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[guingel]

ahh. mein gott, what a week it's been so far. Well, last night I finished doing all the studying that I'll need to from my notes. whew. Hopefully I'll be able to write the 2 free response essays. those are what I'm really worrying about. DX Anyway, tonight I have review from 5:30 to 8:30 or 9. Then I'm not going in to school tomorrow--I'm sleeping in and being well-rested for the test. (I mean, I'll go in 6th period and catch the bus to the testing site. Or at least, I hope I'll catch the bus. I'm still not completely sure on when it'll arrive, but I'm almost positive it'll be sometime during 6th period.

So this afternoon I'm going to review some stuff in the text book, I want to go over Ch. 24 again (I did it on Monday but it's a big chapter that it's vaguely likely we'll have an essay on, and it was the last chapter I reviewed so I was slagged. and it's actually kinda interested). Then Ch. 25, maybe I'll quickly do 27 and 28 (which I just read earlier in the week and the weekend, so I can still pretty much remember them, lol.) And then I want to review 31--maybe I should do that first, cos we did that topic at the beginning of the year. Oh yeah. . . my notes for that. . . I'll have to find them (I emptied my notebook half way through.) And if I have time I'd like to skim a couple of the chapters we missed--29 and 30, and possibly 23.
And I'd also like to skim through the Princeton Review book, and read the parts about answering the questions and writing the essays.

::dies::

I can't wait til tomorrow night. I want this damn thing over with, and I want to know what the free response essays are!!!! lol. DBQ might be harder to write, but I don't have to worry about it, I don't have to study. And I think the DBQ that I just did was really good. Not sure. lessee. . . 80% of the documents, strong thesis, 3 body paragraphs, discuss point of view about 4 times. . . I'll look over my notes on that one too.

S'gonna be a busy afternoon.
btw, soz for being such a shmuck about friends entries. Just not enough time--I've been reading them but not commenting. I'll get back to my normal loudmouth self after the exam, I hope. ;)

David has his French AP today. It's not his best subject, so he was practicing my speaking French to us yesterday afternoon. Me and Katie can both understand French much, much better than we can speak it, so we'd talk to him in English and we'd talk to him in French, and we did well. :D It was tres amusant. (too lazy to get the html code for accent marks.) He was being his usual infuriating self though, and saying odd things about ponytails. O.o Ah well.

Am playing tennis in gym. My serve keeps improving, but I have a lot of trouble returning the other side's serves. (sometimes it's their fault, sometimes it's mine--even when I can reach it, I haven't gotten the knack yet.)

::yawns::
I need to find out when the bus shows up tomorrow.

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[renniekins.livejournal.com]

Good luck with everything!!!

[guingel.livejournal.com]

thanks :D I need all the luck I can get. Although I've done my share of the work ;) Well, I'm not done yet. I still have to teach myself enough to be able to write an essay on the Industrial Revolution (1 or 2), the social changes that occured in the 19th century, and the causes of WWI. Those are my goals. I can already write 2 essays on the Renaissance and 2 essays on the Protestant Reformation. . . I think. At least one. And there are probably other scattered things that I'd be able to manage. (I'm babbling again. . .)

I'm kinda. . . things are sorta weird because I'm like, at the top of my class, so everyone assumes I'm going to do better than them, so they keep telling me I'm going to get a 5. . . because if I do poorly and they think they'll do worse than me, then they're in trouble. So people keep telling me I'll do well to make themselves feel better. And I keep feeling like they're jinxing me. . . lol. I don't know. I'll just do the best I can and finish my studying.

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[renniekins.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've got the right attitude. A 5 would be great of course, and hopefully you'll get it, but worrying too much about the numbers isn't going to get you anywhere! So let them worry about numbers, and you just finish up your studying. You'll do great.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

::nodnod:: a lot of my friends are little chronic honors students, and they worry all the time, and I'm just like, "well, worrying isn't going to help, and there's nothing you can do about it now (on the day of the test) so you might as well calm down." I was a little more nervous for this than usual, but I was positively catatonic compared to some of the people.
And it went well, so that's all good. :D