So, it's summer.

I'm sitting here, at the mompoint, filing through a crate of papers. Ever since we moved here, i"ve been throwing papers in this crate. Any papers, NJ holistic (does anyone see the word "hostile" in there?) scoring rubrics, enrichment homework...  more enrichment homework... and guess what? more "extra practice" enrichment homework. How much of this stuff did i do anyway? Now... printer paper. Blank, untouched... with curled up corners. Lots of it. Sorry, tree huggers. Don't worry, i'll reuse it... somehow.

Purpose of Midterms....

Ok, now that my cat has finally finished using my leg as a scratching post (she won't use the one we bought from Petco, apparently she likes her stuff organic :)) , I can actually write something. You maybe wondering what the h-echo- lima-lima I'm doing not studying for midterms. Well, you see, I've decided that midterms aren't what they're chalked up to be. Seriously. Midterms are just another tactic our evil teachers have come up with to drive us as crazy as Barack Obama (excuse my not being politically incorrect enough). After 5 hours of reading textbooks, i feel like my brain's been permanantly traumatized. Seriously. When my mom asked me how my day was, I began reciting "Displacement Under Constant Acceleration" from the Physics textbook. If you look at it closely, midterms are just a cumulative test with a big, bad, ugly name slapped on it. Studying for Midterms should take less than an hour per subject. Anyhow, teachers benefit from midterms. They throw us a gigantic bone to keep us busy, then they get to catch up on their General Hospital while we toil and sweat our brains out trying to memorize everything.

What now? Why don't we all just relax, and actually eat something instead of a book on Kinematics. Cuz midterms are nothing more a 200-question scantron test with an official name on it. None of us were scared of the ASK, or the HESPA, or the SSATs, why should we be totally freaked about the midterms?

November 06, 2009

A couple days ago, the Yankees won the World series, beating the Phillies 4 -2. Right now, I'm typing this as the tickertape parade is going on. I'm not what you would call a diehard fan, but the Yankees winning the World Series is something that definitely made my day. In fact, it was so big that school was let out just for this. (just kidding, it was for... I dunno. Maybe my principal is psychic).