High School

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I want to go to college because I hope to learn about professional stage lighting. Primarily, theatrical productions, like on Broadway. I love theater and I've been involved with every show my school's drama club put on since my freshman year. I acted in most of those shows (Although I didn't audition in my freshman year, or the first show of my sophomore year. I was forced to audition for the second show that year and I absolutely loved it), but I liked working on the tech crew as well. I hated building sets, but on-stage stuff (Like moving set pieces or props during blackouts) was fun. I tried to sit with the light and soundboard guys in our most recent production during the first act (I was one of the two student/assistant directors, but I didn't get cast until someone left the show and I got their role. The role only appeared for the very last scene in act two) just so I could get an idea of what to do before going off to college, but my director put me backstage in charge of stage right props. I didn't want to be backstage because I can't see what the stage and actors look like with the lights on.

I can honestly say that acting has changed me for the better, and I'm more confident in myself now (Despite being severely depressed, but that's for another post at another time).

I know for a fact that a professional acting career would be out of the question, since it is so risky and you are never guaranteed work. I figured being on the technical side would allow me to go from show-to-show. When one closes, another opens. There will always be a need for stagehands, and I will try to make it work as a career for me.

Whenever I'm listening to music, I'm always imagining what it would look like if it was in a live performance. "How would these lights on this part of the stage be moving?" "What color would they be on that note?" "Would the lights be focused on stage or panning the audience?" I don't have artistic imagination like musicians or animators/illustators. But I imagine things with light and music together. I guess the vivid images are due to Aspeger's Syndrome, but it helps me see things in a... different light.

I'm going to college for professional stage lighting.
 
It's a good move to go to college for what you love rather than what makes you the most money. I recently had a friend who switched her major from chemistry to music because that's what her heart is. Making a ton of money is useless if you feel like you're unhappily slaving away your life to make that money. At the very least, you probably won't end up like me and have no clue about what you really want to do despite being a semester or two away from graduating college. :lol:
 
My school gave us this RediStep test in October and after that they have us results and I did pretty good over the state of Nj, then we had an assembly and we automatically got registered for a site that our school district bought for us so we could see what Colleges would want us. I say that's a preety snazzy move :sly:
 
It was pi day in my math class and I must say, my math teacher makes probably the best banana cream pie I've ever eaten. Later on me and my phy-ed class got to go bowling, so my day was pretty lazy if you ask me.
 
My day was....interesting to say the least. Perhaps it was due to the fact that it was my first day of full classes (PARCC testing occurred for me on Wednesday and Thursday). Here's a quick rundown of my classes in order:

English: Group work. Nothing special here.
Math: Test today. Most of us were ready. Except for a couple students. One student said that the test was stupid. Teacher replied with a respectful comment. But the kid couldn't leave well enough alone. Then another student chimed in. This student was so infuriated the teacher asked her to leave and go to HRC (our school's version of In School Suspension). The student left screaming and yelling.
Social Studies: Supposed to be another test. But our teacher said that people who took the PARCC can take the test on Monday. So my friends and I played some Tic-Tac-Toe
Lunch: It's lunch.
Spanish: It's Spanish
Tech Problem Solving: Sort of a free period today. I helped the teacher work on this Mercury SUV (which we're sure it hates us) and got donuts.
Science: Lab day today, so no gym class for me. Today we learned about eyeballs. And then proceeded to cut a sheep's eyeball in half.

So that was it for me today.
 
CowboyAce57
It was pi day in my math class and I must say, my math teacher makes probably the best banana cream pie I've ever eaten. Later on me and my phy-ed class got to go bowling, so my day was pretty lazy if you ask me.
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Well something else happened! Another Math class came in and did some Pi Carols! I was laughing so hard at it XD
 
When I was in high school, I really only looked forward to pi day because it meant free food. If it wasn't for the food, I could have cared less because I never saw pi day as something truly special.
 
We also had a Pi Day celebration today, but it was after school. We had pie and pizza and had a lot of circle themed competitions. The winner got to throw pie at a staff member.

 
Wait, people are still in school? I've had spring break for a week. And I still get another week.
 
I have to take the ACT test tomorrow. I'm a little nervous on how I will do, but hopefully I don't over think myself.:sly:
 
So just took Part I of the Parcc today and boy was it funny! So first we log on to it and then an error pops up so I raise my hand. After a second the whole Cafe has their hands up! :lol: So then my guidance counselor (runs it all) freaks out and he radios in to our principal. Mr. Parry tells him to tell us to click Ok, so we do. Then Mrs.Bobel (my Algebra I teacher, runs the tests for 8th grade) says that if your stuck on loading then shut of your chromebook and turn it back on. So I was like ayyy nothing happened to me, so it's good. But I didn't know that you had to click next for the loading glitch to happen! So I click next and it happens! So I turn off my chromebook and I pick the New Jersey test (first I clicked Mississippi by accident lol) Then I logon and it said my test ended abruptly and it wouldn't let me back in till a procotor checked what happened. :banghead:
So then Mrs. Bobel comes by and she turns my chromebook off and turns it back on and she's does the stuff with her LEATHER chromebook (:mischievous:) Then she tells me log back on and the same message pops up and she just tells it to start my test over (I only did two questions anyways:scared:) So that happened and everything went fine from there. But once I finished my test about 15 minutes later Mrs. Orabona gets told something by Mrs. Bobel and she rushes over to my friend Adeesh's chromebook and they lifted its cover up and it wasn't shut off probably:lol:
After that we all finished 40 minutes early and we all made jokes! But I still Got 4 days of it :O:eek:
 
So, after about a week-and-a-half of health, my class went back to gym. Today we went outside to do some jogging and walking. It was a little chilly, so my teacher told us to bring our sweatshirts.

As we were walking towards the track near the end of the block (We didn't actually go on it; We just went around the parking lot near it and turned back to the school, then repeated this once more), we had to go past the senior parking lot. I noticed two large diesel pickups; one white, the other black. I've seen the white one drive over curbs and sidewalks to get into a space before (Because he obviously couldn't be bothered to drive 70 more feet to go around a long strip of concrete). It had a bunch of cans and bottles in it. I'm giving the owner the benefit of the doubt and I'll say those cans were energy drinks, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were beers. On his rear window, I noticed a sticker with a hand forming "the taser" symbol. Don't google that.

The black truck had some chrome bars on top with off-road lights. On the trailer hitch, he had chrome truck nuts. Compensating, much?
 
I see that all the time too. Actually, a kid who was in my drivers ed class tried to drift and do burnouts in his Dodge Dakota the other day. No wonder back then he said he "burnt through his winters by November" and his "Tranny started slipping"

That same day one of my classmates failed his drivijg test, and he would probably be 10x more responsible then the Dakota guy.

Nice to know the liscencing system is working.
 
When we were walking back to the school near the end of the block, one of the guys in my class pointed out his Jeep Cherokee. He brought up that he sometimes turns off traction control to slide in the snow; it doesn't usually slide, but it will if you try, he says. I don't have a problem with that; It's what he said next that annoys me. He tells me that another guy at our school drives a Chrysler 200 who said he always keeps TCS off and can't get it to drift. Well of course it's not going to drift. I doubt he owns the AWD model. :lol:

EDIT: I always hear one teacher playing music near my locker. They're probably on Pandora or something, but in the past I've heard Daft Punk songs and other bands I like. Today, it was playing 19-2000 by Gorillaz. :)
 
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EDIT: I always hear one teacher playing music near my locker. They're probably on Pandora or something, but in the past I've heard Daft Punk songs and other bands I like. Today, it was playing 19-2000 by Gorillaz. :)
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Huh. The teachers I have usually don't do that. Though I think my art teacher did. But it's been a while since I've actually taken art. The only time I remember another teacher putting on music was when sometime in November or December, my chemistry teacher wanted to put on Christmas music, and most students were okay with it, but then she couldn't find the cable for her phone. I'm not sure if Last Christmas was on the phone.
 

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