Woo!

Well, I got home from school today and opened my email to find that I had been accepted into SSP (the Summer Science Program…the program is as good as the name is uncreative)! At least I know I’ll have something to do this summer. Always a good feeling, knowing that I won’t just be sitting on my ass for three months (I’ve only done that for one summer, and I can’t understand how my friends can stand more than four weeks or so).

This coencides with the fact that this hellish week is finally over. I think over the past four days I’ve gotten about 16 hours of sleep total, due to the extreme concentration of tennis matches and school tests, which brings me to a point of personal irk: no matter how many times I hear teachers talk about distributing exams to make students’ lives easier, it just never happens. I can understand that for AP classes the cirriculum isn’t really flexible, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have a Japanese test, 2 full period Physics quizzes, a Physics test, a US history essay, 3 US history quizzes, and 2 English quizzes in three days. There are more than three days of the week, and for that part, more than a single week to give tests on. If you need to cut a unit slightly short or add some more stuff onto it in order to move it to a different time, I’d gladly ablige. Sleep is an underappreciated commodity.