# Your HS Senior Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878 "2001-08-04T03:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/41 "2001-08-05T20:01:34Z")
My school had a six day cycle - 8 courses spread out in a rotating pattern (kind of) over the six days. I had: Chemistry 536 Math 536 Physics 534 French 536 (4?) PhysEd 5?? Moral Ed 522 - waste of time - 2 assignments TOTAL all year Home Economics 5?? - elective to fill empty space Community Service 512 - the 2 block per cycle course that usually just served as a filler so you could get a spare with credit - I spent the year doing nothing and made up most of the work I was supposed to have done 🙂 I wouldn’t totally say that I slacked off (the Math-Sci courses were tough) but it was an easy year for me. Then there was CEGEP - I did the Health Sciences profile, and it wasn’t that easy, and now university…man, how time flies! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/42 "2001-08-05T20:13:04Z")
My senior year, 1981-1982, I only had to pass English. At that time, IIRC, we only had to have 18 credits to graduate; I wound up with 24 1/2-- half-credit for drivers ed., while still getting a full credit for whatever class I left to take it from. Sir Rhosis Maybe it was 20 credits to graduate, anybody go to school in KY during that time period? ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/43 "2001-08-05T20:22:55Z")
The hardest thing about high school, in retrospect, was getting up at 5:30 AM to produce the big hair that was required in 1987. I wonder how many brain cells I lost due to inhalation of hair spray. For senior year, I did APs _and_ slacked. At the time, the AP exams were given almost a full two months before the end of our high school classes. Two extra months of vacation, just when the nice weather is kicking in, was a big motivating factor in my class selection. Plus, they school organized some AP classes so that you spent one afternoon per week doing a research project at the local state university library. A marvelous opportunity to hang out at student union and vamp at the college guys. This post proves, I hope, that it’s possible to be a top student and completely vapid at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/44 "2001-08-05T21:10:51Z")
My schedule was: > [@](#): > > 1. AP Calculus AB (Filled with a bunch of over-priviliged, over-achieving rich preppie brats who whined about everything) > 2. Weight Training (Filled with a bunch of stoner/jock morons) > 3. Beginning Drama (Filled with Freshmen. _Aieee!!!_ Actually, I liked them better than most of the Seniors) > 4. Government/Economics > 5. English 12 > 6. Stagecraft (Technicial theatre work, the part that kept me sane.) > 7. Theatre Program (More technicial work, kept me there till 4:00 in the evening) ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/45 "2001-08-06T02:43:23Z")
Wow! This is my first post to hit the double-digit mark on responses. Thank you all. First off, Sir Rhosis, in my KY high school, I need 26 to graduate with honors. The only one of my classes that I need: AP Lit and Comp. We don’t have some of these classes, like Psych (although my Lit teacher, who was also my English III-Accelerated teacher, is certified to teach it.) I may be dropping AP Physics. Our new system administrator for the school network needs tech aides, so I volunteered to do it on B days. Haven’t officially heard yet, though. The good news is, I like almost all of my teachers. Shouldn’t be too bad for me, and I don’t mind working late at school on yearbook stuff. (I was there until 7:30 one night, and school is over at 2:55!) Thanks for the advice, Farmer. I appreciate it. -Brianjedi ---
**Author:** ![JadedNaive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@JadedNaive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JadedNaive)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/46 "2001-08-06T05:28:11Z")
My schedule senior year was: AP Government AP Statistics AP Biology AP Literature Debate Forensics After lunch (debate and forensics) was a breeze. I just talked to my friends, played speech games with the class, and sometimes helped the newbie debaters out. But I had my share of hard classes, too. Of course, I couldn’t keep up with the senioritis. Even though I passed all six AP tests I took that year (add Comparitive Gov and Environmental Science), mostly with 4’s and 5’s, I got D’s in Stats and Bio (for which I received a 4 and a 5, respectively). I just didn’t do the homework. I didn’t even do the final project for bio, but since it was due after white-card day (when teachers have to turn in a list of all seniors with F’s), the teacher couldn’t give me lower than a D. And for all of that lack of responsibility in high school, I got a 4.0 last semester. Just proves that college is easier than AP tests 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/47 "2001-08-06T07:36:53Z")
I’m in my 8th month of my senior year in HS, and at the moment it’s getting very hectic, lots of exams and assignments etc. The subjects I do are: Biology Film & Television Art English Modern History and Home Economics. They’re pretty easy subjects, but I’m failing Art, simply because the teacher’s a bitch and I hate writing out my assignments in my folio. Ah well. It’ll all be over soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/48 "2001-08-06T14:45:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brianjedi \* > \*\* > 1st Block: AP American History(A) or AP Physics(B) > \*\* Lemme know if you need help w/ AP Physics. I taught it for many years. Are you taking B or C? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/49 "2001-08-06T17:05:03Z")
Lessee: 1st period: Social Studies –1st half year - Russian Studies –2nd half year - Economics 2nd period: Independent Study\*\* 3rd period: –1st half year - Independent Study\*\* –2nd half year - Health 4th Period: Project Advance English (6 credits of college English taught in our school - actual college credit from the local university) 5th period: lunch 6th period: Chorus 7th period: Concert Band 8th period: –Jazz Ensemble (2 days/week) –Independent Study\*\* the other 3 days I ended up with a medical excuse from gym because of a knee injury. \*\*meaning I sat in the auditorium and played the Steinway grand piano. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/50 "2001-08-06T17:28:14Z")
If I remember correctly, I took _Revloutionary Astronomy_ taught by Nicholas Copernicus, \*Contemporary Alchemy \* taught by Phillipus Paracelsus, _Developments in Cartography and Surveying_ taught by Gemma Frisius and _Typesetting_ taught by Claude Garamond. A pretty full plate by anyone’s standards. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/51 "2001-08-06T17:33:13Z")
1st–Calculus I (over the phone, believe it or not) 2nd–English IV (American Lit II–not bad, since a cousin who was as much an SF freak as I was taught it; we read _Stranger in a Strange Land_, among other things) 3rd–Band (my 5th year of marching with a trombone/repairing instruments) 4th–French II (the teacher and I despised each other) 5th–Advanced Mathematics (all the weird math topics that didn’t quite fit anywhere else, like linear programming and complex number theory) 6th–Physics (about halfway through, the teacher quit grading me and started this weird tag-team teaching approach; when he got out of his depth, he had me teach for a while–what do you expect out of a small-town football coach?) After school, I had marching practice and I worked at the family business–a TV repair shop. I got my first repair license that year. So, no, I can’t really say that I slacked too much. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/52 "2001-08-06T19:12:36Z")
Damn, UncaB, the Alchemy doesn’t seem to have stuck with you. Perhaps it was in in the teacher’s later, mercury-addled years? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/53 "2001-08-06T20:05:28Z")
Wow! My senior year was 9 years ago. It doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been our of school that long. I worked my ass off the first three years of high school and got all the hard stuff out of the way so my senior year was really easy. 1st Period: English 2nd Period: Teacher’s Aide 3rd Period: US Government Last Period: Advanced Photography I was out of school at 2:00 every afternoon and I didn’t have to go back for 2nd semester. It was great. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878/54 "2001-08-06T20:43:05Z")
I don’t remember much of what I took. These come to mind. World Lit. Physics (the only class I ever got a D in - it was all Jeff’s fault. He kept making me laugh. Of course, the bum went on to go to MIT. :rolleyes: Jeff, are you out there?!) Trig Comparative Political Systems I was also a Library Aide for a semester. I was doing college prep, but had signed up for the military by Junior year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-hs-senior-year/74878.md?page=2)