Your HS Senior Year

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I had my first full day of my senior year of high school today. (We had a half-day yesterday.) Everyone always talks about how they slacked off because it was their senior year and they needed one or two credits to graduate. I can’t. Here’s my schedule:

(Note: my school uses block scheduling, and they are trying AB alternate-day scheduling for AP classes)

1st Block: AP American History(A) or AP Physics(B)
2nd Block: AP Lit and Comp(A) or AP Government(B)
3rd Block: Yearbook (Computer Co-Editor)
4th Block: Pre-Calculus

Next semester is only a little easier. I replace Precalc with Business Law (with one of my favorite teachers, and he’s not that strict).

So, what was/is your senior year schedule like?

(I know some schools don’t start until next month. We get out on May 29, but we get a two-week break in October and two weeks for spring break.)

-Brianjedi

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I start school August 9th. 1 day before my birthday. How sad! We have block scheduling too. But it goes Odd/Even days. 8 periods, 4 a day. I’m in IB, so I know I have to take TOK (Theory of Knowledge), Contemporary History, Bio 3, Spanish 5, Pre-calc, and English 4, all IB. I don’t know what my electives are. I don’t want to go back! I haven’t done my homework! Ahhhhh!
-Jenny*

3

I had a full schedule, but only because I took a bunch of electives. I could’ve slacked off if I’d wanted to, but I didn’t - I wanted to take advantage of free education to take some fun and easy courses. Otherwise I’d’ve spent all day lounging around in study hall, being bored.

4

The colleges that I applied to all demanded mid-year reports, so I had to work hard first semester, but I got to slack off second semester :slight_smile:

My classes were English, Calc II, Chem III, Bio III, and Discrete Math

5

Mines going to be block too. I got some homework from over the summer I can’t find the directions too either. My slacking off is in that I don’t have to go back second semester and might be able to get into a college.

6

Feh. Out of my 7 classes, 4 of them were AP - English, Chemistry, Spanish, and Calculus. I don’t remember the rest. I ended up starting college with 56 AP credit hours.

7

My school is not block schedule. Therefore, we get to take only 6 classes. Same six, every day. Blah. It REALLY stinks when you’re an underclassman and have five required courses. Anyway. . .

There was some conflict with my schedule, so I’m not QUITE sure what it’s going to be. . .so here’s my best guess:

[list][li]First Hour: CAD/CAM (easy class, valuable skill, meets computer requirement)[/li][li]Second Hour: AP Rhetoric / AP? Government[/li][li]Third Hour:[/li][li]Fourth Hour: Delegation (show choir)[/li][li]Fifth Hour: Music Theory AP[/li][li]Sixth Hour: English 10 (Newspaper)[/li]
Hmm. . .can’t figure out third hour. Not taking any math or science. Don’t know if that’s a good idea or not, but I figure, I’m already ahead of a lot of people (took pre-calc and Chemistry 3-4 last year), plus it conflicted with the two music classes (which I’ve committed myself to).

8

Let’s see…it’s been 5 years, but I can tell you exactly what I took my senior year in HS. (Consults HS Scrapbook that contains the report card)

Senior Year, I took:

AP Programming
AP English
German IV
AP Calculus
Chemistry II
AP American Government
Band

Ahhh…those were the days. :slight_smile:

Jman

9

Heh. My senior year schedule:

Newswriting
Off-campus for 2 periods (two or three days a week, I could go home after lunch!)
School Service (I hung out in my counselor’s office and ran errands for her)
Social Studies
Orchestra

It was quite a slack-off year. :slight_smile: Then again, I spent a lot of before- and after-school time in the newspaper office, and I was the chair of three committees (the seniors’ edition of the paper, the commencement program, and lit mag).

10

Welll sernior year of high school I took Chior, Yearbook, and an independant study of culture through modern film and writing.

At the high school.

At the local branch of a state university I was taking a full course load. Chemistry, Writing, Calculus, Psycology and French.

As well as doing theatre, newspaper, working on the weekends, and partying my ass off on the weened nights.

needless to say, its all a big blur it this point. But it was a lot of fun at the time. Until I collapsed under the stress. (kidding, I didn’t do that until after my first year away at college.)

11

I just graduated from the most heinously crazy year of my life, where I ended up pretty sick at the end of it.

I think my school has a weird version of the block schedule. Fall semester, I took Honors English, Government/Econ, Wind Ensemble Band, Newspaper, and Computer.

Spring semester I took Physics, Advanced Math, Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble Band, and Newspaper.

And I also was an editor of the newspaper staff, vice president of the Student Council, secretary-treasurer of the National Honor Society, captain of the Scholar’s Bowl team, secretary of the band, president of the drama club.

Basically, I was in plays/musicals, keeping up with stuff for NHS (which I did a really bad job of!), organizing and chairing half the Student Council committees, arranging scholar’s bowl meets, writing my articles and proofing everyone else’s and titling most of them, keeping the band music library in order, making executive decisions for the drama club, staying valedictorian, and going out most weekends.

Really, it was a lovely existence.

12

Well, Senior year was [sub]17[/sub] years ago, but if I remember correctly, I had:
AP English
Calculus
Physics
Spanish II

and something else that has escaped my feeble, elderly mind. I had AP Biology and History in 11th, so I didn’t have to take them senior year. I worked my @ss off, graduated 2nd in my class, and was so burnt out I barely made honors in my two years at the local community college. I didn’t go on to finish my degree (economical reasons, mostly) and really don’t care.

I recommend a little more fun and a little less stress than what I had, but I don’t recommend slacking off and wasting a year of your life.

13

Class of '72 checking in. We didn’t have AP at our school - did anyone back in those days?? Anyway, I took Honors English, Honors Social Studies, Honors Trig/Analyt, Honors Physics, French IV, Spanish III, Phys Ed, and A Cappella Choir. We had 7 classes a day, some every day, some alternating.

I had enough credits to graduate after junior year, but our county required the EVERYONE have senior english and social studies, so I graduated with LOTS of extras…

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Due to lies my counselor told me, and some interesting choices for electives (I was a newspaper editor, etc.) After having filled all 7 periods (most students only took 6 classes and had one free period. It was very possible for a senior to only have 3 classes, depending on what they’d done the previous 3.5 years. Not me.) my senior year with classes that I either needed or were very highly advised, I still hadn’t taken the two semesters of PE or the 1 semester of speech that I needed to graduate. So I spent the first three days of my last semester of school cutting deals in order to get out of there (“I exercise anyway, do I really need to do it formally?”) The compromise was that I would take the 7 I had already signed up for, and instead of a lunch period, I would take speech during lunch period and eat on the walk between that and the class between.

So, no, I didn’t get to slack off, but a bunch of people did.

15

…is coming up in another month, so I can’t tell you my exact schedule. However, since I signed up for the courses back in April/May or so, I know what they are going to be.

AP English Literature
AP French
Latin IV (I think that’s called Latin Epic Poetry, all I know it’s my fourth year)
Math IV
Physics
Economics (Econ for half the year and for the other half I take another course on the way the govt. works)

Psychology- an elective which is kind of an easy class, meets only two days out of the six, but unfortunately is taught by my high school principal, an utter moron.

And of course, the obligatory gym, which I hope is going to be on only two days like it was my junior year.

I don’t know if I’ll slack off. I did really well last year and worked really hard (because junior year is said to be the most important), but I don’t know how my senior year will go. But I figure, I survived 11th grade, I can prolly survive anything. :wink:

16

Well, high school was 27 years ago, but I more or less remember. I’m in the slacker crowd, sort of.

I had almost exactly half of the credits needed to graduate by the end of my 10th grade (sophomore) year. Also, that year, I started a part time job working in a machine shop that rebuilt and sold machine tools. I worked an average of 18 to 20 hours a week at that job all through high school, and then went full time for a about a year when I was 18 and out of high school.

By the end of 11th grade (junior), I had all but about 2 of the credits needed to graduate. In addition, I had taken all of the math and science courses available, with the exception of a couple of AP courses. Since I didn’t intend to go to college, I thought these were a waste of time, and full of people who were even geekier than me, if such a thing is possible.

So my 12th grade (senior) year was pretty boring. My typical day went something like this:

  • Get up around 7:30, shower, dress, etc.
  • Head over to my buddy’s house, wait for him to get up, get showered, dressed, etc.
  • Head over to the school auto shop and piss around for a couple of hours working on cars.
  • Hit IHOP for breakfast, then Cushion & Cue for a few games of pool.
  • Go to work for the afternoon.

These were about 3 of the 5 school days. On the other days, I attended a class or two. By the end of the first quarter, they had given up trying to get me to attend regular classes, and put me in a class called STEP. I don’t remember what the acronym meant, but it was basically the ultimate dummy class, where if you could say your name and show up for three hours a day, you could get up to three credits per semester counted toward general education, such as English, phys ed, history, etc. They had days where the ‘lesson’ was about making fondue, and they went to the zoo more than once as a class outing. A real joke, to say the least.

At about the end of the second quarter, I quit high school completely and signed up for technical college. I had to take a special test (similar to a GED IIRC) and get permission from my high school counselors and such to attend a ‘Higher Education’ facility before my class officially graduated from high school. I passed the test, got tuition wavers for the first year based on my scores, and set off on a two-year degree in electronics.

However, still being a slacker, I dropped out of that a year later. Working a full time job and attending classes was too much like work. I figured I’d work for year, save my money, and then finish my degree.

It never happened. I’ve been working ever since. However, being incredibly lucky as well as a slacker, I got into a couple of good jobs, impressed people and did well, and got into my current field (software design and implementation) about 16 years ago. I love the work, I’m pretty good at it, and make reasonable money. I now own my own small (very small) software company. We sell and support the packages we write, as well as do custom software, network setup, general computer support, etc. Not so bad for a slacker.

Ugly

17

Not so for me. At my (former) high school, we had to take 15 credits the 3 years of high school in order to graduate. Each class was half a credit for each semester, so it was about taking about 5 classes each semester. The catch was this: No matter if you took 7 or 6 courses per semester during your sophomore and junior years(like I did, and many others), you still had to take 5 classes your last two semesters. Easy enough for many, since the only obligatory courses are English and Spanish, you fill the rest with electives. The electives are for the most part easy. Too easy the universities might think you are slacking, but in fact those are the kind of electives we have.

So…back to the discussion, I had to take my normal load of 5 courses. But I wanted to take Calculus I and II, and we can only take thouse courses at the University. This required that I took my 5 courses plus my university class(dual enrollment).

Fall semester:

Honor English
History of the Literature of Spain(Spanish 12)
Computer class
Craft
Job experience
Calculus I(at the university)

Spring semester:(courses that changed)

Responsible Maternity/Paternity
Commercial Art(how to do ads, analize them)
Calculus II(at the university)

PD. I wish my high school had the AP or IB program, I would have liked to participate. At least they accepted my college courses. Oh yea, and the foreign language requirement.

18

It’s been about 5 years but mine was as follows:

Semester 1: Calculus, Physics, Chemistry

Semester 2: English, Algebra, and Finite Mathamatics.
I didn’t particularly care for Geography, History, and courses that weren’t straight forward like sciences and maths for some odd reason…

19

::trying to remember his schedule::

Okay, firstly, we didn’t have block scheduling, and it’s been over two years since I had to remember that windy (in the sense of the long and windy road) schedule. Anyway, classes:

Sacred Music (which was Christian Doctrine, effectively)
Calc AB
Bio
English 4
History 3 (US)
History 4AP (Modern Euro)

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Hmmm, let’s see if I can remember my senior year schedule…

FIRST SEMESTER

Intro to Computers (boring and easy, but required)
Choral
Physics
Colonial American History
Economics (ick, ptooie, spew)
Hebrew Scriptures (aka Old Testament)
Algebra II (I suck at math)

SECOND SEMESTER

Swim (which I put off for basically my entire high school career)
Major American Authors (or, as my friend Alison and I called it, English for Idiots…or at least, the teacher was one)
Christian Scriptures (aka New Testament)
Writing About Literature

And Choral, Physics, and Algebra II. My senior year schedule wasn’t as hard as my junior year schedule, but it was infinitely more boring, since I’d ignored so many requirements for three years. I was supposed to do independent study in French, since I’d started in third-year French and run out of French classes to take, but it never really got off the ground.

(To add to all that, though, I was editorial page editor of the school paper, and I was in National Honor Society, French Honor Society, and the spring musical…)