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Aug. 26th, 2006 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardSo it's that time of year again.
You know, school starting, football games, oh my god classes...and for the juniors, time to start preparing to take the SAT.
Somebody shoot me. I picked up an SAT test prep book today.
And I'm trying to decide if I should switch out of ordinary chem to either honors chem or AP Bio -- only problem is, I'd have to completely reconfigure my schedule, dropping symphonic band, going fulltime wind ensemble, and moving PE to second period for a full year instead of going halves sixth period with wind. *sigh* But I should, because I really want to get into Stanford, and junior year is supposed to be your most important year of high school... Anyway, my current schedule looks like so:
0: Jazz Band
1: AP Junior English
2: Chemistry
3: AP Calculus
4: AP U.S. History
Lunch
5: Symphonic Band
6: BodyWorks (first semester)/ Wind Ensemble (second semester)
Now, if I changed my schedule, it would be one of two possibilities depending on the class I changed to. They'd be the same except for the science class, since honors chem and AP Bio are offered the same period.
0: Jazz Band
1: AP Junior English
2: Individual and Team Games
3: AP Calculus
4: AP U.S. History
Lunch
5: Honors Chemistry -or- AP Biology
6: Wind Ensemble
But if I did that, symph band wouldn't have a bari, and not much of a bass section either, since my BD moved up the bass clares (I think he did both), the tuba moved up, the double bass moved up, and I think there's only a tuba coming up, nothing else. And both tenors quit, and none are coming up from the middle school, as far as I know. (We've got one new tenor marching with us, but I think he's an eighth grader rather than a freshman) And I like being in band with the frosh. It lets me build connections, and lets me be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond. And playing with Birkin (the other bari) is just frustrating sometimes; he's that much better than me. On the other hand, it is my last chance to play with the senior saxophone boys, all of whom are amazing. Okay, Kyle and Birkin are amazing, Joey is just cute. Kyle is cute and amazing. And they're graduating.
And I need to get into a good college, damn it.
Opinions?
You know, school starting, football games, oh my god classes...and for the juniors, time to start preparing to take the SAT.
Somebody shoot me. I picked up an SAT test prep book today.
And I'm trying to decide if I should switch out of ordinary chem to either honors chem or AP Bio -- only problem is, I'd have to completely reconfigure my schedule, dropping symphonic band, going fulltime wind ensemble, and moving PE to second period for a full year instead of going halves sixth period with wind. *sigh* But I should, because I really want to get into Stanford, and junior year is supposed to be your most important year of high school... Anyway, my current schedule looks like so:
0: Jazz Band
1: AP Junior English
2: Chemistry
3: AP Calculus
4: AP U.S. History
Lunch
5: Symphonic Band
6: BodyWorks (first semester)/ Wind Ensemble (second semester)
Now, if I changed my schedule, it would be one of two possibilities depending on the class I changed to. They'd be the same except for the science class, since honors chem and AP Bio are offered the same period.
0: Jazz Band
1: AP Junior English
2: Individual and Team Games
3: AP Calculus
4: AP U.S. History
Lunch
5: Honors Chemistry -or- AP Biology
6: Wind Ensemble
But if I did that, symph band wouldn't have a bari, and not much of a bass section either, since my BD moved up the bass clares (I think he did both), the tuba moved up, the double bass moved up, and I think there's only a tuba coming up, nothing else. And both tenors quit, and none are coming up from the middle school, as far as I know. (We've got one new tenor marching with us, but I think he's an eighth grader rather than a freshman) And I like being in band with the frosh. It lets me build connections, and lets me be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond. And playing with Birkin (the other bari) is just frustrating sometimes; he's that much better than me. On the other hand, it is my last chance to play with the senior saxophone boys, all of whom are amazing. Okay, Kyle and Birkin are amazing, Joey is just cute. Kyle is cute and amazing. And they're graduating.
And I need to get into a good college, damn it.
Opinions?