Well it’s that time of year again. As every high school students knows, May is the cruelest month.
1) College acceptances/rejections
Thankfully, I’ve been accepted to my first-choice college, but there are many people who were not. In fact, there were many people who were rejected from every single college they applied for. I can’t tell if they were extremely unlucky, or if they were extremely stupid for not applying to at least one safety college like I did. Matriculation Day (fancy speak for May 1st) is like a knife to the heart for some people. Although I wouldn’t really be all that depressed about having to attend UT Austin as was my original plan, I know a lot of people who wish they were attending different colleges than the one they had to settle for. A piece of my sympathy goes out to you (or what little I seem to be able to generate).
2) Senioritis to the max
There’s nothing more terrible than having to sit in classes doing nothing but work that you don’t care about for an ENTIRE MONTH after rankings freeze. Pretty soon everyone wants to just walk out or not attend class in the first place. Or we sleep - sleep is always good. Just anything but class. I’m even starting to hate classes that I previously used to like (Biology, Government, Calculus, etc.) In fact, to be completely truthful, I hate all of my current classes except Computer Science because… well, it’s CS and the only thing we do in there is 1) insult each other, 2) play FPS games, and 3) program like we’re supposed to, although that’s a rare occurrence nowadays. I actually like my classmates in there, though, so it’s all good.
3) AP testing, aka Hell Week
Yeah.. well, I’m pretty sick and tired of AP tests. That’s all I’ve been hearing for the past two weeks and it’s about time I get it over with. It’s already bad enough that I have to suffer through seven of these atrocities (and get no credit for half of them). What’s worse is when you spend the entire month of April sitting in classes (see #2) doing nothing but practice exams to “prepare” you for said AP tests. In fact, here is how my schedule for next week looks like:
Monday 8am - AP US Government
Tuesday 8am - AP Computer Science A
Thursday 8am - English Literature
Thursday 12pm - French Literature
– (who was the genius who put English and French Lit. on the same day, seriously)
Since I’ll be out for the entire second week of testing at Intel ISEF, I have to do makeup tests for AP Biology, Physics C, and Macroeconomics. Truly annoying; my misery is not finally quenched until two weeks after everyone else. Sighhh.
4) Finals (for non-seniors)
Doesn’t apply to me this year, but finals are always equated with cruelty, right? All the underclassmen suddenly have to cram and study for a test that probably doesn’t even measure their intelligence properly. And then they start being all whiny about it. Thankfully, seniors don’t have to be at school to endure their perpetual complaints.
5) Sayonara see you again adios bye bye
Points if you recognize the song that phrase came from. But yes… while I will be overjoyed to finally be graduating from and leaving this educational facility, there are many people I don’t want to say goodbye to. Ever. Some of my teachers… a handful of friends… a special person or two… Everyone -promises- they will keep in touch after high school, but you know that will never really happen. And if it does, nothing compares with direct face-to-face contact, you know? *shrug* It’s a bit of bittersweet happiness, I suppose. It’s hard to live each day knowing that your days are numbered with those that you truly care about.
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