The Final Blog

With only one blog left and our last day of high school over, I cannot but feel a roller coaster of emotions. So as we all go on in different directions, I wish everyone the best. I know everyone will accomplish great things. I have really loved being in this class with all of you. For my final words, I will leave a list of quotes about life as we take on the next chapter in our lives. (11 quotes for class of '11)

1. “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do.”-John Wooden

2. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”-B. Olatunji

3. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”-Oscar Wilde

4. “You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.”-Joan Baez

5. “Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”-James Dean

6. "The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters." —Audrey Hepburn

7. "Do or do not. There is no try." -Yoda

8. “In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”-Robert Frost

9. “If you want to be happy, be.”-Leo Tolstoy

10. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”-Michael Jordan

11. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."-Eleanor Roosevelt

This Is Just To Say Farewell

Dear fellow AP English classmates,

This Is Just To Say

We have survived
English
class with Ms.
Serensky

in which
she was probably
expecting
some to fail

Forgive us
we were too clever
so smart
and so brave

Top 10 Reasons to Take AP English

1. You get to spend time complaining about homework and over exaggerating the difficulty of things with nerds just like you.

2. For majority of the time, you sit in desks arranged in circle. This makes people watching way easier.

3. You get to run around the school frantically shouting out quotes from books. The weird looks are always entertaining. And you don't ever really forget them.

4. People bow down to you. Seriously.

5. Ms. Serensky writes inspiring and entertaining quotes on the board everyday.

6. You can analyze pretty much anything and use fun words like "juxtaposition."

7. The list of the quotes you receive at the end of each quarter. Best day ever.

8. Even if everyone in the school hates you, there's an elite group who doesn't. And if all the AP English students hate you...well, sorry.

9. You actually become smarter. In multiple ways. And you don't even realize it's happening.

10. You learn from the wisest in all the land. The one and only, Bobbie Jo.

Observing the Struggle

Amy, Harding and Lady Bracknell watch as I struggle on the AP exam. Unfortunately for me, they do not offer much help and instead just watch in horror at my failure. They simply have a cup of tea and sit as I write furiously on the prewriting for the first essay. Needless to say, we do not remain close friends. They seem to question my every move as they watch me.

Harding: “Now would that be wise? Would it?” (Kesey 64).

Amy: “Want to try that one more time, kid? Start over. Go slow” (Currie 87).

Harding: “‘The quickest way to get it fixed is the best way’” (Kesey 190).

Amy: “But it’s really too late for that” (Currie 93).

Lady Bracknell: “The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound” (Wilde 13).

Harding: “‘You are right…about all of it’” (Kesey 59).

Lady Bracknell: “[She] seem[s] to be displaying signs of triviality” (Wilde 54).

Amy: “[She] should be smarter than this” (Currie 100).

Harding: “‘I’m disappointed in [her]…very disappointed’” (Kesey 59).

Lady Bracknell: “I confess I feel somewhat bewildered” (Wilde 14).

Amy: “I feel genuine pity” (Currie 201).