@ndemazita
My hands started getting a bit shaky whenever I tried to talk to her. Had the butterflies and was nervous, pretty much grew weaker when I saw her face and that beautiful brown hair & those eyes.
Sadly I moved schools and couldn’t ask her to prom or anything of that matter. Though recently I had a dream about her last week and can’t stop thinking about her since.
@hungryteenager I kinda feel you there, but it’s different. These two girls I talk to think they can get into Stanford and Berkeley easy. We are freshman, so they haven’t learned the reality of those schools and how hard Stanford is… The other day I mentioned how hard it is and the price as an OOS student to Berkeley and one of the girl’s response was “Anish go away I can go to school where I want” and she’s the one who puts NO work into classes, yet she’s getting As ATM (only freshman year lol). That’s pretty funny though, serves him right!
@jsies11 We are the largest school in central Ohio, yet we are turning ghetto. We’ve had about 6-8 fights this month. One was so bad that they closed the bathroom and taped the doors due to blood hahaha. Weed is a problem everywhere; can’t put an end to it. Even a girl who gives her body (if you know what I mean…) for weed.
@Anish14 hate to butt in, but I feel you. Anyone can have a few dreams, but some people have dreams that are just unrealistic. I hear people talking about wanting to be doctors when they arent even doing that well in regular biology and chemistry and math classes and telling others that they can become doctors if they just try really hard. They just dont realize how hard it is to become a doctor.
@misschoding Exactly lol. As horrible as this sounds, I thought UCLA was some terrible safety school before joining CC, same with Chappell Hill, Virginia, etc. Not top universities. This site brings a lot of high schoolers exposure and teaches us to be realistic with colleges. What grade are you in?
I’ve noticed the ‘I’ll try really hard part’ a lot. It’s easy to sign up for a class, but to do the work is whole new story! There’s people that complain in math about not understanding, but they are too lazy to ask our teacher for help before school. /.\
Waking up early by far. I sit on my bed at 5am every morning crying silently lmaao. This is the sole reason i can’t wait for college.
@Anish14 Im a junior. How about you? This sounds kind of off topic, but Im gonna say it anyway… Im speaking from my experience (which I think is relatable to some extent), but during this junior year, one valuable lesson I learned is that there are some subjects that Im naturally not gifted at, and so no matter how much effort I put in, I cant do as well as someone else who is naturally better at that subject than I am. And therefore, thats why not all people who say that they will study hard succeed.
And yeah, I understand you in your last paragraph. hahah
Probably the amount of personal issues in my school that affects the vibe of my school. People that come from drugged up families, daddy issues, domestic violence, and parents with no college ed come to school stinking. You end up having a bunch of people who can’t contribute to any conversation or always take things personally. Fights break out everywhere and the girls here are utterly disgusting and are always thinking of new dirty ways to attract attention with their disease ridden bodies. Everybody looks for ways to gain approval, or seek acceptance for their many personality flaws they subconsciously recognize but avoid confronting. Dating is all about creating proof on social media rather than enjoying the moment. You can’t expect to have a nice conversation on fbook. Any discussion will flare into a deeper manisfestation of the opposing party’s inner demons.
The academic environment is atrocious too. Because everybody is so doped up and lazy, nobody values education. SAT? Whats that? You’ll see the kids that “graduate” around working at Pizza Hut or walking the streets smoking cigarettes. The rest go to community college or low level colleges. The teachers exhaust all their energy on the kids that haven’t focused one day of their lives, so when it comes to AP students, the teachers just let us sit there with a packet to work on.
High school has been tough. It’s a vicious cycle; the conservation of hate and envy applies here, where the cycle of incoming and leaving students replenish the same hate and sloth and apathy throughout the years. Too many personal problems stemming from this impoverished, drug induced town.
@misschoding Well, some believe they can work really hard and just do good at every subject, which is rarely the case. To follow up on those two girls who think they have a clear path to Stanford and Berkeley, they are taking AP Chem and APUSH next year (along with Hon PreCalc, Hon Journalism, Hon Spanish). They haven’t even taken a chemistry course, and they expect themselves to pass the exam, get an A, and learn the chemistry 1 concepts easily… My friend and I are going to enjoy seeing them struggle lol. Today in math she said, “Honestly, AP Chem doesn’t sound as bad as people make it out to be”… I forgot to mention, I’m a freshman this year, sophomore next year. Yep. That’s why even juniors and seniors struggle with AP Chem- it’s easy but they don’t try hard enough… Some people these days /.\
For me, it is definitely the way my school handles scheduling. We have block scheduling, where on A-days we have one set of 4 90-minute classes and on B-days we have another set of 4 90 minute classes. Though this seems good in theory, however some of our higher AP math/science courses (think AP Chem, AP Calc BC, etc) are double-blocked, meaning that the class takes up one A-day slot in conjunction with one B-day slot. At the moment we are having our IGPs and deciding the courses we will take for the next year, and since my required classes for next year (English III, Chem Honors, AP Stats, AP World, AP Bio (double-blocked), Spanish III) take up 7 total class slots, I have to decide between taking Computer Programming 1, the prerequisite for AP Computer Science, and Orchestra Masterclass, our school’s top orchestra class. Blech…
@Anish14 hahaha It is funny when people just underestimate the difficulty of AP classes and think theyre gonna ace them lol Last year in honors biology, this kid offered to pay money to students who would write the lab report for her (since she didnt know much, not because she was busy), and yet acted as if shes super smart. She got like a C on finals and called it nonsense, and she thought she was smart enough to take AP Bio junior year. I wonder how shes doing in AP right now… But yeah, at this point, I dont really get too annoyed unless its related to me. Let them all realize during senior year 
@misschoding Yes, let them suffer hahaha. The girl who wants to go to Stanford has a cousin with a “full ride” there (I doubt it… They have little FA and I don’t hear of many full scholarships to STANFORD), so she thinks all she has to do is get valedictorian now because her cousin didn’t have a 4.0… She missed the 4.0 unweighted part. She had to have a 4.0+ weighted! I’d assume. Besides, getting a 2400 or 36 is easy huh?.. I have a cousin at CalTech, but that doesn’t mean I’m going/want to get in. I’m curious as to how that person is doing in AP Bio, especially since it is very in-depth (I’ve heard). Can’t blame em for the lab reports… Those are total shit.
@Anish14 Stanford is actually very generous with financial aid, just saying, so it is possible that their cousin got a need-based full ride (I think pretty much everyone with an income of <60k gets it, for example). But yes, I agree that many people have unrealistic perceptions. One should never expect that they’ll get in somewhere.
@Anish14 yeah, I guess she will find out during her junior/ senior years hahah One day, she will stop trivializing everything… lol Yeah, Im curious too, but im not close with her at all so I have no idea. Lab reports are annoying, I agree, but if she doesnt want to do honors lab reports, how does she do AP lab reports?
Speaking of labs… I honestly work my butt off on lab reports this year for chemistry. Doing one every week is time consuming and hard, even if me and 3 others work together on the lab. But I know this one group in which 2 people constantly make this really book smart guy (hes really good at science but hes not very street smart) do all the work. Before chem class starts, they ask the smart guy if they can take the lab from him, so that when the teacher walks around collecting the lab reports from each group, they hand in the lab report, as if they did the work. When they score in the 90s on the labs, they get super happy and act as if all their work was worth the high grade. Funny enough, both of them (not the girl I mentioned before) were in my bio class last year. They cheated their butts off, both on tests and lab reports. They knew almost nothing and asked really stupid questions like Are fish mammals? an decided to take AP Bio next year. LOL.
@jakejake637 Wow that sounds so annoying. Keep going though… someday all those fools will be working for you hopefully haha.
One frustrating thing is the partner quizzes my school has in Chemistry. Each partner has their own quiz, but then they are stapled together, and the teacher only grades one of them at random. Both partners share that grade.
The partner system goes like this: the student with the highest grade in the class is paired with the student with the lowest grade in the class. The person with the second-highest grades is paired with the the person with the second-lowest grade, and so on and so forth.
It’s horrible because I (almost always) get paired with a slacker who doesn’t try and doesn’t care. So I’m writing paragraphs for the essay portion of the quiz while my partner only writes a few sentences. Of course, we collaborate and put the same answers, but I just write with more detail. It’s not fair because I’m doing all this work, and when the teacher grades the other quiz, I don’t get the credit I could have gotten.
Also, the teacher publicly announces who’s paired with whom. In order. (He announces the students with the highest/lowest grades first.) So everyone in the class has a good idea of what everyone’s grades are.
The most frustrating thing about my school is the WI-FI. Although most people will tell me that I should be fortunate that my school has Wi-Fi, we have ebooks, online textbooks. Therefore, I can’t access the book or do assignments during school time >:-(. What is really surprising is that our school has fiber optics; therefore, we should have lightning fast internet.
The other thing that frustrates me is how we have 10+ hours of homework during the weekend. Lab reports, reading guides, essays, etc.! I can’t enjoy a beautiful Sunday morning because of the workload. Although we are kept on our “toes”, I just feel that a lot of homework hinders my childhood that I am trying to enjoy.
@The5458Captain What kind of quiz is that? That is the most stupidest thing I ever heard and can’t even imagine any teacher that will do this. Pure BS.
@qpqpqp I know, right?
Anyone hate being used by someone? Can’t really tell if some people are my ‘friend’ or a genuine friend… I see it all the time in our biology class. There’s 5 freshman in the sophomore level, or at least they believe so, bio course and the sophomores always go after this one girl in group activities because she reads the Encyclopedia (literally) and knows her material. They never do work though and 2 sophomores got 40% on our genetics test lol. Us freshman are doing too well in this class (sorry if I sound pretentious), but of course our school offers no Honors Bio or Honors Chem.