The Finish Line

Wow. Time has really flown by. I can't believe I'm going to be a senior next year. Looking back I can definitely say that junior year was by far the best year of my high school life so far. I enjoyed all of my classes ...except one or two that I absolutely despised. Being a part of AP Lang this year has been incredible. I felt comfortable working with everyone in the class. In some ways, AP Lang sort of felt like a little family to me. Towards the end of my sophomore year and beginning of my junior year I was terrified of this class. It was mostly because I've never taken an AP class before. I'm glad that AP Lang was my very first AP class experience. If I took another AP class instead of AP Lang then I think I wouldn't have survived as well in this class. This class has taught me the creative and sometimes cynical ways rhetoric can be manipulated to convey someone's point. Sometimes it doesn't even have to involve rhetoric at all!  I still catch myself pointing different advertising techniques whenever I watch T.V. Warning: This can be VERY annoying to your siblings/friends. My skepticism has also grown because of this class.(As if that was possible, considering how skeptic I already am about everything.) I don't even know if I can trust school textbooks at all. The endless useless facts that are being shoved down our throats can easily be all lies. (thanks AP Lang!) The things I've learned in room 76 will forever be engraved in my mind no matter how much I resist. I'm really going to miss room 76, with its cozy sub zero temperature room, lovable clutter of miscellaneous items, and of course the lively discussions/reenactments that I was able to partake in.
I hope AP Lit can match or even better exceed my expectations of an English class now that I'm an official AP Langsta grad.