<p>I just can't. I hate history soo so so much. Like you don't even understand how much I hate this history. I hate it with SUCH a passion. I don't know why I took the class. I really don't. No one told me it'd be this bad. I thought I could handle it. I have about 2 more months of this class and 26 days till the AP exam and it's over but I'm seriously having a mental breakdown. I just can't do it. I cannot sit still for 10 mins when I open The American Pageant and attempt to read it. I don't have a problem with any other of my subjects EXCEPT history. This is a serious problem. No one has to respond to this thread. I just need to sit here and type my hatred toward the class. And don't tell me to get a blog or a journal or something cuz those things are gay and they don't help. I don't even have enough patience to sit and write about how much I despise this class. ARGH ARGH ARGH. I really don't know if I'll make it for 2 more months. I suffered for about 8 months and I really don't think I can take anymore. ;(</p>
<p>Run around in a circle wildly flaying your arms.</p>
<p>No it won't work. Nothing will work. I went outside and screamed as loudly as I could and no one even noticed. Not even the neighbors. I'm a hopeless case.</p>
<p>American Pageant. <em>googly eyes</em> All the funny alliteration, etc. made me keep going in that book. (And the unhealthy drive to set the curve for every single 110 multiple choice question test)</p>
<p>PS - bang your head on the wall until you go unconscious, then it won't be on your mind anymore :)</p>
<p>PPS - I just discovered that pushing the space bar makes my screen scroll down</p>
<p>Banging heads on walls is soooo 2004. These days, all the cool stressed out students bang their heads on hard tile floors. Less effort. Don't have to stand. Loser.</p>
<p>slipstream99.... yes yes it does... to the space bar thing, that's the default hotkey for scroll...</p>
<p>and sarorah, i'm sorry to hear that... but one more month and your done!!! and then another 2 months of waiting lol</p>
<p>greygoo, thanks for the advice. i'll have to keep it in mind next time i need to knock myself out</p>
<p>Holy Crap!!! The Space Bar Thing Works!!!</p>
<p>I disagree, greygoo. I think people should use their textbooks to bang their heads...some of the information might be transferred...</p>
<p>I never knew that about the spacebar. </p>
<p>sarorah, just try to wait it out. I feel exactly the same way about physics. By the way, I HATED that history book. :)</p>
<p>you guys are scaring me...I'm taking APUSH next year :(</p>
<p>We also use American Pageant. Some of the info is false/exaggerated. The over-alliteration kills me.</p>
<p>I hate history too, and I'm taking two history APs this year. What was I thinking?</p>
<p>in our class last year, along with the American Pageant, we also read 'US History to prepare for the AP exam' by Newman. i don't remember the title exactly, but it wasn't a very think book. being as i too hate Am. Pageant, i would only read the Newman book. it wasn't time consuming at all and i got a B both semester. i think the class average was D, so it was actually really hard to get an A. it's probably too late, but you should read that book instead if you can find it.</p>
<p>Your textbook is a very good source of nutrition.</p>
<p>Feed it to your dog.</p>
<p>Haha you guys are hilarious. But on the serious side, sarah, try scribbling about your hatred for history onto a piece of paper (preferably with a bright red crayon or something thick ;)), crumple it then throw it as hard as you can into a trash can. Or trash dump, if you have enough paper to fill it with. I do that occasionally 'cos it lets the frustration out of my system. Plus it feels good to see all that hatred trashed like... trash. <em>lamely</em> Right. I'll get outta here now. :o</p>
<p>lol you all are great sources of inspiration. Gotta love CC. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone taking any history AP this May. Or any AP for that matter. Even physics. :)</p>
<p>And if anyone wants to take this class next year or in any upcoming year of their life, I strongly advise you not to ever even think of doing something that stupid again. Ever. I'm so serious too.</p>
<p>Oh and newpswahine, I have that Newman book, and there was a section called "What is history?" and started out saying students think history is their least favorite subject but it's not blah blah </p>
<p>I read it to see if there was any solution at all to these history woes. And, well, naturally there wasn't. </p>
<p>And leigh, I need to actually murder the book. Not just murder a piece of paper with red ink. I'll burn it. ;)</p>
<p>Or maybe this summer I'll write a horrible letter to The American Pageant company with a long petition to change their book layout and a complaint that it causes unnecessary head concussions. Or I'll set the book on fire and then feed it to my dog.</p>
<p>ugh i hated american pageant and it's pathetic attempts at wit (taft's "mirthquakes"? wth?), thinly veiled racism, and obsession with presidential heights. ...then i met degler. whooooo, i'll take american pageant over degler's need to fit 3940324 statistics into each paragraph any day. are bailey and degler dead? if not, can we mobilize an army to send them hate-mail?</p>
<p>Don't just burn it. Save it for the next barbeque party and dump it in along with the charcoal. Use it as fuel and see it glow and die in agony as opposed to a brief eruption.</p>
<p>My history teacher has the 1960s version of the American Pageant. Now THAT's racist lol. It refers to the freed slaves as "bewildered negroes who were unsure of what to do with their newly begotten freedom"</p>
<p>i caught on fast. after ap euro, i took american history over summer instead. i wouldn't have taken it at all but our school requires it. no way in hell i was taking ap american.</p>
<p>how can "mirthquakes" not make you laugh? come on. it's classic. i giggle like a little schoolgirl every time i see it. :D</p>