<p>I know all of the following are my choice to do but...
I just wanted to vent because it's getting a tad overwhelming with:</p>
<p>Sats
Acts
Sat2s
Aps
Ibs
Finals
State tests
Research Essays</p>
<p>All in the span of these next three months...</p>
<p>That’s great. We all have done the same things and survived, so you’ll live.</p>
<p>This isn’t even a proper rant…where are the exclamation points and the blame apportioning? And you even forgot the “I’m a failure” part; that’s my favorite :(</p>
<p>Be more considerate next time, and post a quality rant so I can scoff in condescending satisfaction.</p>
<p>I have 4 AP tests and the regional and state track meets (2 races each, both after a day of school) in a stretch of 9 days. I’m just trying to enjoy these last few weeks before it really gets bad, but I know exactly where you’re coming from.</p>
<p>It’s already started for me…</p>
<p>Most of my extracurricular hours are based on a youth soccer training program that I sink about 5 more hours a week into now that the season is starting back up. Despite the fact that i really do enjoy it, it definitely doesn’t help with homework. Also, for some reason, I can’t seem to turn down a request that someone makes for tutoring so I’ve been putting like 3-4 hours a week into that. In addition to my internship every Friday, it’s been pretty tough… Especially since my physics teacher just gave us a three-day long test over the same span of days that I have a ridiculously hard Calc test and an APUSH 2 1/2 hour SAT II class. </p>
<p>And this is only just getting started :(</p>
<p>I am so done with all of this (tired of) that is still going on (except for the SAT and college getting into stuff) and high school. But the good news is, high school actually is almost done.</p>
<p>Says the person that it’ll be back for college–yeah, but what I’ll be doing will matter again.</p>
<p>It seems like the end of school is so far away now that I’m down to the last 2 months and 1 day. And then I have to go back to high school for two more years…at least next year will be “the beginning of the end”, beginning of the last half of high school. It helps to think that I’m more than half way done with school in general and that my little brother has a lot longer to go than I do.</p>
<p>Why is it a mark of honor to brag about how much work you have? Because that is clearly what this forum is obsessed with. </p>
<p>If you have work, go do it. It won’t magically complete itself while you complain/implicitly boast.</p>
<p>^ tell em sistah</p>
<p>Lol, ‘logicx24.’ Someone’s a little sensitive. I’m not sure how this is insinuating ‘bragging.’
If you have a job and you say “**** gotta work a late shift today,” would you deem that person to be ‘bragging’???</p>
<p>You, implicitly state that if one were to talk about oneself spending any amount of time on anything, that’s bragging.</p>
<p>The difference is that basically everyone works some kind of job but not everyone does research, takes AP classes, etc. Those things supposedly imply something about your intelligence. A lot of times people create threads of this sort to say “Look at me I’m smart and doing more stuff than you” but instead of just saying that they say they’re swamped with work and such. And then they go and detail exactly what they have to work on so readers can feel properly inferior.</p>
<p>(Not saying that’s what you’re doing, but thinly-veiled bragging is basically ubiquitous on here.)</p>
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<p>Nope. Not sensitive, just disillusioned. </p>
<p>Also, you’re not insinuating bragging here. I misspoke. You’re being pretty explicit, by CC standards.</p>
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<p>You are doing far more than what would be analogous to a worker “complaining” about a late shift. To continue your analogy, this would be an executive coming to an anonymous forum and complaining about the troubles of having a high-salaried job. You state you have “too much,” and then simply list your activities, most probably that are unknown to the majority of students. </p>
<p>This post is obvious bragging. You claim that you are overwhelmed, probably as a way to gain views, and then you list activities to somehow show your supposed intelligence. I don’t see any other reason to post a random list of activities, without explanation, besides an inherent sense of superiority and a need for external validation.</p>
<p>This is not a vent. This is blatant self-aggrandizement. Vents usually contain expression of feelings and explanations. </p>
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<p>No, I state (rather explicitly, actually) that your “complaining” is just self-promotion, appealing directly to others with the same insecurities. I generalize this complaining only within this forum, not to “anyone.”</p>
<p>Instead of coming here and making useless threads, why don’t you just do your work? Does it make you feel better to show everyone how much you have before you do it?</p>
<p>So you’ve NEVER complained before? …Ever? Because you could apply that logic to about any type of complaining.
ex: “I have cancer”
“Instead of coming here and making useless threads, why don’t you just do your work and find a cure?”</p>
<p>Ever heard of venting?</p>
<p>And furthermore, the ‘list’ is barely anything to brag about. It’s not like I said “Too much work because I’M GOING TO INTEL!!”
There’s nothing I listed that is anything special. At all.</p>
<p>I’m losing sleep, taking the ACT tomorrow unprepped, and feel like I’m getting early senioritis</p>
<p>Do we all have to be so negative all the time? Doesn’t anyone remember the Golden Rule? If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all? I feel like the same goes for replying to posts on CC. In my opinion, you shouldn’t reply unless you have something helpful to say or add. </p>
<p>Complaining about someone complaining is just as bad as the person doing the complaining in the first place. (And yet, here I am, complaining about someone who was complaining about someone complaining…)</p>
<p>To the OP, we only have two months left, and then we’re free! Just work really hard these next two months so you can enjoy summer and the free time when it comes!</p>
<p>Wait till you don’t get into your top schools next year. Then it’ll feel even worse.</p>
<p>I busted my butt (4.0, all 5s, 2340, all 800 subject tests, very good ECs, interesting background) and worked very hard on my essays. I still got rejected from all of my top choices (but I’ll be attending UVA as an Echols Scholar, and with in-state tuition I can’t really complain).</p>
<p>Life sucks sometimes, but you gotta move on</p>
<p>Paraphrase: “Life sucks, I have to go to UVA.”</p>
<p>Only on CC. :D</p>