My Horrible Fucking Junior Year

The BBQ Pit
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School starts August 16th. My life ends at 8:15 a.m.

Yes, if you think this is an teenage immature rant about high school, you’re right. Fuck you too. I’m pissed as hell and intend to bitch about it as much as I like.

Here’s my First Semester:
A Days

1 Psychology
2 Chemistry 1 Adv.
3 US History AP
4 Algebra and Intro to Trig

B Days

5 Drivers Ed
6 English 3 AP
7 US History AP Seminar
8 French 3

Then, in 2nd semester I go from Drivers Ed to Multimedia, with Mrs. H., who taught my Computer Tech class last year. She is one of those ultra-anal teachers who stress about tardies and IDs. rolls eyes

Goodbye, fun. Goodbye, life. It was nice having that extra couple hours every day to watch TV and hang out with friends.

I don’t have a single fucking class to even slack off in. Even my fucking elective classes, the “fun” ones, aren’t in any fucking way fun at all. French is a total bitch (not to mention the teacher, who I had last year, hates my guts.) AP classes require complete and total devotion, i.e. slavery. Psychology is rumored to be a bitch. I don’t enjoy chemistry much, and with the supposedly-evil teacher, I’m sure to have a blast. I’m taking Drivers Ed with an asshole Coach, not to mention I’ll probably be one of the only upperclassmen.

I’ll be doing Beta Club, French Club and Speech and Debate Team as well. Not to mention I’m active in my church. That should fill up just about all my weekends and several weekdays.

[sup][sub]begins to sob I will never see any of my friends ever again…[/sub][/sup]

Why can’t I switch out of a class, you say? Well, I need all those credits out of the way. And I can’t give up French or anything else for a study hall. So I’m basically sealed in. There’s nothing I can do, except for bitch.

And that’s what I just did.

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Yes, but Senior year is going to rock. I did the same thing when I was in HS. Junior year was miserable, Senior year there was one (1) class that I had to pay attention to. Man, I loved Senior year…

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What the heck is a Beta Club?

I managed to make it through both high school and college without ever taking a single chemistry class.

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Junior year was absolute yech. Horrible classes, I saw very few of my friends- pretty much exactly what you’re expecting. It was my worst year for grades in HS, as I recall. But eight classes? Ouch. We were only required to take six.

Senior year will be much better, definitely. You’ll be the top of the heap, and if you play your cards right you’ll have almost no classes. I had two classes one day and one class the other. Talk about a cakewalk. Just gotta get through Junior first.

My condolences, I’m sure your social life will be happy in the afterlife. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ll do your psych work for you. :slight_smile:

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And then it’s senior year, and then college! Think how much fun college will be; that’s just about the only thing that got me through my junior year.

Good luck…you can do it!

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Why, one less than Alpha Club.
Anyway, as to the OP…you’re taking Driver’s Ed in school, for school credit, and you’re bitching? And AP USHistory really isn’t that bad of a class. And AP English? Bah. It’s English. There’s not a real fact involved, just a bunch of interpretation. Use that to your advantage.

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French teachers suck. Frech, in general, sucks. I have had one nice French teacher since second grade. All the rest had some giant stick up their ass. Fuckwits…all of them. Except that one I had in second grade. She was the shit.

Good luck next year. I’m sure it will all be worth it when you get to be a Senior.

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You’re taking Driver’s Ed as a junior? I thought that was a required freshman class, except if you were born late in the year and then you had to take it during summer, or that’s how it went for all my friends.
I moved, and Driver’s Ed isn’t required for us.

does happy dance

But anyway. Yeah, sorry about that schedule. It’ll get better though. Senior year will be lots of fun. High school sucks but college will be the best time of your life, so I’ve heard.

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Dude, I can relate. I had a hell of a junior year. Busting my ass in AP classes, extra curriculars, part time job. Life? What life? And everyone hanging over your grades since they’re most important for college admissions. Not to mention deciding what schools to apply to.

But then, consider my 2nd semester senior year:

AP Calculus (didn’t take the exam, but skipped Derivative Calculus in College)
Painting (2 periods) (required shop)
English seminar
US History (last required class)

That’s it!!! Bare minimum baybeeeee!

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Get this, I had to take Drivers’ Ed TWICE. You see, I moved to a different state between my sophomore and junior year, and the new school made me take THEIR class. Idiots.

I am now a junior in college and have yet to take chemistry…but I had to take college algebra (i.e., math for weenies) three times. So I’m going to finish my science requirements with geology. What the hell do I need algebra for? Nothing. And I realize there are people on the board who like math and please don’t come in and tell me how useful and fun it is. For me, it is neither. So keep it to yourself.

My junior year was fun because I got away from all the assholes who had been picking on me since sixth grade. Academically, I don’t really remember. I did okay. I just had a semester from hell, though, so I can say I feel your pain. ducks

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I spent about half my junior year playing computer games in an AP class. And now in my senior year I will be going to school for one whole semester. I have never done an extra curricular activity, though I did have a job. My grades suffer because I often sleep through my classes and I almost never do any homework at home which brought my average to a B for my junior year.

I should really work harder.

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/me plays the world’s smallest violin.

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Hey, Searching For Truth, remember that (believe it or not) a lot of the teachers are going to be happy as heck to see you back. We really do appreciate the students who (like you) work extra hard, knowing that doing so will pay off in the long run.

So seek out one of the teachers you like, and welcome him/her back. Make a happy moment for yourself!

The “block” schedule is horrible. I can’t think of anyone remotely associated with attending or teaching school who likes it. I’m sorry that you have to suffer through it.

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Beta club is like National Honor Society for juniors. You have to be in the top X% of your class and do Y number of community service hours and voila! Instant resume fodder.
I was in it. I didn’t get into NHS though because I was blackballed by a teacher who happened to hate me thoroughly and with a passion. Heh.
No fodder for you!

BTW, I thought Beta Club was just a regional thing. Where are you from SFT?

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How lucky, then, Juliet, that I managed to have only one fuckwit French teacher during my 13 years of schooling in French! One teacher advised me strongly not to take the French AP in my soph year, and I had lots of fun the following year and did fairly well on the AP.

Junior year was very much not fun for me either . . . I had French 4AP, Latin 4AP, English 3, Precal (which was not fun at all), Chemistry 2AP and CD3 (lots of memorizing).

The worse part by far was the student population, but the classes were shitty enough.

Good luck to you, SFT. And if you need help or whatever, you know where we are:)

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sniffles Thank you, guys. All of you.

I’m from SC, Enderw24.

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My school has Beta Club and National Honor Society for both juniors (just a small number for NHS, though) and seniors. Most of the Beta Club members are in NHS, but not vice-versa.
Of course, we also have four or five honor societies in the whole school. I’m sure that somebody is trying to boost some self-esteem.
jessica

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It’s true Searching, junior year tends to be a bitch. Both my high school and college junior years were rough. And I remember my AP History in particular. Everyone struggled in that class, even the ones that ordinarily got A’s with no effort.

I’m not sure I can offer much encouragement, but if all these extra activities are “obligations” rather than things you want to do, maybe you should reconsider some of them. I know I was concerned about padding my resume before college, but then I was just reading something today about how admissions officers would rather see leadership in a few areas rather than membership in dozens of areas. Think things over.

Give it some time. I usually find that what I imagine is far worse than what actually ends of happening.

Oh, and get accepted to college early admission and then slack off for the rest of the year. :smiley: