<p>i start school on tuesday and I have way too much to do. I've basically sat on my ass all summer and now I'm going to pay haha. </p>
<p>Well anyways what summer assignments have you been forced into?</p>
<p>I've had to read 4 short (a 4 pager, a 70 pager, a 30 pager, and a 30 pager) and do about a a page and 1/2 of questions on each....which wasn't so bad.</p>
<p>But thenn...</p>
<p>I had to read Brave New World. Probably my third least favorite book after Great Expectations and Siddhartha.</p>
<p>and now I'm trying to answer the questions and I feel like a frickin moron cuz I don't even remember reading half this **** in the book.</p>
<p>Damn I hate summer reading. I'm a child for chrissake summer should be used for self-fulfilling activities like music and horseback riding and my OWN choice of novels. I mean seriously I'd be happy to read if only they weren't thrusting so much crap upon me.</p>
<p>When will teachers ever learn?</p>
<p>Haha and the sad thing is that my summer reading list is probably 1/4 of what all you poor children at prep schools have to read.</p>
<p>what sucks most about summer reading is that most teachers don't even discuss the books -- they just hand you a generic test and ask you to take it, after collecting the essays, of course, which they also don't carefully read.</p>
<p>anyway, I read all the summer reading books on my list two years ago, and I tend to remember a ridiculous number of details, so technically I read Picture of Dorian Gray.</p>
<p>I had a 10 page math packet, which wasn't bad at all -- even though it's to Multivariable Calculus, it didn't have much Calc AB or BC in it.</p>
<p>Heh, I also had about 300 problems to do for AP Chem. THAT was horrible. They weren't even hard...just the same thing over, and over, and over...</p>
<p>last summer for chemistry, I did this ridiculously intricate outline of Bill Byson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything." it was thirty pages, handwritten with hand drawn diagrams and everything, and on the due date, I turn it in along with my friend, whose was pretty much a three sentence summary on every chapter.</p>
<p>grades come down, and I only got two points higher than he did.</p>
<p>it was tragic. I have since decided to only hand in crap for crappy assignments.</p>
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<p>YES!!!........I'm glad I'm not the only person who completely HATED "Great Expectations".</p>
<p>ps: For AP Chemistry I had to Outline 4 Chapters of Zumdahl and then do a 50 page packet. I didn't have anything to do for AP US history, but on my own iniative, I read 1776 and Outlined 4 chapters of my history text book.</p>
<p>I read "Brave New World" for my sophomore year's summer reading. I really loved it! Huh.
I had a TON of summer preparatory work to do! I got it all finished last week, though. Pretty much every class gives summer work, so I had to prepare for seven classes and find my senior year volunteer location. I also had an internship twenty hours per week and I had to get back in shape for field hockey this fall.
Needless to say, I wasn't really loving the final summer of my high school career... Oh, well! :)</p>
<p>We had to read Frankenstein and Pride and Prejudice and do double entry journals (six quotes each) on both of them. We also had to read 200 pages of the AP Euro book and do a 3-5 page single spaced essay on it. I usually think summer reading is easy; I just really really hate the writing.</p>