Junior Year Comes to a Close.

I am officially a senior. I am at the top of the pyramid.

This year was amazing. All of my teachers were great and supportive. My classes were challenging, but they were so rewarding. I learned so much. Although I am happy that I have time to read some books that I actually find interesting, I am going to miss seeing people every day and eating lunch with my friends. I'm not going to miss waking up early.

This year I also really solidified my friend group. I have a great group of friends who I know I will miss terribly when I start college, but for now I'm happy to have them.

So many people made this year amazing (This sounds like a speech at the Oscars, I know.). Especially Mlle, Mrs. Townzen, Mr. Caro, Mr. Carlisle, Brandon, Alex, and Tyler. You all helped me survive junior year and the IB classes and exams that came with it and for that I thank you!

I bought a new notebook recently. The thing about buying a new notebook is that I never start writing in it immediately, I have to think about what I'm going to put in it. This particular notebook I've decided to put haikus in. It sounds dumb, but I like haikus. You have to make every word count. I am going to make senior year count.

-Emily

Finals!

I took my math final today and got an 85 which means I got an A in the class and I got an A in bio and in French. My English and history grades are the only things that need to be finalized. I have my history final tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure I'll get a B in the class, actually I'm positive I will. In English right now I have an 89.5 but I did the extra credit and my teacher hasn't finished entering in all of the grades yet.

I'll post when I get my SAT scores and my IB exam scores, and probably when I do CAS hours. I have to take drivers ed this summer which I am not looking forward to, but I get to go to Hawaii, so that's cool.

Going to go study now because apparently the final is hard. Get ready for a sentimental post tomorrow!

-Emily

IOP OVER!

I got a 93 on my IOP!!!!! That means I have a guranteed A in English!!! Ahhhhhhh!!!! Also, Mrs. Towwnzen asked to have a copy of my powerpoint with the video clips to use as an example and said she was really proud of my analysis!! Ok that's it.

-Emily

One More Week

It was the seniors last day today. It was actually sad this year because I'm friends with a lot of them.

It doesn't feel like there's only a week left because I still have a lot to do. Actually, now that I think about it, I don't have that much, it's just that my IOP is going to hang over my head and make everything seem ten times harder until it's over.

I talked to my IB coordinator today about CAS, I really need to start working on the service thing, but he said it has to be "out of your comfort zone" and I can't really think of anything out of my comfort zone except hospitals and I'm pretty sure those don't take volunteers. He absolutely LOVED my blog though, I don't know why, but he said I could make it international and have that requirement fulfilled.

I think that's all I have to say, except I have a math final and a history final next week. Also, all of the seniors won't be in bio and there's only six juniors. So we don't really know what we're going to do after Friday. I'm spending all of Friday practicing my IOP.

- Emily

Extended Essay Stuff

So I came up with a research question with my history teacher: "To what extent was JFK's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union successful during the Cuban Missile Crisis?"

Pretty good, huh? I need to have a bibliography by September 7, a rough draft by October 24, and the final draft is due by November 26. That's 5 months, I better have a kick butt paper.

I have two presentation this week in English, one group one where we present poetry with motions, and my IOP. I HATE the motions with the poetry, okay that's a little bit of an exaggeration, it's just really cheesy. Mrs. Townzen said our group was doing pretty well though, we're just being too monotone when we're trying to read the words in synch. I think my IOP will be okay. As long as I got a 100 on my world lit I should be fine.

Okay, I'm going to go do my history reading before I lose all motivation.

-Emily

SAT

I took the SAT today. That was the worst waste of time test ever. I HAD TO WAKE UP AT 6:30 AM ON A SATURDAY. Aside from that, there was so much math and it was so long and I hated it. Just so you know I'm not just saying that cause it's a long test, I liked the ACT. Now I have to stay up til like 12 tonight because of a parade... Yippee.

-Emily