<p>Yesterday at my school’s chess club tournament, this senior came in for the first time. (He’s this short, unassuming black guy who always cracks jokes). He started playing in intermediate. Checkmated two people in under 5 minutes. Moved him up to advanced. Checkmated everyone in advanced, including last year’s reigning champ! And he had me checkmated in 20 moves. </p>
<p>I couldn’t believe it. But I was literally so impressed. </p>
<p>He was like, “no one expects me to be smart.” So today I told everyone that he was a genius. </p>
<p>There<code>s this one kid in my AP class who</code>s super, super smart, but REALLY quiet. He<code>ll sit there with his hands folded and only talk to people who talk to him first, but when somebody asks him a question or the teacher calls on him, he</code>ll give a really formal, but funny answer…but the thing is, he sounds so OLD to be just a teenager…really mature. It<code>s hard to explain without you hearing him, but it</code>s just one of those things…</p>
<p>^ That’s funny, I know exactly what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Weird…it’s almost like we know the same kid. Like a 50 year old soul in a 16 year old body? Socially awkward, but super smart? Too formal-sounding in everything he does? Kind of alienates himself? </p>
<p>YES! Exactly! Like, when he<code>s around his friends, I hear him talk a lot, but in class, unless he</code>s called on, he never says anything…whenever I talk to him, he gets this startled look on his face…I guess I<code>m kind of loud, not what he</code>s used to. But yes, EXACTLY like you described! You described him much better than I did.</p>
<p>It was my teachers birthday today, so when I got to class (we have class in a different room than my teacher<code>s other classes, so she doesn</code>t get to our class until after the bell rings) the kid who is begging to be on the List was trying to convince us not to sing happy birthday to her. He even went so far as to shut the classroom door. The teacher came to the door and he opened it, and we all sang happy birthday. The whole time, he was yelling at us to shut up. </p>
<p>I don<code>t know hard it is to get on it, but for this guy, he</code>s not making it easy on himself. Pretty hard, though. Our teacher is…interesting.</p>
<p>The other day, my chem teacher was talking about dating at our age (sophomores). She asked this one guy if he had a girlfriend. He said no, and she asked him why (as he’s considered to be one of the more flirtatious guys in my class). This is what he said: “I don’t like to have only one girlfriend at a time.” It was just really funny the way he said it. And of course our class started cracking up!</p>
<p>Today I asked Siri, “Where can I find some rope?” (long story, my friend and I wanted to tie up another one of our friends so that she couldn’t leave school before we did), and it responded, “I can’t help you with movies.”</p>
<p>Yesterday the whole school had a whole speech about how we need to respect teachers more (and of course everyone was talking through the whole thing— there are times I hate my school). Then, the next class, my math teacher starts this rant about respect and how nobody understands what it means and how the person who made the speech was wrong about stuff and we didn’t even have to egg her on— she just kept going and going and going. It was awesome. We ended up doing five minutes of math in a forty-minute class.
Another time (different teacher, different year) we were graphing absolute value functions and the teacher had a problem she gave us with an attached graph with the answer. She kept telling us we were supposed to be getting a v shape with the vertex sticking up. And we were all like that we were getting one with the vertex sticking down. (Boy, I sound mathematical, don’t I? Using all this jargon?) And she was telling us how we were crazy not being able to understand, and how could we mess up a problem like that, and on and on-- til we figured out she was holding her graph upside down.</p>
<p>My friend takes regular environmental (she refuses to take APs and the AP at my school is incredibly difficult unlike the APES class at other schools). They had an assignment about living vs nonliving organisms and there were 6 objects (a boat, a person, seaweed, water, the sun, and a whale). There were people who argued with her saying that the boat, water, and sun were living and the whale, person, and seaweed were nonliving. She said it was funny to listen to them defend their stupidity.</p>
<p>Well, for those who were hesitant to learn sign language, that`s a plus. Haha, that was awesome! A+++++ for that girl!
@elf4eva, too funny!
Nothing too funny in AP today, but thought I`d share a joke I came up with...WARNING: I told it to about 30 people and only 8.5 laughed. Now my friends ban me from telling jokes:</p>
<p>There`s this river called the Ta river. Wanna know how it got its name? One time, when there was a flood, the people on high ground said to the people floating downstream:</p>
<p>Last week, my friend was playing in a tennis match for our school. The kids at our school have a reputation for being “rich”, while the other school was . . . less rich. So, my friend and her doubles partner were whipping the other team’s butt, and the two on the other team was commenting on how everyone at my school probably takes private tennis lessons at a fancy country club or whatnot. So, as a clever comeback, my friend looks at her (imaginary) watch and says in a lofty, pretentious voice, “Umm, can we please hurry up and finish this match? I’ve got to take my dog to a spin class.”</p>
<p>Not sure if I’ll be banned for this but go to Youtube and type in “Maximus Black Suck my D Skyrim parody” (don’t worry, its on youtube so its clean, its funny).</p>
