Hello beautiful human beings of the internet,
It’s Alaska here. I know weird name, but I didn’t get to pick.
School sucks, what else is new. Of course, as a sophomore I decided that junior year would be a great time to increase my course load and take a couple of AP classes. I thought it was a great idea until I had to go pick up my textbooks and summer work at the end of my sophomore year. Realizing how awful of an idea it was to take the AP classes, I already hated myself. The whole summer I constantly thought of how much work I had to do before school starts, and of course I didn’t do it. The week before school started, I decided now would be a good time to open the textbooks. It was worse than I thought. I had to spend my last week of summer doing schoolwork. All the way up until the last day I was doing my summer homework and reading the two books assigned for my english class. Basically, I had a bomb summer but the last week was awful. And of course, when picking my classes for my senior year, I decided taking two more AP classes would be a great idea. I haven’t even gotten the summer work, but I already hate myself and the Spanish language.
As you may know, taking an AP class means taking an AP test… aka three hours of pure torture. It’s really well designed, sit 300 students in a hot gym, and make them take a test on an entire year of information. For the AP Biology test it is 63 multiple choice and 8 open responses. Sounds easy right? Yeah well its not.
So the day comes of my AP test, and I am sitting in the gym at a table with my friend. We take the multiple choice and its not that bad, just long and more tedious than hard. Once the hour and a half is over, we get a ten minute break, and everyone is just hanging out. Then the open response starts. The first two questions are “long response” and the other six are “short response”. The first two arent that bad, and my friend and I were pretty equal in time when we were working. Then, I turned to the clock to see how much time was left, thinking around an hour. But no, I looked back to see we had half an hour left, and five open responses. I kid you not my pen did not lift the paper during that time.
So moral of the story, budget your time, or you know just don’t take AP classes… lol.
xoxo
Alaska
