This year I decided to take the AP Biology course, and it's absolutely splendid! Although it is a ton of work (I outlined 10 chapters of the textbook already this summer, on the first day of school we had 6 extended response/short essay questions, we have 4 more over the weekend, and in a week in a half we'll have turned in our first project and taken a quiz over dozens and dozens of Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes), I love it. The class is small (only 10 people), eight of whom I'm on friendly terms with and the ninth is a person who I'm completely neutral towards, which is a major plus to me. It's in the morning, which means it's only like 90º instead of 105º. Best of all, the subject itself fascinates me, and I get to learn the most random, delightful facts in the world, such as how flies can walk on the ceiling (it's not due to any substance on their feet, you should ask me about it and I'd get super excited and happy and explain it to you) and countless other things.
I'm also excited about my art class, Advanced Drawing and Painting. So far all we've done is get our list of possible sketchbook assignments, but even that looks fun. Every two weeks we pick a subject from a sheet the teacher gives us and we turn in a fully developed drawing related to it. Some of the options are running water, your closet, people as a still life, a self portrait in harsh lighting, and potted plants. I started my first one (self portrait in harsh lighting) yesterday after the first day of school.
Junior year is going to bring a massive workload, but I'm definitely looking forward to all my classes.
1 comment:
ugh I wish my school had AP biology... but it's winton woods so the closest thing they have is bio 2, which happens to be the same bell as orchestra (that's stupid)... my only science this year is physics, which is absolutely boring so far... but I'm glad you get to take AP bio lol... maybe you can teach me things :-D
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