<p>No, but seriously, I’m not a truant, I just think High School has gotten, or has always been, FUBAR. Feel free to add your HS is dumb rant, numbering it like so. C’mon. Blow off that steam.</p>
<li><p>I just think that I should be able to get to choose my classes from day one, and assuming they are of sufficient academic rigor, I should be able to take them. For example, I don’t give a flying **** about Spanish, but I am forced to take a language, I love chemistry and science, but I can’t double up until now (senior year), and for the love of god, Im sick and tired of english classes that aren’t open to multiple interpretations of literature, like most AP lit classes. Why is high school set up so that 75% of the classes are just redundant or not your area of interest? I know how I can get the most out of high school, the bureaucratic system just wont let me. </p>
<li>And good god, the sheer amount of boring ass things I’ve had to do just to be a viable applicant to HPYS, why does the college system assign value to stupid *<strong><em>ing things that everyone knows 10% of the people do because they want to. Like clubs, getting my *</em></strong> published in the newspaper, research, stupid summer courses and internships, really awesome sounding ones, where I just enter stuff into excel for five hours and dick around with dumb tasks to pass time, passing it off as passionate research. Why do colleges assign so much value to dumb things that are an indicator of how connected your parents are, because most internships happen that way. </li>
<li>And I won’t ***** about the SAT, because those tests are more fun that listening to my anal spanish teacher rant about verbs which I have to swallow and regurgitate to get an A which I need for my 3.8 UW. But so many studies have shown a positive correlation between income and score, FFS, I know life isnt fair, but colleges dont have to exacerbate it by assigning value to a test that most people who do well on buy a ton of books, lessons, tutors, etc. </li>
<li>Don’t you hate that one obsequeious friend of yours who always stays behind class to brownnose the teacher and make a jackass out of himself trying to get a good letter, BUT YOU KNOW INSIDE THAT THE REAL REASON YOUR TICKED IS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT HIS SUCKING UP MAY JUST HAVE WORKED. </li>
<li>Goddamnit, don’t you hate extravagant pep rallies for mediocre athletic teams? Sports is nice and all, but seriously, none of you will play it in college, go read a book, and stop being so pretentious. Im a state winning one man academic team, but no ones cares. Stupid flagship uni football coach getting paid 8 million a year. *** FUND YOUR RESEARCHERS AND SCIENTISTS AND ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, NOT FOOTBALL. YOU WONDER WHY AMERICA IS BECOMING AN INTELLECTUAL LAUGHINGSTOCK (or at least no longer the innovative epicenter it used to be)</li>
<li>This is a biggie. I hate teachers that go all nazi fascist on me about doing homework. If i can learn the class material without doing redundant ****, then live and let live. If we dont do it and fail, like college students do all the time, fine, so it goes. Seriously, these HS kids are becoming adults, let us make decisions about whether we do or dont do HW. Dont ruin our grade because we dont, let tests and quizzes be the indicator of whether or not we do our homework, and thus the incentive to do homework comes from the fact that if we don’t, we wont pass the test.</li>
<li>I hate people who yell at me for being un-PC. Goddamnit, I say what I want, and if I want to say that black people tend to play basketball, that statement is perfectly fine, because A) as my african american friend pointed out, its perfectly fine to refer to black people as black, since they may not necessarily be from africa in the past 8 generations, and if you compare the ratio of black college basketball players to the number of black college students, its a much higher ratio than white college bb players to white students. Statistics arent racist. They just arent. Stop trying to control my mouth, if you are offended, tell me why, and I will assess the statement and then if I understand how it actually can hurt, I wont say it. But seriously people, if you get offended, instead of whining, grow a pair and just deal with it, whether its about race, or just intelligence or stupidity. And Im not white. Just try to understand that if you apply basic intelligence to statements deemed unPC, you will find that they just statements.</li>
<li>I hate how this girl I really like when I was fourteen because she was so cute, intelligent and unslutty, turned into this uber ho-bag by the machine. Goddamnit, popularity corrupts. </li>
<li>I hate how the really rich kids at our school do stupid **** like flaunt their new hummer, leave the keys in the ignition with the window open during school day, find the car missing, and proceed to get daddy to buy them a new car. Goddamnit, your parents are CEOs and ****, does intelligence skip a generation? </li>
<li>Heres the totem. People>Socialists>Anarchists>Racists>Holocaust-deniers>Creationists. Heard that Sarah FAILIN</li>
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<p>Come on. I know someone wants to do eleven. Do it. Here’s an idea: what you think of the Great Gatsby or what you think about teachers who just dont appear to enjoy what they do.</p>