The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part three — Page 482

Rent it, Elphie. It's one of my guiltiest pleasures.

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Geez yall were right. I went and looked at some of the posts on CB, and those people are vicious. Its like they get joy out of putting people down

Siamese, that's a cool story about the origin of your username. In case anyone's interested in where mine comes from, I've been buying Billboard magazine every week for about 2 and a half years (randomly picked it up at a newsstand during lunch break on a boring day at my summer job, enjoyed all of the pretty charts and articles, and got hooked on tracking where my favorite artists were on the charts each week). The day I bought Adam's CDs, the cashier at Tower Records said "you're the Billboard girl, aren't you? I see you come in and buy that magazine every Friday." I thought it had a nice ring to it, and the rest is history.

"I meant to say that BG, you look beautiful as well -- really mature! I still look 12. Oh well! "

Awww, thanks. It's funny that you mention that - when I put this pic up at another board I post at, the general consensus was that I looked about 5-10 years older than my actual age and that it was my hairstyle that made me look older. The funny thing is that up until I was about 16, people always thought I looked younger than I actually was.

"So, really, I don't have to worry about grades at all, but I still would have this awkward feeling if I were forced to go the teacher and say that I didn't do the assigned work."

Ah, senioritis. I didn't really get to experience that, because I was one of those people who freaked out about "bad" grades, plus I was taking 2 AP courses and 2 college courses during my second semester of senior year.

"Heh, I always say that to myself as I type posts. I have the tendency to slip into passive voice about, oh, 75% of the time when writing casual conversation-ish posts like these."

Heh. I feel funny writing in the passive voice even when I'm just on the board because I can practically hear all of my high school English teachers yelling about why it should be avoided.

*hugs those who are homework-stressed and/or seeking refuge*

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Lucky elphie!

This IB sounds insane! And I thought that I'm working crazy amounts, but pages and pages and pages - wow! I guess we have different types of work.

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Updated On: 1/2/06 at 10:35 PM

Honestly? This thread has made me realize that I don't have it that bad with regards to schoolwork. Thank God for the SAT, because I really haven't taken a completely full load at any time in high school.

What's a Group Four Project?

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I'm going back to work rather than school tomorrow, and have somehow gotten myself into the position of having to do two jobs on a couple of days. Not thinking about it too much seems the best way to handle it.

Mandi, sorry about the Anthony threads. I don't know what possessed me to post on that new one, other than that I'm not in the greatest mood.

We haven't started our History IA's, and I'm NOT looking forward to them.

Em...a Group Four project is...BS. Especially when no one else does work. But, it's like...a really big science project? The students have to do all of the research and collect all of the data on their own. *shrug*

ew, I'm sorry. That sounds blech.

My mother won't go away. She's like "what did you eat today? What did you drink today? What's with you? Go eat. Did you eat yet? Did you have dessert?"

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Nia, ibscrewed is amazing. I lurk there. :) My friend posted something about our TOK teacher on there and he found it. That was fun.

My HL classes are English, History of the Americas and Bio. And my SL classes are French, Psychology and Math Studies, which is the easiest class ever.

ETA: Yay for the Yankees!

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Yikes, reading about what the IBers have to go through is making me feel like I had it easy in high school, and that's saying A LOT.

*wonders if there are any other Mets fans in the thread*

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Updated On: 1/2/06 at 10:54 PM

Nia, depending on where you're going, yes. I know you mentioned that you're not looking into the upper tier of schools -- in that case, it probably won't help you get in as much as save you money (if you've earned enough college credit through the IB program).

If you are at least somewhat considering a school with selective admissions, yes, it definitely helps. The admissions departments of said schools claim that they look for students who have challenged themselves by taking a harder courseload throughout high school.

Hope this helps.

Edit: BG, I can't say I'm a Mets fan (my entire mom's side of the family lives in Manhattan and are crazy Yankee fans), but I don't cheer against them. Kind of going against my Yankee fandom, I know, but I can't root against New York teams!

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