<p>EDIT: Never mind - I no longer feel like ranting…</p>
<p>I want to rant about my mother for now. My top choice school is a very competitive LAC school, and if I get in ( goodness to lord at the chances!) I would jump with joy! Problem is I got offered a free ride to my state’s flagship school and she won’t let me attend any other college besides the public school. I know all colleges get the same education, and since I’m planning on going to Law School, it doesn’t matter really where I’ll be coming from. So long as I got the numbers from the LSAT and good grades. Yet, I would REALLY like to attend my top choice. I’m sooo mad right now! Arrrgggh</p>
<p>Two rants. </p>
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<li><p>I just have to say that I feel like similar to some other posters in that my friends don’t really care about me anymore. They’re too busy doing other stuff. And I know this might be partially my fault, and God knows I’ve been blamed every other time it’s happened in the past, but I really think I’m not the only one to blame. Or perhaps we’re just so different and just realizing it. In which case, thank God for college. Which leads to rant #2.</p></li>
<li><p>I would really like to go to some schools that may not be so close to home. Except now my parents are telling me I really shouldn’t. And the reasons are pretty good, but I’m really the only one affected, so I don’t care. College is supposed to be when I get away from everything I know, not stay around it. (Of course, it would help a great deal if I didn’t get into a college nearby.)</p></li>
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<p>@ thelittlemermaid </p>
<p>I can relate so much on number 2. My parents want me to live at home and commute to college for cultural reasons but I really want to get away and be independent. Not to mention have fun with out them keeping a watchful eye over me. What doesn’t help is the fact that basically all of the LAC’s and other schools I want to go to are within a four hour drive from my house. I hate living in New England so much right now!</p>
<p>Here’s my rant:
- My hs life sucks
all Hs, I had pretty much no close friends/social life and focused on grades.
I’ve even (tears) never been to a school dance- not allowed
and I’m not even top 10/top 5 percent in the class as for dreams of good colleges
dreams are beautiful but reality bytes, nerd joke)</p>
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<li>My parents don’t respect my dedication to speech and debate
speech and deabte is my life- been my life since frosh year and I’ve loved it
yes, I’ve never won a state or national tournament but I’m moving up there
becoming a state semifinalist
quaterfinaling at a national tourneys
I work incredibly hard for everything
all for my parents to say, “speech and debate is stupid. Go do some science competitions. Who cares about speech?”
I’m hurt. this is something I invest so much of my time and life on
my parents reject it and I feel like I’ve been rejected
i feel like my parents don’t care about me or my dreams
and i’m starting to resent science competitions
I feel disillusioned and depressed
and state qualifiers are this weekend</li>
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<p>I live in a black abyss…</p>
<p>i am SO happy that this thread exists:</p>
<p>I have to do one researched essay on some president’s cabinet
another essay on said president’s critics
and another essay analyzing the aesthetics of a photograph (***?!?)
write ONE MORE freaking essay on ANOTHER PRESIDENT
study for a test that I will only have 1/3 of the normal time to take
prepare for a massive fundraiser I am in charge of</p>
<p>all of which NEEDS to be done tomorrow, I have either no clue how to get started, and (as far as the history essays go) are ALL FROM DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS AND THUS MORE WORK.</p>
<p>why do i procrastinate?</p>
<p>and i hate facebook. ever since junior year started i’ve wasted almost ALL my precious time on that **** - ty website and its just killing me slowly but surely.</p>
<p>I feel like I am wasting what is supposed to be the last few fun years of my life scraping and clawing my way into a university that will probably reject me anyway. and then I will have no friends to turn to and only a high school career of joyless suffering to look back at. </p>
<p>and I hate school. passionately. the thought of going to that hell hole tomorrow morning makes my heart race - and not in a romantic fluttery way.</p>
<p>I dislike my high school. ASB is stupid. They do nothing. Election is stupid. That’s why i will never exercise my voting rights to something so frivolous. I wish there was some sort of totalitarianism, which would make the school interesting. </p>
<p>Class of 2011 sucks cuz some of the top 10 cheated in APWH. People just take ap classes just to impress college and they never choose to take the AP exams.</p>
<p>Friends say I have no life cuz I choose to study all the time for AP exams even though I do have time to play video games, do mock trial, watch TV, etc. Besides, friends don’t even have ambition.</p>
<p>I HATE DOING HOMEWORK
if i didn’t have to do homework i would be less stressful and i would be much taller i would probably be 3 inches taller which puts me in the average range but nooo instead i have to be sleep-deprived and become a short person and i get called shorty
i hate ap classes i wish homework was banned from school i think this will decrease school-drop out rate i don’t get why the government isn’t doing it already</p>
<p>1)This whole year is a series of ups and downs and guess what? I’m pretty sure my guidance counselor hates me! She’s a total —ch to me, and i’m not the only one who thinks so. Whenever I go by to ask a question, she looks at me like I’m such a huge annoyance and acts like im taking up all her time, when she’s really just listening to pandora radio. Does she know that she alienates all of her students? what did i do to deserve her hatred? At this rate, we’re not going to be friends in time for her to write a half-way decent, fair assessment of me when I’m a senior :(</p>
<p>2) Why do i have to do a science fair project?!! I’ve barely done anything and its due soon!! More than that, my partner doesn’t seem aware of the time limit nor does she feel obligated to do anything. Instead, she gets really offended when i complain that she’s not helping me.</p>
<p>:( I want this year to be over.</p>
<p>I hate all the ****ing sob stories on HSL and CC in general.</p>
<p>ughghghg my school is so stupid i dont have enough room for more AP classes and photo editor requires a class.</p>
<p>We are forced to take gym</p>
<p>4 essays + 1 lab report due on Monday- how exciting…</p>
<p>i probably won’t do well in state sf because i didn’t have a mentor like all these people who did all this crap and my project isn’t nearly as good as theirs and i thought the paper was good but it’s definitely not as long as half the people there. i can’t wait for the summer.</p>
<p>ah, ranting run-on sentences. feels nice.</p>
<p>I feel much better now looking through the threads.</p>
<p>I have devoted do much of myslef to school that I feel that I’ve missed out on the exciting social life, so I hang out and talk but not a whole lot…hoping to change that in college at UPENN 2014!!! hahahah</p>
<p>I hate teachers who complain about you being sick. I was out for about two weeks, and half of them complained that my absences were excessive. Gee whiz, sorry for being sick. Why don’t you complain to the other kids that get F’s and D’s consistently? Not the kid that at least gets a half decent B or B+.</p>
<p>And I hate how PE kept me from getting first in my class. It dropped me to 56 only because I got a B. It was my only class I got a B in.</p>
<p>PE should not count for your GPA and should be a pass/fail. I also hate kids that get an A because they did extra credit. If it were up to me, I would not allow extra credit, period. I got a 98% in Biology without extra credit, and even then this girl comes by and gets a 103% when she deserves a 90%.</p>
<p>I also hate how school starts so damn early. Why does it start at 7:30? I know plenty of schools that start at 8:30 and get off at 3:00, why can’t we? Let’s give up your Extended Learning Periods and all go home early or start school later.</p>
<p>An amazingly long time is spent wasted in my classes, too. I wish there was a way where I could leave after I’m done with the work in class and start on my next ones. I would be done extremely early. My math teacher takes an hour to explain a lesson, that takes me about 30 minutes.</p>
<p>My English teacher is really nice, but also takes a really long time just getting anything done. I want to have a class discussion, not this “raise your hand” crap.</p>
<p>Don’t get me started on PE. The teacher hates anyone who can’t pass the tests. I try every day my 100%, and she doesn’t seem to catch that and gives me a B or a C. The kids that don’t try at all, never move save for the tests, get an A (admittedly, their only A). It’s crazy and disgusting.</p>
<p>World Geography is a bore. I can’t believe I didn’t transfer out on the first day. Not only does it not count as Social Science, the class is in Spanish and the teacher is constantly out. The notes we take are ridiculously easy, I guess the only good part is that it’s an easy A if you’re here every day and do all your work.</p>
<p>Biology is one of the more interesting ones, but the class is rowdy and everyone has way too much trouble than they should. The teacher is really inattentive to the class save for the smart ones and the other ones can text their hearts out. And, did I mention, it’s in Spanish?</p>
<p>Spanish is my favourite. We’re always doing something fun and exciting, and I really do learn the most from this class than any other. She kinda holds your hand, but makes sure everyone understands the lesson. She’ll even help you after school and during her breaks if you do not understand. There is a reason she heads the Foreign Language dept.</p>
<p>Gah…colleges and scholarship programs!!! COME UP WITH INTERESTING AND ORIGINAL ESSAY PROMPTS!!! DO NOT just CHANGE the ones that I’ve already written for you JUST ENOUGH so that I actually have to spend time REWRITING THE ALREADY STUPID ESSAY!!! ALSO, do you think that I am in a position to create LOTS AND LOTS OF CHANGE FOR THE BETTER…when I am not even in a position to SIGN PAPERWORK ON MY OWN BEHALF!!! I am applying to you SO THAT I can create change for the better.</p>
<p>Stupid scholarships. 90% of them are for “students attending a 2 year college” or for specific majors such as pre-Med.</p>
<p>Better yet, 99% of them require extremely redundant essays. Luckily I’ve reached the point of saturation…most of my essays now can be re-used or re-written.</p>