<p>You have a set schedule. If you have a free period, what do you use it for?</p>
<p>At my school, seniors can do whatever we want during study hall. We can even leave campus. Anyways, I've been going to the Philosophy class that's during that period and sitting in on discussions and participating like a student. There's another kid in there who does the same thing, except he's a junior, and he's actually planning on taking the course next year.</p>
<p>Do you ever do that? Our teachers don't mind at all and it's quite a fun experience, especially since I took Philosophy last year, and it's nice to look at this stuff with a different perspective/with different classmates.</p>
<p>It’s actually my last period and I live less than five minutes away from school. I could easily go home, I just would rather be there. =/ Weird. haha.</p>
<p>I hated Philosophy last year when I took it though.</p>
<p>Free periods mean you’re in the library (i dont know how it is at your school, but its more of a hangout place… although is a real library), the computer, the cafeteria, or the park behind the school that is shared with an elementary school. No one goes to other classes lol, enjoy your free time NOT in class</p>
<p>no free periods at my school, no senior privileges. Well, I guess getting out one week earlier than the rest of the school counts for something. Some of my friends at other schools get out at like 12:30 or don’t have to come in until 10:35</p>
<p>But haha, I would “go to the bathroom” during religion class and sneak into my favorite teachers study hall until she noticed me. Once I was in their for a half hour and I had to keep making bird noises for her to finally notice me. </p>
<p>We don’t really have intellectual conversations/seminars at my school (teachers try, but…), so crashing a class, other than to screw around, is kinda pointless.</p>
<p>That’s weird. People come and sit in my AP Euro class all the time. Or when public school kids don’t have school and we do, a lot of them will come and shadow their friends at my school for the day. It’s pretty common.</p>
<p>And no senior privileges?? That sucks. Ours are: Leave Campus during study hall/lunch, access to senior room, and not have to check into study hall.</p>
<p>Hahahaha. Free periods. Right. Too bad my school has a policy that nobody is allowed to have a free period before they are released from school… Thus about a third of the senior class is in one or more period(s) of office aide.</p>
I’m a very conservative person and the class was filled with very liberal people. And one guy took over the entire class.</p>
<p>This year it’s more enjoyable, because it’s a more neutral class and it’s smaller (only four in the class), so I can participate more in the discussions and not be so heavily attacked.</p>
<p>I also don’t like the fact that there aren’t answers. I like history though. There are answers in history for everything.</p>
<p>We are allowed to do whatever during free periods. I am a freshman and leave campus regularly during my free periods, particularly when I have a free next to my lunch block. Chipotle runs are the norm starting 1st semester freshman year.</p>
<p>Our free periods are fairly restrictive. We’d never be able to go sit in on a class that we aren’t taking.</p>
<p>I haven’t had one since freshman year (only because I did a sport while taking PE) (junior currently). We’re supposed to be guaranteed a free period senior year, but I will probably give it up to take another class.</p>
<p>Sometimes I crash AP chem when I don’t have a sub for the class that period (every once in a while they run out of subs and we get a free period :P). During my real free period I usually stay in the cafeteria.</p>
<p>My school has two kinds of free periods, and I have one of both. </p>
<p>There are study halls in both the cafeteria and in classrooms with teachers. If you have it in the caf, you can do whatever you want to (you’ll have a hard time getting anything accomplished). If you have a teacher, it’s a crapshoot. Some are more strict than others. The one I have doesn’t mind if you just hang out, as long as you’re not too loud so that other kids can do work (and many do). </p>
<p>The other kind of free period is release, which means you can leave if you want. I have this fourth block, so whether I stay or not depends on whether I have a meeting or not. If I stay, I usually go up to my newspaper adviser’s room. He has an office in there, which I use to either study or do stuff to get ready for the meeting. He also has an AP English extension that block, so sometimes I go out and sit in on the class, especially if they’re doing a book I already read. I do enjoy that, and it’s cool to hear the books taught by two different teachers. I learned new stuff from my newspaper guy every day I sat in on the class.</p>
<p>Sometimes, when I don’t want to go to my fourth period (an online class that I’m taking in our school’s gradlab), I’ll check in with my gradlab sponsor and go help out in my favorite teacher’s class; I was her TA last semester and actually enjoy grading papers/leading discussions/etc…</p>