Thursday, May 19, 2016 "Enough Ain't Enough."

Thursday, May 19, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Witch - Boyfriend

        I've heard people question why teachers give out so many assignments at the last minute, like, literally a week before finals. "It's like they want us to fail." Yeah, I could see why.

        I'm sitting at a 79% right now in Psych, which is a B-. I'm totally fine with it, we've been watching movies for the past 2 weeks now. We still take notes, unlike the other AP Psych teacher where she doesn't require her students to take notes. Today the teacher gave us an evaluation form to fill out, like, evaluating her as a teacher, In mine's (which is anonymous) I suggested that she were to drop the review presentations as those were pretty stressful when combined with the final.

        What I basically said was, no end-of-the-year assignments. We took the final, we took the AP exam, we're done. Yeah, no. Apparently, she still got one assignment up her sleeve, a project this time, where we gotta watch a movie and write about the psychology aspects of it. As in, design an "exhibit" like in a museum and shit. Sure, it seems "fun" with the movies, but like, shit, What is there to do? We already did the final and AP exam, enough is enough, heh.

        And unfortunately, it's ANOTHER group project, so, there's the stress in that, 'cause communication and shit. It's due like, next week, just like all the other assignments, not even kidding. So yeah, there's that. Also, "Juno" was alright. Not bad.

        What was bad was a godamn quiz in English. What, like, the 4th quiz? Within 1 and a half weeks? I guess "enough" ain't in my English teacher's vocabulary. It was supposedly a "reading comprehension" quiz, at least, that's what he calls it. Even for the students who do read, thoroughly, like the ones who are passing the class right now, even got some of the questions wrong, which was literally just 7 questions.

        It's not even understanding the text anymore, no. No underlying meanings, plot, no/ It literally is now, just memorization. "What color was his hat? What shape was it? What was next to the window outside of that apartment in New York but only under average weather conditions?" Insane. "What was particular about Holden's hat that was different from the book?" This quiz was on a short story by the way, the one that precedes Catcher. In the beginning it talked about how Holden's hat had a "V." That was it, literally never mentioned again, everybody disregarded it.

        Guess what question 2 was on the quiz? Yep, "What was particular about Holden's hat?" Might as well try to remember and recite the entire fucking story, and then you're good. My motto for English has since been "It's not about the right answer, it's the BEST answer." Fucking god. I know I've joked about suicide and shit, but the way he has been teaching us seriously makes me FEEL like killing myself.

        Anyways, Bio was just free. Again. I had a math quiz so I had to use that time to study. Otherwise, I would've worked on the Bio work stuff, which is due next week, but, can be turned in tomorrow for an extra point, in case you wanted a 41/40 for a better boost. But, since I only need .8%, I'm good. Also, because I did procrastinate again. Math, it was just a quiz which was a lot more straight-forward than last time, that's for sure.

        Lunch, uh, Ek asked if I wanted to go hang out at our old spot, like, "until the end of the year." It was like "Ehhhh." She justifies her reasoning as that she doesn't like sitting down at the lockers place because the floor keeps on getting dirtier and dirtier. Which, I mean it's a valid point, but, eh, heh. I don't know what's going on with her, but uh, ya know, maybe the cast will come along to our spot or something. Migrate.

        Uhh, so I had to go to a mandatory meeting in the library. It's called "Congress" and I learned that it's called that for a reason. I went to go tell my 5th period teacher that I'll be gone for SSR, and uh, went to the library. I didn't know what to expect really. They scanned our ID's to make sure we actually showed up. I sat next to Jb and Ln, of which, 2 of us had to get chairs because there weren't enough seats. It was literally just announcing upcoming events, advertising, news, umm, revenue listings (apparently the school made $20,000 off of prom) and a bunch of other shit that we didn't get to due to time, and because it really seems shitty and pointless.

        Maybe not to ASB because they're the ones hosting it but, to us club and organization officers, pretty fucking, unimportant. Uhh, there was apparently "chartering," like, making clubs and organizations official. This was done by having a representative of that club/organization present, the student activities director reads out the mission statement ("This club's mission is to bring peace, community service, etc, etc, whatever"), and then have a voting of whether it should be "chartered" or not, by people saying "Aye."

        And that's why it's called Congress. They do this "motion" thing. You know, like in "real" Congress and shit. "I am blank and I affirm this motion." "I am blank and I second this motion." "Motion granted" or some shit. I was like "Oh my god, this is fucking necessary professionalism." Like, half the people here don't even pay attention to the director reading out the club mission statements. There could be a fucking "DIY Bomb Club" and people would still unisonly say "Aye" just to get out.

        I missed 20 minutes of History for this, but luckily we didn't do anything too much. Apparently, enough ain't enough for my History teacher either, because, you guessed it, we got another assignment. This time: poem. 12 stanzas. Has to do with some topics, out of 60, in chronological order. And, must rhyme. Due, next week probably. We still go the 5-point box to do, so uh, hello Sunday night, heh.

        And finally Chinese, where, uhh, today was possibly the last day together as a group, 'till we get to pick our own seats next week maybe. Oh and uh, we had Chromebooks to work on our final project shit. So, all in all, I got a lot of shit. To do. However, tomorrow and this weekend (well, at least Saturday), will be reserved for uh, social time. Specifically KDT members and my cousin. I still have not wrote my letters yet, I will do so, tomorrow. And uh, I will also be contacting my cousin tomorrow, if he even goes on Skype anymore. Uhh, and then on Saturday, I will be going to Jb's house to put together the stuff for the KDT seniors (who don't know that we're doing this). And Sunday, will be, like, relax day. Hopefully.

        As long as things go according to plan (which, for English, I fear will not), I'll make it through. So yeah, see ya. Oh and there's a rally tomorrow or something. We, we sit outside on the bleachers, watch the seniors walk across the track field, watch people get awards, and feel depressed when they have seniors speak about the colleges they're going to be attending and accepted into. And also hear their inhumanely high GPA values (like, 4.5? Fucking really?). Alrighty, see ya.