Advanced.

Placement.

Exams.
Are eating away at my soul. These past weeks have been nothing but practice exams, urges to study from teachers, reminders on the announcements, people asking to get together in a group to study.

(Review, review, review. Study, study, study.)^3983958340543098 power.

And guess what? I'm already sick of it! I am ready for all this to be done! Fini! La fin!

It's May! The weather's warm. The sky's blue. Spring sports are coming to a close. Friends are making their way home from college. I just want nothing to stress about. I want stress and school to end.

School and stress...very rarely do you have one without the other.

It amazes me to see that people still write in their action planner this late in the year. It amazes me that people can still take their notebooks out and pay attention and take notes in class. I am amazed by the amount of effort put in by my peers. I've heard many a person talk about how they don't do anything anymore, how they're so disappointed with their work ethic. The very same people who do the above mentioned, and I chuckle, and pat them on the shoulder and explain gently that as long as they're turning in their homework, getting assignments done on time, and not falling asleep during class then they're far ahead of where I am.

I don't know how I'm going to pull my grades up this late in the term, and honestly, I'm pretty worried. My GPA has fallen to such great extremes I didn't even know I was capable of getting. School has always been my strong point, throughout my life. I was always pretty academically inclined. You know, Prime Time as an elementary school kid, PACT during middle and high school. Involved, participating, always going to class, won essay awards, raised my hand, was well behaved BLAH BLAH BLAH. But then I get to junior year and I'm like: Wow. Where has any ounce of self dignity I once had gone?

I could rant and rant about this particular subject, and I will because I can and because it'll make me feel better...for a short while, at the least.


I ran across this picture in my search, and thought, how could I not include this?