FREAKING OUT A LITTLE.

THE APPLICATION FOR UW IS OPEN AND KGJFAGHKFJHGAKJDFHGAD. I've completed it up to the writing section so far, but I cannot write about myself! And I don't think I have and "character defining moments" to write about. okokokokokokok. Calm, I'm calm. I just need to think of something over the next week. At least the essays are all less than 650 words. Okay, I'm good.

I have my senior pictures on Tuesday. It's homecoming week.

Okay, bye.

-Emily

Busy, Busy, Busy

I've had so much homework every night, so it's hard to find time to write a blog post. Right now I'm actually blogging and doing my TOK journal... (Also listening to One Direction, but don't tell anyone that.)

Every night for English we have to analyze two poems by Sylvia Plath and find patterns in them. How can someone have written so many poems?! The class is actually pretty nice though, not too hard yet. Although, we do get our first essay assigned tomorrow, so I may have spoken too soon.

In history we had a debate today about who was at fault for WWI. I was on the Serbian team. Austria-Hungary lost. History this year isn't as fun as last year, the note taking is a lot less interactive and I like when we did readings every night before so we knew the information we were discussing in class before hand. I'm not complaining about less homework though. Also, SO MANY POWERPOINTS.

I have my first bio test on Monday, I think I'm pretty prepared for it, plus this year we can retake every single test for the whole first semester, so that's helpful. The IB study sessions are on Wednesdays at 7 in the morning, but I don't really have to go yet because they are just reviewing stuff that I haven't gone over yet because I'm in bio 1.

Econ is still easy. Current events are so fun. I need to go study for that I think because our team is up playing the other best team in our class tomorrow! (One Direction switched to Ed Sheeran, which is much more acceptable for public admittance.)

-Emily

Divination

I figured out last night that if I was Hermione then TOK would be Divination. If I ever storm out of a class it will be TOK. My friend (who took it last year) says I don't like it because I'm looking for a definite answer and there is no definite answer. WHY CAN'T THERE BE A DEFINITE ANSWER? Ugh.

Anyway, I've had a lot of homework and it's way more confusing than last year because all of my classes are every other day except for Econ. Right now in English, we're studying poetry which I like waaaaay better than novels because all of the evidence you need for an argument is right in front of you and you don't have to look for it. We get a different poem to analyze every night though. We have a weekly journal in TOK and math homework every night. So far we've only had history homework one night, so that's good.

I have a headache so I'm going to go read now. Ha. Ha.

-Emily

Last First Day

Senior sunrise was lame.

Here's my schedule!

A days:
1) IB Bio 1
2) PSU Statistics
3) IB Modern World History
LUNCH (With all f my guy friends.)
4) Economics

B days:
1) IB Senior English
2) IB Theory of Knowledge
LUNCH (I don't know who I have it with yet because I haven't done it.)
3) IB French 7 (independent study)
4) Economics

At the end of the quarter, Economics gets switched for Government. Next semester everything stays the same except Government/Econ changes into IB Psych 2.

I had homework in math and history tonight, but the math was super easy. In history we have to start doing an IA that we actually turn in to IB and I have to have a topic by Tuesday. I am going to be so done with history essays by the end of the semester.

I am not super excited for TOK tomorrow, but I should probably get sleep anyways.

-Emily

LINK Day

Today was the freshmen's first day, super exciting! We were there from 7 to 3. I'm tired.

Tomorrow is Senior Sunrise, apparently we get doughnuts.

I LOVE where my locker is, My girl friends are on one side and my guy friends are on the other, it's perfect!

We need to write a proposal to turn our Mississippi trip into a CAS project. It should be pretty easy I think, I may be doing all of the proposals wrong though. I better go look into that.

-Emily

Last First XC Meet

I'm going to have so many lasts this year! It kind of makes me sad. Anyway, my last first XC meet was at Wilsonville and it was a night meet so I didn't run until 9:40 PM, but I still PRed by 16 seconds!! It was only a 3k though, the rest of the meets this year are 5ks. We got to the school at 4 and had to stay there until 11. It kind of sucked because you only run for 15 minutes out of the 7 hours that you're there, but I got free purple shoelaces so it was okay.

I had to miss the first football game for the meet. We won.

I have to go through 2 sources for history before I start building my LEGO Diagon Alley that my family got me for my birthday... Sigh, life is so hard.

-Emily