last 9 weeks i had all-A's until the last week, when i thought 3 of my classes were going to slip to a B. Luckily i got them all back up. but last week i didn't feel like i really did anything. i just casually did my work like normal, and still made A's. the only thing that would've brought me down to a B in those classes was that i was missing assignments that i just hadn't done because i was absent. which is a legit excuse.
mostly i just got them to A's so that my mom wouldn't hassle me about them. Although, this 9 weeks i can get straight B's and still have A's on my report card :-).
So i guess senioristis is settling in more now. i forget about homework i'm suppose to do at home and don't look/write in my planner as much now. most of my classes' homework i don't complete at home though. most of the time i do about half or a little more than half and copy the rest in lit or physics. mostly physics.
i think it is a little funny that now some of the AP teachers are trying to "crack down" on cheating. people go caught copying gov, MWDS, and enviro homework. it's funny that this copying has been happening all 4 years, and it's not until now that they're cracking down. i guess now, we've gotten better about spreading information and cheating is more on a wider scale (with Facebook and emailing attachments).
i also think it's funny that some of the teachers actually realize that copying homework is not that much of an offense as cheating on tests. Brennen even told us that he thought he was taking care of cheating on his worksheets by giving a test. lol. after mrs dunlap told him about the cheating of his homework assignment, he gave us a quiz to check if we were cheating once. and hasn't mentioned it since. which was expected.
while mrs BP went ballistic. won't stop us from cheating though. we'll just paraphrase better. lol
with this, i've also noticed that the classes i'm taking this semester/year don't take much understanding. it's mostly just memorization.
last semester i actually had to understand econ and calc 3 to do well on the tests. but this semester, gov is all memorization and diffeq, we just teach ourselves what we need for the homework and make sure we get the right answer (we've only had one test so far). lit - just pay attention. and enviro - as long as you do the hw, you can make C's on her tests.. oh. and physics we just don't do anything. we had one test last 9 weeks that we already had the answers too.
so this copying thing has become more common because we don't need to learn the material for ourselves if we don't have to.
as i said once to Danielle, we're high achieving minimalists.
although, with all this copying and not doing work and senioritis, you would think, i'd have more time. and there are days when i'm sitting at home wishing i was out hanging out with people, but by the time i'm thinking about it, it's too late to call anyone up or anything.
and then on weekends, i would love to take weekend trips to the beach or to some rivers or whatnot. especially now that it's getting warmer. but i looked at my gcalendar, and i don't have another completely free weekend until the weekend after we get out of school:
this weekend - Anchor thing, Drew's party, Easter; then it's the UF invitational; then it's the weekend in spring break, which i'm thinking i'm going to be in DC; then 4/11-12 is relay for life and it's also the weekend before SSEF, so i'm probably going to be working on that; then it's mao state; then it's prom; then 5/2-4 i have free, but it's the weekend before APs so i'm thinking i'm going to be studying for those; then it's the weekend during APs - still studying; then the weekend after APs is my dance rehearsal and recital; then that wednesday, Seniors leave. (of course the weekend after that is also my dad's birthday, so it's still iffy if i could go anywhere. lol)
so my only solution to this problem of wanting to go to the beach, is skipping school one day. which actually wouldn't be all that bad, since, as i said earlier, i don't do anything anyway.
i'm thinking i should go for sure somewhere that monday after APs because i have all AP classes and TA. so... they're not going to be doing anything those days. lol
it's funny to think that you have so much free time, but really, you're still busy. which is awesome. i mean, all the stuff i have planned i'll enjoy. plus, i have more freedom to go out during the week because i don't have as much worry about homework.
i worked so hard jr year. i'm just kinda disappointed i didn't work as hard/taken as many classes the other years. cuz it doesn't seem like it'd boiled down to much. the two colleges i am deciding between, i could've probably been accepted with As and Bs. and even if i did get into MIT, i probably still wouldn't have been able to go because of the money. i'm thinking i'm going to end up at UF because of the money for Ga Tech. it's a great school and all, but it's just i could've made A's and B's and still be in the same situation i'm in now.
although, it's not that bad that i didn't slack off last year, because as i said earlier, it didn't take a hell of a lot of effort to make those As. so it's all good. i try not to have any regrets and make up for it in the present if i do.
this is really long, so i'll sum up, sorta.
senioritis is setting in. and it's fun in a way because it takes away most of my worries.
the cheating thing is getting kinda on my nerves, but it'll soon pass. besides, we're not going to stop, just going to get better.
even though i'm in the same place i would've been doing less work, i don't regret it. i can still have the pride that i made As in these classes. and plus it looks good for scholarship and program opportunities, not just college.
and even though it seems like i should have more time, i'm still busy. but it's more of a relaxed busy... i like it.
now i just have to find ways to skip school... lol
