Connor’s Blog

I really can’t even begin to explain how sorry I am for not updating the blog in over a month. While I promised to have a good, informative post every week or two, my plan for such a schedule failed miserably. That being said, I’m back, and ready to update everyone on what has been quite a fun, intense, awkward, and all around decent month and a half.

In the time since my last update, seasons have changed, operating systems have been updated, new musical albums have been released, school and cross country has started, and I haven’t been sick. Yes, quite a course of events if I must say to myself. In any case, the most important event (well, combination of events, I would say) has been school starting. For the first time in eleven years, I was not worried about school starting. I guess when it’s your last year in high school, ‘starting new’ isn’t really exactly what it seems, especially for me. I was going back into school with all my old friends, some of my old teachers in new classes, a course load to scare away most incompetent bastards, and a cross country and Frisbee team that is getting ready to win the league championships.

School as whole was never hard. Over the past two years I’ve realized that I have to work hard, but I can still have fun and joke around. This year takes that mantra of thought to a whole new level. For two periods every day I have AP Physics (I bypassed standard Physics), which is filled mostly with my friends, a cool teacher, and an overall fun time. While the class won’t be easy, I’d rather work slightly more and get college credit than sit around in a standard high school class. Third period every day is a study hall, which consists of my second breakfast of the day (a bagel with butter and some orange juice), and, when homework doesn’t need to be done, some intense games of Uno. Fourth period, though, is the worst part of my day. In order to take AP Physics, I would not be able to take the college English class I was originally signed up to take. As such, I was thrown into Short Stories and Creative Writing with all of the ‘unwashed masses’. Basically, this is where people go when they don’t want any sort of college prep or credit. In short: it’s a bunch of stupid people and me. Coming from an honors level course last year, with essays and term papers filled with enhanced vocabulary and thoughts, this is like dying a slow death. It’s so bad I had to explain, and spell, the word ‘hypocrite’ during a group discussion the other day. If I didn’t need the class to graduate, I’d have dropped it in a heartbeat. Fifth period every day is another study hall, and since most of my homework is usually finished in third period study hall, this is where the championship-level Uno games are held. On a side note, I play Uno a lot. By the time 11:30am rolls around, I’m in my favorite class of the day: AP Government. Since I’m leaning towards a History or Political Science major in college, I enjoy the majority of subjects and discussions we have in class. Plus, we have a cool teacher. For example, we bribed him with baked goods (brownies, cookies, etc.) to delay the due dates for assignments. Pretty cool, no? Seventh period is lunch, which is a load of fun. I can’t count the number of times I’ve laughed till I cried in the past few weeks alone. Eighth period is college algebra, which, although not fun, isn’t that hard. The teacher picks on me for not doing a little question on the homework or what not, but seeing as though he was good friends with my late uncle, I can see why he is pushing me to try harder. Finally, ninth period is (college level) French, which is the same teacher I had two years ago. In all honesty, the class is incredibly easy. We are reading French murder mysteries, and the teacher reads the passage in French, and then translates it to English for us. That’s basically the class. All in all, it’s a great school schedule. Most of the classes I’m taking will help me in terms of college (I should be leaving high school with 19 college credits, which is over a semesters worth of classes), and it really isn’t all that difficult so far.

Since I do not exactly have the time to discuss some new technology news and rumors I’ve been hearing, I will call this an end for now. And don’t worry, my next update will not take a month to get out the door!