High School

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I'm in Middlesex county, so Central Jersey is for me. We do get a lot Snow tho, but I'm by Jersey shore so yah
I live in West Milford (aka woods, woods, and more damn woods). I'm further north and we have some kids who live "up the mountain" as we say. I'm just always skeptical about the weather.
 
Burnt my lower lip in welding when I was chipping the coating on my weld. The piece hit me in the lip and hurt like hell.
I had a piece of coating get in my ear once and it gave me a hell of a headache for the rest of the day. Anyways, I have about two weeks before I have to take the ACT. Kinda nervous on how I'll do, but hopefully it isn't that bad.
 
I live in West Milford (aka woods, woods, and more damn woods). I'm further north and we have some kids who live "up the mountain" as we say. I'm just always skeptical about the weather.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
 
Snow Days are great until they start taking away your conference days, then the entire season of Winter can **** right the **** off :lol:
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Still, could be worse.

Snow Days are great until they start taking away your conference days, then the entire season of Winter can **** right the **** off :lol:
My school is very hesitant about issuing snow days. It's mostly delayed openings or early dismissals. But hey they count as actual days and it's shorten periods. So in hindsight, who cares.
 
Snow Days are great until they start taking away your conference days, then the entire season of Winter can **** right the **** off :lol:
I always have meetings on Tuesdays because I'm President of my school so I'm always being bothered by kids, oh like can you let us use phones at lunch bruh? Then I'm like GTFO then they're like Ok -.-
But we only get 2 or 3 snow days or else Spring Break is GONE! But today was Delayed opening and that's what we had a whole week once. Then the Friday after our water froze so we got a half day. (That story is a few pages back.)
 
So in hindsight, who cares.
Probably whoever is running the state education system. If it counts as an actual day of school and you're not there, you're missing out on indicative hours. Now, I teach in a completely different system to the one you attend school in, but my English classes - particularly at the senior level - need to do 120 hours of English in an academic year, and the course is pretty intense. There is so much that we need to get through that any disruptions can cause major headaches.
 
Probably whoever is running the state education system. If it counts as an actual day of school and you're not there, you're missing out on indicative hours. Now, I teach in a completely different system to the one you attend school in, but my English classes - particularly at the senior level - need to do 120 hours of English in an academic year, and the course is pretty intense. There is so much that we need to get through that any disruptions can cause major headaches.
Starting to see the signs :lol:. I'm going back to go on Wednesday after being badly sick and I'm worried on the things I have to catch-up on :lol:
 
Next class in chemistry I have a test on stoichiometry. That... might end well. I'm not if my different calculation methods from that of the teacher's is a good thing. Or maybe it's just the notation. I can't tell. I guess as long as I get the correct answers, which I have shown to be able to do.
 
So I have another delayed opening today. Unfortunately this means PARCC Testing will be pushed back another day. This means I don't start until Monday.
 
Got my second term report card today. Overall, I'm happy with it. Except for my dismal English Lit mark. Maybe cause I'm not applying myself. Maybe it has to do with the year long scrapbook project weighing me down. I wanted the provincial exam, but no. I'm just hoping I can maintain a decent mark in that class. I'd be happy with a 70. At least I'm doing better than I was when I was taking Physics, which I'm still glad I dropped. Meanwhile, I got a 95 in Chemistry, up from last term's 85. Good enough. Also, I have both a math and a chemistry test tomorrow. My chemistry test is on stoichiometry, the math test on trigonometry. Good things don't end in -ometry. Except I've been doing fine on both. Apparently stoichiometry is the hardest part of Chemistry 11. I've managed to squeak by.
 
English has always been a tough one for me. But since we got a new teacher this year, my grade has gone up considerably.
 
Started at 8:30 PM, finished at 1:30 AM, wrote the conclusion the next day. I actually posted it just now in the 2015 NASCAR Thread since I was reminded of it if anyone's interested in reading it
At least you're able to stay on task about it. I've been getting worse about getting a paper done because of one particular class.

Since 2nd semester began, my life slowly began to get miserable and very much into a routine.
Trigonometry isn't terrible since I can get most of the stuff being taught okay. The only issues is that it's first thing in the morning and that it has chemistry afterwards.
Chemistry to me is just a matter of "jumping through the hoops" now because the teacher has said that my major in college will not involve any chemistry classes whatsoever unless I take psychiatry. Now that I know that, what good is it for me to learn how to figure out how to do equations for atoms if I'm going into the art and creative field? Speaking of the teacher, she teaches on a college level and she has a habit of picking favorites. She is also known for tweaking grades and hardly put in the grades in the computer. When I mean put grades in the computer, I mean that all of us in her second period only have three grades listed to be viewed despite going through two papers, three tests, a notebook check, and numerous homework that she hardly checks.
And then her teaching style isn't very compatible with how I learn. I eventually get it some time afterwards, but I still end up lost as the days go on. I notice that every time I leave her class, I end up having depressive thoughts that gets visualized in my third period, Spanish II.
Spanish II is a class that barely pay any attention to. I'm just getting by in the class; I don't get called on by the teacher as often, so it's like I'm sort of invisible. Good enough for me even though I'm just doing bookwork for very little good reason. Some of the classmates do get on my nerves at times. I let it slip that I'm gay, and they're not homophobic; they're just annoying when they want to be funny when they do remember that fact. I usually block it out and either socialize/get help with a friend or go silent. During those silent times is when I start to have those depressive moments... until I have lunch.

This past Tuesday was when I finally caved in and went to the guidance counselor to talk about some of the issues that were going on in the middle of this. I was suppose to visit her again today, but she wasn't available; I'm gonna try again tomorrow so I can pick up the conversation.

If and when I do eat lunch, I don't get the same moments as before, which makes me believe that I could be experiencing low blood sugar or something. Reason being is that when I tend to get very hungry, I tend to get a bit cranky and... how can I put this? Suicidal. Yes, it gets that bad. My friend's mother pointed that out to me when I told her that, but because my family doesn't do normal family checks, I don't know anything for sure.

Anyways, so fourth period rolls around (US Government for now, Economics in two weeks), and it's the only decent class period I sort of look forward to. However, I don't do any homework for it at home. I typically do it in the class along with the quizzes that follows each section everyday. I fairly like the teacher and his jokes, but I'm literally the only junior in the class with primarily sophomores and one senior. I sort of feel left out knowing that most of my other classmates are in a different Gov & Econ class.

And then the bell rings letting us know that school ended, which I drive my friend home in the afternoon. I have prom committee meeting every Wednesday of March and one or two left in April before the prom event arrives. Beta club is on and off at times.

And eh... if you want to talk more about it, PM me. That's a summary of my high school life as of now.
 
Got an essay draft due tomorrow and I haven't worked on it at all yet. Time to get cracking, but first, check GTplanet
That's not something to be proud of. Certainly not from a senior. I would normally expect my seniors to do drafts of their drafts before submitting them for review, and I would expect them to resubmit those drafts within two weeks, demonstrating that they had incorporated the feedback that I have given them.

Except for my dismal English Lit mark. Maybe cause I'm not applying myself. Maybe it has to do with the year long scrapbook project weighing me down.
In my experience a student's struggles in English typically stem from not understanding what you are trying to do in a module of work.
 
That's not something to be proud of. Certainly not from a senior. I would normally expect my seniors to do drafts of their drafts before submitting them for review, and I would expect them to resubmit those drafts within two weeks, demonstrating that they had incorporated the feedback that I have given them.


In my experience a student's struggles in English typically stem from not understanding what you are trying to do in a module of work.
I know, I usually never wait this long to do an essay, I've just been tiring out my brain with thinking about other projects I need to get done and it caused me not to focus enough attention on this essay.
 
Hey, when you're passionate about what you are writing, the thoughts just come out like a waterfall.
True. Its just that I've never had to write an 8 page paper before. Sorry for my language.
 
Know that struggle, ended up writing an 8.5 page paper on NASCAR safety in one night :lol:
I did that for a college class except I had to write about GMOs because it was a research essay. I had 9 pages done on peer review day when half the class had at best 2 pages. Everyone in the class thought I was a crazy overachiever. :lol: The joke was on them though because the essay was due two days after the review day and at least have the class didn't even have a page. Sure, I probably could have done it the other way (do all 10 pages it wound up being the day before), but when it took me a good 10 hours to do the draft properly and my instructor was a hard grader, I decided to just get it done early.
 
So uh... I'm home, again. Turns out the predictions of snow were correct.

Know that struggle, ended up writing an 8.5 page paper on NASCAR safety in one night :lol:
And to think I wrote a 5 page paper in a week. You must have been on some Mountain Dew and Dortios to get that done.
 
I'm home today cause Jersey snow. I have a 5 page paper due tomorrow. I have a page done. I'm going to try and power through it while B-Spec Bob gives me credits for days today.
 
Just finished the back to back tests. The trig test went fine. So did the stoichiometry test, except I kind of tripped over the confusing wording of one question. I just decided to assume one possibility and roll with it.
 
I'm off today also for Jersey Snow and tomorrow is delayed opening. So I'm gonna be up for a while again.
 
Only thing I did today was a geometry test (which took about 20 minutes), other than that, my day has been pretty slow. Good thing it's Friday.
 
Only thing I did today was a geometry test (which took about 20 minutes), other than that, my day has been pretty slow. Good thing it's Friday.
Good thing it's Friday indeed. Today is the final day for me before Spring Break. Since last year (Or maybe 2 years ago), it's been 2 whole weeks, up from the previous single week. I'm okay with this. Meanwhile, my cousins who live elsewhere have gotten 2 weeks as long as I can remember. TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
 
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