<p>Hehe. Same here. Anyone here going to the NAQT National HS Championships in Chicago this June?</p>
<p>Quiz Bowl is the least important of my ECs cause I don't know enough random stuff. It's sad. But we qualified for state, which is only ten schools, and then we were in the final four when we got knocked out at the last minute. We're going to Washington for the nationals in June (woohoo!)</p>
<p>We're going to good ol' Nashville, Tennessee. Why the heck is everthing in Nashville?</p>
<p>Is it too late to join the P&P/HP bandwagon?</p>
<p>Of course not! I can't believe we let this thread die for so long ... <em>weeps</em> Any fan of Austen and JKR is welcome here!</p>
<p>Welcome, Bentley!</p>
<p>Oh I know. We kind of fizzled off in here... AP tests, you know. I'm done with all but one of mine now though, so yay! I took Calc BC, Eng Lit, US Govt, and I still need to take Latin Lit. How about all of you P^5ers? How are the tests going?</p>
<p>And just for fun... on the housing form I think I might put "Austen and Harry Potter fan" as part of my description of an ideal roommate... lol... then maybe some of us would wind up together, haha.</p>
<p>AP's... well, I'm done with 5/7. Let's leave it at that.</p>
<p>Guess what! P&P was actually one of the books for my AP Lit class, so we might be seeing the BBC version in class now that we're entering the post-AP realm of blissful relaxation. Whee.</p>
<p>sky9073: lucky.</p>
<p>Bentley: Welcome! </p>
<p>General: I'm done with APs. :D If I did well, that's an entirely different story...</p>
<p>Wow, sky... 7. That's a lot. And Pton doesn't even give credit!</p>
<p>Yeah, we read P&P in my AP Lit. class too! I actually had some friends who wrote about P&P for the country setting novel question on the AP... I actually had another book I wanted to write about more, so I didn't though.</p>
<p>Welcome, Bentley! :)</p>
<p>I wrote about Brave New World for the country setting problem, only because it's the novel I knew best. Now that the lit test is over, we're watching Sense & Sensibility in English! :D</p>
<p>I'm done with 2/4 -- the other two are the econs.</p>
<p>heh...i totally blew that section...wasted 40 minutes writing about native son (takes place in CHICAGO) until i realized the question did not simply say setting, but "country setting". Lets just say 3 essays in an hour and 20 minutes is not pretty.</p>
<p>Isia: yeah, I know. :( but my school made everyone pay in, like, November or something, so there was no backing out. I'll be quietly waiting for a string of threes and hopefully be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>Ahh. That country setting. I would've written about the English Patient (anyone else love this?) if I'd been sure whether the desert/villa counted as "country"... but ended up doing Midsummer.</p>
<p>jaskid: ouch. I wrote #1 in twenty minutes (got stuck for the longest time), so I hear ya.</p>
<p>Hi guys! I thought it was time for me to chime in...since I've been reading your posts for MONTHS now. :p</p>
<p>We read P&P in AP Lit too! (as summer reading) and watched parts of the BBC version in class on the first few days of school. Then we analyzed the humor and compared it to clips of Family Guy. It was pretty fun :)</p>
<p>hmmm... description of ideal roommate, I like that!</p>
<p>someone willing to sit through the entire BBC P+P, someone who will go with me to shows in NYC, someone who will sing and dance wildly to broadway songs with the stereo turned up, Josh Groban fan</p>
<p>Actually I don't know about that. None of my friends fit that description, so maybe all that doesn't matter. I'm just praying that my roomate fits the description of "not scary."</p>
<p>Um...that's me! Completely...kinda scary how appropriate it is actually.</p>
<p>I love Josh Groban! I saw him in concert in Philly a while ago, and he was soo cute! :D</p>
<p>^^^Agreed (elphaba88). I just hope my roommate and I generally get along. <em>crosses fingers</em></p>
<p>Yeah, most of the drama kids in our school wrote about Midsummer. They had to read it, analyze it, direct it, and perform it recently. They have a working knowledge of it, so they should easily get a 9....lucky people.</p>
<p>I wrote about Tess of the D'Urbervilles ... I haven't read it for ages and I FORGOT THE NAME of one of the three main characters ... but it was a fantastic example. </p>
<p>We read P&P for summer reading as well. It was sad, because half of my class (the male half, that is) hated it. So our entire class discussion was just two halves of the room screaming at each other about how terrible the other half's taste in literature was. I deeply offended at least three friends of mine. It was fun!</p>
<p>I don't want to be too specific about roommates ... sometimes the most interesting or fun roommates are the most unlike what you would have asked for. As long as she doesn't drink or party a lot ... I really couldn't deal with that.</p>
<p>Speaking of Josh Groban (<333), where does he fit on the musical tastes section of the housing form? "Other"? :o</p>
<p>There's a musical tastes section?? Sweet! There goes the obnoxious rap-playing roommate!</p>
<p>Hehe that's exactly what I thought as soon as I saw the section! :D</p>