tell me im not the only one...

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<p>Well, being a senior in highschool sucks! I have just finished my 2nd marketing period (which is a relief for now because those are the grades the colleges see initially) and I got all A's and 1 B. The thing is on top of the senioritis i have that can only be cured by graduating, I am experiencing something else. I absolutely hate highschool. I find that the long periods are unnecessary (42 minutes to fill out a worksheet using a textbook?!?) and for the most part the people aren't really motivated to go out in the world and find out things for themselves. On top of that, I have been stuck in numerous project groups this year picking up slack for lazy kids and being the "creative" one because if you don't tell someone what they need to do, they just wait around for nothing to come. Nobody really has an intellectual curiousity. I can't stand waking up everyday and going to class dealing with the tedious papers and for the most part "unmotivated" kids. Will college life be any better? Is the work in college fun for the most part because your studying what you want? Will I be sleep deprived in college? The mixture of fustration, lack of sleep, and senioritis is truly driving me crazy at school. Its hard to want to get up and go when you know all your missing is "a video with questions to answer" and a "10 pt. quiz to test intergration..." Please tell me I am not the only senior suffering and wondering if college will be any better?</p>

<p>PS today was my last day of gym...ill never have to change clothes to play "ultimate frisbee" ever again...there is a god! :)</p>

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<p>i got a 1600 sat. don't judge me</p>

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<p>Hey, I'm a junior, but I totally know what you're talking about. I can't believe some of the kids that are in my highschool. The one thing that gets me mad though is that some of the kids that have no intellectual curiosity whatsoever manage getting the best grades. They work really hard, but I don't understand why. I guess they just feel they have to. It's annyoing because I'm very intellectual, but I don't necessarily look it on paper. I'm curious about your occupation: being cute?! haha</p>

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<p>42 minutes is a long period? Mine are each 95 minutes. Pure hell.</p>

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<p>im sure shes not morbidly obese, her occupation is being cute! kinda weird how I assume you're a she even though you never said anything about that.</p>

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<p>ya my occupation is being cute when im not sleep deprived lol. and yes im a girl so good assumption hehe school is just really getting to me and with no college acceptance letter yet I have nothing to work towards. my EDII school will notify me before feb.15th so thats not too far off. everyday is one more x on my school calendar. almost to june...</p>

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<p>yea, im not looking forward to all of that . it msut be exciting in a twisted way though</p>

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<p>i dunno i think she sounds cute, obviously hard to tell, but i get that feeling</p>

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<p>but her occupation is being cute, and there are supposedly really good looking girls in south jersey. i think if its her occupation , she must be good at it</p>

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<p><em>laughs</em> I am a fat, non-sport playing girl. Oh well.</p>

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<p>i wanna hear valuable's response to stupid</p>

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<p>I bet he didnt really get that. Well i do agree about the group projects- I always end up doing most of the work, if i didnt id fail. im in honors classes so the ppl in my class tend to care about learning and are really nice. my classmates rock!</p>

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<p>So where did you apply EDII valuable?</p>

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<p>I applied EDII to Scripps College in CA all the way from NJ. Other schools on the list are kenyon,bucknell,wellesley,tulane,american,rutgers,santa clara,occidental,pitzer (rejected)</p>

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<p>Wow, I sympathize with you completely! I really can't wait to be done with high school and away from my big town of 500 people. </p>

<p>My town is completely un-diverse both in race, culture, and viewpoints. It's a very conservative town yet my family is pretty liberal. So as you can imagine, I can't wait to break away from my hometown. I mean it is great in many ways, but I am ready to go, perhaps a few months too early...</p>

<p>Also, the projects...I always get stuck organizing. You know how other people get the fun parts, like drawing the picture and you get stuck writing the paper and so forth. Plus, I swear it doesn't matter what club I'm in I get stuck doign all the work, like setting up meetings, etc. I guess the same people usually get stuck doign things since they earn a rep. of being dependable. </p>

<p>Also, hardly anyone in my school is interesting in learnign. Most just care about passing. Even the ones who try to get good grades generally do it for the great only, not to learn. Sadly, since I go to a really small school and we have no AP classes offered, I take ap classes over the internet through a program called apex. Anyway, what I am trying to say is here I can't find any people who share my desire to learn except for through a computer. And that just isn't the same.</p>

<p>While I'm ranting.... Let me describe a typical day in my world lit class. Okay, our english teacher (one of the few liberals in town) is teachign through this book that goes on about the world and the impending water crisis. Anyway, somehow politics come into it all and all of a sudden I hear 1/3 of my class saying why don't we just blow up the whole country (Iraq). ***? Yeah, hmmm they didn't ask us to come in. We made a mess. Anyway, I just cannot stand to listen to so many people so ignorant of the world and so narrow-minded. There are people in my class who seriously could care less if a tsunami killed 170,000 people. Not to mention, there is this kind of bi-sexual guy in my class or something anyway. Well, anytime he speaks I hear these other homophobic guys mutter under there breath crap at him. Of course, these are the guys who have confederate flags hanging from there cars and just drink and pass the time. Yeah, well that's my little sad story. I got to get away from it. It depresses me when the best solution to a problem for over half my class is to bomb 'em. </p>

<p>Anyway, I'll be surprised if anyone actually finishes reading my rant..lol</p>

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<p>no i read your rant lol and i agree. i deal with the same homophobic, narrowminded, unmotivated kids too. i sympathize with never getting the fun activity like drawing! lol. it sucks because for once I would love to depend on someone in a group but I can't because of too many bad past experiences. If i dont take the major chunk of a project into my own hands, my grade will suffer. plus, not that I am not open to all political views, but being a democrat/liberal type supporter, I have a hard time with the conservativism at my school and the way they think sometimes. I actually don't mind republicans if they argue their points intelligently. speaking from my own perspective I just don't like Bush whether he was a democrat, liberal, republican, green etc. Nothing angers me more than debates like that in my school because no matter what you try to argue they give you some BullS**t type response, well thats what you "liberal elite" think or "are you still mad about your FL election"! I cant wait until college where hopefully there will be more intelligent debating and understanding. I am sorry but most kids in my senior class are just losers who drink on the weekends and have sex with people in their clique. its disgusting...college is so close yet 5 more months at my school is unbearable</p>

<p>By the way, I took an exchange trip to Spain last spring. it was truly inspiring to be so open to another culture and view point. But when I come home to my school and I am like hey I went to Spain, they are like "do they have good tacos" or "did you learn any curse words"? Geez, what ever happened to wondering about their lifestyle or politics or anything other then superficial *****. It drives me crazy that learning is unappreciated.</p>

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<p>Haha valuable...</p>

<p>I know what you mean with travel, too. I lived in NIcaragua for 6 weeks this summer, which totally baffled my community. No one could understand why and how my parents could let me live alone in another country, though I must say I'd even be nervous to let my kid go alone. Anyway, my friends would be like (and not joking) "So where is Nigeria anyway." Yeah, I didn't dare to talk Nicaraguan political views with my friends, though I love em. </p>

<p>And I'm goign to williams college in massachusetts next year (applied ed) and everyone here is like, "Why would you go so far away?" I'm from rural Minnesota by the way. They think it's silly that I would go far away... anyway</p>

<p>Take care valuable... I have got to back to school now for drama rehearsal. It's our last one before we perform for school. So good night and take care!</p>

<p>-Leonesa</p>

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<p>you guys are really missing out if you want to get out of high school that fast. After the end of first semester when colleges wont see your grades until after they make a decision should be the best time of your life! Go out with friends, get drunk, try to have random hook-ups, and just make sure that your life stays in balance. You have freedoms now that you never will again, enjoy it for the next few months!</p>

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<p>my boyfriend of 2 years is from nicaragua ironically so I am familiar with the culture since he is a first generation nicarguan-american. its quite interesting. congrats on williams, cant get any better than that. good luck with everything and thanks for responding. feels good to know someone else is out there feeling the same as I do.</p>

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<p>i definitely agree with you all about wanting to be done with high school. i got into my first choice school ED at the end of october, so the whole year has basically been a struggle towards graduation. unlike what leonesa was saying, my graduating class alone has over 500 people, so the size of my town has never really been a problem. my town is also pretty evenly split between liberals and conservatives, so political debates in classes never feel completely one-sided. my biggest problem is how stuck-up and arrogant many of the kids around here seem to be. my school's parking lot seems to be filled with brand-new cars and the "affordable" housing my town's committe just announced is $200,000+. people are just so caught up with name brands, and it seems that so much of what people in my school do is just to get into a "designer" college. when we have to make speeches for club officer elections, so many people blatantly say that they're running so they can put it on college applications- and the get elected! cheating in my town is rampant and teachers are often willing to turn a blind eye because these are "good" kids from "good" families. the few kids who actually do their work are often the ones whom everyone else copies off of on assignments and tests. any originality and learning for the sake of knowledge seem kind of dead around here. it's funny because i never really paid attention to any of these things until this year, which is probably because i'm just biding my time until i can get out of here. anyway... sorry to rant on there, but i'm hoping that college will be substantially more intellectually stimulating than high school has been.</p>