<p>Hi, everyone! I’ve been lurking around CC for a while and I finally decided to join. I’m also a class of '16er! (Yay!) I like speech & debate and listening to NPR, rofl.</p>
<p>Welcome! My dad listens to NPR too, rofl. :)</p>
<p>Both of my parents listen to it, and so I listen to it when I’m in their cars.</p>
<p>So how’s everyone settling into the school year? I’ve got three weeks left in the quarter, haha.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I count because 9th Grade starts January for me, but applications for programs and clubs have started, and I’m like: oh **** I think I’m gonna kill myself! Anyway I’m sooo looking forward for this year to be over, but sadly we’ve still got a couple of tests projects plus like, 9 finals in the next few weeks. Haven’t started revision yet though (!!) </p>
<p>Anyway @Swinter you’ve been in school 7 weeks? (Or at least a quarter is 10 weeks here) That’s fast haha. How’s 9th Grade been?</p>
<p>I’ve had three days so far and I really, really love my teachers. My only problem is that I’ve been having a hard time making friends.</p>
<p>@BurningIce Yeah I’ve been in school since July 23. Ninth grade isn’t too bad. But as always, school is school. All of my grades are 95+ except for bio which recently dropped to a 93. But whatever, it could have been worse. I’ve joined debate. </p>
<p>@ALittleButterfly Sadly, that doesn’t get any easier. As stated above, I’ve been in school for over a month and I’ve only made one actual friend. And we’re not even that close, we’re just science fair partners. My friends and I have grown apart but we still try to spend some time together by hanging out at lunch everyday.</p>
<p>@Swinter @ALittleButterfly I was pretty much like that my freshman year. There was only one other person from my middle school who went to the same high school as me, and we weren’t that close at all (actually, in 8th grade, we were best friends, but things change, I guess…). So for the first semester of freshman year, I was basically jumping from friend group to friend group and didn’t actually make any real friends until towards the end of the year. I guess for me, it takes a while to open up to new people and get over shyness and fear of being judged. I’ve been like this pretty much my whole life (I would know, because I’ve transferred schools three times)… oh, and sorry to hack the 2016 thread…</p>
<p>@elf4EVA yeah, I guess I know what you mean. I’m not super shy or anything, though. I like to tell myself that people just don’t recognize my awesomeness. 
I’ve been to seven different schools but I don’t think that has really hindered my social skills. It’s fine that you’re hacking the thread. We like to have visitors. I’ve noticed the 2015 thread gets pretty intense so people like collegefountain come here to hang out with the cool kids.</p>
<p>Mmm are you guys introverts or extroverts? Haha I’m supposed to be an extreme introvert actually, but most people can’t tell. It really shows though when I’m in new situations. But I guess it gets better over time - it took me more than a year to find a comfortable group of friends and establish a firmer footing in the school / social circles </p>
<p>Anyway I’m also curious about another thing - you guys mention that your scores are 95+ or at least 90+ for many subjects - here, the cut-off for A+ is an 80. It’s brutally hard to score 95+ and you’d be top scorer for that subject, probably - and my school is very competitive. For us there’s a standard curriculum and the teachers teach to it - they aren’t allowed to change the weightings or anything. There’s no extra credit. We have tons of projects, and essays, and they’re really hard to score well in. For a poetry assignment, for example - top scorer in our class didn’t even pass the 90% mark. But I guess our generous cutoff for different letter grades makes everything more or less equal.</p>
<p>Lol Swinter.</p>
<p>I’m an extrovert. Making friends comes easy to me, and the same way goes for making enemies haha. There are a few social groups I stick to, but out of them I have some reaaaallly close friends. I can be a “people person”, but some people are just too much for me to handle.</p>
<p>Anyway, my geometry teacher is so strict -.-
“If I can tell that you’re drawing freehand instead of using the straightedge, I will take off many, many points.”
“If you’re homework isn’t placed in this bin within 5 minutes of coming into class, it’s considered late.”
Lol, and she stood in front of the room watching everyone last Friday, as we took our geometry quiz.
I guess I like her overall though.</p>
<p>My Latin teacher is strict, too, but I like him so far.
If he catches anyone cheating/plagiarizing on anything, he takes off 5 points off your quarter grade, and you get an automatic 0 for whatever it was you cheated/plagiarized on.
Although that’s rather harsh, I think it’s great, considering last year some people in my Latin class would always cheat on tests & my 9th grade Latin teacher never noticed.
My 9th grade Latin teacher (he’s crazy) also interrupted my Latin class this year to say three things about my current Latin teacher:
- When he stands behind this podium sort of thing in his class, it’s because he’s wearing no pants.
- When it comes to plays, he always goes for the female roles, adding that he makes a “darn (well not darn, but I don’t know if CC allows the other word haha) ugly woman”
- He smiles as he fails you.</p>
<p>…lol.</p>
<p>I’m an introvert. Sometimes it’s hard to make friends, but ever since moving to a new district, I haven’t made any enemies because I hardly ever talk to them. It took me almost a year to find a group of friends.</p>
<p>My English teacher is something interesting. He’s a good teacher, but I’ve just never had a teacher like him. He gave us a guide to his hand writing, which, is pretty atrocious.</p>
<p>Hey everyone. Please welcome fas back to CC after a week-long hiatus.</p>
<p>Anyway. I hate my history class. I have absolutely no friends in it, so I’ll be the weirdo desperately casting around for someone to be my partner for group projects. WAH.</p>
<p>My first day of school was on the 4th!! I’ve been so busy I haven’t been on CC for over a week!!! I actually got a good amount of homework on the first week!! We have quizzes next week!! My bio. HN teacher said we have a test next week, but she didn’t say which day, so I need to study!! After school clubs start next week!! So excited. Golf makes it more hectic. I get home, and I have to leave for practice. I’m not even on varsity or anything. It’s a club sport.</p>
<p>Wow, seems like everyone’s got something to say about their teachers/classes. My aren’t too bad. My bio teacher is kind of annoying, she’s a 30-year-old woman acting like a teenager and she sorta flirts with the football players. “Stop making fun of me! <em>giggle</em>” And I don’t like how her class is basically all memorization, but that’s probably just the subject, not her. </p>
<p>@BurningIce In my district the cutoff for an A is a 90. I think my school’s got some grade inflation going on because I’ve been told that anything 90+ is worth a 4 on the GPA scale. We don’t do have different points like 3.7 for a low A or anything. At least, that’s what I’ve been told.</p>
<p>My freshman year history teacher was this old guy with a huge gut, and he talked in this really low, raspy voice and would call everything that he didn’t like “bunk”. So we basically learned nothing from him for the whole year, except, of course, his opinions on things. So we were supposed to be learning historical facts, but he twisted so many things around and would tell us (in his raspy voice), “The textbooks are biased. They’re bunk. They have to talk about [insert topic here] like it’s something great, but then they get to [insert different topic here], and they just talk about how bunk it is!” Yeah, he pretty much brainwashed us with this and his own political opinions. I have a much better history teacher this year, so that’s definitely a plus. I think my school assigns the really bad teachers to teach freshmen, and then better ones as the years go on (although I think that should have been pretty obvious…).</p>
<p>Wow, that’s like the opposite of my current history teacher. She doesn’t share her view on anything.</p>
<p>Haha my current history teacher doesn’t either (although he seems to be leaning towards one side… but I digress). Yeah, but everyone at my school, even the teachers, make fun of my freshman history teacher not because of his views, but because of the way he delivers them. You’d think that he’d present both sides in a civilized manner and without bias and have his students decide, but *no]/i]. He basically hammers his views into our brains and makes us lean more towards the other side. Ahhh, good times…/sarcasm. But seriously, he also teaches junior theology (oh, and did I mention that he’s super religious? kinda contrasts with his other mannerisms lol), so if I have him as a teacher next year, I am literally going to shoot myself (haha just kidding)…</p>
<p>Oh that’s right, I forgot. You’ve mentioned that you go to a Catholic school. Are you Catholic? If not, then it’ll probably be like two times worse if you have him as you theology teacher next year. He sounds crazy.</p>