Sunday, February 12, 2012

A List About AP Students


  • My friend Jina sent me this lovely list about AP students and I found it extremely funny and you will most likely find it funny also.

    1.You know AP actually stands for “Advanced Procrastinator.”

    2.You could have done your homework at home but you prefer the pressure of getting it done two periods before its due.

    3.Studying consists of furiously glancing over your notes the period before the test.

    4.“Not a lot of homework” means: 10 chemistry problems, calc homework (that you won’t do anyways), a 15 page story to read in the Lit book, and studying for a French quiz.

    5.You don’t think of it as “cheating”, you think of it as “cooperative learning.”

    6.The weekend before mid-terms or finals you don’t start studying until Sunday at seven or eight PM.

    7.You have multiple breakdowns throughout the year from school-related stress.

    8.You know senior project is a joke and intend on putting forth as little effort as possible.

    9.On top of your full schedule, you’re involved in several extra-curricular activities and you have a job.

    10.Every extra-curricular activity you sign up for is framed with the words “It’ll look good for college.”

    11.Senioritis set in during the last few weeks of 11th grade.

    12.You’re convinced summer work was invented as a form of torture.

    13.You sign up for a class because it’s weighted, not because the subject interests you.

    14.You question whether you’ll make it through the year with your sanity intact.

    15.You swear twice as much as you normally do on the day of a test.

    16.You have no time management skills. Whatsoever.

    17.You consider any non AP class to be a blow-off class.

    18.You never meet anyone new in your classes because its been the same group of kids since ninth grade.

    19.You and your closest friends are all in the top 10% of your class.

    20.You like to pretend you’re not a nerd but on the inside…you know.

    21.You do your best work between the hours of 11 PM and 2 AM.

    22.At sleepovers with your friends you discuss politics and financial aid.

    23. The probablity of your homework getting done depends more on your mood than the fact that it needs to be done.

    24. You find yourself arguing for points not because you genuinely feel that you are right, but because you know that one more point will boost your grade letter.

    25. You consider anything below a B to be a bad grade.

    26. You spend a few hours doing optional and bonus assignments you don't actually need to do just because it will boost your grade which will in turn raise your GPA and class rank.

    27. People ask you how you manage an AP class you just say "It's easy" when on the inside you are screaming bloody murder.

    28. You watch TV or do other random things until 10pm then complain the next day about doing homework at 2am.

    29. You struggle to find ways to entertain yourself when you don't have any homework, but when you do have homework the possibilities are endless.

    30. You have four projects due the following day, but instead of doing them you go on Facebook to talk to anyone who will answer.
    31. You find yourself complaining to everyone how much homework you have... when you should be off facebook doing it.

    32. Your teacher thinks that his class is the only class you have and therefore is the most important so he overloads you with homework.

    33. Your GPA surpasses the average hours of sleep you get a night.

    34. You get mad when non-AP students whine about how much homework they have.

    35. The teacher assigns reading two weeks prior to the test but you end up reading it all the night before.

    36. Sometimes the highlight of your life is just crawling into bed and passing out.

    37. You use random, obscure information you learned in class in everyday conversation.

    38. You stare at your homework and repeat the words FML as you go through it.

    39. You have forgotten what the meaning of "free-period" is.

    40. You can’t stand taking regular electives because when a big group project comes along, you end up doing the whole thing.

    41. You put the pro in procrastination.

    42. You know that school is a joke after the second week in May.

    43. You have at least one test or a quiz a day.

    44. You write BS-ays instead of essays.

    45.You have back problems because your backpack weighs more than 50lbs.

    46. You can't help but find symbolism in every single thing you read/watch.

    47. You or someone you know has gone to therapy for school-related stress.

    48. You willingly pay $86 to take a test.

  • 49. Sparknotes is practically your homepage.

    50. You hate missing school, not because you like school, but because of the massive amount of make-up work you'll have.

    51. You are confident that if the author of the book you are reading had to analyze it for an AP quiz, he or she would fail.

    52. You have noticed that "studying" is "student" and "dying" put together.

    53. You can't have a conversation with your friends without mentioning homework at least once.

    54. You think jokes like, "Holy shift! Look at the asymptote on that mother function!" and "I wish I was DNA helicase so I could unzip your genes," are hilarious.

    55. You know that CollegeBoard's motto is actually, "CollegeBoard: inspiring minds and emptying wallets."

    56. You know that MLA actually stands for "Majorly Long Assignment."

    57. You think that all of your non AP classes should be over after the second week of May too, so you just give up in them (AP students know "giving up" means "scraping by with a B.")

    58. You're actually disappointed because you realize that you could've gotten a lot more AP classes into your high school transcript if they'd let you start as a freshman.

    59. You keep you AP review books cause you know that you might re-use them in college.

    60. You look at your AP results to cheer yourself up when depressed about your lack of a social life.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Hehe My First Not Required Post

I can now feel free to post whatever I want on this blog because I'm not in AP Comp anymore so now as silly as it sounds I feel a little less nervous about posting to it. I'm sure Mrs. Cardona is reading this about ready to die saying, "you could have been ding that this whole time!" I know I could have but now it isn't graded so I feel less pressure to always be writing something witty. I'm the kind of person who just writes about what I know and if by chance I say something witty it's a total accident. Oh and here's a picture of cute puppy!

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I've been waiting to feel okay about posting random stuff like this and now I do and I will continue to do so.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Poem Ideas

Stuff to Talk about:
CRJ's
BLA Groups
Vocabulary
Free Write Friday
Papers
Power Writing
Mixed Tapes
Thank You for Smoking
2 million Minutes
Class Discussions
Presentations involving Costumes
FINALS!

Monday, January 16, 2012

BLA Review

My group read The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine and I was not a fan. Her argument was that women's brains are different than men's. I felt that her argument was well supported by facts and logic and that's about it. She lacked any sort of personal writing style. She was straight forward and it read more like a textbook then a persuasive argument. It's like she assumed that anyone who read the book already believed that she was right. She didn't spend much time showing her reader that she had the authority to talk about this subject. She opens with the fact that she is well educated and that's about the only time you hear about her credentials. She also lacks any personal interest in her clients who she talks about as examples in her book. When she talks about them she uses this awful detached tone that makes her seem like a mean person and only cares about how these people better her argument which only hurts her credibility more in my opinion. Also instead of explaining terms as she goes she decided to put a 4 page glossary in the front of her book. I did not like this. It was confusing to try to figure out the technical terms and what context she was using them in it. It was definitely not an easy read. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this book to people who are truly not interested in brains and brain chemistry because you will find it to be a difficult and boring read.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

A letter to Myself

Dear Middle School Megan,
Middle schoolers suck. It's okay to hate middle school. Everyone is awkward and immature and doesn't have a lot of self confidence. That girl Birttany from Harper creek stay far, far away. Otherwise one day she'll slam your head in a locker, and now you can't say I didn't warn you. I think carefully about who you choose to be friends with. Don't be so consider with who's cool and not and just think about if their a good person or not. Don't spend so much time worrying about what others think of you especially in Michigan, your going to move after seventh grade anyway. Take the time to talk to the kids who don't have any friends and you know who they are. Step up and step out. Don't follow the crowd and don't let people bully you in to think you have to fit in. When you get to Minnesota talk. Don't sit in the back and be quite, it's not good for you and it just sucks. Talk to the kids at youth group. I know they seem weird, and they are, but they end up being some of your best friends and you end up going to the same college as one of them. Don't let the fact that they see closed off keep you from talking to them and that goes for the kids at school. Keep in touch with Dannie and Sara when you move, you'll miss them a lot.

I guess that's kind of all the advice I have. Just stay strong, be who you are don't and never let anyone treat you poorly, stand up for yourself.

Senior You