Vent: School Edition

[PuX- 80's]

Your old-fashioned Vent thread, for school.

[Chonkers2]

Your old-fashioned Vent thread, for school.
Just what I needed! We've got GCSE mocks starting tomorrow at school-and I am the most nervous I have ever been. I've never really learnt how to revise as my memory is generally quite good and I just blag it most of the time...so now, when it gets to a week before mocks, when i've done no revision 'caus i've been in a play which practically took over my life - i'm stressing! Especially about Latin, I used to be quite good at Latin as I have a knack for languages, however I did no work in year 10 - and have to learn 20 A4 pages of Latin literature off-by-heart by Friday (Not to mention vocab and grammar!) Then I have History, French and Biology on Wednesday - haven't even started on History or French, i'll be fine for Biology though...so much to learn from the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik's uprising, Stalin, American Civil Rights and Sudent Movements, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Johnson, Truman, Nixon, Kennedy and last but not least Hitler's rise to power! EEK!

[Dreamydre]

I'm so stressed out about Exams coming up, mainly Algebra II. My other exams will be ridiculously easy but I'm afraid Algebra II exam might bite me in the ass. We have like two weeks until exams, I'm staying after school Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for tutoring. I have Junior friends who tell me not to freak out b/c it's mostly matrices but the tests change every year, and seem to get harder and harder. My average in the class isn't bad but I don't want to fail this exam and end up taking this class again next year.

[Rabid]

I'm more worried about my P.E. exam than anything else. It's rather humorous, but I'm fully prepared for all of my other classes. The P.E. exam is 100 questions of possible in-game scenarios, sports regulations, and athletic rules- things I know nothing about and need to inundate into my brain by next Thursday. I understand how to play tennis, badminton, and aerobics, but that's only because I do those activities in my free time, and there ends my expertise :lol:. My 96% in P.E. is my lowest grade, which is rather embarrassing.

[Dreamydre]

Wow, Rabid lol...you still have an "A" in the class. Either way I doubt you'll fail it, at my school Gym is required in Ninth Grade and you have to pass it. We had two parts to the exam, Healthy Living and then the Physical Education Exam. A lot of students claimed that the P.E. part was a little more difficult than the Healthy Living Exam but in my case they were both easy.

[Daisie]

Good luck on your exams, guys. We had ours before winter break (apparently grades improve dramatically when students don't have two weeks off to forget everything), and we're still finishing up the first semester. I'm very glad I don't have to worry about studying right now.

^ I guess that turned into not a vent. Sorry about that. :p

My 96% in P.E. is my lowest grade, which is rather embarrassing.My lowest grade (it was close your PE grade, I think) throughout last school year was in an embarrassingly - and frustratingly, seeing as it was the highest honors level available - easy English class. The class was that way because of the idiot of a teacher we had, though, so I guess it makes sense that she'd grade things weirdly.

[Dreamydre]

ugh! Lucky! It would make so much sense if they gave us our exams before Winter Break. I can't remember a thing from Algebra II.

[Rabid]

Wow, Rabid lol...you still have an "A" in the class. Either way I doubt you'll fail it, at my school Gym is required in Ninth Grade and you have to pass it. We had two parts to the exam, Healthy Living and then the Physical Education Exam. A lot of students claimed that the P.E. part was a little more difficult than the Healthy Living Exam but in my case they were both easy.

I'm jealous of your exam! Sounds like the one I took last year in Health. Where I am, all exams make up for 14% of the semester grade, and mathematics exams compose 16%, so I can't afford to get too bad a grade on the gym exam or it could drop me down to some sort of B. That's not to say that B's are bad, but I have very high standards for myself and would die of shame if my only B so far in high school ended up being in P.E., of all things.

[happycowlover]

I can't believe they give you a written exam for P.E. Rabid. At my school, we have to run 3 miles around the track outside our gym for our final exam, which equates to 4 times around the track. This may sound easy, but when your gym teacher forces you to run, not jog, not walk, around a very long track and you have a time limit before you get points taken off, it definately sucks. Me and this other guy were the only guys to stay with the girls as all the other guys zoomed past us. LOL

[Ranta]

Haha, school related vents? Great idea!

Today, my biology teacher assigned us an overload of homework- all of it due within the next three weeks. We have an essay (and he expects us to spend 3-4 hours researching for it!), two ciritcal reads (which each take 30-45 minutes), a presentation to prepare, detailed decriptions (meaning roughly six sentences) of the roles that certain organelles (there's a list of about twenty of them) play in a cell, and a lab involving rotting tomatoes.

This is depressing... :[ I like my biology teacher and all- he's absolutely hilarious, and quite nice- but we have so much homework!

[el_flel]

Chonkers2 Try not to stress, I heard the mocks are harder than the actual exam because the teachers are trying to "scare" you into doing lots of revision. I did no revision for my GCSEs and got an A, four Bs, four Cs and two Ds (which I knew I wasn't going to do well in anyway). And your mocks are just mocks, they don't count towards anything, and by the sounds of things you are going to do scarily well anyway!

I have so much coursework to do in the next fortnight, it's not fun. I have to give a presentation on Monday and OMG am I scared, I hate public speaking!!

[FurryPanda]

Omigosh, my homework overload is depressing.
In AP Biology I have to make up a test and a chapter summary (of a 40 page chapter with tiny print and few pictures).
In Humanities I have a semester project which I may have not started, which is due the 16th.
In Issues in American society I'm debating the legalization of marijuana and I have to come up with 25 facts on its impact on crime by... tomorrow.
In British literature I have to write a thesis (15 pages, double spaced) by the 16th, and I have to do something called a quote journal by Friday.
AP Calc is delightfully chill atm.
AP World has a book report (which I haven't started) due on Friday, which I don't plan to turn in on time, and some vocabulary she assigned today.
And build season for the robotics team has started two weeks before my play opens, so I'm missing a third of build season for the play, and I'm at school til between five and nine o clock.

To quote a dear friend of mine:
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

[Rabid]

Three miles, happycowlover?! I think I'd rather take the written exam... just one mile wears me out :lol:.

In order to submit schedules for next year, we were given a course description guide and a worksheet to fill out with our schedule requests. We were given this in November and told to keep it until January, and knowing that I compulsively lose things, I gave it to my mom for safekeeping. She's the most obsessively organized person that I've ever come across, so I assumed that it would be safer with her than it would with me, but apparently not- she lost it. It's not due until the end of the month, so we have time to find it, but if we don't, I drop to the end of the registration line and get none of the classes I want :(. I couldn't be more frustrated...

[Daisie]

Could you Xerox a friend's copy, Rabid? (That's probably a stupid question. I know things like that usually have preprinted names and such, just to make it difficult. :lol: But what a bad idea on somebody's part to give it out two months in advance.)

[Rabid]

That's a good idea, Daisie. They're actually blank sheets, so it would work. The counselors told us that they would not replenish any lost materials, but I'm thinking that if one of my parents goes into the school and requests a replacement, they might be a bit more sympathetic than if I were to do it. If that doesn't work, I'll definitely try your idea. Thanks for the advice :D!

[beki_SC]

I must vent about my goddamn Russian teacher. She's also my head of year so she has a huge amount of power over me, she also happens to be the strictest teacher in the whole school, lovely eh? So I've been forgetting homework for her class (which is Russian and I actually can't see the point in studying it) and she has threatened to move me down in my English class. This wouldn't be so bad other than the fact I'm in the gifted set and it will affect my GCSE if I'm moved. I'm dropping Russian next year but if my English is affected it will have a knock on effect as I want to be an English teacher.

Yes she's really annoyed me xD

[Rabid]

I'm so sick of not knowing anyone in my classes... this probably seems like the most shallow, silly complaint in history, but we just got our second semester schedules and, just like it's always been for the entirety of my high school career, I don't know anyone in my classes. I suppose that this is the price I pay for taking upper level subjects, but I hate going through the day without seeing any of my close friends, and sometimes I feel so disconnected from them because we don't get to catch up every day during class like it used to be when we were younger.

I don't know anyone in my lunch, either. I'm sure that I'll end up finding someone, and if I don't I could always take my lunch to the pub room, but for now I'm just wallowing in self pity. I hate feeling lonely at school, because it makes me mad at myself that I feel this way when I have great friends. What's really annoying is that sometimes they constantly complain about not having anyone to be partners with in their foreign language classes, and it irritates me so much. They don't know the half of it; I've had to put up with the same problem in almost all of my classes for two years, and I've learned to deal, so their whining grates on my nerves.

[Dreamydre]

Not much of a vent but omgaaaaaaah! Exams start next week :sprint:

[Charley-x]

My Media teacher continues to ignore me when i ask her questions! It pisses me right off and i feel like screaming at her sometimes. it's unreal, everyone in my class agrees. Seriously, it takes the mick! :@

[MacHeadMandi]

Second day of the semester. I got my grades back yesterday. I got a C on my geometry final and a low A in English, which is not at all what I wanted. This semester I'll be working my ass off trying to accomplish things and pull out of science and math with As across the board. And I was so looking forward to playing sims again after the computer got back... Sigh.

[elpemmy]

Can friendship gripes be in the thread? Haha.
Agh, it's really getting me down though. I came home and I cried for like, half an hour. And it feels like I have no one in real-life to tell, because I'm so... awkward with words.
But yeah, friend troubles. DAMN THEM.
But I've already griped to plenty of people in chat, so maybe I'll stop now XP
Em
<3

[FurryPanda]

National bloody Honor Society.
Our point keeper is a nitwit.
A bloody potheaded nitwit.
So I thought that for community service hours, to get credit in NHS, you had to turn in the official form the school gives you. Which you, before turning in to the school, has to get signed by the program coordinator you worked for, and two witnesses, at least one over 21, and has an essay portion, minimum seven hundred words.
So I drop my form in the box for NHS figuring that pointkeeper will see the form, give me my points, and give the form to the guidance office.
This did not happen. The idiot left it, and everyone else's points, though I was the only one stupid enough to give him an official form, on the bus the day before a two week break.

[Dreamydre]

I'm so sick of not knowing anyone in my classes... this probably seems like the most shallow, silly complaint in history, but we just got our second semester schedules and, just like it's always been for the entirety of my high school career, I don't know anyone in my classes. I suppose that this is the price I pay for taking upper level subjects, but I hate going through the day without seeing any of my close friends, and sometimes I feel so disconnected from them because we don't get to catch up every day during class like it used to be when we were younger.

I don't know anyone in my lunch, either. I'm sure that I'll end up finding someone, and if I don't I could always take my lunch to the pub room, but for now I'm just wallowing in self pity. I hate feeling lonely at school, because it makes me mad at myself that I feel this way when I have great friends. What's really annoying is that sometimes they constantly complain about not having anyone to be partners with in their foreign language classes, and it irritates me so much. They don't know the half of it; I've had to put up with the same problem in almost all of my classes for two years, and I've learned to deal, so their whining grates on my nerves.
That's why you meet new people. At least YOU get a new lunch, I have B Lunch...again. I've had B Lunch since I started High School.


The end of the Semester is getting closer :( I'm going to miss the cool people I met; especially in Theater....

[~Squash-buddy-ven~]

I have my first law exam tomorrow and it's a written exam which means that I have to run around Copenhagen with my laptop and a fricking printer because they don't have enough equipment for all students. Geez, I wonder if they have any idea how much trouble it is to transport laptop, printer, books, notes etc. by bus in rush hour?

[maeve.2.0]

AAAARGH I hate school I hate school I hate school.
I hate it so much it is quite possible I might die. It can't be healthy having HATE FOR SCHOOL IN EVERY FIBRE OF YOUR BEING.

Also on a slightly less hysterical note I found out today that my History teacher talked about me in class while I was absent. Basically we were getting our tests back, I had a low grade (4.9/10), and she went on about how she could see from my work that I just wasn't at class enough so I missed notes, and how I was such a smart girl and I could get a 9 if I worked a little harder. It KILLS me that she does this; if she has a problem with me or if she thinks I am slacking off she can tell me in person, not blab about it to fourteen people I don't even really know when I'm not there.

[Charley-x]

In media today my teacher asked me to do some things for her (go photocopy this - go get the dvd - go get some stroyboarding sheets - go get the pencils from art blah blahhh)
and today was the last day that we had to finish our story boards which are GETTING GRADED and because of her constantly asking me to do stuff (i barely stayed in my seat for 5 minutes)i didn't get to finish off mine - all i had to do was add what edits and shooting time they would be and if they are on the work your grades get docked. ITS HER FAULT. grrrrrrr. Now when we get our grades back tomorrow she'll go mental at me and have a go at me for getting a crappy grade :x. URGH.

[Daisie]

I would definitely point out to the teacher that you didn't have enough time, Charley. That's an annoying situation. :hmm:

So, my vent is that I have a three-page essay to write for my government class this weekend. It's on an interesting topic, but I really would have liked to relax a bit instead of doing schoolwork.

[MacHeadMandi]

This weekend's agenda:
Two lab reports (five page average)
Getting ahead on Secret Life of Bees (100 pages of reading and then analytical journaling on the chapter if I have time)
Designing a house for geometry (Hoping I can get everything from my draft translated in correct ratios to my engineering paper this weekend)
Write two debate cases for LD competition at the end of the month (Really long, difficult project that I am not looking forward to)

Relaxing? Oh, no, I don't do that; I'm an honors student.

[Dreamydre]

I'm convinced I don't have any classes with anyone next semester; this shizz happens every year. I do know I have Civics & Economics with this guy named David (he gets on my nerves). On a good note this cute junior boy is planning to ask me out (although I'm going to turn him down; I just got out of a relationship and I'm really not ready to be involved in another one so soon.) I just hope I have at least one class with someone I socialize with.

[Rabid]

I'm convinced I don't have any classes with anyone next semester; this shizz happens every year.

Now you know what I mean ;).

I've been asked to write the headline opinion article for the newspaper and I'm absolutely delighted to do it, but I'm a bit lost. The opinion editor told me to write an article about Obama's inauguration and essentially "throw the Democrats a bone." As someone who tends to lean constantly in the direction of Democrats or Libertarians, I have no problem writing it, but it's conjuring the right perspective that's the problem. I just don't know where to take it... I need to think of a good angle. I wish she'd been a bit more specific, but beggars can't be choosers :lol:.

[PuX- 80's]

P.E. needs to be punched in the face....that would be if it had one...
I have to make up a workout with 20 workouts...by myself.
I'm going to do it all now so I can turn it in by tuesday as my final.

[Dreamydre]

P.E. needs to be punched in the face....that would be if it had one...
I have to make up a workout with 20 workouts...by myself.
I'm going to do it all now so I can turn it in by tuesday as my final.
Your doing workouts for a final? :lol: At my high school we have to do exams....LUCKY!! :eviltongu

[lethifold]

I don't have to do P.E. anymore :P

Anyway, my vent. And school hasn't even started for the year.
My friend just confirmed for me that the executive teacher for each subject teaches the highest level of that subject. For me, I'm in the top level English, SOSE and Science. I don't mind the English or the SOSE teachers, but the executive teacher of Science is the biggest tight-arse of a teacher at my school. I really, really don't want to have to put up with her for a year, but seeing as it's my last year of High School, if I drop down a level from Science then it won't be recorded on my Year 10 certificate that I was in the highest level :(

[PuX- 80's]

Your doing workouts for a final? :lol: At my high school we have to do exams....LUCKY!! :eviltongu
Not physicaly doing the workouts, but making a report-ish thing of them.
Last for the same teacher we had exams, but this he wants to be wierd.
My finals are next week, after Monday off.

Does anyone else get out of school early for finals?

[Dreamydre]

Not physicaly doing the workouts, but making a report-ish thing of them.
Last for the same teacher we had exams, but this he wants to be wierd.
My finals are next week, after Monday off.

Does anyone else get out of school early for finals?

We get out @ 11:30, on the last day of Exams (Thursday) we get out at 10:30.

[FurryPanda]

My week was a roller coaster.

Monday: British literature paper due. We'd known about ti for six weeks, I hadn't done it. Weekly calculus problems due, done in class before. Play rehersal til seven
Teusday: Pop quiz on chapter I didn't read in AP Bio
Wednesday: Had british literture again. Faked sick, went to school in time for calculus, schedule messed up by standardized tests and I had to go to Brit Lit. Teacher glares daggers. Didn't do calculus review assignment.
Thursday: Rehearsal til eight thirty. Father gets email that I have an F in Brit lit.
Friday: Turn in brit lit paper! Take calculus final. be threatened with email to father that would deconstruct entire web of lies that let me get away with things for the week.

Now: No email- so far. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Dreamydre]

I tried to sign up for Newspaper I last year (Freshman Year) but I didn't because I was suppose to get a "recommendation" from somewhere. So I want to sign up for the course for Junior year but I don't know where I'm suppose to get this recommendation. I tried to email my guidance counselor (3 days ago) but he hasn't replied. So to anyone who is in Newspaper, did you have to get a recommendation? If so where did you get it?

[happycowlover]

We get out @ 11:30, on the last day of Exams (Thursday) we get out at 10:30.

You guys are lucky. After we take our finals, we still get out normal time. We usually just play cards, talk, watch a movie, or when we're really bored, play hand games.

[FurryPanda]

We have two exams a day for a week. Other classes are normal time and normal curricula.
I am bitterly envious of your hand games.

[Dreamydre]

are you guys serious?!?!? What the hell do they expect you to do for the remainder of the day? I would kill myself from boredom :p

[PuX- 80's]

I get off at 12:30 Wednesday-Friday.
The usual is 2:40.

[Dreamydre]

after exams we go to our next period and review for an hour and then we're on our way home!

[FurryPanda]

are you guys serious?!?!? What the hell do they expect you to do for the remainder of the day? I would kill myself from boredom :p
For example, today I had my fourth period exam (AP Calculus, *whinesob*). Before that I had first second and third period, same as every other day.

On Teusday (Love MLK day) I will have my second and fourth period exam and before my second period exam I will have first period, and before fourth period I will have third.

Does that make sense?

[lethifold]

Wow...all this talk of finals and exams. I still have another year before I go through that torture...
I feel sorry for you all. The worst exam I had to do was something of my choice, outside of school and for Japanese, and that was only one exam.

[alliemarie2323]

I got up really early to make up an exam that I had missed a day that I was gone. The teacher told me to be at school at 7 sharp to take it, which I was. I waited in the room for him until school started..and he never showed up. Ugh.

I hate my new classes...they are filled with stuck up people who only care about themselves. I miss my old ones :[

I was telling my friend Mel that I thought it was whack that my teacher had counted my make up assignment as missing when he hadn't even given it to me yet, and now this kid that sits next to me goes around making fun of me saying "That's whack, yo!". He won't shut up. I am seriously about to smack him.

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[happycowlover]

It can be really fun or godawful, depending on the teacher. Last year, we played Guesstures in my American Lit. class and since we had some wild people in that class, it was enjoyable. Then, we watched a snorefest of a movie about the colonization of America in U.S. History.

Those hand and card games can really heat up. Get a good game of Slide or Speed going, and time will be over before you know it. LOL

[Dreamydre]

yes it makes sense Furrypanda how much time do you have to take the exam? We take our exam from 7:30-10:30 then we go to our next period and review until 11:30 and then go home :hmm:

[FurryPanda]

PixCii:: Really? Once you start high school here you have two exams for every credit you take, a midterm and a final. Each is worth 14% of your grade for the semester, and your grade for the year is the average of the semesters. Some classes just have you do a project, but the system at my school requires that you have something be worth the 14%.

Dreamydre: It depends on how scheduling works out. We're supposed to have 90 minutes, but today we had seventy. Our classes are usually ninety minutes long, with one class being 2 hours long so that each of the 4 half hour lunches can go. So today we had homeroom (don't have that every day) and the standardized tests (from the no child left behind act) ran long, so everyone had to wait in second period, and then two hours for lunch, and then the rest of the day for the exam. Usually if it winds up being less than an hour they postpone it.

[lethifold]

Wow. My school must be pretty slack, FurryPanda. Actually, I know it is. We have the easiest marking system in my city, and when students from my school go to college they are generally surprised by the marks.
We have tests in maths and science but they're just the usual tests and aren't really worth all that much. Then we just have general assignments/essays to do in other classes, but nothing really like an exam. When I go to college next year I have to be prepared, but until then, not much happens.

[Rabid]

So to anyone who is in Newspaper, did you have to get a recommendation? If so where did you get it?

Where I am, joining the student newspaper requires taking Journalism I, Journalism II, and procuring the green light from the advisor to get on the staff. He says yes about 75% of the time, but if he thinks you don't have it, he won't hesitate to tell you. If you join, be prepared to work... a lot of people I talk to think that it's all fun and games, but it's actually quite stressful.


PixCii:: Really? Once you start high school here you have two exams for every credit you take, a midterm and a final. Each is worth 14% of your grade for the semester, and your grade for the year is the average of the semesters. Some classes just have you do a project, but the system at my school requires that you have something be worth the 14%.


My school does the exact same thing for semester grades. There are two nine weeks grades, each worth 43% of the semester, and then the 14% exam is factored in.

[Dreamydre]

My parents are seriously trippin' I want to go to this academy in Boston for my Senior year (two years from now) but they refuse to let me go. I don't understand, my eldest two sisters went their for their senior year. They won't let me do anything...

[Rabid]

I hate lazy administrators... I sent the assistant principal and one of the guidance counselors e-mail with a few questions for my newspaper story, and despite being perfectly capable of answering them, both referred me to someone else. Is it so inconceivable that I have deadlines to meet (which I divulged in the original e-mails) and can't be chasing people around for days?

[lethifold]

I lost the only copy I could get of the textbooks I need for this year, so I'm just sort of making it up as I go along. Mum is going to be so annoyed, but they shouldn't give me (the most forgetful person on the planet who loses absolutely everything) the book list about four weeks before school even ends. :(

[Rabid]

To continue with the new developments of my last vent...

I have a story due Thursday, and I e-mailed an administrator (one who I was referred to) with a few interview questions on Saturday asking her to please get back to me by Tuesday to meet deadlines. She just e-mailed me back this morning (after I left for school, so I was freaking out all day) and said that she "had no time" to answer the questions and would prefer to meet with me. When I proposed a time, she responded that she was very busy and wouldn't be able to meet me. Well, how do you want to do it, lady? I need to ask the rest of the newspaper staff if they ever have this experience with administrators, or if it's just some cosmic joke to be my misfortune evvvvery time.

I complain about newspaper too much, I know, and I do in fact love it dearly. I just don't love the people I have to interview :lol:.

[Daisie]

Ahhh. My English teacher and Government teacher are married to each other - which is weird, but whatever - and they like to assign their huge research papers and projects and things on the same day every time, just because they can. :wtf:

[Rabid]

That's really weird, Daisie :/.

[Daisie]

I know! The whole thing is weird.

[Dreamydre]

Algebra II exam tomorrow, I hope I do well!

[PuX- 80's]

I got-ed a 61% on my Chemistry Mid-Term...
I have Algebra I and World History Mid-Terms tomorrow.
Math is a no-brainer.
History, is where I'm worried.

[Dreamydre]

I took Algebra II exam and I must admit that test was HARD. I told my teacher to email me with my score and if I failed I'm going to seriously cry. And we get no make up day I think because of the snow day so I'm screwed.

Dude, Pux put the little anger face in the title like the General Discussion Vent Thread...it makes it more ventable :D

[FurryPanda]

*drops down flat on back, feet in air, and wheezes*
TWO GAWDAM EXAMS! TWO! Not two in one day, two in three hours! Oh merciful gawd, two exams in three hours, and then an exam in a class I thought I didn't have an exam in! So THREE exams in one day! And not three BS exams either, AP Biology, Honors Anatomy, and AP World. AUGH!

Although I got my AP Bio and Anatomy results back and I got an 83% and a 100%, so I can't really whine, and the AP World test is going to be curved 43%.

[PuX- 80's]

Dude, Pux put the little anger face in the title like the General Discussion Vent Thread...it makes it more ventable :D
Lol I had to read that twice :P

Got it dude-man-sniff-doode.

[Frenchie]

One of my lecturers has given us past exams to stody, but without the solutions. Because I'm my class' course rep, I pretty much had to urge him into giving them to us at last... two days before the exams. No one has replied to the questions yet, you see. It may have to do with him not doing a great job at teaching us some know-how and methods.
And now I'm reading those exam papers and the solutions again... and some mention coefficients and stuff that I never remembered ever learning. And I shouldn't hope to find them in the course material/hand-out. That thing has no contents table, page numbers or index, there's no way to find what you really need in there.

Right now, to be honest, I feel like screaming "F*CK THAT" and hurling that handout, then myself at my lecturer. I'll probably fail really hard tomorrow. It's worrying me to no end, especially since it's an Erasmus year, so my only option is to succeed (no retaking the year, and I'd fail the French year at the same time. Besides, I've had enough of studies) :(

[Dreamydre]

oh my fucking god I can't believe I failed my Theater Arts I exam, seriously of all classes. I could cry right now, but luckily I had a high grade in the class so it brought it down to a C. I aced all of my other Exams/EOC's with A's and B's. That is sosososo not fair...My friends are never going to stop nagging me about this, because they had a study session together and I didn't go, and their exact words were "Izzy you are so going to fail that exam"...I failed miserably. :( How much does taxi drivers earn? Looks like that's where my life is headed...

[Frenchie]

oh my fucking god I can't believe I failed my Theater Arts I exam, seriously of all classes. I could cry right now, but luckily I had a high grade in the class so it brought it down to a C. I aced all of my other Exams/EOC's with A's and B's. That is sosososo not fair...My friends are never going to stop nagging me about this, because they had a study session together and I didn't go, and their exact words were "Izzy you are so going to fail that exam"...I failed miserably. :( How much does taxi drivers earn? Looks like that's where my life is headed...Come on, you say you aced all your other exams. Your average will be high enough for you to pass, I'm sure.

[Dreamydre]

Come on, you say you aced all your other exams. Your average will be high enough for you to pass, I'm sure.
Thanks, I might have to hang myself with a used g-string though...

[el_flel]

The_French_Sim - random Q (you don't have to answer if you feel it is too personal to share online), buuut, are you at Portsmouth uni?

Eeeeek I have two exams next week, one is open-book = all good. The other is one I know nothing about which I was going to revise for today but then I had the pleasure of my flat being broken into which is most annoying as it is, but it also meant I had no time to revise because I was dealing with police and SOCOs and my neighbours whose flats were also broken in to. Drama.

[Frenchie]

Thanks, I might have to hang myself with a used g-string though...Noooo you can't do that!


... at least make sure you use new, lacy knickers :D j/k of course, I'm sure all will be well :) Mark my words!

The_French_Sim - random Q (you don't have to answer if you feel it is too personal to share online), buuut, are you at Portsmouth uni?Aye.

Also, the department's forum had people complaining about that exam we had on Monday too. That, and three people basically going "lol, we won't phail because we revised well, unlike you lololol".

[el_flel]

Aye.
We're at the same uni then :D how weird

[Rabid]

For the school paper, I was assigned to write a fairly generalized editorial about the election of Barack Obama. I wrote something and was unhappy with it at first, but it grew on me and I sent it in. The editor-in-chief came to me today and said that the piece was "too well written" and said that it's too wordy for a high school paper. She wants me to "dumb it down." The section editor told me it was a brilliant piece and that she wouldn't change a thing- high praise coming from someone who doesn't like Barack Obama.

Somehow, I don't think this is right. I suppose I can understand that not all high school students think on the plane of long adjectives and complicated wording that I do, but why should I have to change a good piece so that the average dumbass at my school can better understand it? Opinion writing is writing to express your opinion, not reflect it in kidgloved terms for the slackers to understand. The opinion page is the least popular section of the paper, anyway, and it's typically only read by intellectuals who would understand it. Here's (http://forums.sims-community.com/showpost.php?p=1308497&postcount=13) the piece- do you think that this is as wrong as I do? Should I tell the publications advisor? I can't disobey a direct order from the editor and I don't want to undermine her, but I don't think this is right.

[Frenchie]

I think the article shouldn't be dumbed down. I mean, reading's supposed to improve your vocabulary in the first place, isn't it? If we dumb everything down, how are people going to learn new things?

[evilbarbie]

My maths teacher refused to help me in class today because "I'm making progress" as she calls it.. and I got a D. Last year I had a B. Progress, yeah.

[Frenchie]

I have an exam at 11 tomorrow. It's almost 3, and I can't sleep because I'm worrying about various topics... and the frustration is making me less likely to be calm enough to sleep. Hurray!

[el_flel]

I really do think that Post-Modernism makes no sense :weep: I just wish I could fast-forward to Tuesday when this exam would be done

[tree4me]

$600 have been flushed down the toilet.

Absolutely NO schools here wear whatever to school. Everyone has to have a uniform, and it is roughly $300 each year for uniforms alone. I only got a knit jumper and a sports uniform and it was $150. My brother needs a uniform because he starts high school this year.

This is a PUBLIC School, by the way. Bloody cheapskates.

To top it all off, and this may sound stupid, but I have been incredibly depressed for 3 months.

[Frenchie]

I'm going to an exam in a few hours after an involuntary all-nighter. Go me!

[tree4me]

That doesn't sound very healthy.

Then again, you do burn about the same amount of calories that are in an ice-cream cone (single scoop).

Isn't the internet informative?

[lethifold]

Too much homework. Plus, I don't understand Science. It's really confusing, and my teacher is giving us way too much work to do.
It's the third day and I'm already doing about an hour and a half of homework each night.

[tree4me]

All I don't get in science is the periodic table. Then again, I have only been doing science for a year, and grade 7 Science is pretty easy.

[PuX- 80's]

Tree4me, 8th grade science isn't all that terrible either. The periodic table is also simple (in what you need to learn).

Vent:
I have metal-chair-butt :P
I completed our school's exit exam (we don't get the results yet) and I can't explain how much sitting still sucks. I tried to miss all my classes on both Tuesday and Wednesday so I litteraly sat for over three hours counting everything there was to count in our old gym.
I counted:
30 ceiling lights, only 29 work.
11 bleachers, only 10 move.
6 basketball hoops.
I failed, and had to bail and go to 3rd, I was going to go insane if I didn't.

[Charley-x]

I have to go back to that dreaded place on monday, *shudders*

[tree4me]

School sucks. My maths/science teacher is fat and stupid. He has no idea what he is doing! I have homework due tomorrow, and I forgot to take it home with me, so I only have 40 minutes tomorrow to finish it off.

To top it all off, I have to set up the audio/visual for another assembly, so I have to be at school at 7:30 and then have to take it all down. Because of all the sexist freaks at our school, and me being the only girl on the team, I am stuck counting all the friggin' chairs!

[Rabid]

I love newspaper, but the disadvantage to being a writer is being low on the totem pole- even sophomore designers can be important because they spend so much time on the paper after school. We writers simply do our piece and it ends there. What's worse is that I have three years of middle school publications experience that few others have, so I know what I'm doing like the back of my hand and never get to use it because I don't get the opportunity. I hate having no say, and our advisor doesn't even read the opinion page, so when I go out for an editorship next year, he'll have no idea what good things I've done. I just hate being so... insignificant.

[happycowlover]

Ugh, I seriously do not want to do my Amer. Gov't project.

Me and my group began Monday and started our PowerPoint today. Since we didn't finish at school, someone had to take it home. My friend offered to do it, but she pratically never does any of her projects, so trusting it in her hands would be too risky. The other three people showed zero interest in doing it, so I reluctantly said yes.

[tree4me]

I don't like SOSE... SOSE sucks. SOSE is bad for my health. Well, not really, but it smells. :(

[lethifold]

What are you studying in SOSE at the moment? I remember I used to hate it, but then I began to realise that the subjects we were studying affected me in some way, and I began to enjoy it.

[tree4me]

We are studying "Flags of the World". It really sucks. At least it isn't as bad as Science and Maths.

[lethifold]

Even though I've said in the past that I like my science teacher this year, I really don't. We got an assignment which was as to be expected, but he gave us a week to do it and it is about three times as long as any other assignment we've ever gotten. He marks very harshly, and he just piles the work on.
We also got another assignment where we have to build a race car out of a mousetrap, and it is so difficult if you aren't any good at building things. He doesn't seem to understand that we get other assignments from other classes.
I have two English assignments, a research report for World Issues, a 2,000 word essay for Japanese, a creative assignment for Young Chefs and an assignment on this year's yearbook for Photography.
I just don't have the time to do two more assignments for Science, especially when they are needlessly long.

[happycowlover]

Oh. My. God.

I have to write six essays for my AP English project that's due Monday, and I'm only on the third sentence of my first essay. I then have to finish Huckleberry Finn to do a test on the entire book also on Monday and write about it on Wednesday. Let's not forget the AP English speech and French IV speech (that's all in French) that're both due sometime this week. To put the cream cheese icing on the cake, I have to take my SATs tomorrow and I'm ABSOLUTELY DRAINED!!!!!!!! I felt like dropping dead at my job today, but seeing as I only had a 15-min break, that wasn't going to happen. Thankfully, I'm not sending these SAT scores to any colleges, so I can bomb the first time and do better next year. And then, I had a French IV test and Algebra III test today to end off my Friday.

I need a hug. :(

[simtastic_SC]

Oh, how I hate school! And I really hate homework on the weekend! And, in tech-ed (woodshop) we have to build this stupid bridge and i hate it! I hate shop! and in english we just finished romeo and juliet

[tree4me]

Happycowlover: **hugs** That is a terrible amount of work to get done. I'm sorry.

simtastic: I never liked MDT either, or Romeo and Juliet. Honestly, I don't think anyone likes school.

[lethifold]

I like school. Except for the overload of assignments. And I love Romeo and Juliet. It's my favourite play.

[tree4me]

Oops. Sorry. :P Not that liking school is a bad thing. *shuts up before she says something stupid.*

[Rabid]

For my English class, we're doing competitive debates- whichever team of three wins receives a 3% bonus on their final debate grade. I'm fairly confident that my group will win, seeing as it includes three people who are well-read and highly interested in English, but we're the odd group and so we have a fourth wheel. He really shouldn't be in Honors English, and we're horribly afraid that he's going to screw it up for us. I would bet my life that he'll forget to dress up, and there goes a few points right there. What's worse is that my teacher assigned him to be the anchor of the debate, and he's going to sink our ship entirely.

Also, today I was standing in line behind my friend's boyfriend in my art class. He cut in front of me and I jokingly told him "no Chinese cutting" like we used to say on the playground as kids. The teacher overheard and berated me for saying something derogatory- he thought that I was insulting him, because the guy is Asian. He wasn't offended at all, but now the teacher thinks I'm a racist :(.

[lethifold]

I have an advantage in Japanese at school, seeing as I've lived there and I now know the language fairly well. However, my Japanese teacher never calls on me in class.
I don't want to be mean, but no one in that class can speak Japanese. At all. So, during my fourth year of learning Japanese at this school (my eighth year in total), I'm stuck learning things that I learnt in my second year of Japanese.
Today we were learning the expression you use when you are saying "have had the experience of", and I've already learnt this. After five minutes of asking random people in the class who had no idea what he was talking about, and five minutes of me waving my hand in the air like a lunatic, my teacher ignores me and gives the correct answer to the class without even looking at me. It's incredibly annoying, and normally the only marks I ever lose in that class are for "not participating in class discussions".
How can I participate in class discussions when he never lets me talk?

[tree4me]

Sophie, I know how you feel. I get reports saying that I don't participate in class discussions enough when, in fact, I am never called upon, so I need to make myself heard. Thanks to my "super-awesome-singers-lungs", I could do that, but it gets me into heaps of trouble.

My vent: I am always sick at school, because of the tablets that I have to take, (and a few other things.) and I don't get to participate in most of my favourite classes because of it. The teachers even tell me to sit out even when I am feeling fine. :| It's annoying, especially considering that I am as, if not more capable of everything that is being asked of everyone. It really ticks me off.

[lethifold]

I seem to have a lot of school related vents. Maybe that's just because I don't like my school...

Anyway, this time I'm complaining about my World Issues teacher. I've had her for the last three years of SOSE, and she has always been so incompetent. Now she's just being so incredibly annoying, I can't stand it.
She gave us an assignment about three weeks ago, but I got it a week late because I was sick. This assignment is a 1,000 research report on refugees. I asked for an extension because I got it late, plus the flood of other assignments I have is insane, and she just said no straight out. When I asked why, she wouldn't explain.
Then, on Friday, she hands out ANOTHER assignment, this time a fifteen minute oral presentation on terrorism, and we only have three days to prepare for it.
It's so annoying. I've lost all the time for things I like doing already because of these assignments, and now I'm going to have to stay up late tonight trying to finish that stupid research report and my presentation for Word Issues. :(

EDIT: Just re-read my assignment sheet for the research report, and it makes no sense whatsoever. I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing...

[Rabid]

I have a research paper over E. E. Cummings' life, times, and influence on avant-garde poetry due this Monday. It was assigned about a month ago, and while I'm trying to finish it this weekend, I just can't concentrate. At the risk of sounding incredibly conceited, I have a history of writing great, A+ research papers, but this one is throwing me for a loop. I just can't concentrate... MLA makes my head hurt, and even though a nine-page minimum is nothing to me (I'm already over the maximum :lol: ), I feel like I'm not doing enough.

[lethifold]

9 page minimum? And you're already over the maximum? Nice...

My Nutrition teacher is very, very unreasonable. I have an assignment due on Monday, and there is no real way I can finish it and hand it in by that date.
This assignment is a group assignment, and one of the members of my group can't do anything at all this week, and the two of us are going to be out of school on Thursday and Friday, so we can't work on it then. We are all busy all weekend as well. Then, on Monday and Tuesday, I'm going up to Sydney for a photography trip, and I won't be here, and neither will the third member of the group. We all have such a busy and interrupted week this week, and although it is a valid reason, we aren't allowed any extensions.

[tree4me]

Uhg... dissection...

It's gonna be horrible. :(

[simtastic_SC]

Dissection? Im not gonna do it! I asked my mom if she can right me a note when we start doing dissection. Im a vegetarian anyway, so i dont want to dissect an animal!

[Rabid]

Dissections are foul, but I've learned that it's best to defer all the work to your partner if you're morally opposed. You'll miss a huge lab and the alternative assignment probably won't be fun, not to mention that there's a lot of valuable information to be had from a dissection. I dissected a rat in my biology class (had to skin it, too) and a cat in my anatomy class, neither of which was fun in the least, but it was a good learning experience. I think the worst things I've ever dissected were the frog and the starfish- the frog had caviar in it and the starfish smelled like brine.

[lethifold]

I've always sat out when we were doing dissections in class. Luckily enough they were never a major part of any assignments, but they were just to see how things work. I can't stand doing anything like that, so I'm glad my teachers allowed me to do other work rather than carry on with the dissection.

[Dreamydre]

ew, I'm glad I don't have Anatomy. I'd plead for my teacher to give me paper work rather than dissect animals. :hdown:

[Rabid]

I had anatomy and bio last year. I don't enjoy dissections in the least, but it's not something that I'm particularly morally opposed to (animals are wonderful creatures, but human life and scientific advancement necessitate their sacrifice). There was never an option to decline to dissect in either of my classes, though- taking bio as an honors course and taking elective anatomy meant that I had to be prepared for that course of action because dissections are vital labs of both courses.

New vent: Grr, I'm trying to study for AP World and I'm ready to blow. I hate WWI and WWII! I love history, but it gets boring when the whole world becomes civilized (after about 1800). I find WWI and WWII incredibly confusing- everybody's fighting, and I'll leave it at that :lol:.

[Daisie]

I'm not morally opposed to animal research that contributes to scientific advancement, but dissections in required high school courses are pointless and wasteful - when maybe two students in a class of twenty-five will go into medical or scientific fields, the vast majority of frogs and cats sacrificed to freshman biology classes die only to be squealed at and handed off to lab partners. Save dissections for elective courses (like your anatomy class, Rabid) where higher percentages of interested students are at least more likely.

Speaking of which, sort of - I have a biology test tomorrow that spans four long, complicated chapters (the teacher is trying to finish a lot of material before spring break, I guess), and I'm going to have to do serious cramming tonight in order to do well at all. Especially since I missed the lessons on two of the chapters on the two days of school I had to miss last week.

[Dreamydre]

I had anatomy and bio last year. I don't enjoy dissections in the least, but it's not something that I'm particularly morally opposed to (animals are wonderful creatures, but human life and scientific advancement necessitate their sacrifice). There was never an option to decline to dissect in either of my classes, though- taking bio as an honors course and taking elective anatomy meant that I had to be prepared for that course of action because dissections are vital labs of both courses.

No I wasn't saying I was against it, I would just find it gross.

[tree4me]

Well, I am against it, not because it makes me vomit, but because I don't want to open up an organ of a once living thing! I find it cruel and unusual. What's wrong with finding a simulation of a dissection online? I mean, it isn't as disgusting, and it isn't an actual organ, so really, no big deals.

But no, I had to do the dissections because they're gay, and they stink up the room! (well, it did for us.) I was out of the classroom for half an hour vomiting it was that horrible. I am going to do what I do best. Complain.

[simtastic_SC]

we had to do notecards for history, and i was sick for 2 days and the teacher was mad at me for not bringing them in! so, that night i get them ready, mind all the other hw i have. i give them to her the next day and she tells me to redo them. but i already returned the books back to the library!

[Rabid]

My English teacher drives me insane! This being an honors course, I expect a higher level of criticism upon our written work in order to prepare us for AP Lit come next year. Au contraire- she rarely if ever grades our papers, and when she does, it's so close to the end of the term that no negotiation can be made upon grades. Even if she did grade them in a timely fashion, the essays are never returned, and so I have no idea what she's taking points for. All of my high school career and before, I've been used to the perks of being an exceptional writer- little to no criticism on returned papers, 100% essays or above, etc. This teacher is one who is incapable of awarding an A+ no matter how good the paper- she somehow finds a flaw or insufficiency in everything, and I want her to return my papers so I know what deluded little thing she thinks I'm doing wrong. Why she continues to give me 99%'s and 98%'s, I don't know. I'm not shy about negotiating grades, and if only I had my papers back, I wouldn't hesitate to confront her. It's not just about the point value, either- if I'm truly making a mistake, I want to know so that I can learn from it.

[tree4me]

This guy has been moved to my class. He is a pervert, and he has sexually abused me on three separate occasions. I have had to tell my PC teacher and all the other teachers where he is in the same class I am. God, it was embarrassing. :(

[simtastic_SC]

Tree4me- really? you should get a restraining order.

[tree4me]

I really should, shouldn't I? If it gets any worse, then I probably will.

[Rabid]

Does anyone else ever feel like they're ready to graduate right now? Scholarship season has rolled around and I've been looking into a few for when my time comes- a few that I know I'm more than qualified for. I feel like I don't learn anything important anymore, and I'm so ready to have that period of being on high that seniors describe their final semester as. I've been told by guidance counselors all throughout high school that I am "prime scholarship material," and I'm so ready for that time to come. I've always been ahead of the learning curve because I read independently and learn a lot through that, but that feeling of wanting to move on is somehow more pronounced, lately. I love my school, I love seeing my friends there every day, but I feel like I have nothing left to learn.

[lethifold]

I just feel that I'm ready to leave high school and go straight onto college here. High school (especially English, Japanese and SOSE) is so boring at the moment, seeing as I've learnt Japanese since I was 8, I read a lot so I've read all the books we read in English, and I read a lot about current world issues so I know what's going on around me. These classes are so boring at the moment, and I'm just terrible at Maths and Science, so I don't really want to do those subjects anymore, even though I will end up doing Maths in college.

[Rabid]

AP Exams are in less than a month *prepares to blow brains out*...

[tree4me]

Back to school tomorrow, and I have tons of school tests to do. . . :( To top it off, I have an English assignment where we have to write a novel type story. (Yes, at 14, I have to write a novel for English, is it supposed to be like this in Grade 8?)

[madisonx]

I'm 13 and in year 9 in England and I had to do that last year 8)
so dw.

[stariscool]

Woot. Back at college in the morning. And with A-level exams coming up, not a single teacher is gunna shut up about them. Yes, I know we have to revise, and I am doing, a lot more than I did for GCSE, so just shut up about it, and teach the flamin' lesson! Thank you. =]

[tree4me]

@madisonx: 13 and in year 9? Have you skipped a few grades??

[Rabid]

We're making a glass mosaic right now in my art class (meaning that we have to cut the glass)- and the teacher provides no gloves! I think it's an asinine project for high school students to begin with because cutting glass is very dangerous, but without gloves?! Tiny shards of glass get stuck on my hands all the time, and at least one person gets cut every single day. I got cut for the first time today- it's a two-inch gash on my index finger, and because it's on my writing hand, I've had a hard time writing all day. I hate it- my time in that class is spent in an extreme state of caution, and the absurdly unrealistic due dates he has provided will make us rush and therefore get cut even more. I think I'll bring my own gloves.

My dad actually wants to talk to the teacher about this *facepalm*. Being an industrial chemist who has managed factories for thirty years, he says that he wouldn't allow even the most experienced factory worker to cut glass without gloves, let alone a high school student. I really want someone's dad to stick it to the teacher- I just don't want it to be MY dad :lol:.

[PuX- 80's]

Rabid, I do see your issue with cutting into glass without protection, but art isn't ment to be 'safe' nor perfect. Maybe your teacher thinks that the students would use as much common sence and safety as possible while using a 'Hit and Miss' strategy.
You don't catch the thrill of messing with the boundries of danger?

We had class elections today and on the ballot for the class of '11 (my class) there was one missing person now we have to revote on Monday. I don't believe anyone knows the outcome yet either.

[lethifold]

Liz, I was 13 for the majority of my Year 9. Then again, I'm one of the youngest people in the grade. Most of the current Year 9s are older than me, and I'm in Year 10 now.

My vent:
My Maths teacher gave the class a massive assignment for the holidays and first couple of weeks of the new term (I go back to school on Tuesday after a 2 week holiday), and then she procedes to leave and go overseas for the next term. It's a really annoying assignment, and a lot of it is to do with quadratic equations which I am absolutely awful at. I don't want to do badly on this assignment, but now that my teacher is gone and I don't know what I'm doing, I think I'll do badly on it. Plus, the whole assignment during the holidays is really annoying.

[tree4me]

Oh wait! We have an extra grade down here. We have Kinder, Prep, then Grade 1.

[Ranta]

My vent: I love chemistry, especially physical chemistry. The problem? I'm terrified of chemicals! Everytime we do a lab, I get through it okay, but at the end of the day I'll be freaking out, convinced that I somehow spilled/injested something toxic or flammable or corrosive and that I'm on the brink of death. It's ridiculous, I know, and it's practically taking over my life. I want to be a surgeon when I grow up, but I'm beginning to wonder if I'll be able to handle taking chemistry throughout the rest of high school and university. Ugh, I really need to get over this.

[lethifold]

In my maths class, the room is divided up into three sections. A column of two tables on either side, and then a column of four tables in the middle. I sit in the middle with three friends. Today I took a different friend in another class to the nurse because she was feeling really sick and could barely stand up, so she needed someone to support her. I got to class five minutes late with a note so I didn't get in trouble, but lo and behold, someone had taken one of the middle desks and moved it to the side, so there was now three seats on the outside and three on the inside. It just so happened that it was my desk.
So, I went and sat at an empty desk behind a friend of mine who is rather chatty and doesn't get much work done. She just turned around and talked to me for the entire lesson, so I couldn't hear what the teacher was saying. The desks in our school aren't meant to be moved from the set up the teachers make, because otherwise situations like this happen.

[Eat_ToAst]

Dissections are foul, but I've learned that it's best to defer all the work to your partner if you're morally opposed. You'll miss a huge lab and the alternative assignment probably won't be fun, not to mention that there's a lot of valuable information to be had from a dissection. I dissected a rat in my biology class (had to skin it, too) and a cat in my anatomy class, neither of which was fun in the least, but it was a good learning experience. I think the worst things I've ever dissected were the frog and the starfish- the frog had caviar in it and the starfish smelled like brine.

Are the cats KILLED especially for the purpose of dissection? Urhh, I'd never be able to dissect. I'm extremely squeamish. :|:|:|:|.
We have a thorpe park trip coming up, and my friends all got into one day together, but my other friend is in a group with no one she knows :(. They said they wont change it either, I think that's mean. I chose to go to skiing instead ;D

[duderocks]

The really advanced students (myself included) had to dissect a frog individually when we were sophomores. It wasn't the cutting that I was afraid of, but it was the catching, holding, pithing and "sleeping" that I had a hard time doing.

My long overdue rant (this happened last March): How will an investigatory project turn well if your partner doesn't do her share and chooses to make excuses?

[tree4me]

The fact that I'm at school, we have Music Theory, Audio Theory, PE and the 'tard course. (Which, I might add, is REALLY not for me. I'm in it for the free food. :p) I think that's worth a vent, though it is rather pointless.

[lethifold]

I haaaaaaaate my World Issues class. It's absolutely ridiculous. I'm in that class to learn about issues going on in the world, but all that happens is that my teacher forces her opinions on us, and we don't get any textbook information. Plus, half my class is rowdy and doesn't even want to be in the class, so the teacher spends half the lesson yelling at them, and half the lesson telling us what she believes and not giving us any facts. Last term I was doing a speech on our current terrorism policy, and the teacher got up in the middle of my speech, during the part that was meant to be opininated, and just took over! I didn't get a chance to tell the class what I thought. It's such an annoying class, because even though I love the subject, I hate my teacher.

[charlie-chan_SC]

I am not motivated enough to do my assignments. Maybe I should stop sitting at home so much.

[Rabid]

I just want to tear my hair out- my AP Exams are in six days and I've been studying for two weeks, but I feel like I don't even know where to start. I feel like I know the information pretty well, but I know from AP Bio that the format of the test and the time constraints are more stressful than the test itself. I'm going to Star Trek tonight, but after that, I'm locking myself in the house for the rest of weekend to study and not coming out :lol:.

[tree4me]

I know that I'm gonna have to start doing counseling, just because I can't keep my fucking mouth shut. It's a long story, trust me.

[lethifold]

My maths assignment is due tomorrow, and I'm really struggling to finish it. I've had my grandparents visiting down from Queensland over the weekend, and I've been spending time with them, so I haven't been able to finish the assignment. Plus, it's maths. And I suck at maths. So, either way, I'm going to do badly on it.
Plus, my Japanese teacher is being unreasonable. In our class today we have to do a speaking test, which is very easy for me, but we have to do it in parnters, and we have to write a script out. We got last week to start on the script, but my partner and I only got to work on it for half an hour in total whilst other groups got about four hours. My partner texted me this morning saying that it would be better if I just wrote the script because of my Japanese skills. Problem is, I have a whole lot of other assignments, and I refuse to do her work. I'm just going to write out my part and she can make hers up, even if it does make us lose marks. I'm already on 103% in Japanese as it is. I can stand to lose a couple of marks.

[Rabid]

Ugh, we just learned a new French tense on Friday and now I have to memorize all fourteen irregular stems along with the endings by tomorrow for a test. And, for newspaper, we're having the yearly issue where the seniors do absolutely nothing and pass the torch to the underclassmen. The opinion editor is a senior, so I'm stuck with the layout work for the opinion page. Not only is it time consuming, but I did two years of yearbook layout and I know that I don't like it. I know how to use InDesign, so it's not like they need to show me the ropes. They couldn't have picked a worse week to dump this on me, and I feel like I'm letting the editors down because I have almost no time to devote- I tutor second graders two days a week and I'm buried in studying for my AP exams right now. Any other week would have been better.

[Muffin]

Grr... I'm so stressed out right now!

I'm about to graduate from high school, but in order to do that I have to pass my final exams (duh). So I'm (almost) halfway there, but I screwed up one of my exams and I HAD to get a normal grade on that one if I wanted to graduate cum laude (in the Netherlands the average of all your grades has to be an 8 out of 10). My next exam is in a few days (chemistry) and since it's not my best subject I'll have to study my ass off. And then I have two options: I can retake my biology exam (the one I screwed up badly) or I can try and get a reallyreallyreally good grade on my math exam.

And on top of that my parents are saying that I am pressuring myself too much and that I shouldn't get my hopes up. Why can't they support me and tell me I CAN do it instead of telling me to take it easy and relax? :blink:

Exam time sucks! :cry:

[btuck]

i got out of school last week(after exams)!! woop woop
now i can make more houses! btw exams r NOT that hard!

[lethifold]

*revives thread*

Ick. I feel like I'm wasting my time with this assignment. I suppose some background information is necessary.

Most of my Modern History class, though they are convinced that they are superior, advanced and accepting beings, are ignorant baffoons, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. They feel they are accomodating to all races, sexes and sexual orientations, but they really aren't. They use the term "gay" as a derogatory term, and then think that homosexuals are "gross" or other offensive terms. This infuriates me to no end, but they won't stop, even if people ask them nicely to stop using the term. Anyway, back onto the story before I get immensly side-tracked.

In my class, we were asked to research a particular decade in groups of 5 or 6. The decade my group was alocated was the 1970's, so we broke up the research between us, and part of my research is the study of the gay rights movement in the 70's. After doing a lot of research on the topic, I wrote up a two page timeline involving a lot of hard work and facts about how the world was changed by the movement. Just as I finished, I realized something.

What.Is.The.Point?

The people in my class are going to ignore my efforts and talk through my presentation, because they don't believe that homosexuals should have equal rights, and because they are homophobes. I'm pretty shattered about it because I've put a lot of work into this, and I know this is going to happen :rolleyes:

[HaphazardSim]

I feel like I've not had a vacation this whole year...UGH!

[Rabid]

Apparently over the summer, the co-editors of the newspaper were holding meetings with the designers to discuss how the paper should operate. No one had the consideration to invite the writers, which encompasses more than half of our staff, and it makes me absolutely furious. The editors constantly bemoan how we don't jump in, but it's because of occurrences such as this- either we don't know when to jump in or the opportunity is never presented. I want to be opinion editor this year, but even though it's almost certain that I'll get the job because no one else wants it, I worry that things like this will hurt my chances even though it was in no form or fashion my fault. I was hoping that, being an upperclassman, I would no longer have to slog through the trenches to get a good position and good stories, but it seems like I was sorely mistaken.

[crazycentralgurl]

Yeah, when I was in newspaper, before I recently switched schools, the editors took over everything. It was like the the rest of the staff had to go out and interview people and whatnot that nobody wanted to do, and we were constantly nagged at to do our pages just in the end to see that the editors changed them to the way they wanted them to look. I always go the horribly boring pages to.
I pretty much gave up on that class.

[Rabid]

Threadcromancy!

My physics teacher doesn't assign homework. As such, no one understands the material come test day. I had an A in the class prior to a test, but when I got a B on the test, my grade dropped to a B. I've done everything in my power short of hacking the online gradebook to get it up, but there's simply nothing that can be done- the test is weighted too much. This makes me furious. I understand that tests are necessary, but it's also necessary to have a buffer that softens their blow, especially when tests are weighted at 50% of the grade for science curriculum. What really bothers me in this situation is the dreaded B. I simply do not get B's. To me, a B is equivalent to an F. I've never gotten a B on a report card in my lifetime, and I'm not about to start now. It's bringing my 4.1 GPA down to a 3.8, too. It makes me utterly, utterly furious that I cannot possibly turn this around.

[nightwitch]

i hate the stupid school block unstuiadle sites progam it is so annoying

[mewichigo34]

I hated my Homeroom teacher this year,she was such a b****.

[mewichigo34]

My teachers are on a strike,possibility for school on Saturdays.

[Artimis]

I hate blocking systems (this blocks stuff on the internet at school) It blocks the word bubble and also blocks this thread. It blocks many more thinks to.

one other the problems is that my head teacher is so animated in everything she does making her seem like she never cares anything save money and Exam results :wtf: !