School's practically over now. Hopefully I'll be able to post a little more often than once a month. OTL

What I really dislike is how, now that we've pretty much learned all we're going to learn for the year, all the teachers pile on projects just to take up the rest of the time. In our APUSH class, my group has one of those overachievers who end up ( Read more... )

So we're starting World War I. I'm actually mildly excited for this. Mildly. Which is actually a huge difference in my normal feelings toward history.

Though having to do thesis completely takes those tendrils of anticipation and rips them up, stuffs them in a shredder and then makes a smoothie out of the remains. And then proceeds to dump it out ( Read more... )

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate history?

I can't stand it. Okay, so at least 30% of that is probably related to the fact that I have a cumulative test covering twenty-plus chapters of American history. But even so. I've never liked history (or middle-school "social studies"). I hate memorizing dates, and I can never seem to analyze to my ( Read more... )