I’m so frustrated with school right now not because there’s too much work or anything, but because nothing is going on at all. Absolutely nothing at all, in some classes.
Government – The one class that I am truly enjoying. It’s really interesting, and I like how we make a lot of real-world connections with the stuff that we’re learning. Mr. O’Brien is a pretty cool teacher, and he knows how to be interesting. I’m looking forward to the rest of the year in Government. For an AP class, it’s not too bad, either.
Chemistry – Apparently, Ms. Krishnamurthy missed the MLA seminar and the be-an-interesting-teacher seminar. Although she is a really nice person, she’s kind of dull when she teaches…and it probably doesn’t help that she’s teaching about things that are dull (“Once there was a guy who left a rock in his closet and forgot about it…”). Vicki, Amanda, and our list of Murthy-isms is what gets me through that class.
Independent Research – I like this class, too. I enjoy that it’s a non-conventional type of class and that we can pretty much do our projects however we like them….even if it includes Facebooking and IM’ing for half of the class. :] Fun aside, I really like my project and Mrs. McAllister is pretty alright. Not my favorite teacher, but she’s nice and she is very helpful.
Algebra – Lordy, lordy. I’ll Ms. Mayer’s quote about herself to sum up my feelings about this class: “When people see me coming to their doors, they run away and close the curtains!”. Yeah. She’s actually a pretty good teacher, she can just get somewhat crass and she’s terribly blunt. Her tests are also pretty hard….which explains my 78% in her class. Oops.
Spanish – I just want to scream in this class. In almost two months, I’ve learned three words: incendio, humo, and herido. Although they are terribly nice words, I’m doubtful that the midterm will ask us to write a sentence about an injured person dying of smoke-inhalation and that’ll be the end of that. In Chancellor’s class, we would have done three units by now, much less three words! We also would have learned a lot more in context and had deeper understandings of the vocabulary and grammar. This year? Not so much! We don’t do anything in that class because everyone always gets Mrs. McCown off-topic. I’ll drop down to Spanish III regular if it means that I can actually learn! We’ve already watched more movies than you can count on one hand and we’ve already done too many things out of that damn textbook.
Drama – I hate this class…it’s so much worse that last year. Blasko is making us do the stupidest assignments and giving us no time to do them. EARTH TO MARLA! I DON’T WANT TO WRITE ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, NOR DO I WANT TO WRITE A FOUR-PAGE MONOLOGUE, MEMORIZE, AND PERFORM IT IN TWO WEEKS!
English – By far my most hated class. Dungey treats it like she’s teaching college students in an AP course, but…um…I don’t know how to say this, she’s NOT. She’s teaching G/T sophomore English. She gives too much work that’s too impossible and then grades it too toughly. It’s impossible to pass that class.
In the words of Kathy Griffin, “EVERYBODY CAN SUCK IT!“. I’m sick of school already. I’m not even going to talk about that pointless, headache-inducing Renaissance thing.