<p>1 more week till the end of first semester for me, and my 18th bday's the day before the end of the first semester. **** yes, next week's gonna kick so much ass.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with senior year is the boredom. Believe it or not, last year, I was really excited about classes and I enjoyed trying to get the highest marks possible in order to make my transcript shine. However, in senior year, it is the denouement of your high school career, and you want to spend that time in style with your friends, not in boring classes that you're going to never study again after high school. For example, I'm taking classes such as chemistry and calculus because you're supposed to keep up your rigorous schedule in your senior year. But I'm not going to study those subjects in college, so it's a strenuous effort to pay attention, do homework, etc.</p>
<p>Senior year sucked for me. My dad died and I shelled through like 13 college applications and had to deal with a lot of IB testing crap as well as the SATs and financial issues, trying to maintain grades and a long distance relationship, in addition to teachers at school being generally uncooperative and friends afraid to speak to me out of fear of offending me. I broke down in class constantly. My dog also ran away late-senior year (he has since be retrieved but just a few months ago). Although senior year ended nicely -- I emerged valedictorian, accepted to 12/13 schools including a bunch of Ivies -- it was by far the most emotion-ripping and stressful year of my life. I don't care if you think all that academic crap is bragging -- I went through a lot of totally unnecessary BS.</p>
<p>I am so ready for senior year to be over. All the work is really stressing me out. Stupid IB program.</p>
<p>my senior year really hasn't been as bad as it could have been. right before senior year i moved to a new school in a different state, which completely sucked... but i got to now a group of people relatively fast, so it's not as bad as me having no friends (as you can see i'm an optimist). but compared to junior year, senior year is like hell.</p>
<p>I'll be 16 in July. I hate not being able to drive.
I was gonna apply to Tisch to major in film and TV production, but then I realized that I have no time to make a decent portfolio.
I went through a phase where I considered not going to college at all... then I realized that I'd have WAY too much time on my hands, so I considered the community college. Then I decided I had to get into an Ivy. Then I settled for a state college... then I decided community college... it's an endless cycle for me.
Yeah, senior year IS boring. We don't get to choose our classes (our school is too small) and I have the MOST boring classes ever. Really. If you had to spend an hour in that dungeon they call a lab with my bio teacher, you would consider dropping out. Or screaming. Or something.</p>
<p>You are a senior and you are how old, sydney?</p>
<p>15 - I'm graduating in 11th cuz our school doesn't go up to 12th (actually, they're adding 12th grade, but I got out while they're still letting people do three year) and I skipped a grade when I was a little kid (3rd grade)</p>
<p>Wow you're young. I turned 18 before I started my senior year.</p>
<p>Yes, this year has sucked dearly for me. I've stopped caring about almost everything. I spend most of my time now filling out scholarship applications. I've applied to three colleges, but I haven't gotten an acceptance letter from any of them yet. I've applied to them all within the past month, though, so I suppose that's just expected.</p>
<p>May 23rd can't arrive quickly enough...</p>
<p>I've got essentially two months left. I only have to make it to the end of February and then I'm done.</p>
<p>my year has been great, sucks to be you kids</p>
<p>This hasn't been a great year at all for our seniors (including me)......in the past year or so, kids have gotten into accidents and there have been a few deaths as well. :(</p>
<p>Our main problem, though, has been excessive bomb threats.....like, at least 2-3 per week. It wasn't so bad at first, but everyone has just gotten sick of it. Things have settled down a bit, but it's hard to have "school spirit" in times like these.</p>
<p>equilibrium, where do you live, baghdad?</p>
<p>Apps and APs :(</p>
<p>" at this point, i don't even care if i'm rejected. I jsut want to KNOW."</p>
<p>same here. I usually think, oh its better because now i can still entertain the hope of being accepted, but once i'm rejected, it's over, you know? but i don't care anymore....i don't want to think about it.</p>
<p>socially, this year is good and bad. everyone's more 'chill' in class so even if we're from different social circles we'll just talk to each other and laugh with each other. although the 'friends' i used to hang out with became so annoying that i ditched them...</p>
<p>apps sucked, and so did taking SATs. Senior year coursework is NOT easy. But semester's almost over, so I'm holding on. I can see major senioritis in the future.</p>
<p>My senior year is stinking too. Basically.. MAJOR drama, and that basically has had an effect on my academics, etc, etc, etc.. so yes. yum. I heard that senior year is when you see your friends change..yeah..=/</p>
<p>Senior year isn't so bad for me... last year's course load was a lot tougher. My school makes you finish IB Math and one science in junior year and my schedule junior year was packed with calc, chem, and bio. I am definetly more of a humanities person, so I love havinig history, french, and spanish for the whole year! English is ok, but the teacher we were told was fantastic is actually a bit repetitive and our marks are based on nothing but commentaries... not a good way to get a superb mark! </p>
<p>The only real problem I'm having is with organic/IB chem. This semester has been alright - I hate the material but the teacher is great, which really helps. The problem is our semester change because I'm supposed to be in this one teacher's class... and she absolutely hates me. I've never had a huge problem with teachers with the exception of her and one other in junior high. The problem is that I frequently miss class because of my involvement in EC's - Model UN, band, choir, volunteering, etc - and she hates it. So when I was in her class in grade 10, I was going to go on a family vacation but she scheduled our major unit final for the last period on the last day before spring break and then told our class that anybody who missed it for any reason would fail the class. My parents had to change our flight. I don't see a huge issue, because I always finish my work, ask for help when I need it, and eventually understand everything. For the amount of school I missed last April before IB exams, I should have failed... but the majority of my marks didn't go down (calculus being the one that did). I'm trying to switch back to the teacher I have now, and it should work... my parents have even said they will talk to admin if they have to. </p>
<p>Senioritis hahaha.... after all the work I did last year, I am actually (much to the dismay of my teachers) trying to get to legitimately miss as much class as possible. I regularly volunteer for in-school student's union sponsored activities (ie. junior high tours, band concerts, basketball tournaments) and get dismissed early to help load the busses for band/choir trips and performances. I guess you could call that "senioritis", but the funny part is that while I haven't been in class, I haven't actually missed much. My marks are still where they usually are, and at this point I can pretty much get into any Canadian university/program I want to, so it doesn't even matter. </p>
<p>The social part of senior year has definetly been the highlight. I have made more close friends in the past couple months than I had in the two years previously (high school here is 10-12). It has been a blast. I actually broke out of the IB shell (haha) and went to a party (with other IB kids nonetheless), and both honor band and MUN trips helped develop friendships that were previously just on the edge of being acquaintances. Plus I actually have things planned to do with my friends on a regular basis. We go out for lunch every wednesday (to my friends church and we talk with their youth minister, who is also a great cook and gives us a free lunch every week. originally it was advertised in the christian club but now even my indian friend goes) because we get extended lunch due to our TOK spare. I've also managed to keep in touch with my camp friends from the summer, and somehow find the time (usually at 2AM after finishing group 4 or some essay) to write page-long e-mails to a lot of my close friends (new and old). </p>
<p>I have to admit, the worst thing about senior year won't be the workload that is slowly toppling off the bookshelf on to my head (ie. World Lit, EE, TOK Essay, History IA, on top of labs, orals, exams, and regular howework), but having to leave everybody after just really getting to know them. I can see a lot of crying at grad (<em>runs to buy waterproof mascara</em>).</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody for the second half of senior year! It will all be over much too soon...</p>
<p>Edit: I forgot the other worst part of this year - not turning 18 before that damn election! My birthday is in july... grrr. I am so jealous of my friends who get to vote. It's funny... everybody is like ooh when I turn 18, I'm going to get drunk. I'm going to register to vote! :)</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, I hear ya! All I heard was how awful junior year was and that senior year would be amazing, but I loved junior year actually, and this year every sunday night I dread the coming school week. I can't stop glancing at the clock and counting down the hours til school ends (and then I have school musical rehearsal for 3 more hours, ahh!)
I agree that the college apps and such are stressful, but what I'm actually finding to be worse are scholarship apps. I have to write more essays for those than I did for my applications. I'm applying for musical theatre too so I already had to audition at about 8 schools, and these past 2 months have probably been the most stressful of my life! And then there's the FAFSA, which don't even get me started. I applied to 12 schools and it only accpets 6 so now i have to do all this extra stuff or something? AHH!</p>
<p>Plus, my favorite teacher for the past 3 years basically told my mom at a meeting the other day about a scholarship audition that we weren't notified about until last minute that I shouldn't even bother trying because there are a lot of other really talented kids trying as well so I probably have no chance. And this is after this person totally forgot to give me my time and forgot I was even taking part in this event. What a caring teacher, aww! That really hurt me, and it makes me sad that I won't miss these certain things that I'd always figured I would when I graduated.</p>
<p>[160 days what?!]</p>
<p>My senior year is just packed with stuff - lot of decisions, never seeing any of my friends because we all have different obligations, and a ton of work at school/after school. I'm constantly tired - I can easily sleep 14+ hours on the weekend.</p>