Deep thoughts and more PADUA rankings

My name is not Jack Handey though...so I really don't know how deep my thoughts really are, or if what I write are even "thoughts" or moreless just random sayings. But I guess in the end it comes from the good ol' noggin so we're all good and I'm not a total hypocrite.

I just wanna let everyone know that my studies have worn me down today...maybe...I really don't do too much of it, but when I actually DO study I do so pretty strenuously. It's kinda like that "all-or-nothing"
concept or something like that. Wednesday is my big certification test and I really need to do good if I want a good job. I mean, I could probably get a good job as it is now, but this next certification is just icing on the cake. We shall see...

What else can I write about? Hay I know!!! Let's rate some more high school classes shall we? Sure thing!

SOPHOMORE YEAR
My second year at Padua was by far my best academically. I averaged a 3.8 over the year, which surpassed pretty much anything I was able to do any other years. But really, I didn't do too much either that year besides schoolwork. I really enjoyed learning at the time, and I had no reason to do anything else. I really didn't have too many social outlets at the time, except for my introduction into Magic which pretty much took over my life for the next couple of years.

First Semester
1st Period - World Cultures II with Mrs. Giulivo - B World cultures. At first you would probably thing this is the most boringest class ever invented. Well, it probably was but at least Mrs. G made it halfway interesting. This was the first class I had taken in which the majority of the class was comprised of upper-classmen, and all of them were really cool. I even had a few sophomore friends in there too. Much of our work was group-oriented and I have to say I learned a great deal of information in there. If this were any other class, I probably would have rated it higher but the fact still remains, it WAS World Cultures.

2nd Period - German II with Mr. Uhrin - C- Another round of Falco Videos and Guten Tag films. Another round of Schnitzelbank. Another round of listening to Uhrin say the same things over and over and over and over and over again every single day. It would have been at least halfway beneficial if he actually TAUGHT something in there besides give us study halls for much of the classtime. Whatever. At least it wasn't as bad my 3rd year.

3rd/4th Period Biology with Mrs. Bedrossian - B Ok this class was about as good as it could get for a biology class. And it probably helped that I started sucking up to the teacher on the first day of class :) The class was relatively easy but we still learned a fair amount.
We also had quarterly projects to do and I always wrote long papers, which were always very outstanding by her standards. Mrs. B kept the class interesting by encouraging class participation and did a lot of hands-on groupwork as well. It's always good when I get an A+ for all 4 quarters which I did in this class. This class only receives a "B" since I really felt I should have been in Honors Biology instead, and I was on a mission to prove that. Also, I really didn't know too many people that well in there except for Brendan and Geoff, but my circle of friends increased somewhat near the end of the year.

4th Period Gym with Mr. Lantz - B-
Gym classes are always fun and this one was no different. My most memorable day was the one in which we played soccer and Phillipz kicked out the window in the gym and later admitted "I reeeally don't have goood aiem". Mr. Lantz was really cool but at times he really didn't keep too good of control of the class. Combine that with the fact that we had to share the gym with freshman (so there were like, 70 of us in 1 class) and things became pretty hectic and unorganized at certain points.

5th/6th Period New Testament with Mr. Keavy - D+ Ok -- I really regret not being able to associate with this guy during sophomore year. I really think that Keavy is a mirror image of myself at a later age. Maybe. I don't want to scare anyone just yet :) But the fact still remained I probably should have been able to have a much better time in this class than I did. Remember Shua? And the St. Francis video? I need not say more. That was the scariest thing I have ever seen in my entire life next to Dave's pornos. But overall this class was pretty blande and I didn't understand Keavy at the time. That's me.

8th/9th Period Honors AlgebraII/Trig with Mr. Briggs (and latter by Mr.
Maris) - B
Immediately if not sooner! This is a personal endeavour. Attempts to make it otherwise will cause you to graduate from the school of Magna Cum Lousy.
Your intelligence can only be exceeded by your good looks. Ahh the memories are coming back! Yeah this class was pretty good, but it was Math and no math class deserves anything better than a B unless it's something absolutely stellar. This class was on the borderline of greatness only to fall due to Mr. Briggs' early retirement and replacement by the absolute Doofus Mr. Maris. AAaaaaahhhh. Go to page Aaaaaahhhh. Never mind don't teach us Maris. Just let us teach ourselves. And do cheering in conjunction. We don't care really. Neither do you. Neither should you.
Go home and polish shoes for a living. I hope you enjoyed Chrissy Pollata's deck of nude playing cards she replaced yours with on the last day of school!

10th Period English with Mr. Killian - C+ You must be joking. How can I give Killian's class such a high grade?
Well, I guess because I got pretty good grades in there...and I really sort of enjoyed the speeches, etc. The class was relatively easy, and it didn't entirely bore the hell out of me either as it did to most others. Mr.
Killian was a computer geek (a really incompetent one) so at least we got along really well and it probably helped me in some way or another in that class. Not much else to say besides that, though.

11th Period BASIC Programming with Mr. Hicks - B- I refuse to give a computer class a bad grade, even if the class was absolutely boring. If you put me next to a computer I'll always find something fun to do with it. Mr. Hicks is your stereotypical "boring monotone" teacher that everyone fears getting. But if nothing else I did do good in his class so at least I had that going for me. I learned quite a bit of useless computer skillz and there I had a pretty good number of acquaintences in there as well.

Second Semester
1st Period Consumer Economics with Mr. Novak - A- This class was a trip. Mr. Novak was just so cool. We good to watch SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy in there for crying out loud! And the class was incredibly easy as well. Mr. Novak really liked me and I got A's in the class both quarters. I had made a good deal of friends in there as well, and the memories of this class will remain for a long time. Learning was optional, but I found that a lot of the material was useful. We all enjoyed the 15-minute prayer session every class which included the famous Healing Prayer. There was no one that disliked this class.

6th/7th Period religion (what class was this anyways) with Mr. Eyerman - D It's gotta be a D at least since I don't even remember anything about this class. It was useless and boring and dumb and everything in between. It stays away from being an "F" since at least it doesn't leave any bad memories. Just forgotten ones. And that's fine. I just wasted a perfectly good class. It was also probably the class that kept me from getting 4.0's too. What can I say? The class must have really sucked.

Well this includes sophomore year. Most of the grades here were pretty high, except for the religion class. In my next issue, we'll go over the single most memorable and otherwise life-changing year of them all -- and that was Junior Year.

Until next time, sleep tight and have a great day.
-Chris