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Remember when I took the AP World History test?
Let’s review: I didn’t care about the class the entire year, I never paid attention, I did do all of my assignments and projects so that I could maintain a B, I failed most of the tests in the class, I never bought an AP review book, and I never did a lick of studying. When I got to the testing site, I breezed through the multiple choice section and was fairly confident that I had done well.
And then came the essays. The essays that left me absolutely confused and screwed. I wrote all three essays on three sheets of paper (out of the ten provided in the testing booklet) and in 45 minutes (out of 120 minutes) and then I took an extended nap. I was pretty sure that the essays had done me in.
Well, my scores came the other day and I got a 4! I didn’t do anything to prepare for the entire year and I got a 4?! Fantastic! I did better this year that I did on AP Gov&Politics last year (I got a 3). I’m over the moon!
This was my entire year’s worth of schoolwork (with a water bottle for scale). It was a killer year and it was very empowering to throw the entire pile into the recycling bin.
I think I need to clear some space on my bulletin board.
I bought a new keyboard today! My old Apple Pro Keyboard (picture here) finally kicked the bucket after three years; the right shift key and several of the keys on the number pad mysteriously all stopped working at once (which leads me to believe that somebody may have caused this malfunction), so I drove to the Apple store today and bought the amazing new keyboard (and by “new” I mean that it was new for me). It’s aluminum and extremely thin and it just looks cool! I love it!
Whilst browsing at the Apple store, I came across the iPhone 3G S and instantly fell in love. I will be buying one first thing on January 24, 2010 when I become eligible for an upgrade at AT&T. I’m super excited. :)
It’s finally summer!
All of my finals are over and I can finally relax and sleep in and not do homework and have time to blog.
It’s a good feeling. :)
I don’t really have anything to say right now. Ugly Betty finale was fantastic (along with Lost and Grey’s Anatomy, ABC has done pretty well this year in terms of finales). I’m so sleepy and I need to stop napping after school because it keeps me awake at night. Now that the seniors are gone, we don’t do anything in any of my classes at school so I’m basically staring at the wall for eight hours at school. Is it summer yet?
Today was the seniors’ last day of classes! I’m gonna miss these people! And what am I going to do in Trig without Becca there to entertain me?! (PS this picture makes it look like I have no chin, but I really do have a very nice, defined single chin that will require no plastic surgery to fix in the future, and same with Becca).
At least I only have on more year in high school. One thing to be happy about!
So, today was my World History AP exam, the exam that I had been ignoring and not caring about for the last eight months UNTIL I started stressing about it two days ago. I guess I never really got into this class like I got into AP Government last year, and as a result, I never really…cared (for lack of a better term). I didn’t study or pay attention in class all year, two things that are very uncharacteristic of myself, and I was afraid that I was really going to bomb this exam.
Well, I didn’t. (As far as I know).
The multiple choice section was a breeze. I only skipped two questions and I felt confident in my responses for the rest of them. The essay section, however, was two straight hours of taking it up the butt. I had NO IDEA what any of the three essays were about (and I cannot disclose the topics of the essays for forty eight hours, btw) so I kinda just made something up. I sort of understood the DBQ essay but the CCOT and C&C were complete trainwrecks.
My essays for the last two were each one page long and took me twenty minutes each to write. To put this into perspective, the College Board gives you ten front-and-back sheets in the response booklets and more than two hours for the essay section of the test. My essays were one page each (one side of a sheet) and it took me a total of 50 minutes to write all three. So yeah, I basically screwed up that entire half of the test. But, so did everybody else in my class, so I don’t feel too bad about it.
However, it is all over now and I feel so much better than I did at this time yesterday! And luckily, I’m not feeling crappy like I did after last year’s test.
I’m gonna miss her. :(
My backpack on top of a pile of dirty laundry. I’m so done with school. :(