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i haven't updated this in a while. Life is good, i'm very happy with almost everything. I got accepted at Colorado College, my top choice. With 29K in financial aid, which is what surprised me the most. I'm 99% sure i'm going there, i just want to hear from University of Denver before I make anything official. If they give me more aid, which is very likely, I'll try using that to bribe CC. This is what my parents tell me i should do, I don't even know if things work like that or not, or how I'd go about doing it, but whatever, all is cool with me right now.
School is going okay. Senioritis is going to be so incredibly bad now that I have this weight off my shoulders. Hopefully I can keep working at a somewhat efficient level, but it's definitely not going to have the same luster as before.
Carmelo Anthony is still my role model. The man made a mistake, but what was his mistake? Having too much of a heart, too much emotion attached to his fellow teammates? He's the leader, and he was just trying to stick up for them. Not to say what he did was right: it was a cheap, and it wasn't his fight either, plus it's not right to fight in the first place. The 15 game suspension was a just punishment, and he'll admit it himself. I greatly respect him for that, and I feel assured that he won't do this again. He's a man who learns from his mistakes, and fights through them like a warrior, and I'm glad that he, unlike many famous people like him, isn't afraid to admit and show his mistakes, and thus, his true self.
Anyway, my new year's resolution is the same as usual: lose weight, read more, and become more respectful of others. In the respect field, I think I'm respectful of other's beliefs, though not all will realize this due to my overuse of sarcasm. But I can be so incredibly cruel to people with the things I say, sometimes in sarcasm and sometimes in seriousness, and I really need to watch it. Other than that, maybe my real resolution should just be to live up to any goal i set for myself, i have a hard time doing that a lot.
i'll do my "run through the classes" routine because i'm bored and need to write more:
SUPA Econ: Mr. Stacy is so incredibly boring and does not know how to teach. I think anyone who has had or does have him will agree. I'm glad it's first period so i can get the class out of the way.
Chorale: i think, for the most part, students have a very good attention span. But I wish Shaver challenged us more with sight reading and other such tools for better singing.
Chamber: surprisingly, i'm really enjoying this class. but, to say what i've said a million times, i'm rather concerned about our sight reading ability, and once again, i feel that we're not really challenged enough. I want to sing more difficult pieces, because owning a really difficult piece will obviously gain more satisfaction than owning a semi-difficult piece. and i'm of the philosophy of "better to have loved and lost than never loved at all" which can be translated to "better to have worked your ass off at a difficult piece and done okay than to have never even tried a really difficult piece." yeah i'm ranting now, but i really do like this choir, we had a lot of fun with our last pieces, even if i was a bit upset as to not having enough difficult, serious pieces.
Spanish Independent Study: bishop has kind of cooled off, i don't really do much in the class now, but it's partly my fault, i'm not serious enough about it. i should be though, i could use an extra college credit with the ap test.
SUPA English: I might be one of the only like two or three students who actually enjoys this class. sure, it's not a "perfect class," but i definitely feel like i'm gaining knowledge.
Gym: so glad i never have to swim in our school pool again
AP Stats: i don't really like the material, but the class is fun, i like the people in it, and my grades are good
AP Calc: i like this class more than i thought i would. at times it's interesting, at other times i want to sleep. mrs. lloyd is in my opinion the best math teacher i've ever had, and probably one of the best teachers in general, though she does inflate grades a lot
yeah that's it. stay cool, have a fun new year everyone
School is going okay. Senioritis is going to be so incredibly bad now that I have this weight off my shoulders. Hopefully I can keep working at a somewhat efficient level, but it's definitely not going to have the same luster as before.
Carmelo Anthony is still my role model. The man made a mistake, but what was his mistake? Having too much of a heart, too much emotion attached to his fellow teammates? He's the leader, and he was just trying to stick up for them. Not to say what he did was right: it was a cheap, and it wasn't his fight either, plus it's not right to fight in the first place. The 15 game suspension was a just punishment, and he'll admit it himself. I greatly respect him for that, and I feel assured that he won't do this again. He's a man who learns from his mistakes, and fights through them like a warrior, and I'm glad that he, unlike many famous people like him, isn't afraid to admit and show his mistakes, and thus, his true self.
Anyway, my new year's resolution is the same as usual: lose weight, read more, and become more respectful of others. In the respect field, I think I'm respectful of other's beliefs, though not all will realize this due to my overuse of sarcasm. But I can be so incredibly cruel to people with the things I say, sometimes in sarcasm and sometimes in seriousness, and I really need to watch it. Other than that, maybe my real resolution should just be to live up to any goal i set for myself, i have a hard time doing that a lot.
i'll do my "run through the classes" routine because i'm bored and need to write more:
SUPA Econ: Mr. Stacy is so incredibly boring and does not know how to teach. I think anyone who has had or does have him will agree. I'm glad it's first period so i can get the class out of the way.
Chorale: i think, for the most part, students have a very good attention span. But I wish Shaver challenged us more with sight reading and other such tools for better singing.
Chamber: surprisingly, i'm really enjoying this class. but, to say what i've said a million times, i'm rather concerned about our sight reading ability, and once again, i feel that we're not really challenged enough. I want to sing more difficult pieces, because owning a really difficult piece will obviously gain more satisfaction than owning a semi-difficult piece. and i'm of the philosophy of "better to have loved and lost than never loved at all" which can be translated to "better to have worked your ass off at a difficult piece and done okay than to have never even tried a really difficult piece." yeah i'm ranting now, but i really do like this choir, we had a lot of fun with our last pieces, even if i was a bit upset as to not having enough difficult, serious pieces.
Spanish Independent Study: bishop has kind of cooled off, i don't really do much in the class now, but it's partly my fault, i'm not serious enough about it. i should be though, i could use an extra college credit with the ap test.
SUPA English: I might be one of the only like two or three students who actually enjoys this class. sure, it's not a "perfect class," but i definitely feel like i'm gaining knowledge.
Gym: so glad i never have to swim in our school pool again
AP Stats: i don't really like the material, but the class is fun, i like the people in it, and my grades are good
AP Calc: i like this class more than i thought i would. at times it's interesting, at other times i want to sleep. mrs. lloyd is in my opinion the best math teacher i've ever had, and probably one of the best teachers in general, though she does inflate grades a lot
yeah that's it. stay cool, have a fun new year everyone