Saturday, January 6, 2007

Life or something like that
So first semester is almost over. Mid-terms are this week (or whatever). Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are my dates of utter doom, though Wednesday is by far looking the most-deadliest.
The day tests are taken depends on what the day is. This year, the first day of mid-terms falls on a would-be B-day, so B-day mid-terms are first. Ugh. It's like this:

Tuesday: My band final. We started yesterday because we couldn't have everybody being tested on one day. We have to play a random scale, play some measures of "Etudes", and sight read.

Wednesday: This day is going to suck. First up is AP U.S. History, which, somewhat fortunately for me, involves no essays or DBQs. It's over the first fifteen chapters, which means from the early civilation of America up to the Civil War. Second is Drawing, which has become a take-home final. The project is to create a two-point perspective view of a building/etc. from two pictures you combined together. And then third is Chemistry, which I'm absolutely dreading. I'll study as much as I can, and hopefully it'll turn out like both of my biology finals last year - in other words, I hope I get a C.

Thursday: This is hopefuly going to be a less stressful day. First is Geometry, where all I really need to do is brush up on terms and two formulas. Secondly is Honors American Literature, which will be about two essays of your choosing from the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". We took the test for the book before winter break, and the essays were cut off because the test was long enough as it is. It should be easy enough. Then third is German 2, in which I need to brush up on my vocabulary. I always forget that 'gegen' means 'against' and stuff like that. But I'm also very good in German this year, so a study session over my notebook should be fine.

Friday: The leftover classes - in other words, A4 and B4. A4 is Band for me, but we still have playing tests going on, so unlike last year, there's no written test. Although first semester's test royally sucked, second semster's was really amusing, since it included questions like "how do you spell my (director's) name?" and "name three clarinetists". My last test is Health, which means I need to look over our notes. I'm sure after a bit, it'll all come back to me. I'm getting, like, a 99% in that class anyways. >_>;

Yesterday, I went to my counseler for the first time and had one class adjusted for me. If I want to be in AP Art, I had to take Painting next semster. It was a totally simple swap of Computer Applications for Painting, and nothing else was changed; lucky for me.
I'm excited but nervous at the same time when it comes to the prospect of AP Art. Only me and three other sophomores - friends of mine - were invited to the meeting. However, we need to pass a portfolio review in order to get in. Of course, the four of us freak out, since we don't have that many pieces of art - but we're not accountable for the amount of pieces. Okay, whatever.
So after I swapped out Computer App., I get one of those "your impending doom of a future" talks. The counseler lists off all these classes I have to take and such. She automatically signed me up for Algebra 2 double-block, which I immediately spat out a no. There's not a chance in hell I'm taking a double-block class, especially a double-block math class...especially a double-block algebra class. Okay, fine.

Let's tell the story of me and Computer Applications: It's a required class, so you have to take it to graduate. Let me also point out it's the most useless class if you know some things about the computer, because all you learn is Word and Excel. That's it.
I want to test out of it, because I know that, if you talk to the teacher about a required class, you can. My friend wanted to test out of Earth Science so he could cram in more art classes, but after looking at all the materials he'd have to learn, he just dropped the idea.
I tell this to my counseler, and she says no. So I'm like, why the hell can't I? She goes on to explain that she's "met kids who can take apart computers and program them for people" but that still have to take the class. I sit there while thinking "then doesn't that tell you it's pointless?". Then she tells me that starting next year, it won't be a required class for the incoming freshman. I just balk.

I accidentally left my art portfolio at school, so while my dad drove me there, we had a talk about the class and stuff. He then made the comment of "my daughter has her own novel going, you think she needs to learn things about Word?", which made me smile. We discussed the prospect that, if I were to talk to the multimedia teacher and maybe pass a test or something, that perhaps she could help me waiver out of computer app.

I don't know anymore. >_>;



PS: This is why Shinkiro effing rocks:


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