| | Sorry for the lack of interesting posts, but my mind has been elsewhere. This is due to several reasons. Firstly, track is nearly over, and bad weather is coming in just at the wrong time. I'm continually frustrated by a freshman who is some sort of freak at everything. He's about 5' 8", and he can high jump 6'. This makes me look bad since I'm a junior, taller (slightly), and can only get 5' 7".
Secondly, and more importantly, I'm taking three AP exams in on May 6, 9, and 13. Interestingly, my confidence in my abilities decreases as they progress. May 6 is AP Probability and Statistics, which I should be able to dominate. May 9 is AP US History, which I believe I'll get a 4 or 5 on. I'm not too concerned about getting a 4, since I figure I'm going into the sciences and Caltech won't give a damn if I know about history as long as I can do science. Which leads to my biggest worry by far, AP Chemistry. We took a practice multiple choice AP exam, and I got half of the problems right. this would get me between a 3 and a 4 usually. Again, because i want to get into an excellent college in science, nothing less than a 5 will be acceptable. There are two additional problems. Firstly, AP Chemistry is just about the hardest AP test, since only the select of the select take it (according to this book I have). Secondly, my teacher, who has been teaching for over a dozen years, has never had a student get a 5. Then again, he usually has far smaller than average class sizes, but it's still not a good streak. To counter this I bought an AP Chemistry study book and plan on spending most of my free time until May 13 going through it. A minor point on this is that I have a "rival" in school in math and science, and he's taking AP Chemistry too, so that puts a little additional pressure on me to do well. and, to put a even more pressure on me, my teacher this year won't be teaching the AP class next year because the school hired a new teacher to teach it. It seems stupid to me that they would give the AP classes to a completely new teacher, especially when the two kids who took the test last year got 4's, and this teacher is really a nice guy (even though he's a YEC), so I feel like I should get a 5 to help vindicate his teaching ability.
The third thing is more positive than the previous two, and is more of a curiosity than a concern. About a week ago a girl asked me to prom for next year. This is surprising for a number of reasons:
1. She's attractive.
2. This is a girl asking me, and not vice verse.
3. This a year in advance.
4. Here is one of the more famous pictures of me:
Clearly this turn of events is more surprising than the Giants winning the Super Bowl. But this one is somewhat of a negative, since I now have to worry about her getting a boyfriend since we're not dating. If she gets a boyfriend close to prom than I might be left in the dust.
So, these are the reasons why my blogging has been rather lack-luster recently. Hopefully that photo makes up for it. If you want to see some more...interesting photos, you can see here (you must have Facebook to see it).
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| | Posted 4/28/2008 9:15 PM - 6 comments
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