Magasawrus vs. The Tough Cookie

In which many complaints stem from the fact that courses are so freakin difficult to get straight. I've changed my courses officially four times now and unofficially at least 30. I cannot take Writer's Craft, Drama, Theatre Production, Media Arts, or any other such engaging and creative courses due to Gifted scheduling. Yeah, it's certainly a tough cookie to crumble.

Went to Guidance and got my schedule changed today! Hip-hip-hooray! At least for now. God, schedule changes can be pretty close to Hell. It's more threatening than high school, twice as complicated, and very likely to blow up in your face. Why? Because [1] of testy counsellors, [2] scheduling this year was complete crap for Grade 12 Gifted students--or, really, anyone taking maths/sciences, and [3] there is abso-frogging-lutely NOTHING interesting available in Slot D (Day 1, Period 4).

You'll have the choice of Gifted Physics, Business Leadership, Families in a Diverse Society, Anthropology, History, or Food and Nutrition. First one's a pain; second one's lame; third one's boring; fourth one's frustrating; fifth one involves essays, low-80-grades, and sometimes-boringness; and sixth one I've already passed. If you can take the last one, DO IT. It's fun and you spend the last two weeks of it pretty much eating like a starved pig.

Anyway, I couldn't take Food and they stopped accepting TAs for Food, so I'm stuck in Family Studies. Grade 9 all over again. "Yayyyy." At least I'll learn about other cultures...?

On the Bright Side, I was able to get into Art with Grade 11 Media Arts as a sort-of substitute pre-req. And I have my Day 2/4 afternoon spare! (To work on Drama and Yearbook.... Well, at least I'll be occupied.)

As for the rest of today: Math was as usual--intellectually stimulating but still very understandable. I might actually pull off a 90. Please, God(s) of Academics, please. My now-gone second period spare was... *angry angry sad scary guidance oh no course changes why is it so difficult*

Lunch was Biz-as-Usual.

English was funstuffs, what with the Sub (Ms. Lamourie) gone for half the period and us goofing off and the blue 3rd-degree sheet and CSI! OMG does CSI always have such cheesy lines?! It's so... it's just not the same without the sunglasses, though.

And laaaaastly, CHEMISTRY WITH LOZON! He's a really funny teacher. Really puts you at ease--especially with those rumours of him read: hard} marker so we'll see how that turns out. Hopefully he does an amazing teaching job to make up for it.

That's about it for today. I highly doubt I'll be able to keep up this tiring stream of regular updates... but I'll try, I guess. Oh no. Chinese School kicks up next week. -sigh-

Toodle-loo, Interfolks.
Mags

Got a secret, can you keep it?
Swear you'll save.
Better lock it in your pocket,
Taking this one to the grave....

Channel Your Chi!

You can't stop a river 
As it rushes to the sea

You can try and stop the hands of time
But ya know it just can't be


You can't stop the beat, folks, and the toll of the schoolbell is calling y'all back. Yeah, you can't get out of it, no matter how hard you try.You can try to escape the clutches of waking up early, taking neat notes, and juggling fun courses with distasteful ones--but you know it just can't be. High school's a bit of a pain that way.

To the important things: my shed-jewel right now is kind of crappy, mainly because it contains Social Studies-like courses that I worked my butt off in just so I could get out of them when I passed them. I'm sure they're all interesting and stuff when I'm awake, alert, and unstressed-out, but considering the looks of this coming year, I'm also sure I'd be sleeping through them and waking up to a pop quiz or in-class essay from Hell.

Current Shed-jewel:
Day 1/3
1 - Gifted FUNCAL

Above: what high school is not like.

2 - Gifted World Issues
3 - University Biology
4 - World History from the 16th Century
Day 2/4
1 - Gifted FUNCAL
2 - [spare]
3 - Gifted English
4 - Gifted Chemistry

Hopeful Future Shed-jewel:
Day 1/3
1 - Gifted FUNCAL
2 - Gifted English
3 - Visual Art
4 - Food and Nutrition or Family Studies [something called Challenge and Change? :S]
Day 2/4
1 - Gifted FUNCAL
2 - Gifted Biology
3 - [spare]
4 - Gifted Chemistry

And now, to summarize my day! How fantabulously important this is! Firstly, I wish I could go back in time and super bitch slap my younger self. Oh, how vapid and foolish we were, with not a care about the world except for our Public Images. Geez, I feel a little stupid. But then, our brains were still developing so I can has excuse? :D

Secondly: Math was as math usually is, with Mo-ster being awesome and Gifted being Gifted. And loud. Thirty people, jeez louise, how are we supposed to get any work done? World Issues was interesting, the teacher was nice, it left us with stories to tell, but I just couldn't stay awake through it. Sorry, Ms. Johnson--I'm a terrible Humanities student. Biology was blah. It left me with one question: why are Academic classes so damn quiet? and why are Gifted classes SO DAMN LOUD?!?!

Also, Iliescu talks much slower. -- SHINY TOY GUNS BREAK:

We're gonna ride the racecars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
SUPERSONIC OVERDRIVE!

--Aaaannnd we're back! -- Lastly, World History. Funnest class I had all day. Matheson is a funnybone. Seating plans suck. The Church is oddsicles. And, once again, I'm dropping a good course because I won't stay awake through it and likely won't get a "good enough" mark from it. Sadface for the Gifted Rat Race. =(

IN CONCLUSION: 
High school is challenging. High school is vapid. High school is "fun". High school is threatening. High school is HIGH. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO TALL. I'm sorry. I'm being a hypocrite and incredibly shallow. It's just that it both fascinates and scares me a little how tall everyone is. It's like I'm about to enter a forest of denim and skirts. Is that what University is like? The Forest of Denim and Skirts?

Nonetheless, I almost wish the time for acceptances would get here already so we can build Study Note Mountain, fret over fluorescent sheets of paper with numbers and lines on them, go to prom (? more on that later), "dance" like jello people undergoing seizures, get our caps and gowns, and get the heck out of Woburn.

Haha, if I was Superhighschooler, my weakness would be Woburnite. I made a punny.

I will go sleep now. As you could probably glean from this distractedly-written, slow-paced, snarky-and-lazy blogpost, I need to channel my chi into brain-building sleep and STOP USING SO MANY HYPHENS.

Good night, Blogosphere, and let us hope your high school years are/were not as dreadfully lame as mine are/were.

Signing off,
Magasawrus.
"Chocolate for most women is like catnip for most cats--freakin' ambrosia, mannn."

Grade Eleven Chemistry 2010 Final Exam Notes

How to Download: Yes, apparently the big "Download Now" button is a lie. Alright, so at the bottom, under a box with a URL in it, there's a tiny download linke. That's the real one. And if it doesn't work, here's another link: http://drop.io/bxjsp6m/asset/0-grade-11-gifted-chemistry-docx

Here they are.* Fresh off the press.

The notes are a combination of notes taken from the textbook, handouts from Gifted Chem, and my personal stash of notes accumulated from various bouts of productiveness when cramming for tests over the last year. Enjoy, lazy or overachieveing schmucks :)

I'm moving on to Math~ x__x

*You can access the file on Scribd if you Log in with FaceBook.

Note: These notes were made for personal use--so if there are things that aren't in them, it's because those concepts are things I thought were pretty basic. If you need to know those, just look them up in your textbook; they shouldn't be that difficult to find if they're fundamental knowledge.

Chemistry Exam Review!

Alright, guys, so I'm pretty much going to use this blog to upload things.... and such.

Here's a scan of the chemistry final exam review if you haven't gotten it from Room 117 after school and I'll upload my notes as soon as I'm finished them (hopefully tonight).

Add oil, guys! Good luck with your exams!

First Day of School...

Late again. Always, always 15 minutes late. This time? Well, unlike all the other days when I just slept in, today I burnt my expired English muffins, so I had to find some toast to toast and spread with jam. I had to fix my stupid English Media PowerPoint because older versions of PowerPoint don't support animations on certain shapes because I used the Publish feature in PowerPoint to put all my linked images and slides into one compact package for use anywhere. Then, I had to type up and print notes. All this and I didn't even get to present--because 3/4 of the rest of the class was too lazy to put together a 5-minute slideshow with some pictures and a b.s. thesis.

Oh, and apparently there's some Physics worksheet due tomorrow. And I've got a Diabetes pamphlet to work on for Wednesday. And there's a Chemistry crossword. And a mountain of Biology packages. And a Novel ISU. And a Math test next Tuesday. And Math homework. And...and... forget it. I won't even bother with 7/8 of it anyway.....