Last post of the year....of the course!

Computer programming has officially come to a close....sort of. I still have to finish the final exam/writeup/application and then I will have finished all of my finals. However that does not mean that I have other small projects such as the reading reflection and my two page paper for Advanced AVP. Granted I am nearly done with the two page paper so only CP is important. Over the course, I feel that I have only talked about the bad parts about my life. This is somewhat true, if not exceptionally accurate. My time in this class was stressful but also warranted as it was difficult, or at least to me. As a matter of fact, I am surprised I have managed to do well because I am not generally good at thinking things out ahead and just jump into things. I have also realized about the people who I met in the class and I have seen their strengths in programming. Sam is good at everything, David was good at Jeroo (I know this because he keeps repeating it to me who was bad at Jeroo), and Tyran is also really good. And with a heavy heart, I have to say that, "I'm finally done with computer programming." There have been bad times, yes, but there have also been good times where I would think that I would be no where else. Mainly because it is 8th period and Cake day always brightens my day. Looking back now, I thought that the year would never end but I was wrong. From the beginnings of the class, I mainly remember doing privacy on the web, Scratch, Jeroo, and Python as the most memorable. I think I should also mention that my eyes often hurt because I stared blankly at the screen wondering what to do most of the time. But to be honest, who cares? I am still proud of the fact that I got out relatively unscathed, and by that I mean my eye health. I wonder if Nick Barber ever takes a break from being the host of World Tech Update. I sort of imagine him as a robot who just delivers the news when you plug him in. I think this way because he does not really age or change that much in the amount of time that I have seen him. Perhaps he has discovered the secret to eternal youth? Probably not. I think I am going to remember Nick Barber the most along with his award winning tech reporting. On the other hand, I should really start my write up of my app right now or else I am going to regret it later. So in a brief summary, I believe that computer programming has opened up my horizons......if I remember all of this over the summer...Hopefully I will otherwise I am a failure, but I probably won't.

Already the end of school...

Actually it's not yet but it's about to be. Next week may either be the best week of my life or will just constitute another woe, I am hoping it is the former than the latter. Let's just say that I hope Monday will not be another kick to the face, and I get to have fun signing yearbooks. Now I think that's enough of my depressing situation and move on to the more fun stuff. For the computer programming final, I want to make an app that will be something like a quiz where it will test whether you are an animation geek or not. I want to quiz people based on two factors, a picture of the show and a sound clip of the theme song or a catch phrase uttered by a character. However, I do not think I will be able to put in more than 20 shows assuming that I even get the files for all of them. I will also need to cite where I get all of them as well, can't be too lazy this time otherwise I'm going to anger another person. I was thinking of doing animated TV shows and films that people who associate themselves with cartoons should know. I think Sporcle has affected me than I thought, but I am still sad that no one has created a quiz for a category of Famous Animated Films yet or I have not found it yet. Either way, I'm still going to have fun. I can already think of some shows that should be on there like Pokemon, DBZ, Rugrats, Samurai Jack, Pixar movies, Hayao Miyazaki films, and etc. I really want to do more, but I do not think that I will have enough time to do all of them.

Gonna study till my brain explodes...

And now AP weeks is here....and I haven't bought a study book for French, crap. But whatever the written portion should be so bad, although listening is another story. I really hope that none of my teachers assign any more homework, I don't need the extra stress. I think maybe it was a bad idea to discover Civilization 5 over the weekend. I haven't been studying sadly enough. However, I think I'll be able to get through it fine if I just calm down by Tuesday. On a side note, to make all of my AP's be in the theater is a jerk. I mean, it fits a lot of people, but you can't write well in there.  It's a pain in the butt to say the least. They really need to make better writing pads on those seats. My last grievance is that they should space out the AP's since some are on the same day which makes studying harder and exhaustion more likely to occur. I can't even predict my AP scores, but there is one thing that I know for sure, I'll be burned out by the end of it. However......that means no more work!!!.......hopefully.....probably not. I just need to wait, 2 more weeks, 2 more weeks.

TAKS is no more.

We have finally finished the TAKS test and that means that I will not have to do TAKS, STAAR, or EOC testing in the future. I am done with all of that stuff, not to mention that I'm going to be a senior next year. I am one step closer to shirking off from all of my classes. Perhaps, on the last week of school, I will dress up in Hawaiian shirts just to show off my enthusiasm for summer vacation. I will also throw flowers at people just for the sake of seeming celebratory and to have fun while throwing flowers at people's faces. However, I think I am getting ahead of myself in this area. School isn't over yet, and I do not believe that I have prepped enough for my AP's. I have just realized that they're in a little over 2 weeks. The important thing is that I need to calm down and to not panic otherwise I am going to crash. I need to get a study book for French though, eh whatever. Now onto computer programming, tuples and dictionaries seem simple enough. But, usually after I say things like that, I make it more complicated than it should be and then crash. Hopefully, it won't turn out like that and I'll be able to get through it in one piece.

What happened to Blogger?

I don't know what happened but Blogger looks more streamlined now but I do know one thing for sure. I do not like it that much as Google forced me to take the new Gmail look as well. I'm going to change it back if I ever find the button for it. Well then, it's the weekend now but I do not feel that much better. I'm still worried about the AP exams, I just lost confidence on the Stats AP after I did question 6 and failed badly. And I do mean badly, so badly that I can imagine myself getting a 2 on the AP just by pulling a fail of epic proportions. I just want the school year to end now, I don't want to go to school anyway. I also have to finish a clean air PSA, the prize is a Samsung Galaxy Tab although I don't want to win the competition just for the tablet. I want to win it so that I have something to put on my nearly blank CV. Other than that, I hope to finish all of my work early so that I can find out a little more about Processing. It is somewhat more interesting than Python in the sense that it's interactive. So I guess it's true that it's more fun if you have a part in it. I really need to get a life or something but a teenager should not sulk at home while others are probably at Coffeehouse having fun. Well, whatever, I don't care that much given now that I have league of legends to play.

End of 5th 6th weeks!!!!!!!

It's almost over, in another six weeks, the school year will come to an end and so will the massive array of tests, quizzes and homework. I am also writing this post early because I have the ACT tomorrow and I don't want to do it on Saturday. This way I can get rid of this assignment and then relax and then probably freak out during the ACT anyway. Whatever, I get mediocre scores on these kinds of standardized tests anyway, that is simply God being a donkey. That or the flying spaghetti monster, but then again I don't give a rat's behind about monotheistic religion.  Well I sure digressed a lot. Anyways, my homework load has not gotten any smaller even though the six weeks is over, you've got to love English, French and Stats. However, I am not going to give much of a care because I have other things to worry about. Like my receding hair line, my beer gut that I gained in college and my wife won't accept that prenup that I wrote on that napkin. Okay, these may have not happened yet, but I am sure that they will happen one day and I will say that I predicted all of this already. Now that was a joke, and I hope that whoever is reading this gets a kick out of it cause I need a laugh myself. Now on to computer programming, I am majorly sucking so far on the lab as I am floundering around like a fish on land. However, I am making some progress, not much, but at least it's some progress.

4 day weekend!!

This is perhaps the most auspicious day ever, and by that I mean that I did not get any trouble with grades or tests. Frankly, I wish the 5th 6th weeks would end already because I just want to be done with grades and tests so that I can just relax. However, I know that will never happen because after this, I will have the ACT on Saturday and then comes more prep for my AP's later in May.  And now I realize, that I'm just complaining again, but it is the truth. I need to buy the review books for stats and french. English I have no worries about, cause I know for sure that I am going to get around a 3 or 4. Stats is a wild card, and french is either a 1 or a 2. I think Austins' laziness is contagious because I'm also starting to get quite lazy with school. But I only need to carry on for a couple of more months and then its over! Then summers comes along....with ACC...and driving school. My life sucks. Well, at least I can laugh at myself once the year ends and reminiscence and probably go senile.