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Pah, you folks needed a pass? I laugh.

All we have to do to skip class is go down to the library, sit where the librarian can't see us, and we're home free. Or we just walk out the front door and spend the class period at the mall.

Which brings me to my point, which I am stealing from a friend who said it better than I ever could: Skip responsibly.

Responsible skipping: "I never realized I could feel so...so...free!"

Irresponsible skipping: "You know, we just spent the entire day at the mall. Like, the entire day. Wanna not go to drama practice?"

Second point: Grade 10 is the best year to fool around.

In grade nine, at least here, you are establishing your reputation. If you're a total goody-two-shoes in grade nine, you can get away with murder in grade 10 and all the teachers will still love you. Grades 11 and 12, you actually have to hunker down and work because those are the grades that university will be judging. So if you're looking for a year to be stupid and skip classes and all that, grade 10 is the year to do it.

Third and final point at the moment: Have necessities in your locker.

This is not money and stuff - that you can keep in a purse or wallet. I mean the real necessities. I, for example, have a bottle of Advil and a roll of duct tape in my locker for emergencies. You have no idea how useful these things can be. 3nodding

Oh, Silent has one more piece of information that she feels like sharing.

If everyone is telling you that your new teacher is a creepy, vaguely ephebophilic jerk and no one wants to be alone with him? Never, ever, ever be the last one to drop out of his class. It is disturbing to be alone in a classroom with a creepy teacher who keeps...eyeing you...like...euw.

@Sam: That's what I said in grade eight, too. About skipping classes, I mean.

I lied. mrgreen

Haha, you slacking off Minus? I'm not alowed to slack off anymore, now that there are Four Frickin' AP Classes on my schedual... It definatly puts a damper on my RP time. But here's the crux...

You got to keep up the charade.

Don't let teachers see the real you, be all smiley and bubbly and happy and Teacher's Pet-like and they'll love you for eternity... Sort of.

Oh, and definatly listen when they talk to you, cause they take offense when you don't, like, notice them at all when they're shouting in your face.

XD

Yeah, that's all I got, now it's time to study for a random Pop Quiz I somehow KNOW my AP World history Teacher is going to spring on us tomorrow.

Thanks a lot Mr. Marino...

=A=;;;;; JESUS. FRICKEN. CHRIST. Sam, that is the LONGEST THING EVUR. I didn't even read past the second paragraph. YAYYY, SAMMICH~ -shot- Anywaysss... Dont worry, I dont have guts either... I would say so many things to people that would send them home crying... But I cant make myself do it... ;A; Even though I hate their guts..

ANYWAYS!~ Here's my advice... Showing teacher who's boss. I may not be very verbally rude to others... But my physical actions HELLA show it. Like, today.. I got my phone taken away, cause it played during class... That thing is alive, I swear.. It turns on by itself.. BUT. The teacher took it away.. So, I refused to do my work. When she told me to work on it, I simply said okay, and glared at her while she explained it. My glares apparently hurt people pretty deep.. Makes most people pull back, expecially if they know me. xD As I glared at her, she kept herself from looking at me, and I raised my head, much like an alpha wolf would, glaring at her in triumph and anger before turning to Riley and began being a spazz again. C:

Also.. Teach EVERYBODY that your in charge. Verbal, or physical.. Doesn't matter. As soon as they know who's meaner, they back down and even sometimes become your yesman. C: Mostly with Girls.. Guys are to naive to notice... In my school, anyway. xD Like I said.. My glares are my charm~ ;3 Also, I sometimes mutter curse words at them from behind. And, mock them loud enough so they can hear. xDD

Pretty much for me and my friends.. Be as much of a b***h as you can to make people scared of you. c:

Dude I felt so embarrassed just reading what I wrote two years ago lmfao (yummeh-applesauces the eighth grader, beeteedubs).

So here I am now in 10th grade.. and I can honestly say that I have yet to slack off/skip classes. No guts. Here, our last MCAS test is in 10th grade, and we need to pass those in order to graduate. I feel as though I'm just as studious now than I was in eighth grade.. then again, my Internet freedom relies on my straight As, haha.

But yes don't procrastinate, that is key. Even though I still do it anyway, I've gotten better at it. Hrm.

I have Science Fair in a week.. fun times. I hate chemistry, I have to say. It's a struggle trying to keep my A in that class. I don't get it. It's like--I hate it because I'm not good at it, and I'm not good at it because I hate it.

But anyway. Good advice... maybe to carry your backpack to classes if you don't already? I don't know. If you're allowed. Having my backpack with me is insanely helpful. I didn't carry it around last year, but I am glad I am this year. I can carry literally everything with me. I can keep my phone and crap safely in my backpack, and keep it with me, knowing it won't be stolen while it's in my custody. I keep all of my folders and notebooks in there, so I never forget to bring home my homework or I never forget to bring the right materials to class. I also keep my lunch in my backpack so I can go straight to lunch instead of having to stop at my locker, which is the furthest away from almost every class I have. Backpacks are brilliant.

Also, I dunno what people do for like study hall or whatever.. Power block, here; we get a half hour to do homework, read, study, whatever. Plan your homework schedule accordingly, and make sure that you don't have any meetings or half days the next day. Sometimes, if I'm feeling lazy and I don't want to bring the heavy books home, and provided that the homework will take me like less than a half hour to do, then I save the work for power block the next day. But you need to be careful; frequently I hear students complain, because they planned on doing their homework for the block following power block, but they ended up having a meeting or there was a half day instead, meaning they won't have a normal power block. So pretty much, plan.

That last one seems kind of obvious. But just reminding the young'ins, study your teachers' homework-checking patterns. If they just look at it to make sure you did something, then you can totally half-a** it. If you have a teacher that collects them, then, obviously, do a good job. But I mean, it registered to me last month that nearly all of my teachers just look at your work briefly and they hardly skim through to make sure you do it. I've half-assed my homework ever since, unless I'm told to do history notes, then I am thorough, because normally when he assigns notes, he's going to give an open-note quiz next class.

So yeah. Pretty much. Not amazing advice, but some survival skills that I picked up these past couple of years.

Oh, and remember that teachers have feelings too? They're human. Yeah. Last year, this group of College Prep students completely harassed the substitute English teacher and I'm pretty sure they made her cry. You might not like them, but the teachers do have feelings and they're just doing their job.

Why would you NOT have a roll of duct tape? Duct tape is useful for absolutely everything!

Backpack strap breaks? Textbook falling apart? Ripped your jeans? Can't stop losing your iPod and wish you could attach it to your hand so it didn't keep disappearing? DUCT-TAPE THAT BAD BOY. biggrin

And most teachers I knew didn't give a s**t if you skipped. For example, I had four classes in a day back in grade 10 - two of them were with the same prof. One in the morning, one in the afternoon. One day, I didn't feel like going to his Socials class; I'd already gone to my Bio 20 class (which he also taught) that morning. So I skipped Socials. He KNEW I was in school - I'd been in Bio and there were like eight of us in that class. I showed up to Socials the next day, and he didn't say a thing.

In my high school, the teachers basically said, "If you're old enough to be here, you're old enough to make your own stupid decisions. We're not going to babysit you." That's not to say they wouldn't send you back to class if they CAUGHT you actually walking out the door. But if they didn't see you, then they didn't care.

My school was great. >.>