Just found this poem (or start of a poem) in my English notebook from last year while cleaning my room. Maybe if I post it it'll make me finish it (at another date). Constructive Criticism is appreciated.
The Sounds of High School
Murmers across the classroom
Screaming in the hall
Fingers pattering on a keyboard
Bat making contact with the ball
Actors rehearsing lines
Teachers pleading for attention
Flutist's beautiful chords
Idiots earning suspensions
Whispering test answers
Announcements overhead
Secondhand grows louder
Students sleeping as if dead
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
One Capital 'T' Tradition will Always Hold True
Every year on the first day I post a breakdown of what I think of every class, teacher, and yada yada yada. Well, I may be a little late on the uptake, but I must stay true to one tradition that I love.
1st - AP Senior English - I can tell that I will love this class. The teacher reminds me exactly of my teacher last year in the sense that I completely get his sense of humor (dry and awesome). Plus, they're just ridiculously alike period, but they're buddies so that kind of explains it. I love, love, LOVE having an idea of what the entire year looks like with the best syllabus ever. The only downside is that there's a lot of the party-girls in that class and it will get old... fast. Already has. Won't be hard to get past it though, I'm sure.
2nd - AP Chemistry - What a different personality here as far as teachers go. First off, he's Russian, which I just think is cool. Second, he is so incredibly geeky and just downright awesome. He made continuous Chemistry jokes which left me cracking up partially because of the way he reacts to his own jokes, but mainly because I genuinely love them [his jokes]. The class itself should be quite interesting. First class I've had with John, ever, and I have it with Megan and Kevin too. We'll see.
3rd - AP Government - I have no words. I cannot wait for this class to really kick off. We got our debate teams and ours is PERFECT. It's John, DJ, Bong and myself, and we've got a great array of debate topics and moot court debates chosen. We're approaching this in the best way and we're all incredibly excited. Doesn't get much better. Plus, the teacher is obviously so passionate about his subject, which makes it all even better. Back to the sense of humor bit, this teacher's is also completely different from the other two, but I still love it.
4th - A+ Tutoring - Yeah, it's pretty much my off hour.
5th - AP Spanish 4 - Mildly concerned about the insanity that will ensue. Like the teacher (had her for the last two years) but this is the first time she's had a full class of Spanish 4 students so she's determined to "work us into the ground". Great... It'll be quite the learning experience though.
6th - AP Statistics - The teacher is not that much older than us actually, graduating from the same school in 2000. He's a nice guy and everything, but I'm not that fond of talking about who is on the sports roster for football this year (esp. since it's all athletes in that hour). I just have a feeling it will be a lot less rigorous than it's supposed to.
7th - Honors General Psychology - Well, the like teacher is like the Varsity like Cheerleading coach and she like soooo totally loves to act like she is still in like high school or like...something. No, but seriously, she does know her stuff, she just doesn't seem to know how to focus long enough to convey that. She highly enjoys giving relationship advice though...
What else is new? OH! Tennis. I may or may not be first singles. If I'm not first, I'm second. Words cannot explain how excited I am.
Oh, and I'm on my new laptop. Still haven't processed that actually.
1st - AP Senior English - I can tell that I will love this class. The teacher reminds me exactly of my teacher last year in the sense that I completely get his sense of humor (dry and awesome). Plus, they're just ridiculously alike period, but they're buddies so that kind of explains it. I love, love, LOVE having an idea of what the entire year looks like with the best syllabus ever. The only downside is that there's a lot of the party-girls in that class and it will get old... fast. Already has. Won't be hard to get past it though, I'm sure.
2nd - AP Chemistry - What a different personality here as far as teachers go. First off, he's Russian, which I just think is cool. Second, he is so incredibly geeky and just downright awesome. He made continuous Chemistry jokes which left me cracking up partially because of the way he reacts to his own jokes, but mainly because I genuinely love them [his jokes]. The class itself should be quite interesting. First class I've had with John, ever, and I have it with Megan and Kevin too. We'll see.
3rd - AP Government - I have no words. I cannot wait for this class to really kick off. We got our debate teams and ours is PERFECT. It's John, DJ, Bong and myself, and we've got a great array of debate topics and moot court debates chosen. We're approaching this in the best way and we're all incredibly excited. Doesn't get much better. Plus, the teacher is obviously so passionate about his subject, which makes it all even better. Back to the sense of humor bit, this teacher's is also completely different from the other two, but I still love it.
4th - A+ Tutoring - Yeah, it's pretty much my off hour.
5th - AP Spanish 4 - Mildly concerned about the insanity that will ensue. Like the teacher (had her for the last two years) but this is the first time she's had a full class of Spanish 4 students so she's determined to "work us into the ground". Great... It'll be quite the learning experience though.
6th - AP Statistics - The teacher is not that much older than us actually, graduating from the same school in 2000. He's a nice guy and everything, but I'm not that fond of talking about who is on the sports roster for football this year (esp. since it's all athletes in that hour). I just have a feeling it will be a lot less rigorous than it's supposed to.
7th - Honors General Psychology - Well, the like teacher is like the Varsity like Cheerleading coach and she like soooo totally loves to act like she is still in like high school or like...something. No, but seriously, she does know her stuff, she just doesn't seem to know how to focus long enough to convey that. She highly enjoys giving relationship advice though...
What else is new? OH! Tennis. I may or may not be first singles. If I'm not first, I'm second. Words cannot explain how excited I am.
Oh, and I'm on my new laptop. Still haven't processed that actually.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Summer Bliss
God bless the Summer. This Summer especially.
I just got back from a workshop at Mizzou for Editor-in-Chief training. I am on an extreme Journalism high which is just what I need considering I don't technically get to be Editor since it was either AP Government or Newspaper first semester. I've waited too long to take Gov to give it up for something I can still do without the title.
My 45 hour weeks seem to have come to a halt. I can't say that I'll miss them, but I will miss the paycheck. He's got me on 20 hours this week, which I should be able to stretch to about 30. Evidently it's bad when you not only know the prices (with tax) of everything in the story, but you start finding it fun to figure out the total of multiple items with some quick adding in your head, all while making sandwiches (I do drive thru).
I've had some great nights with John. Last night, for instance, we were sitting on the swings and he asked why I was still looking at other school if I was so dead-set on UChicago. Good question. My five-year plan of becoming a Lawyer (more specifically, a Medical Lawyer) has kind of thrown me for a loop this Summer. I would LOVE to pursue journalism and work as an Editor or Designer (or Layout & Design editor) for a Magazine like Time or Newsweek. I would LOVE to become an Advertisement Designer, which seems like such a non-lucrative career (in the sense of job availability) unless you have connections. My Uncle is the Director of Studio 111 which is an industrial design studio in Chicago. Hello, connection. All in all, that has me thinking.
I got my senior pictures taken, which is a relief. I had to pay for them, which was unfortunate because for the life of me I cannot maintain a steady balance in my savings account. I understand that my Mom can't afford to help me out with that kind of stuff, but one thing I really do need her to help me invest in are glasses. God do I need glasses.
Alright, I'm off to work here soon. It feels good to blog again. Twitter has sort of taken over my interests. By the way, my twitter account is: http://twitter.com/workaholic1231
I just got back from a workshop at Mizzou for Editor-in-Chief training. I am on an extreme Journalism high which is just what I need considering I don't technically get to be Editor since it was either AP Government or Newspaper first semester. I've waited too long to take Gov to give it up for something I can still do without the title.
My 45 hour weeks seem to have come to a halt. I can't say that I'll miss them, but I will miss the paycheck. He's got me on 20 hours this week, which I should be able to stretch to about 30. Evidently it's bad when you not only know the prices (with tax) of everything in the story, but you start finding it fun to figure out the total of multiple items with some quick adding in your head, all while making sandwiches (I do drive thru).
I've had some great nights with John. Last night, for instance, we were sitting on the swings and he asked why I was still looking at other school if I was so dead-set on UChicago. Good question. My five-year plan of becoming a Lawyer (more specifically, a Medical Lawyer) has kind of thrown me for a loop this Summer. I would LOVE to pursue journalism and work as an Editor or Designer (or Layout & Design editor) for a Magazine like Time or Newsweek. I would LOVE to become an Advertisement Designer, which seems like such a non-lucrative career (in the sense of job availability) unless you have connections. My Uncle is the Director of Studio 111 which is an industrial design studio in Chicago. Hello, connection. All in all, that has me thinking.
I got my senior pictures taken, which is a relief. I had to pay for them, which was unfortunate because for the life of me I cannot maintain a steady balance in my savings account. I understand that my Mom can't afford to help me out with that kind of stuff, but one thing I really do need her to help me invest in are glasses. God do I need glasses.
Alright, I'm off to work here soon. It feels good to blog again. Twitter has sort of taken over my interests. By the way, my twitter account is: http://twitter.com/workaholic1231
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