you have to be kidding me
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bedlamsbardThey changed the senior project requirements again.
Now it's the reflection letter -- which we already had to do, but they changed the content. Instead of being about the senior project experience (probably because they heard that everyone was planning to write about how the senior project sucked in it), it's now about our experience in high school.
Look, this shit is not stuff I want to share. I don't really want to look back on my high school career, okay? I had a lot of good experiences. I had some really bad ones. I had some that make me want to die because of how stupid I was. Let us be honest about the whole senior project experience, okay? You want feedback on it, right? Just let us give it to you so you don't screw over the class of 2009 the way you're doing us.
You know what? I'm worried about not graduating. I have the grades, I have the credits, I passed the WASL, I'm already accepted to two colleges -- but I don't know if I'm going to finish this, and it's scaring me, because I don't know what they want me to do. I'm an honors student. I'm not a 4.0 student, but I'm an honors student. I take AP classes and do extracurriculars and have leadership positions; I've done summer programs and I have a pretty detailed plan for what I'm doing after high school. I DON'T KNOW if I'm going to be able to finish this. I think I can, but I'm not actually kidding when I say I go home and it's a choice between homework, working on my novel, and filling out scholarship apps. I use take the novel option, because it's second semester of my senior year; I know I'm going to graduate class- and credits-wise. I don't know if I'm going to get my senior project done. And everyone's telling me I'm an idiot for explicitly stating "100,000 word science fiction novel," but what the hell, what's the use of stopping a story in the middle and calling it done? I've done NaNo, this should have been easy.
*looks at proposal* On the other hand, apparently I never actually said 100K, so praise the lord and hallelujah. I said "full novel" and "complete novel." Oh my God, I didn't say 100K, I said "full novel."
Okay, to make myself sound less stupid, the last time I looked at this thing was in May 2007. I swear to God I put 100K, but apparently not.
I also thought I said "draft", which I apparently did not do either. GOD DAMN IT.
Curiously, I did say, "The novel will cover the United States’ involvement in an intergalactic civil war, concentrating on themes of loyalty, change and adaptation, and shades of gray in wartime." Yeah. Those themes? Not here anymore. Well, I mean, they are, but they aren't the main themes.
Now it's the reflection letter -- which we already had to do, but they changed the content. Instead of being about the senior project experience (probably because they heard that everyone was planning to write about how the senior project sucked in it), it's now about our experience in high school.
Look, this shit is not stuff I want to share. I don't really want to look back on my high school career, okay? I had a lot of good experiences. I had some really bad ones. I had some that make me want to die because of how stupid I was. Let us be honest about the whole senior project experience, okay? You want feedback on it, right? Just let us give it to you so you don't screw over the class of 2009 the way you're doing us.
You know what? I'm worried about not graduating. I have the grades, I have the credits, I passed the WASL, I'm already accepted to two colleges -- but I don't know if I'm going to finish this, and it's scaring me, because I don't know what they want me to do. I'm an honors student. I'm not a 4.0 student, but I'm an honors student. I take AP classes and do extracurriculars and have leadership positions; I've done summer programs and I have a pretty detailed plan for what I'm doing after high school. I DON'T KNOW if I'm going to be able to finish this. I think I can, but I'm not actually kidding when I say I go home and it's a choice between homework, working on my novel, and filling out scholarship apps. I use take the novel option, because it's second semester of my senior year; I know I'm going to graduate class- and credits-wise. I don't know if I'm going to get my senior project done. And everyone's telling me I'm an idiot for explicitly stating "100,000 word science fiction novel," but what the hell, what's the use of stopping a story in the middle and calling it done? I've done NaNo, this should have been easy.
*looks at proposal* On the other hand, apparently I never actually said 100K, so praise the lord and hallelujah. I said "full novel" and "complete novel." Oh my God, I didn't say 100K, I said "full novel."
Okay, to make myself sound less stupid, the last time I looked at this thing was in May 2007. I swear to God I put 100K, but apparently not.
I also thought I said "draft", which I apparently did not do either. GOD DAMN IT.
Curiously, I did say, "The novel will cover the United States’ involvement in an intergalactic civil war, concentrating on themes of loyalty, change and adaptation, and shades of gray in wartime." Yeah. Those themes? Not here anymore. Well, I mean, they are, but they aren't the main themes.
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Date: 2008-02-13 03:05 am (UTC)I swear, I think have to do less work than you do to graduate a BSW and play puppeteer to real human people. D: HS is nuts.
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Date: 2008-02-13 05:31 am (UTC)