School and Sports

this time of year is when students thoughts turn to final exams. but not only to finals but also to sports, and scholarships, and fafsa, and college applications.

I have a grand total of one of these things done. that being my college application

the final schedule changes every other day.

I haven't even started looking for scholarships.

My Mom keeps telling me she is working on fafsa which I quite honestly don't even try to understand because it involves taxes et-cetra.

my coach is concerned about the amount of energy we are putting into our meets because one member of the varsity squad, who happens to be our captain, named Austin, see what I'm doing here starting out like I'm not gonna point fingers and then totally pointing fingers? yeah that's because I'm annoyed went and blew two bouts the other day because he went and fenced like he didn't give a shit which apparently he didn't. now coach is concerned that if we go up with that kind of half assed mentality that it could end up screwing us over when we come up against St. B's, Fitch, and most important of all NFA.

He could be right. we have the best team, and the most experience. but we feel safe we feel secure we are all confident bordering on cocky. Austin has already crossed the border into I don't give a shit land. Kevin can't focus when faced with a shitty ref. which leaves Tim and I doing are honest to God best. why are we trying so hard? because we couldn't care less about the ref, and my ingenious if I do say so myself self motivation strategy of holding a bagel contest with Tim keeps us competitive.

for the record the stress is slowly vaporizing my brain

JUST GOT EXCEPTED!!

to UConn Storrs! it's my first choice school it's got a fencing club that practices in a building called the armory, quite possibly the best engineering program around, it's close to home and come on it's just awesome so cheers I'm going to UConn Storrs!

I won't be able to help out coaching much at the high school. At best, I could help out over Christmas break, but that would be it. That's OK with me. I'll probably be to busy for that anyway. So yeah, I'm going to UConn!

hello from school again

well once again I'm posting from my fourth block class were I am listening to Christmas music annoying people who won't shut up and the rap music emanating from the i-pod of the guy sitting across from me that combined with the computer screen has once again given me a headache so here I sit wishing for silence and killing time by blogging.

Head Hurts

yeah I have an all day headache right now in fact I've had it since yesterday. The problem with headaches is it makes thinking about things much more difficult so after an effort in futility I have given up on my homework and settled on just writing a blog post which is several days over do.

Sunday we had a seminar with Bronwin's coach here at the high school he ran us through a bunch of drills we had never done before but otherwise we learned nothing from this guy. So yeah waste of 6 hours and 25 bucks. If the opportunity to learn from this guy ever comes up again I will definitely pass.

Monday I skipped practice to work on homework. which was a flop because of my headache, and the fact that the imminence of Christmas has made my senioritis even worse. I'm pretty sure I'm skipping practice today as well, if for no other reason then to get home and take some Tylenol.

First Day of Practice

have very little to report except that I should probably get some sleep which will be difficult seeing as it's been 4 hours and I'm still hyped up on excitement and possibly adrenaline. my one note for today other than we need more fencers is that today I was not only in the zone, I WAS THE ZONE. I blew away Austin and Tim today 5/1 and 5/0 respectively that's right bagel! if I can keep this up my chances for varsity are looking good!

oh unrelated side note, I got all my homework done before 11 tonight! yeah!

Possible Impending Schedual Change

My high school intends to switch from a 4 block schedule to a 7 block schedule

Some teachers are worried about trying to cram all the material they cover in AP courses into less time, because of the possible schedule change next year.

The administration isn't asking those teachers for their opinions.

You will also notice that nobody is asking about the students opinions either.

Why? because they know what we are all thinking and they don't care. That or their hands are tied.

Even though it won't effect me I can't help but think about it and feel sorry for the people who will get stuck with this crap. and I hate to think about how 20 or 30 years from now when they raise the standards again how kids are going to start having nervous breakdowns, that is of course if this change doesn't do it first.

This is what I was talking about in my last post

Trends of Insanity

educational standards have been increasing exponentially and moral standards have been exponentially decreasing.

I fear that within a few generations teenagers will have even less scruples about premarital sex, and do to an ever increasing amount of information we are expected to learn being crammed into a constant amount of time, many will doubtless begin to question the point of attending school when the vast majority of what they are learning will never be used in their line of work. this has already begun to occur but many will decide that the classes are therefore pointless and stop working or in other cases students may begin to have nervous breakdowns from the immense stress of trying to keep up with their classes

Morons!!!!

to anyone out their reading this who thinks they know Jack about sword fighting and they do not fence or do something based on sword fighting. I am here to inform you that you are WRONG!!!! Foil's are based on one of the most fast paced types of sword fighting. claymore's, and broadswords are slow by comparison. why you ask? because those are primarily slashing weapons and a rapier is a very light weight thrusting weapon, and any fencer who can't land a touch before someone swings a broadsword needs to retire, because a lunge should take less than 1 sec. so all the people in my 4th block class. I would own you in a sword fight. end of discussion.

football

our school football team is really good but i'm not a football fan, and seeing as the record number of spectators for our fencing meets is 6 and i'm jelouse of the fact that they can fill the bleachers. i dont feel all that inclined to go watch. not that my not being their would matter to anyone. sigh a boycot works better with lots of people =P

reverse senioritis

It's not that I'm getting lazy I'm just sick of learning all this stuff and having nothing to apply it too. I want to work on something real for a change.

Back to school

rundown of the day. new homeroom teacher, again, this is the 5th homeroom teacher I've had in my 4 years of high school. really it's not my fault.

English block one it's gonna be one huge pain most of these kids are NOT smart and if I didn't think it would screw up my barely working schedule I would switch out of it right now.

block 2 BC calc. looks like it's going to be a challenge but I think I'll get through it.

block three alternates between learning lab (study hall with help) and Power Mechanics. Power Mechanics is going to be much more fun, I think.

finally end the day with Ewing for an engineering class which will probably get better, once we stop copy pasting terms from the internet to a word document

final thoughts are going back to school in a heat wave is not something I recomend.

stupid essay

working on my collage essay. since my Mom kept telling me that this was how they were going to get to know me and it should express something about me. It somehow turned into me talking about the majority of the negative emotions i have experianced in my life and how they made me who I am today. I will most likely just end up rewriting it because I'm worried it will come across as me bitching about having a shity life, which, if you ask me, was definatly the case between the start 6grade and start of 9 grade. but thats really not what i had in mind i was really aiming for something along the lines of, "this is what my life was, this is what my life is now, and this is what I want it to be". well i got the first part coverd anyway.

ACT scores are in! =D

I'm going to do some bragging right now. I just got my ACT scores back and my composite (think they mean overall) score is 31 out 36. That really didn't mean much to me when I first looked at it so I decided to take a look at the handy percentage next to it and apparently I did as well or better than 97% of the people in the U.S. That took the ACT! =D (think they mean this year) I am pretty dang proud of myself right now.

FIRST POST OF SUMMER!!

Coming to you from my high school. oh the irony. I get extra time on quizzes and tests because I'm ADD. The extra time is really helpful and I would hate to imagine taking a test without it but sometimes it has negative effects as well. Like today I stayed after and spent another hour on my Precalc final, mostly trying to figure out how to do about 7 problems that had me scratching my head.

I eventually remembered how to do most of them and only left 3 questions blank. I feel confident about most of my answers so I should be good but, today being a half day their are no late buses so I am stuck waiting for my Mom to finish, or at least take a break from grading tests so that I can get out of hear. Great start to Summer? No. What I expected to happen? Yes.

all that aside though YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY SUMMER!!!!! No more hunching over desks to right down answers i don't care about! goodbye homework, hello free time! I'm going to clean out my room so that it actually looks good again! It's time to wipe the dust of my fencing gear and get back into shape! Now I'll actually be able to get the lawn looking respectable again! Above all else I'll finally be able to get a decent nights sleep again! ahh =)alright later alligators!

Metals

This was my last project for metals class. Shinny, neh?

Oh and by the way that last sentance has two referances, the first is obviosly firefly, but I really doubt anyone will get the second one.

light at the end of the tunnel

OK first my schedule mess worked out much better than i had imagined so yay! =)

in metals i have almost finished my last project which i will hopefully be posting a picture of later on. =)

physics final is tomorrow, Friday and I'm not sure what to expect but i rock at physics so no worries right! =)

CAPT test on Saturday "JOY",

Dinky metals final on Monday,

then finish off with finals in Precalc and English on Tuesday, then I'm home free! =)

also i scored really high on being neurotic on a personality test thing, as in more neurotic than 99.3% of the people who took it. =( I'm not surprised to find that I'm more neurotic than most people, but i never thought i was THAT bad. so from now on i am going to try and be as positive as i am when fencing all the time =) today was day one of my attempt and i had a better day than usual so. =)

Next Years Schedule

kind of exploded in my face actually. thought i needed one class when i really needed another different levels of Calc are all messing with my schedule all amounts to lots of confusing conversations with guidance counselor that get me almost nowhere. not to mention i still need to talk to my guidance counselor to tell her that i need to switch into a different class in the first place. all very annoying.

NO HOMEWORK!

but i have nothing to do. see instead of going home today i decided to stay after school so i could watch the states lacrosse game tonight which is supposed to start around 4.

problems: nothing to read, nothing to do, its really freaking hot in my Mom's classroom, the game is not until 4, it may be postponed anyway due to thunderstorms passing through the area, and if it starts raining during the game i am going to get soaked, also I'm feeling kinda hungry

so this may turn out to be several hours waisted, our a super awesome game that is worth every wasted min. either way I'll tell you later because right now i need to come up with something to do.

Great day

i handed in my thesis paper which for some reason everyone now calls term papers no clue why the change. it was a page short but other than that it fits most or all the requirements. so that is a load off of my mind. i think my stress levels dropped within 5 minuets of handing that in. rest of English not so great kept falling asleep for 20 sec intervals. not on purpose, its just the heat & humidity made for a really good sleeping pill.

let me mention something about a normal lunch. "normally" Timmy's little brother Dru pisses me off every lunch on purpose. but today i turned the tied and pissed Dru off. very satisfying to see that smug little bum get frustrated.

kid i hate because he is annoying on purpose got thrown out of medals today for falling asleep so that was also good.

then i decided to hell with homework and basically started goofing off watched Transformers, was awesome, but i kneed to watch it again without my Mom and Brother interrupting the Movie all the time. mostly my Mom though, my brother was pretty good about it this time.

ah well i need to do my homework now but that's OK since i feel relaxed for the first time in weeks.

Timeing

today the temperature peeked at about 100 degrees and the humidity was up there as well. naturally the most disgusting hard to focus day of the year so far is the last day before i have to hand in my thesis paper for English mercifully my basement is at least 15 degrees cooler and the humidity is pretty low down here.