High School

Today was an average day for me, with my science class switching to chemistry for the rest of the year instead of biology that we just finished up. The class also got new seats, and I'm sitting by a couple friends, so its all good.
 
So today I learned my current mark in Chemistry 11. I'm sitting at a fairly decent 93 percent or so. Also, we learned about molarity.
 
Today was the start of second semester. My classes were just as predicted:
1. Pre-Cal (but it's the second half involving Trigonometry) honors
2. Chemistry 1 honors
3. Spanish II
4. U.S. Gov. and Econ. honors
Some of my classmates from Algebra III have been dropped down to C(ollege) P(rep) classes (worth less than honor classes), so there is a notable difference of people gone; thus, this adds to the classroom being more quiet. They are reversed first and second period.

First period: Math first thing in the morning? Shoot me. I'm not ready to understand complicated numbers early, so I feel bad from the start.
Second period: The teacher wasn't as frightening as I thought it was. Again, it's more quiet; but, we got to know how much stuff we'll be covering, the papers, and the mandatory science fair (already dreading May).
Third period: Absolutely hate it. Just like Spanish I, but more difficult and now with some of the annoying people from Spanish I back in. I really couldn't understand what is going on because everything is moving at a faster rate. I was feeling the most miserable and depressed during this period the most.
Fourth period: Not bad... for now. However, I'm very embarrassed by the fact that I'm only one of two Juniors in the class now that I'm surrounded with Sophomores; meanwhile, everybody else is taking US History with a easy teacher. Somehow, I took US History during my Sophomore year while every other peer did Gov. and Econ. at the same time.

Short summary: My fears have been realized. I have four classes that I'm absolutely dreading just from the first day. Already miserable, no fun to be had, and I want to see if I can get any class changed if possible. I would be glad to redo my whole first semester if there was an option. But alas, I cannot.
So I'm miserable.
 
Naveek Darkroom
I'm sitting at a fairly decent 93 percent.
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In my book that isn't decent, that is god like. Especially comparing it to my measly 62 percent.

This semester has been hell for me. Chemistry, English, Math, all in one semester. And to think what I thought was going to be the easiest class, Computer Programming, turns out to be the one I will probably fail.

Next semester should be easy though. Auto, Manufacturing, Business, and World History all in one. While History may be the hardest, it is an M level (Our system is divided into Academic/University, Applied/College, And Essentials/Workplace. M is Mixed which means College or University).

Aki Ishikawa
Some of my classmates from Algebra III have been dropped down to C(ollege) P(rep) classes (worth less than honor classes), so there is a notable difference of people gone; thus, this adds to the classroom being more quiet. They are reversed first and second period.
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Me and a bunch of others are basically heading down this route. Even the smartest in our sort of 'group' is dropping down a level. Part of me wants to keep in the higher level classes, but I don't even have a career or post-secondary choice made yet. I also keep thinking that University isn't for me, and it seems to be the same with everyone else, even though once we are done next semester we will have put 3 years of hard work in the higher level classes to waste.
 
Turbotwin01
Me and a bunch of others are basically heading down this route. Even the smartest in our sort of 'group' is dropping down a level. Part of me wants to keep in the higher level classes, but I don't even have a career or post-secondary choice made yet. I also keep thinking that University isn't for me, and it seems to be the same with everyone else, even though once we are done next semester we will have put 3 years of hard work in the higher level classes to waste.
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I'll be frankly honest: I don't want to take honors classes anymore. I want to drop down to CP course. I'm not totally capable of doing massive amounts of work without me breaking down in stress or anger. I was ready to snap during 3rd period today; it's only just the first day and I was already at that point. Even if (and I really don't want to) I consider college, I would be going into the art and design/creative field (graphic design, animation, web design, photography, drawing, something I actually want to do); at that point, honors anything is a waste to me since it's not a class that is leading me to my desired occupation.
However, honor classes look good on a college application, so I sort of don't want to lose that.

Actually, I'm very willing to drop honors now.
 
Turbotwin01
In my book that isn't decent, that is god like. Especially comparing it to my measly 62 percent.
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Maybe it's modesty. Maybe it's because I don't have super high standards. All I care about is getting a decent mark. And 93 is past that threshold. I'm getting similar marks in Social Studies. Regardless, yes, 93 is a good mark. But it's not godlike. 100 is godlike. I did ace a chemistry test a while back.

62 is... Well, measly is a good way to put it. Maybe science is just something I'm good at. Except for the physics incident. I didn't even need to take physics.
 
Naveek Darkroom
Maybe it's modesty. Maybe it's because I don't have super high standards. All I care about is getting a decent mark. And 93 is past that threshold. I'm getting similar marks in Social Studies. Regardless, yes, 93 is a good mark. But it's not godlike. 100 is godlike. I did ace a chemistry test a while back.

62 is... Well, measly is a good way to put it. Maybe science is just something I'm good at. Except for the physics incident. I didn't even need to take physics.
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I hate to admit it, but I am/was kind of cocky, or at least I think I am/was. It probably bit me in the butt because freshmen year I thought I was pretty good and now I am terrible. I don't know whether it is my lack of passion and caring for my grades and classes or if I just turned into an idiot, but something happened.

Being modest and humble is good, better than cocky and arrogant. Try and keep yourself that way.
 
Turbotwin01
I hate to admit it, but I am/was kind of cocky, or at least I think I am/was. It probably bit me in the butt because freshmen year I thought I was pretty good and now I am terrible. I don't know whether it is my lack of passion and caring for my grades and classes or if I just turned into an idiot, but something happened.

Being modest and humble is good, better than cocky and arrogant. Try and keep yourself that way.
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Sure, why not? I just ask myself "Am I doing fine?" If the answer is "Yes", I'll continue with the act. There was an incident earlier in the year where the answer was "no", namely the physics incident. Because physics, a course I didn't even need (I think I only took it cause it interested me), was stressing me out and badly influencing my English Literature mark. Though I've turned it around since dropping physics. I was at around 44 percent when I dropped physics, got it up to 69 by the end of term 1, and now I'm sitting at 75 or so. I don't see the need to act cocky. I just care about getting decent grades.
 
I had a field trip today. I went to go see 4 student- produced plays. I really enjoyed them. Now I've enered a conyest to write my own play.
 
What did I do today? I had archery practice at 7:00 this morning. That lasted for an hour. I then went with my friend to the grocery store because hadn't had any breakfast. It was also raining outside at 32° making the roads very icy. First hour came along at 8:35 and it was u.s. history. My history teacher has gotten so lazy, that he has us do the lecture for him. Cool thing about him is that he gives is rolos and beef sticks on test days, so I can't complain about that. Second hour (study hall) consisted of me studying for the geometry test the next hour. Third hour came and I had to take the geometry test. It wasn't that bad, just similarity, so I think I did alright on it. But I'll have to wait till he grades it to be sure. Lunch finally comes and I had some lasagna (which was awesome) with a bunch of other food. My favorite hour of the day came (ag mechanics/advanced welding) and my teacher got a vinyl cutter, so we just did that the whole hour. Of course, I made the GT logo with that cutter. Fifth hour (English lll) rolled around and currently my class is reading The Great Gatsby, so we talked about the chapter we read and that stuff. The most boring hour of the day (band & choir) came and it was a work day for the music contest coming up in April. Seventh hour (phy-ed) came and we played volleyball, and I am actually good at that sport even though I don't practice. I had to ride the bus home on the icy roads, luckily the route was mainly gravel. I got home, played some gt6, mw3, and driver San Francisco. So that's how my day went. Just another day in the bustling town of Gwinner, North Dakota.
 
A while back, there was a student who got caught with a vapor pen in class, and his parents were to send him to military school as a result. As long ago as that was, he's still in the high school. Since then, he's been caught with a vapor pen five times, including his most recent offence being today. The standard protocol is a suspension and a fine, for the second offence with the punishments getting tougher with each new offence. What happened to the person in question as punishment? Just a "don't do it again" from the principal for all five offences. I think its safe to say that someone's getting more chances than they deserve. And this isn't the first time such a thing has been handled in a questionable manner by the school staff. :rolleyes:
 
I've skipped all of this week due to illness. I'll have to write 2 tests I missed alone though :/ On the other hand, my class is going on a 5-day skiing excursion on Feb. 9th, so that's great news. 👍
 
Today has been pretty boring, my first two blocks consist of two study halls than I have career tech math and then Fitness for life. Can't wait for the first two weeks of the semester to be over so I can come in late. My favorite class is going to be on my black days. Civics with my favorite teacher, the fact that she can't wait to have me back in her class makes it feel a bit more special.
 
Its winter. Teenagers in high school in winter will most likely throw snowballs. Most of the Votech students are known to do so. Apparently, every Votech student is going to get yelled at tomorrow for throwing snowballs at each other, and apparently it falls under "making terroristic threats."
 
How mu fitness for life class went today. Walk into the gym. Everybody gathers around, girls go to their lockers and boys go to theirs. Get changed (hate doing that so I'm just gonna start wearing my gym clothes underneath my regular ones). We go to the weights room and debriefs us on the class expectations. This is when she automatically assumed that she had all freshmen. I raise my hand and tell her I'm a senior. She flat out refused to believe me. I had to show her all my lunch cards I've had throughout my high school career. The fact that the rest of my class also thought I was a freshmen was also amusing. On another note no school tomorrow!!
 
I started school today. I love Japanese so much, it is going to be more tricky but I'm enjoying learning about the Language, though we have a test tomorrow straight away :lol:.

Speaking of Tomorrow, I have an A Period which means I have to get to school an hour early. Kinda surprised though they don't do B Periods anymore (where you stayed at school for an extra hour). Though I have 2 Free (Study, what the teachers call it) Periods in a row. Which to me will be refreshing from the A Period I have :lol:.
 
It was only a muffin, but it caused so much attention.

On the Votech bus today, someone smashed a muffin that was still in its bag between their hands. Not only did it loudly pop the bag, it also sent muffin crumbs literally everywhere. Crumbs went as far as three rows of seats toward the front of the bus, including in my hair. The bus driver was a little scared, and yelled at the people responsible. Then as she turned her focus back on the road ahead, someone threw another muffin right out the window and into traffic. The bus driver then got super pissed and yelled like crazy. Those who were responsible for throwing the muffin out the window couldn't understand why the driver was so mad. An actual quote from one of them:
I don't see why [she's] so mad. The muffin is biodegradable, and we're feeding the birds.
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They all seemed to miss the fact that anything that gets tossed out the window is on the bus driver. For example, if someone throws trash out the window and a police officer sees it, everything from that point on is entirely the bus drivers responsibility. And its quite obvious that such a thing isn't what a bus driver wants to have to put up with.

Anyway, somehow no one got reported to any high school officials, at least not yet.
 
Brutaka
Your class/busmates are uhhh crazy, to put it politely.
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Good thing I walk to school, so I don't have to deal with anything like that.

In other news, I had a lab in Chemistry today, involving the observation of reactions between different metals and acids. They were single replacement reactions. We reacted zinc, magnesium, copper, and iron with acetic, phosphoric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acid. Turns out magnesium is an oxidizing material. Probably explains why it's much more reactive than the others. It reacted pretty violently in hydrochloric and sulfuric acid. The reaction was slower and milder in phosphoric acid. It was really slow in acetic acid. In any acid, the zinc was reacting, but it dissolved rather slowly, with a rather substantial buildup of hydrogen gas. In each acid, there were some bubbles of hydrogen around the iron, but no reaction. With the copper, nothing at all happened. After testing each metal in each acid, we did a race to see which acid reacted the quickest with magnesium. Sulfuric acid seemed to be the quickest. Next class, I have a quiz on molarity, NOT morality.

Also, we had pears today, because it's one of those days where we get fruit. No, it's not because of a poor track record of students bringing fruit. It's just a thing. As of now, I've had 7 of them.

Johnny1996
Its winter. Teenagers in high school in winter will most likely throw snowballs. Most of the Votech students are known to do so. Apparently, every Votech student is going to get yelled at tomorrow for throwing snowballs at each other, and apparently it falls under "making terroristic threats."
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Not saying throwing snowballs isn't potentially dangerous, but I don't think it really counts as terrorism.
 
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Johnny1996
Then again, this is the same school that considers being late to class as harassment.
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Okay, how does that even work? I won't argue that arriving late can be seen as impolite. But HOW is it "harassment"? Okay, you could potentially interrupt a teacher or student if you walk in late, but usually if I'm late for class, it's not by much and the teacher doesn't make a big fuss. In fact, I wake up early enough to get to school at least half an hour before the first bell. Though I prefer to sleep in.
 
Naveek Darkroom
Okay, how does that even work? I won't argue that arriving late can be seen as impolite. But HOW is it "harassment"? Okay, you could potentially interrupt a teacher or student if you walk in late, but usually if I'm late for class, it's not by much and the teacher doesn't make a big fuss. In fact, I wake up early enough to get to school at least half an hour before the first bell. Though I prefer to sleep in.
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Same thing I'm thinking. Now, I did hear that from a Senior last year who had a long history of being a problem student, but still. I can't figure out how the hell the administration at my school gets harassment out of being late for class.
 
Johnny1996
Same thing I'm thinking. Now, I did hear that from a Senior last year who had a long history of being a problem student, but still. I can't figure out how the hell the administration at my school gets harassment out of being late for class.
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They must be operating on this.
 
Naveek Darkroom
They must be operating on this.
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I wouldn't be at all surprised. :lol:

Jokes aside though, I've only heard such things from that one Senior I mentioned above. He considered me a friend even though he more or less forced his way into my life. And I didn't want anything to do with him in the first place anyway, given his history.
 

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