LET'S GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!

West Virginia University was ranked as the number one "party school" in the nation. After some strict enforcement of laws, the school dropped to number three on the list. On the Today Show this morning it was announced that WVU is once again the number one party school in the nation. Way to go, Mountaineers. The scary part is that I will be going to that school next year. Woohoo for me, right?

"West Virginia University. Where knowledge is learned and couches are burned."

But, speaking of school, it already sucks and our school year hasn't even started yet. I'm still doing work from last year that I've been putting off. Now, it all has to be done by next week. It doesn't bother me, I always put things off until the last minute, but it just makes me think that this is the last week of summer, and I'm spending it doing history papers and forensics junk.

The good thing is that along with the beginning of school comes football season. That's the part that my friends and I look forward to the most, even though our team pretty much sucks and is lucky to win a game or two. Last year, I think we won a total of two games, one home and one away. So we weren't ranked last in the state, just next to last. That doesn't even matter though, not to me and the gang of regulars in the student section at the games. We have a blast no matter what score is. We light popcorn on fire, pick up pennies that are thrown at us and throw 'em back at the idiot underclassmen at the top of the bleachers that think their so freakin awesome 'cause they hit people with pennies, and when it gets to the point where it's snowing, the people with lighters light them and we huddle around for warmth. Of course, that doesn't really do a lot to help with how cold we are, but we have fun doing stupid little things like that.

The part about school that I [and probably everyone else] am dreading the most is the classes. At least my senior year will be pretty easy. I used to take all honors classes, but this year I'm not. Just two college level courses [political science and music appreciation], and the rest are all regular classes. One teacher told me that was a "wimpy" senior schedule, but that's fine with me. I'd rather take it easy this year than stress myself out over classes that I don't really need. Like AP Chemistry. bleh. Or AP Calculus. double bleh. For the major that I'm interested in, which is Criminology, I don't need those kind of classes, so why go through all the pain of taking them if I'm never going to use them? That's the point I tried to get across to my 'cluster' teacher but did she listen? Not at all. Grr. That woman makes me so mad. Thank God I don't have her for a class this year.

My classes this year include: Earth Environmental Science, English 12, Psychology, Jazz Band, Music Appreciation, and Political Science. That, and I get to be a teacher's aid and grade papers and all that jazz, but I'm not complaining. Compared to some schedules I've had in the past, that one is cake. I supposedly have my schedule all set up and everything, but our school is notorious for screwing up schedules. Freshman year wasn't too bad for me, but sophomore and junior, I've been sitting in the hallway for hours trying to get the stupid thing how it's supposed to be. It's a traumatizing experience, one that you pray to God that you don't have to go through again, but somehow you always end up sitting right back in that hallway the next year, or even the next semester.

A friend of mine just IMed me and said that they have her in psychology twice, Algebra 2, which she has already taken, and life fitness that she did not sign up for. Our school is just freaking wonderful like that. I know that no one is perfect and that it is mostly the computers that are messing up the scheduling, but it's just so stressful on us when we have to be the ones to deal with it and try to fix it. The snotty attitudes that the people in the offices get with us students doesn't do much to help things, either. They act like we're a bother, like we're just complaining for no good reason. It's all just so aggravating and it makes me dread going back to school even more knowing that is what awaits me. That, and I have no idea if my schedule will be in the senior line of the junior line, seeing as I technically haven't finished junior year yet, but I had enough credits when I stopped going to school to be counted as a senior anyway. It's a big mess... One that I am not looking forward to, but I doubt anyone really is.

Well, now I better get back to working on my history. At the moment, I am reading something about Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. Fascinating stuff right there...

[oh yeah, I've added a mod for some special links. at the moment, there is only one link but you should totally clicketh upon it and check out Tube Talk, a blog about all the nifty TV shows that I don't really watch, but everyone seems to be watching these days...]

earth environmental science would be an interesting subject!
» renaye on 2007-08-21 10:19:54

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