilibrium problem), so that is probably why I didn't get a 5. After that first free-response question, you should feel more comfortable about the rest. I'll be taking the Spanish AP, Calculus AB AP, and Computer Science AP exams this May...pray for me. Sort of odd that you are taking it right now. I didn't know they offerered the exam now. Don't get too caught up in school to where you stress about it like I did. I'm trying to take it easy this last year before the big stuff. Sounds like you are doing good though, taking Trig and Spanish III. Anyways, good luck with your exam man.
If anyone needs help with the AP Computer Science exam, it hasn't been that long since i took it... Although, i've heard it's in java now. When i took it, it was C++.
Well that is the reason why, we also are around here , since we are a good community, and almost also a society
Heh, I had a meaning in high school - to pass everything. It's after high school I'm worried about. I have a question: how many friends did you guys actually stay in contact with after high school? I have a few good friends I'd miss pretty badly (all sophomores as of now)...
I'm going to impart upon you a time-honored piece of wisdom. It's Zen in its simplicity, yet few have ever mastered this deceptively simple technique, which is as follows: Don't sweat it. Not 'don't try' or 'give up', but 'just relax' - you'll drive yourself to an ulcer worrying too much. The best - and only - thing you can do for any of your AP courses is just study as much as you can and take care of yourself. If you're well rested, healthy, and have studied the material, the test will pretty much take itself. Stressing out about it isn't helpful at all; put that nervous energy into something productive - like studying! If you're having a hard time, maybe get together with other people in your classes and form a study group or something - those can work wonders if you're with others that are serious about learning the material as well. As far as the Spanish goes... I'm not telling you to fail it, but there is no shame in taking a third-year course during your junior year; with foreign languages especially, it's sometimes easier the second time around. I had to repeat my second year of Japanese before I really got a handle on some of the grammar and vocab. Do what you need to do. Don't worry about what your parents think. I know, easier said than done, but when it comes down to it, you're the one that's going through school, not them. I've always hated it when parents expect nothing less than perfection from their kids - for one thing, it creates an unnessicary amount of stress on the kid, and as you well know, high school life is stressful enough on its own. Unless they're teachers, most parents haven't the foggiest idea about how difficult high school courses (and especially AP courses) can sometimes be - things have definitely changed from when your parents were in school. And really - there's no shame in a solid B! Again, don't settle for mediocrity in any way, but don't run yourself into an early grave trying to live up to the expectations others place on you. Just do the best you can, and not only will you be happy in the knowledge that you tried your hardest, but others - your parents, teachers, etc. - will also recognize that you're putting out a top-notch effort. And don't forget the relaxing part. Because life really starts to suck once you get to college.
GSL is very much right. Don't stress over it too much you know. Otherwise you end up caving in and have a nervous breakdown.
I always thought it started to suck after you get out of college since you actually had to start working :banghead:
My junior year sucked ASS. Toughest of em' all. I had some really hard classes and our chemistry teacher was an tough insane genius Kramer look-alike combo. He sometimes "forgot" certain things, however, and led to several accidents. I think he might of done it to keep us on our toes. I always heard people talk of the fireball incident in the lab. You'd really be surprised in the resemblence to Kramer from Seinfeld in our old Chemistry teacher.
Nah, college sucks compared to how things are afterwords, the reason being that once your out of college you can focus on work, as opposed to juggling studying, school work, and a job. I've been going to college for a little more then two years now, and it's been no picknick. Asside from going to school full time I also work full time at a resteraunt. I spend about three hours every day on busses because I can't afford a car. Because of this I have very little free time outside work/school, and only get one day off per week. That day is spent doing homework. This week said homework includes: Create 80 complete 3d models, half of which must be textured and baked Rough layout as well as placeholder objects made in Unreal of a level im to have done for finals Make five different rigged, textured, and animated models to incorporate into unreal as decorations A report on human movement and and general physical reactions to different situation A good chunk of a massive unreal tutorials book To put that into perspective, its only week three of this quarter.
Highschool was cool, college sucked, real world isn't too bad. Then again i dropped out of college, so i might not be the best motivational speaker.
Just curious... Do you go to Dave School or Full Sail, or UCF?? That workload you have there sounds awfully familiar.... Anyway, for the first 2 years that I went to college, I went full-time and had a part-time job. The way I kept myself from getting overloaded was by just taking 2 core classes like a math and composition or science, and then 2 electives. I had my all-nighters, but not all the time, I managed my time as best as I could (I probably wouldn't have had any all-nighters if I didn't play any videogames as well). Of course I was lucky enough to where I didn't live on my own, so having a job wasn't a high-priority because I didn't pay any bills. During those 2 years of college working on an A.A. degree, I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I was quite bummed most of the time as each semester passed. I really didn't have my priorities straight enough to actually make the most of it, but then again that changed on the last semester that I went there. Now that I know what it is I really want to be doing with myself, career wise, I really can't wait to go back next fall. I know that I will be devoting more time and energy into it and I really won't look at most of the studying as boring like I saw most of the homework I did in my first 2 years of college. But yeh. It really depends on how you look at it all. Especially when you're in college. Of course you'll have your boring-ass classes and a crapload of stupid-tedious homework, but once you get out of that and start taking the classes you really want to take, you'll end up having a blast. if you don't then maybe that degree you're working on isn't for you, then..
Nah, full-on work is kindof nice, actually because you're earning (and saving! Whee!) money. College, even if you work part time, you're still usually broke unless you're one o' them rich kids that got it all and more. Plus, in a full-time job, you're actually utilizing job skills, not learning volumes of useless information that you are entirely certain will never come in handy. Like fucking literary criticism and theory.
To answer your question about high school friends: Nobody. There is one guy who I still have his email, and one girl that I talked to occasionally for a number of years. Went to lunch with her about 8 months ago, and still occasionally get emails from her. About school: The thing is you work your ass off in high school, then you learn the exact same shit all over again in college. The only thing excelling in HS does is make this second education a little easier becasue you've learned good study habits. I'm not kidding. It's the exact same stuff (unless you're taking quantum physics or something.) So don't worry, college is fucking cake. All you have to do is put forth a little effort. Then getting a job is like school too, all the shit talking and crap is there, the people taking credit for other people's work, the rumors, the lazy bitch who seems to do absolutely nothing yet never gets held accountable, the bullshit boss who has his head up his ass and doesn't know what's going on taking his shit out on you for no reason, the klicks, the hot chick who everyone wants to get with, the one dumbass who loves his job and won't shut the hell up about how great it is, the asshole who tells on you in an attempt to brownose his way up the corporate ladder, people getting punished/fired unfairly, etc. Yeah, sounds like some kind of Office Space type movie, huh? But I've seen all of those things in one form or another. School does an excellent job of preparing you for all this, becasue this is your birthright after all. So as GSL says, don't sweat it.
I kind of disagree with that, at least in my experiance. I have a core group of buddies that i talk to on an almost daily basis. We've been friends since middle school, over a decade ago now, and we still hang out. Even spread around the country, we still get together a few times a year, most of us hang out at least once a month. Hell, i even have coffee with my exgirlfrends from highschool from time to time, and one of them tried to stab me and run me over with her car... ong::Girl:
