<p>Lord of the Rings is unbelievable. Tolkien is a genius.</p>
<p>I also enjoy Dan Brown novels (Angels and Demons, DaVinci Code).</p>
<p>Procrastinating on: AP Physics studying, Othello, Comparative Politics, and AP Spanish Literature (ugh, bane of my existence)</p>
<p>Procastinating on: AP Calculus BC homework. I hate it, hate it, hate it. <em>Sighs</em> Only 15 more school days, though, and then grades don't count anymore!</p>
<p>I love Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Tolkien, "Memoirs of a Geisha," The Artemis Fowl books, and others I can't really think of right now.</p>
<p>My BC calc class is the best- we only have 6 kids and our teacher always bakes yummy food for us. The homework is unbearable but what are ya gonna do?</p>
<p>yea our BC calc class kicked ass too cuz our teacher was really tight and basically said watever the **** he wanted. Really cool guy. DualAnya, I feel ya, but it seems these 15 days are gonna go by slower than all of junior year!</p>
<p>I'm procrastinating on learning for my latin, math and geography test for tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.... I wish they would move my test week until after december 15th/16th I can't focus on anything lately! And that's really bad because i'm already well behind because of all the stuff I had to do for my application.. I still have to make about 50 pages of math problems....lol.... </p>
<p>But this weekend it will all be over, and then it's Sinterklaas weekend in the Netherlands!! Sinterklaas is a sort of Santa Claus and we all make poems and buy presents for each other, it's really nice! And i'm going to a pop concert of one of my favorite singers! So i'm hoping this will keep my mind of Yale for a while...</p>
<p>Hey flowertje, I recently read that the Netherlands is probably going to extend its existing euthanasia policies to include babies born with malformations, debilitating diseases, and disorders. Sorry that's so off-topic but I was just wondering what you thought about that...</p>
<p>Yesterday, my AP Calc AB teacher was late. So, when the bell rang, we barricaded the door with a couple desks and trash cans, turned off the lights and hid under the desks. One boy hid in the closet. When the teacher came in, she pushed the door open and said, "You've got to be kidding me." Best calc day yet, though we quite frequently make fire alarm noises and people curl up on the floor in the fetal position.</p>
<p>We are in a small room in a corner. Sometimes I think the walls should be padded.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>public schools rule.</p>
<p>lavendercloud, I think you misread the article, I do not believe the policies will be extended to these cases, but if they will I definitely believe they should be used with extreme care, just as the current ones. It is possible your article is about babies who have no chance of ever growing up and are brain damaged and in severe pain, I believe this is the only situation that euthanasia is possible on babies, but Im not even sure of this, it could be not possible at all.</p>
<p>Foreign newspapers totally blew our current law out of proportion, the rules are extremely strict and the process takes months, sometimes even longer, you have to pass several tests and get letters from doctors, every case is evaluated by a committee, and only people for who are in extreme pain (in some cases this can be psychological as well) and for who there is now hope of ever recovering (again, doctors have to corroborate this is the case) are in some cases allowed to undergo euthanasia. </p>
<p>It does not occur often, and research has even shown that it does not happen more often in the Netherlands than in (western) foreign countries, only in these countries there are no laws and people turn a blind eye to these cases. I think it's good we have laws for situations like this, what do you think?</p>
<p>flowertje, one of our neighbors is from Holland and when we were little every year on December 6th she used to tell us to leave our shoes out by the back door when we went to bed. When we woke up in the morning they would be filled with treats -- small clementine oranges, little chocolates in the shape of wooden shoes, and cookies. She said it was a Dutch tradition.</p>
<p>I don't know if this is something that you do, but if it is, leave your shoes out and this December 6th I'll fill them with good Yale wishes for you! Hopefully mine will be filled as well! -coldcomfort</p>
<p>thank you! So sweet! Its true, that tradition really exist, its called Sinterklaas, but it actually on december the 5th, I explained it a couple of posts down on this tread, its a sort of Santa Claus! The shoes are filled by Dinterklaas and his helpers who walk over the roofs at night, and children actually believe he exists! I used to try to stay up all night to look out the window but I never saw him.... its a really nice tradition!!! </p>
<p>Im especially looking forward to it this time because it means the end of my test week (which Im procrastinating on right now) tomorrow is the last day! After that Ill start buying gifts and writing poems
Best wishes to you too!</p>
<p>historical investigation , math IA, and THIMUN resolutions + research stuff...
i think im gonna go take a nap now...</p>
<p>now I'm procrastinating on a physics lab and 120 pages of AP English. great, this cycle never ends.</p>
<p>i'm procrastinating on reading Frankenstein....It is actually a good book, I just don't feel like getting off the computer and reading it :)</p>
<p>Procrastinating on: My English essay due tomorrow morning...and thanks to CC I havn't even started (its already 2 AM). Maybe I'll have to skip school for the gazillionth time again this quarter :(</p>
<p>Procrastinating on: calc bookwork, chem packet, lang short stories and analyses, apus test, and french bookwork</p>
<p>jli i loved Frankenstein. The language is so rich, and there are so many possible interpretations of it. We just read it in my English class.</p>
<p>procrastinating on a humanities paper applying Machiavellian principles to Russia under Nicholas II........
and AP Bio. reading that I probably just won't do... then again, there's a quiz on it, so I'd better get off of here and start working now!</p>
<p>Looks like I'm not the only procrastinator though, so i feel a little better!</p>
<p>Lemonjello, Anna Karenina was beautiful but if you have an amazing attention span, War and Peace was a lot better. I'm a bigger Dostoevsky fan too, though, especially the Brothers Karamazov. Awwww. </p>
<p>My favorite book is Les Miserables, followed by Don Quixote, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Poisonwood Bible (well, mainly I wanted to add an author who isn't a dead white man so maybe I lied a little bit about that?)</p>