<p>@1Rachel94: I read that book for class sophomore year, and I recall Hell being one thing the Red Room could have symbolized.</p>
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<p>I just finished mine, and I can say this is the only one that I’m proud of, I think it came out really good…</p>
<p>I still have to read two books for AP Lit and write two more papers. But I mean they’re due in…two weeks and one day…so I have enough time. After all, I did read Catcher in the Rye and write a seven paged paper on it in 28 hours…</p>
<p>I wrote my Common App essay for English this past year. It’s about my family situation and how I’ve grown as a person from it. I talk about how it has made me realize what I want to focus on and spend my time on. I don’t think I sound whiny or that I want to be pitied or anything like that. It’s all in the wording, really, and since I’ve had to write about what happened for so many things and in so many situations, I’ve figured out ways to write about it to appeal to certain emotions, or to not appeal to anything at all and make a great story out of it. I like itttt.</p>
<p>Oh and a page or two back or whatever someone was saying that they got a letter saying that they have to be an orientation leader or whatever…well, I have to be one. I’m kind of looking forward to it, kind of not. I don’t really feel like going into school four hours early on the first day when I can be sleeping and going out to breakfast, but whatever. We get our schedules next week, and from then on it’s basically like end of the summer for me since I’m going away the last week and not returning until two days before school starts. I’m really looking forward to getting away from here though.</p>
<p>@stresssedout, lol it also depends what you like. For example, in l liked the The Great Gatsby because it describes the roaring 20s which is apart of American History and I love that subject!!
@swizzle, I loved The Catcher in the Rye. It was so funny and intriguing at the same time!</p>
<p>My favorite of all time Catch 22</p>
<p>hmm. maybe I should go check out some other Fitzgerald books</p>
<p>What day do people start school?</p>
<p>August 20th. T-minus 10 days to finish Hardball and answer questions about it and The Prince. Thank heavens Hardball is easier to get into than The Prince. Only a few chapters left.</p>
<p>September 4th, yo.</p>
<p>Tuesday :’(</p>
<p>September 6th for me. (NY)</p>
<p>August 20th (FL)</p>
<p>August 27th ¶.</p>
<p>Pfftt I’ve already started school. I walked through the halls feeling the hot humid air (outdoor school), gazing at the welcome back posters, and thought, “This year is going to be great. Great classes. Great grades. Great people.” Then I was bombarded with the ignorance and arrogance of the people I have to call to my peers. That, my fellow CCers, is when I remembered I disliked the people I go to school with. It’s Day Two of this year and 170 more to go. I have a good ten stories of moments were I wanted to accidentally nudge someone down the stairs.</p>
<p>^bahaha I’ve felt that way about some of the kids at my school. </p>
<p>Roughly 75% of the people at my school lack common sense. I mean, come on, who the heck does “it” in the hallways during class? And why would anyone smoke weed in the school bathrooms? (I don’t understand the attraction to drugs anyways, but come on.) </p>
<p>I’m just glad that if you’re in all honors/AP classes in my school, you’re separated from these people. </p>
<p>Regardless, I’m still excited. I’ll only have 3 classes at school anyways 8)</p>
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<p>I wish that was true for me. My Honors English class is pretty awkward. I’m with people that aren’t really “high level” but they feel that taking an honors class puts them “over the top”…I’m constantly trying to keep myself sane, I guess you could say, because these groups of people roll their eyes if a teacher makes a joke, ignore the teacher, and laugh at anyone who answers a question. They are 18 years old. Quit the middle school crap already and grow up.</p>
<p>September 4th 
I can’t believe anyone’s already started.</p>
<p>This should be the best year though guys! We get to find out where we’re going to college which I’ve been wanting to know forever (literally, I think I got excited about it around 6th grade) and also once we do know we can slack off, and find out what it’s like being a normal high schooler.</p>
<p>^Wow. That’s how the kids in my school’s regular classes are. I had a couple freshman year and OMG, they were annoying. And they just didn’t care or try. I tried tutoring some junior in regular geometry and he had it down right before the test when I showed him how to do it, but then he took the test and got a 32 and blamed it on the teacher. (I got a 105 on the same test.) It wasn’t test anxiety either. (He said so himself because I asked if he was nervous beforehand.)</p>
<p>I think my worst regular class was debate sophomore year. I had to switch out after a week in there. The kids were all freshmen. Freshmen+regular class= most unproductive, annoying class ever. The teacher tried so hard and I truly felt for her.</p>
<p>I have to take a freshman U.S. history class as a senior cuz I have to take it to graduate and the regular freshmen class was the only one that fits in my schedule. It doesn’t get worst than that.</p>
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<p>I have the same problem. My school has limited class options, so a lot of kids are pushed into honors and IB classes when they really shouldn’t be. Also, some classes, like languages and english, are combined. For example, Spanish 4 and IB Spanish I are together. So yay for being in classes with kids who don’t want to learn and still act like they’re 12! :/</p>
<p>My school does not have APs, IBs, nor Honors so all the horrible kids have to be placed in one of your classes :/. It’s unproductive most of the time.</p>
<p>Boo, nobody mentioned The Diamonds as Big as The Ritz. That was the short story I was talking about.</p>
<p>I have to say, I actually liked just about everything we read in this past year of English, haha. Wasn’t crazy about Huck Finn though, everything else was pretty good.</p>
<p>Also, I go back on the 4th. I’m pretty excited but it’s going to be crazy, like every September. Our town fair is the 2nd weekend after school gets back, which means we have to teach the freshman how to march and make sure they all look good in their uniforms, blah blah blah it’s going to be fun.</p>
<p>I’m sad that it’ll probably be my last one for a while :’( seeing as how college is just around the corner…it’s great though, the whole school and even our teachers will come into town and get involved.</p>
<p>Does anyone else’s teachers do that? Like, go to performances and stuff. That’s probably the best thing about my HS, that teachers really actually care about you and will do stuff like that.</p>