Is it really only Wednesday? This week has been so long. Today was a mixture of getting things out of the way that have been bothering me forever and adding even more things to stress me out.
We had an open book test in AP U.S. history today. It really wasn't hard since it was open book. If only we could do that for every test...
All we did in AP English today was work on our annotated bibliographies. I still don't have mine even halfway done. I'm not looking forward to working on that. Even though it's not that difficult to write, I feel like it's going to take forever.
Ji and I have one yearbook page that's due this Friday. The only problem is standardized testing is going on the next couple of the days in the computer lab, so we can't work on them during yearbook class. That means we have to work on them at home. I didn't even know we could access the yearbook stuff from home until Ji told me we could today. I really hope we're able to get that finished.
At the end of computer applications I had to go up to the guidance office. I've been trying to send my transcripts to colleges through this e-transcript thing for over a month now, but the guidance office wasn't getting my requests through the thing. I'm not even really sure what was going on, but we have it all sorted out now. My transcripts have finally been sent!
During lunch Haley and I ended up sitting at the table where Jordan and Bridget were selling dance tickets. Haley said she sat at our usual table, and some immature boy started throwing food at her, so she moved over there. I didn't see it happen since I was late to lunch because I'd been in guidance.
Peer tutoring was pretty much the same as usual. I helped two girls with some worksheets, and in the other class, I really just sat there and watched.
We had a test in economics today. The thing with econ tests is that I feel like I know it well, and I do perfectly fine on most of it, but there's always at least two problems that I get to and have no idea what the answer is. It bugs me because I swore I went over everything. Today, there were still a couple of hard ones, but I thought I remember talking about it, so I may actually be right this time.
I completely forgot that I had a hair appointment after school today until my sister reminded me as we were getting off the bus. Regina was trying to get me to cut a ton off, but I told her that wasn't happening. I don't think I've had my hair short since freshmen year. I like how easy it is to brush my hair when it's short, but other than that I hate when I have short hair. Instead, I just got it trimmed.
I really need to go work on my annotated bibliography, but I want to get some other stuff (including another blog post) done before I work on that. It's going to take up my whole day!
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
I Need a Break
I'm am so ready for Thanksgiving break! I need these five days off of school. I'm beginning to get really stressed out, and a break will be nice. I mean most of the stress is coming from college stuff, and I'm going to spend break applying to two colleges. Still, no school helps take a bit of the stress off, and I think I could the main college-related thing that was stressing me out sorted out today. So, hopefully it will be an unstressful break for me. (If my sister succeeds in getting me to go Black Friday shopping, then I guess we can throw the unstressful break out the window.)
Since it was the last day before break, we didn't do much at school today. I had an AP U.S. history test first thing this morning, but other than that, I didn't do much today. We're researching for our trend analysis paper (with an annotated bibliography) in AP English, but I don't really consider researching to be hard work (unless you're having trouble finding information).
Our Jostens yearbook representative was in our yearbook class today to show us how to create the portrait pages, but all that required was us sitting quietly and listening to him talk.
I'm way ahead in computer applications, so our teacher asked Ji, Bethany, and me to help her wrap pennies from Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. Once we were finished with that, Ji, Alyssa, and I went up to the guidance office since we each had seperate things that we needed to get worked out. That's when I hopefully got the biggest college-related thing sorted out. Guys, applying to college can be hard when things don't go right. I think I go to a great school, but something I didn't learn until this year is that it's sometimes hard to get things figured out because of the small staff. I've been trying to get this sorted out forever, but our guidance office consists of two people (a guidance counselor and a secretary), and whenever I have time to go in there, they never seem to be in there (hence why I went during class today). It was starting to get frustrating. I've never had this problem until this year, since you don't really need to deal with guidance much (except during scehduling times) until senior year. Hopefully, that's all sorted out though, and as soon as I send in these two applications, I'll be done applying to college. (Then I just have to be accepted...)
Just like us high schoolers, the middle schoolers weren't doing much today either, so I didn't do much during peer tutoring today. In the first class I'm in, I helped one girl with math a little bit and helped two boys study for a social studies class. In the second class, the were watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while working on a math worksheet that they didn't really need help on, so I spend the whole time just watching Charlie Brown.
We did actually do work in econ today, but it was easy and not nearly enough to take up the whole hour and a half we're in there. Most of the class was spent doing nothing.
Since getting home, I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but it really doesn't seem like much looking back on it. I managed to get some reading done, which hasn't really happened in a while. I got half of a college application filled out, which I'm relieved that it's nearing being done. I also filmed a video that I was currently in the process of editing before I got in the shower and then started writing (first my story and then this). I have over twenty minutes of footage, so I hope to get it edited down a lot, which probably won't happen since I can't bear to leave out anything when it comes to books. As soon as I post this I'm going to get back to editing that, and I'll hopefully have it up before I go to bed, which is looking less likely as it's getting late.
Since it was the last day before break, we didn't do much at school today. I had an AP U.S. history test first thing this morning, but other than that, I didn't do much today. We're researching for our trend analysis paper (with an annotated bibliography) in AP English, but I don't really consider researching to be hard work (unless you're having trouble finding information).
Our Jostens yearbook representative was in our yearbook class today to show us how to create the portrait pages, but all that required was us sitting quietly and listening to him talk.
I'm way ahead in computer applications, so our teacher asked Ji, Bethany, and me to help her wrap pennies from Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. Once we were finished with that, Ji, Alyssa, and I went up to the guidance office since we each had seperate things that we needed to get worked out. That's when I hopefully got the biggest college-related thing sorted out. Guys, applying to college can be hard when things don't go right. I think I go to a great school, but something I didn't learn until this year is that it's sometimes hard to get things figured out because of the small staff. I've been trying to get this sorted out forever, but our guidance office consists of two people (a guidance counselor and a secretary), and whenever I have time to go in there, they never seem to be in there (hence why I went during class today). It was starting to get frustrating. I've never had this problem until this year, since you don't really need to deal with guidance much (except during scehduling times) until senior year. Hopefully, that's all sorted out though, and as soon as I send in these two applications, I'll be done applying to college. (Then I just have to be accepted...)
Just like us high schoolers, the middle schoolers weren't doing much today either, so I didn't do much during peer tutoring today. In the first class I'm in, I helped one girl with math a little bit and helped two boys study for a social studies class. In the second class, the were watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while working on a math worksheet that they didn't really need help on, so I spend the whole time just watching Charlie Brown.
We did actually do work in econ today, but it was easy and not nearly enough to take up the whole hour and a half we're in there. Most of the class was spent doing nothing.
Since getting home, I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but it really doesn't seem like much looking back on it. I managed to get some reading done, which hasn't really happened in a while. I got half of a college application filled out, which I'm relieved that it's nearing being done. I also filmed a video that I was currently in the process of editing before I got in the shower and then started writing (first my story and then this). I have over twenty minutes of footage, so I hope to get it edited down a lot, which probably won't happen since I can't bear to leave out anything when it comes to books. As soon as I post this I'm going to get back to editing that, and I'll hopefully have it up before I go to bed, which is looking less likely as it's getting late.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
My Pencil Got Stolen in the Bathroom
I got the pleasure of beginning my day by standing out in the rain waiting for the bus. I was also alone because my sister stayed home sick. I'm so glad that the bus actually came early today. Normally, I would mind the rain, but being stuck at school with wet clothes and hair isn't fun.
All of the seniors with a certain GPA or above had a meeting this morning about a scholarship. One person in our county gets it, and the winner recieves full tuition for four years at any college in Indiana. It's a great scholarship, and I'm going to apply for it. It's just that I don't want to go to college in Indiana. There is one college (that I really like) that I applied to that's in Indiana, so I'm still applying for the scholarship. We'll see what happens if I get it.
This meeting ran into our first class, which meant I had less time than normal to complete my AP U.S. history test. Thankfully, I got done on time. I think it's because I knew I had less time, and I made myself focus more than usual. (I'll admit that I sometimes zone out in the middle of tests.)
We got to peer edit papers in AP English. Basically every problem that was pointed out in my paper is stuff I already know. The problem is I'm not sure how to fix those problems. This paper is proving to be very difficult. When I'm finished writing this, I'm going to go through it and do some editing myself.
Here's an interesting story: Whenever I go to the bathroom at school, I always leave my books and things sitting on this ledge thing over the sinks. I've been doing this since freshmen year, and I've never had a problem. Today I did the same thing I always do, and when I went to get my books, my pencil was gone. My eraser, book, and notebook were all still there, but the pencil was gone. I looked around, thinking maybe I dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found. I think someone stole it. I wasn't too bothered by it. I just went to my locker and got a new one.
I really funny part of the story was during econ. Some people started complaining about how they'd had bad days, so our teacher started going through every person in the class and asking them how their day went. When he got to me, I was just going to say that my day had been fine when Jordan mentioning that I did actually have a bad day. I don't know if she was referring to the pencil thing or what happened while peer tutoring (I'll get to that in a minute.) as I had just told her and Haley both. I kind of stammered for a bit before just saying, "My day was fine, but my pencil did get stolen in the bathroom." Everyone in the class, including me, burst into laughter, and I turned bright red, which Haley pointed out to me. After a few minutes, the teacher said he wasn't even going to ask for that story, and we moved on. It was interesting though.
As for what happened during peer tutoring over at the middle school, I was put in charge of helping three sixth graders with a math worksheet today. They were doing really well. They were each dividing up the problems and doing them on the board. Then, the boy got frustrated over something and decided he wanted to do them himself, so he went and sit at a desk and worked on them alone. Then, the two girls got into an argument because one girl didn't think the other was being fair, so they insisted on working the problems alone. It was kind of dissapointing. I remember at the beginning of class being really impressed by how well they were working together, and by the end of class that had fallen apart. At least all three of them had a pretty good idea of what they were doing. That was the point of the worksheet.
On a bright side, the pouring rain had stopped by the time I went over to the middle school, so I didn't have a problem with that. I also got a ride home with Ji instead of riding the bus. That was especially nice since I was lugging home books for my sister Regina, so she could get homework done. Overall though, it wasn't a bad day.
All of the seniors with a certain GPA or above had a meeting this morning about a scholarship. One person in our county gets it, and the winner recieves full tuition for four years at any college in Indiana. It's a great scholarship, and I'm going to apply for it. It's just that I don't want to go to college in Indiana. There is one college (that I really like) that I applied to that's in Indiana, so I'm still applying for the scholarship. We'll see what happens if I get it.
This meeting ran into our first class, which meant I had less time than normal to complete my AP U.S. history test. Thankfully, I got done on time. I think it's because I knew I had less time, and I made myself focus more than usual. (I'll admit that I sometimes zone out in the middle of tests.)
We got to peer edit papers in AP English. Basically every problem that was pointed out in my paper is stuff I already know. The problem is I'm not sure how to fix those problems. This paper is proving to be very difficult. When I'm finished writing this, I'm going to go through it and do some editing myself.
Here's an interesting story: Whenever I go to the bathroom at school, I always leave my books and things sitting on this ledge thing over the sinks. I've been doing this since freshmen year, and I've never had a problem. Today I did the same thing I always do, and when I went to get my books, my pencil was gone. My eraser, book, and notebook were all still there, but the pencil was gone. I looked around, thinking maybe I dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found. I think someone stole it. I wasn't too bothered by it. I just went to my locker and got a new one.
I really funny part of the story was during econ. Some people started complaining about how they'd had bad days, so our teacher started going through every person in the class and asking them how their day went. When he got to me, I was just going to say that my day had been fine when Jordan mentioning that I did actually have a bad day. I don't know if she was referring to the pencil thing or what happened while peer tutoring (I'll get to that in a minute.) as I had just told her and Haley both. I kind of stammered for a bit before just saying, "My day was fine, but my pencil did get stolen in the bathroom." Everyone in the class, including me, burst into laughter, and I turned bright red, which Haley pointed out to me. After a few minutes, the teacher said he wasn't even going to ask for that story, and we moved on. It was interesting though.
As for what happened during peer tutoring over at the middle school, I was put in charge of helping three sixth graders with a math worksheet today. They were doing really well. They were each dividing up the problems and doing them on the board. Then, the boy got frustrated over something and decided he wanted to do them himself, so he went and sit at a desk and worked on them alone. Then, the two girls got into an argument because one girl didn't think the other was being fair, so they insisted on working the problems alone. It was kind of dissapointing. I remember at the beginning of class being really impressed by how well they were working together, and by the end of class that had fallen apart. At least all three of them had a pretty good idea of what they were doing. That was the point of the worksheet.
On a bright side, the pouring rain had stopped by the time I went over to the middle school, so I didn't have a problem with that. I also got a ride home with Ji instead of riding the bus. That was especially nice since I was lugging home books for my sister Regina, so she could get homework done. Overall though, it wasn't a bad day.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
English Papers and Fanfiction
Remember how I was having such a hard time writing my paper in AP English yesterday? Well, today proved to be a lot better. I'd say I'm about one-third of the way done with the paper (rough draft only of course). It's still not that great, but at least I have something down. I can work on it from there. I'm having bit of trouble describing the Harry Potter situation though. I mean I'm trying explain about Voldemort ordering Draco to kill Dumbledore, the Unbreakable Vow, Dumbledore asking Snape to kill him, and more in just a few paragraphs. It's difficult to do that in a way that makes sense to people who haven't read Harry Potter. I'm kind of using Ji and Kayla as test readers. I've asked one of them to read bits of my paper at least a million times and tell me if it makes sense. I have a lot of work to do.
We had a sub in Econ(omics) today, so we spent the entire time watching a movie. We watched The Italian Job which I had never heard of. It's an okay movie, but I'm not really that into it. It doesn't help that I know when we finish the movie tomorrow I'm going to have to write about economics in the movie.
I don't know if I ever mentioned it in a blog post, but if you follow me on twitter or have noticed the little button on the side of the blog, you'll know I'm a prereader for Sparkly Red Pen. I became a prereader for them a few months ago, but I was just assigned to work on my first story today. I'm so excited! I'll definitely let you guys know when the author posts the first chapter. I have the first chapter, but I can't actually preread it (like comment and stuff) until I hear back from the author. I'll let you know when the first chapter's up. Hopefully, it's good! It's the author's first fanfiction, but she really seems to have a good start.
We had a sub in Econ(omics) today, so we spent the entire time watching a movie. We watched The Italian Job which I had never heard of. It's an okay movie, but I'm not really that into it. It doesn't help that I know when we finish the movie tomorrow I'm going to have to write about economics in the movie.
I don't know if I ever mentioned it in a blog post, but if you follow me on twitter or have noticed the little button on the side of the blog, you'll know I'm a prereader for Sparkly Red Pen. I became a prereader for them a few months ago, but I was just assigned to work on my first story today. I'm so excited! I'll definitely let you guys know when the author posts the first chapter. I have the first chapter, but I can't actually preread it (like comment and stuff) until I hear back from the author. I'll let you know when the first chapter's up. Hopefully, it's good! It's the author's first fanfiction, but she really seems to have a good start.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Dr. Seuss and Economics
We started writing our comparative analysis papers in AP English today. Our last papers were challenging, but this is definitely the hardest yet. I sat in front of the computer for what felt like forever before I even got one sentence typed. It's definitely a tough paper to write.
I brought in my senior picture today for the yearbook. For some reason, our yearbook teacher decided to show it up on the projector for the whole class. It's a small class, and everyone's going to see it in the yearbook anway, but it was still awkward. It's weird having everyone look at your picture and make comments (even though they were all positive).
We got to read Dr. Seuss in Econ(omics) today. We got into groups and read The Lorax. Then, we had to identify different economic stuff in it. After we were finished we watched the cartoon version. Who would have thought you'd be reading children's books in a high school econ class. I'd actually never read The Lorax before even though I'd heard a lot about it. Then, I came home and randomly stumbled upon a new Australian teaser trailer for the new Lorax movie that's coming out. Weird timing.
This is a random fact that I found out the other day. Thanks to kids in my grade dropping out, we now have a grand total of 99 kids in my class. (Honestly though, we've always been just a little over a hundred, so this isn't really huge drop.) We just keep getting smaller and smaller. A pretty large portion is also graduating half year, so it'll be interesting to see how many seniors we actually have in school next semester.
I brought in my senior picture today for the yearbook. For some reason, our yearbook teacher decided to show it up on the projector for the whole class. It's a small class, and everyone's going to see it in the yearbook anway, but it was still awkward. It's weird having everyone look at your picture and make comments (even though they were all positive).
We got to read Dr. Seuss in Econ(omics) today. We got into groups and read The Lorax. Then, we had to identify different economic stuff in it. After we were finished we watched the cartoon version. Who would have thought you'd be reading children's books in a high school econ class. I'd actually never read The Lorax before even though I'd heard a lot about it. Then, I came home and randomly stumbled upon a new Australian teaser trailer for the new Lorax movie that's coming out. Weird timing.
This is a random fact that I found out the other day. Thanks to kids in my grade dropping out, we now have a grand total of 99 kids in my class. (Honestly though, we've always been just a little over a hundred, so this isn't really huge drop.) We just keep getting smaller and smaller. A pretty large portion is also graduating half year, so it'll be interesting to see how many seniors we actually have in school next semester.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Debates, Yearbooks, and Inductions
Next week we're having debates in my AP U.S. history class. I'm pretty excited for this because I've never actually participated in a debate before. Being a very quiet person, I'm a little nervous, but I hope it will be fun. We went to the library to work on it today. My group with debating Indian removal. We're on the con side. Today I got put in charge of our conclusion. I'm a little worried about it because I have to have something written down, but I also have to be able to change it a bit during the actual debate so it relates to what the other team argued. I'm really worried because I'm not great at coming up with things on the spot. If you take out that little bit though, I'm extremely excited about this.
Today was also our second day of watching the movie A Few Good Men in AP English. Our next paper is going to be about obedience to authority, and we're able to use the movie in the paper. I'm definitely not complaining about watching a movie for a few days in that class.
We're making some decent progress on the yearbook this week. We looked at a template for the pages today, and it looks so cool. I'm really excited for this yearbook. I have hopes that it'll be pretty great.
I'm not really sure why, but our economics (which is the same class and teacher as government from last quarter) teacher had us form our desks into a circle during class today. We had a discussion about economic stuff (descriptive I know) like minimum wage, Social Security, etc. Then we watched a video about China's economy (and how it's tied to the U.S.).
I stayed after school today (just like every day the past few weeks) for play practice. We didn't do a whole lot today. I sorted through the makeup and picked out some of the older, used up stuff, and I helped paint just a little bit. It was actually a bit funny because she asked me to paint because I'm left handed, and she couldn't paint this one bit because she was right handed.
After practice, my sister and I came home for just a little bit before going back to school for the Beta Club induction. My sister was inducted into Beta Club tonight, and I was taking pictures of the induction for the yearbook. I didn't get that many good pictures unfortunately. I stayed in the back because there was no way I was going up to the front, and I had a bit of trouble with the camera (it refused to take pictures at one point). Still, I think I could enough pictures for us the use for the yearbook. Ji and I actually have the Beta Club page, which we should start on since we now have pictures from several things.
Today was also our second day of watching the movie A Few Good Men in AP English. Our next paper is going to be about obedience to authority, and we're able to use the movie in the paper. I'm definitely not complaining about watching a movie for a few days in that class.
We're making some decent progress on the yearbook this week. We looked at a template for the pages today, and it looks so cool. I'm really excited for this yearbook. I have hopes that it'll be pretty great.
I'm not really sure why, but our economics (which is the same class and teacher as government from last quarter) teacher had us form our desks into a circle during class today. We had a discussion about economic stuff (descriptive I know) like minimum wage, Social Security, etc. Then we watched a video about China's economy (and how it's tied to the U.S.).
I stayed after school today (just like every day the past few weeks) for play practice. We didn't do a whole lot today. I sorted through the makeup and picked out some of the older, used up stuff, and I helped paint just a little bit. It was actually a bit funny because she asked me to paint because I'm left handed, and she couldn't paint this one bit because she was right handed.
After practice, my sister and I came home for just a little bit before going back to school for the Beta Club induction. My sister was inducted into Beta Club tonight, and I was taking pictures of the induction for the yearbook. I didn't get that many good pictures unfortunately. I stayed in the back because there was no way I was going up to the front, and I had a bit of trouble with the camera (it refused to take pictures at one point). Still, I think I could enough pictures for us the use for the yearbook. Ji and I actually have the Beta Club page, which we should start on since we now have pictures from several things.
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