I Hate Homework.
Period. It's Evil. Nothing more. All there is to it. Yes, I'll admit it, I procrastinated. Yes, I made another AMV instead of doing my math. Yes, I did go to the Boxford winter festival instead of doing my history. Yes, I did edit my ficlet instead of doing my frigging chem Psets. Yes, I did go down and practice my song for my singing lessons instead of reading The Awakening for english. Yes, I did live my life instead of wasting my weekend and the first real snow of the season by sitting inside and doing, lets see now...
Math - aprox. 45 mins.
History - aprox. 2 hours
English - aprox. 1 hour 30 mins.
Chem - aprox. 45 mins
Total - aprox. 5 hours
...five hours worth of homework if my math is correct. And this is a pretty basic load for all my classes. Yeah, I had plenty of time to do them, but now it's to late. Whats with the huge amounts of the stuff, anyways? Whose bright idea was it to take teenagers with a scientifically proven attention span of that somewhere between a goldfish and a mouse, stick them in a building where they are expected to stay still, be quiet, think, and sometimes even *gasp* learn, for...
HR - 15 mins?
B1 - 1 hour
B2 - 1 hour
B3 - 1 hour
B4 - 1 hour
B6 - 45 mins
Lunch - 45 mins
B5 - 45 mins
Total - 6 hours 30 mins.
...six and a half hours, only to send them home with another three to five hours of work? Thats a grant total of nine to eleven hours of work. We sleep from ten/eleven at night, and sometimes even later, to about six in the morning, though sometimes it's earlier, when we are forced to wake up and go to school. So not only are we tired when we go, which causes us not to pay attention, but we get yelled at for it as well. We have about an hour, from six to seven, to wake up, get ready, and get to school. Then we stay in school until two fifteen, but the average time at arrival home is more like three, three thirty. Then we have three to five hours of homework, and we need to eat supper. Now, if you don't eat supper, and you work without being distracted from the moment you get home, you finish around six to eight. But it's practically impossible for ANYONE to remain focused for that long, AND you need food, so that's seven to nine if you just grab yourself a sandwich and there is a minimum number of distractions.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but three/four nights a week, my family goes out to eat, which usually takes a grand total of two hours including transit. This puts my total at eight thirty to ten thirty. And this isn't including the volunteer work I do at Windrush farm on Mondays because I need to get ten hours of community service a year if I want to GRADUATE!!!! Which I do. I arrive there around three on the bus, and I leave around five, and when I leave, my family swoops down and immediately takes me out to eat because that's one of the nights we go out to eat, so I can't really even get started until seven. And I don't even want to contemplate the lives of people on a club and/or a sports team, what with practices and meets or games all the time.
And even WITH all this homework, all I have is with one, count it, ONE honors class: my best subject, english. I know people who are in all honors and AP, are on at least one sports team or in one club, and they do their volunteer work same as everyone else. I wonder sometimes how they even find time to breathe.
Forgive me for ranting, but it just seems really stupid if you ask me. Not only do we have to deal with all of this, but we have to deal with all the pressure put on us by our peers as well. I would bet you anything that if we didn't need to go to school after elementary, that at least 75% of the druggies and alcoholics at our school wouldn't have even considered trying those things. And people are always telling us to enjoy ourselves, and that high school is the best part of your life. To them I say "HAH! Yeah right! Maybe for YOU it was, but believe me when I say this, Bucko, things have changed." I mean come on, with all this school work, WHEN are we supposed to find time to socialize?
And adults act suprised when we act out, when we don't do all our homework, when we want to do something for ourselves, for a change, instead of for this mysterious and elusive 'FUTURE'. Bah humbug. Oh, and don't even get me STARTED on backpacks. It's ridiculous. Our bags are full to bursting, weigh an average of about(and I'm completely guessing here) 25/30 pounds. My load would be lighter(and much less dead weight) if I just carried around my youngest sister all day, and had her run my things from my locker to the classroom and back. I have a theory that the reason they do scoliosis tests it to prevent lawsuit due to the bags we have to carry around, which ruins our posture, gait, and weight distribution, as well as the occasional balance confusion. Gah.
Yeah, I'm procrastinating big time by ranting to you guys instead of doing as much homework as I can, but I really don't care. I had a great weekend, I had a lot of fun, especially when I woke up this morning and discovered that everything was WHITE! And I'm not going to spoil this weekend by trying to cram all my homework in at the tail end. I'll deal with the consequences tomorrow, and yes, I realize that there will be consequences, and I am fully prepared to deal with them. But for now, I'm going to go take a long hot shower, homework be damned.
Until next time,
~Stella
Math - aprox. 45 mins.
History - aprox. 2 hours
English - aprox. 1 hour 30 mins.
Chem - aprox. 45 mins
Total - aprox. 5 hours
...five hours worth of homework if my math is correct. And this is a pretty basic load for all my classes. Yeah, I had plenty of time to do them, but now it's to late. Whats with the huge amounts of the stuff, anyways? Whose bright idea was it to take teenagers with a scientifically proven attention span of that somewhere between a goldfish and a mouse, stick them in a building where they are expected to stay still, be quiet, think, and sometimes even *gasp* learn, for...
HR - 15 mins?
B1 - 1 hour
B2 - 1 hour
B3 - 1 hour
B4 - 1 hour
B6 - 45 mins
Lunch - 45 mins
B5 - 45 mins
Total - 6 hours 30 mins.
...six and a half hours, only to send them home with another three to five hours of work? Thats a grant total of nine to eleven hours of work. We sleep from ten/eleven at night, and sometimes even later, to about six in the morning, though sometimes it's earlier, when we are forced to wake up and go to school. So not only are we tired when we go, which causes us not to pay attention, but we get yelled at for it as well. We have about an hour, from six to seven, to wake up, get ready, and get to school. Then we stay in school until two fifteen, but the average time at arrival home is more like three, three thirty. Then we have three to five hours of homework, and we need to eat supper. Now, if you don't eat supper, and you work without being distracted from the moment you get home, you finish around six to eight. But it's practically impossible for ANYONE to remain focused for that long, AND you need food, so that's seven to nine if you just grab yourself a sandwich and there is a minimum number of distractions.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but three/four nights a week, my family goes out to eat, which usually takes a grand total of two hours including transit. This puts my total at eight thirty to ten thirty. And this isn't including the volunteer work I do at Windrush farm on Mondays because I need to get ten hours of community service a year if I want to GRADUATE!!!! Which I do. I arrive there around three on the bus, and I leave around five, and when I leave, my family swoops down and immediately takes me out to eat because that's one of the nights we go out to eat, so I can't really even get started until seven. And I don't even want to contemplate the lives of people on a club and/or a sports team, what with practices and meets or games all the time.
And even WITH all this homework, all I have is with one, count it, ONE honors class: my best subject, english. I know people who are in all honors and AP, are on at least one sports team or in one club, and they do their volunteer work same as everyone else. I wonder sometimes how they even find time to breathe.
Forgive me for ranting, but it just seems really stupid if you ask me. Not only do we have to deal with all of this, but we have to deal with all the pressure put on us by our peers as well. I would bet you anything that if we didn't need to go to school after elementary, that at least 75% of the druggies and alcoholics at our school wouldn't have even considered trying those things. And people are always telling us to enjoy ourselves, and that high school is the best part of your life. To them I say "HAH! Yeah right! Maybe for YOU it was, but believe me when I say this, Bucko, things have changed." I mean come on, with all this school work, WHEN are we supposed to find time to socialize?
And adults act suprised when we act out, when we don't do all our homework, when we want to do something for ourselves, for a change, instead of for this mysterious and elusive 'FUTURE'. Bah humbug. Oh, and don't even get me STARTED on backpacks. It's ridiculous. Our bags are full to bursting, weigh an average of about(and I'm completely guessing here) 25/30 pounds. My load would be lighter(and much less dead weight) if I just carried around my youngest sister all day, and had her run my things from my locker to the classroom and back. I have a theory that the reason they do scoliosis tests it to prevent lawsuit due to the bags we have to carry around, which ruins our posture, gait, and weight distribution, as well as the occasional balance confusion. Gah.
Yeah, I'm procrastinating big time by ranting to you guys instead of doing as much homework as I can, but I really don't care. I had a great weekend, I had a lot of fun, especially when I woke up this morning and discovered that everything was WHITE! And I'm not going to spoil this weekend by trying to cram all my homework in at the tail end. I'll deal with the consequences tomorrow, and yes, I realize that there will be consequences, and I am fully prepared to deal with them. But for now, I'm going to go take a long hot shower, homework be damned.
Until next time,
~Stella