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I don't wanna float my own boat, but I think I'm pretty smart. So I'm in two AP classes at school. But I just have a major pet peeve with some of the people in my classes (AP or not).

Let's just go in the order of my schedule, shall we?

Accounting. Well, people keep asking me questions that I don't know how to explain, but that's not really them being stupid. It's when this girl Gaby comes up to me and asks how we find Net Purchases when the answer is right in front of her face! She had her book open to the right page and she knew how to find the other amounts just fine. Well, how to find Net Purchases is right underneath how to find the other amounts! Basically, people ask me questions that were spelled out for them in the book. Ugh.

Anatomy. Don't even get me started with this girl Tiffany who sits next to me. Let's give you an example. On Friday, we did a lab about muscle fatigue and how it affects your skills, and one of the things we had to do was hold a textbook out with our arm straight for as long as we could, then immediately draw a box with a circle inside it at arm's length away from the chalkboard. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Well Tiffany (who normally works with me and my friend Karen, but she came in late and we could only have partners, so me and Karen worked together and Tiffany worked with this kid named Alex) decided to hold out the book for as long as she could with her left hand. Well, alright, we were supposed to do both of our arms anyway. But when she put it down, she wrote the box and circle with her right hand. ...Does she not know what fatigue means? Also, she can barely read. Me, her, and Karen were doing a lab a few weeks ago about bone fractures, and when she decided to read out loud, she read "fractions." Not "fractures." She also thought that "fractions" (in her case) had a "q" and a "j" in it. Maybe the fact that she smokes weed has something to do with this...

Also this kid Brian who's in my assigned lab group just basically doesn't listen, so he has no clue what's going on. Even the ghetto girl, Amanda, knows more than he does. Like on Thursday, we were playing with the clay that came with our mannequins (sp?) and shaping it into muscles to stick on the skeleton. I know our lab table is in the back, but I could see just fine where to put the muscles once we were done making them. And the teacher showed us how to make them, and the projector told us where to put them. But does he make the connection? Of course not. He kept asking the table next to us how to make them and where to put them. If I was better at molding clay, I would've just done the whole freaking lab alone.

Creative Writing. There really aren't many stupid people that I know of in this class, but there's one that I'm not sure about. Her name's Ashlee (who is rumored to eat her boogers and pick her scabs off and eat them, although I've never seen it). She's always asking questions that the teacher just explained. I'm not sure if she's just making sure she has it right or if she really doesn't know what to do, but it gets really annoying. The teacher circles us like a hawk, so if we're doing something wrong, she'll tell us. She listens and everything...she should just do what she heard and if it's wrong, the teacher will tell her.

AP Calculus. See, I really can't say anyone's dumb in this class because I'm probably the dumbest person there. Math is not my thing. Moving on...

Multicultural Literature. This class is full of ghetto people, basically. They all smoke weed and drink and party all night, then don't do their homework, and they wanna know why they're failing the class. Um, durdurdur. Honestly, I have more important things to worry about, like my AP Calc homework, so I'm normally using this class as a study hall while the teacher's going over the homework. He gets so off track that I don't even need to listen, I just listen when he goes over the answers to make sure I got them right. He doesn't yell at me because I'm being quiet and I still have an A in the class, plus he had me for Accelerated English 9 and knows I'm a good student, so overall, it kinda works. Except when I really don't wanna do my Calc homework, or I already did it in lunch or in class, then those people just make me wanna jump off a cliff....

AP Chemistry. Jazmine. I have no freaking idea why she's in this class. First of all, she sleeps every day. You don't sleep in an AP class! Second, she doesn't know how to do sig figs (if you guys don't know what that is, I can literally teach them to you in 30 seconds). That's something the regular Chemistry class learns on the first day! And we were both in Honors last year (I don't even know why those people were in there, but that's a whole 'nother story). Third, she's so annoying with all of her questions in labs. On Friday, we did a titration lab (I'm not gonna even try to explain it because you'd really have to know Chemistry), and we had to measure some sodium hydroxide solution into a buret (a long tube with measurements in milliliters along the side). And our teacher told us to measure it until it's almost at the top of the measurements (or graduations). Well, when she decided to pour the sodium hydroxide into the buret, she went over the graduations. And she asked us (me, Karen, and this guy Steve) if she got it right. It's like, ummm...look at the level of the sodium hydroxide. Does it look like it's at the top of the markings? I didn't think so. I'm not even gonna bore you with everything else that makes her really unqualified for this class because I don't have the time nor space, but I think you get the idea...

My new job. Yes, I've found a stupid person at my new job at Bath and Body Works. Me and this other girl, Lisa-Marie, were shadowing her cashiering and stuff, and someone wanted to buy a gift card. She had to go ask someone how to do it. You wanna know how to put money on a gift card? Touch "Gift Card" (it's all touch screen), then touch "Gift Card" again in the new page, then touch "Issue New", touch the amount that they wanted (this person wanted $50), scan the card, and you're done. Not that hard...

Ugh...I complain a lot, sorry...

Well, yes, I suppose you have a point. Most of the stuff I can live with. But it's AP Chem that I really can't. The only reason I have a B- in that class (basically equivalent to an A++ in a normal class) is because we have to write lab reports every time we do labs and turn them in and I've been getting A's on those. It's really helped my grade. But, because we had to completely dumb everything down for Jazmine when we did the lab, we barely finished it. And we didn't even get the right calculations because she had no idea how to do it, but insisted on doing everything. And now any calculations I have are probably wrong, or I just don't have them at all. And I need to put calculations in my lab report that's due on Monday.

As I was telling Karen today, if I would've been able to do that whole lab alone, I would've been fine. But because our whole lab group was really disorganized and she had no clue what she was doing, we basically did nothing productive.

I guess the only thing you can really do is figure out how to politely direct them to someone else...I feeel you