Written stuff Thread

Most members of these forums are probably either in High School or College, so we're all writing stuff on a daily basis. I thought it would be cool to share some stuff that we write either in our free time, or for school, that we are proud of. I'm definately going to post my Junior Project once that is complete, but for now I just have a poem for AP English class that I wrote in the style of Walt Whitman, with a theme remniscent of the poet Emily Dickenson, namely death. If it doesn't sound particularly poetic, that is because Walt Whitman never used a rhyme scheme, and chose instead to ramble on.

It's nothing much, but I was fairly proud of it:

Ballad of Death

I celebrate my anomaly, my paradox;
I sing of my end, and you shall descry
The despot of life ceases with itself.
Make your arbitration, but apperceive this first:
The vitality of life comes to an end in all.

Loafe with my pneuma, see it turn dark,
Mind it, tainted by our animality,
Finally now upwards depart.
See it reflect the light of above,
See it go beyond.
See it transcend this realm:
The ensemble stifled no more.

My eidolon: this body vacates
Touching the corporeal one last time, then tangentially void.
At last the ethereal and somatic synchronous lies,
The melody of my aura, now vociferously cries.

i really like the poem...err, can't think of anything else to say about it.

my english classes are either reading or writing essays. won't post em here.

Unless you want my physics or AP calculus notes, I've got nothing of value to put here.

We usually don't get to write poems in AP English, but since we had just completed the chapter on the Transcendentalist Movement with a few extra class periods before starting the next unit, our teacher told us to write a poem in the theme of one great Transcendentalist, and in the style of another, though Dickenson was hardly a Transcendentalist.

Lol, I guess most people wouldn't be too excited about Physics or AP Cal notes, though I'd be interested in what kind of stuff people do in Calculus. I chose to do Finite/AP Statistics instead, because I am already taking AP Physics this year, and taking yet another "smart" class would be too much for me to bear.

My school doesn't offer AP Physics, although I'm going to take the test. I'm in Physics "Honors" My teacher is a university professor however, and teaches us what the AP and University classes cover.

Awesome

I have a passion for physics, so I was pretty pumped when I got the AP Class into my schedule.. It's not taught quite at college-level (the average grade on the AP Physics exam at my school lies around 3.7, which is fairly low), but it's still pretty darn cool stuff. It's one of the few classes that I'm taking that I have never wondered "when will I ever need to know this..?".. It's quite obvious when I'll need to know how to calculate how fast a box will slide down a ramp with a 60degree incline if the friction coefficient is 0.3.. when I'm writing a physics engine, of course!

Man, no one at my school as even tried to take one of the AP tests in years, and no one has passed so far(I live in one of the lowest ranking schools in THE lowest ranking state for education). But I'm going to be the first to be taking physics and calculus at the same time. My teacher is also running Lectures after school for those interested.

Wow, I'm sorry .. But, on the other hand, it'll make you like better

I've taken two AP's so far:
AP German: 5
AP Human Geography: 4

And this year I will take:
AP Government (which I don't think I will score well on)
AP English (which I hope to score well on)
AP Physics (which I hope to score well on)

Edited by: San-J

I've only taken one:
AP US History: 3 (Only because I didn't know I was going to take it until a week before. The school paid for me without telling me. And then I only studied for an hour, on the morning of the test. And then my essay on US vs. Communism was all bunch of BS)

What the heck is an AP?

AP = "Advanced Placement". AP Courses are at college level, and scoring above a 3 out of 5 on them counts as one college credit. They also look very good on college applications.

Actually, some colleges require certain scores, such as a 4 on certain tests to recieve credit. It's usually on either really easy tests or really advanced classes.

I'm in AP English 11. I came up with my own story as well.

This is my second longest story, the other one being the story to my mod (12 pages long on Microsoft Word and growing): Moddb.com

Must be some American thing... crazy Americans.

Yeah. It's the Amercian thing that gives smart people more opportunities than stupid ones. Suckers!

currently doing honors bio. it becomes AP next year (its a 2 year course)

in 3 years, including this one, i hope to finish AP grammar and composition, physics, maybe arabic, engrish, aaaaand thats all i can think of right now...

i never heard of AP government btw. what is it?

Edited by: Cj_the_Dj

AP Government is just an AP version of American Government. At my school, we have one semester of each, so the kids have to take two tests, AP Econ and AP Gov't.

declinsion wrote: Yeah. It's the Amercian thing that gives smart people more opportunities than stupid ones. Suckers!

That in itself is not true at all. The education system has merely drilled that thought into your brain. Once you reach College, you will quickly realize that EVERYTHING you have learned pertaining to history, language, and logic is completely wrong. College changes your view on everything.

High School is bullshit, and so are those AP classes.

Actually, I know high school is bullshit. I even have the equivalent of a diploma (by law), but my father refuses to let me get out and start college. The only good thing about the AP classes is that I get credit for them. That's the only reason I'm taking them at all.

it's a bit incredible that you would make such an immature and elitist remark then.

Obsydian, why are you singling declinsion out to flame? All he said was that in the American Capitalism, smarter (and I'd add richer, more attractive, etc) people tend to succeed more than poorer people. If I myself interpreted declinsion's remark correctly, there was a subtely sarcastic note nested withing it.

NO FLAMING. GRRR.

Good point. I'll shutup now. I hardly think that was flaming though.

What I had meant by it was that smarter people were given more opportunities than those not as intelligent. It seems that those who are below average are given no thought in modern America. I didn't mean to offend anyone and I'm sorry if I did.

Edited by: declinsion

Obsydian wrote:

declinsion wrote: Yeah. It's the Amercian thing that gives smart people more opportunities than stupid ones. Suckers!

That in itself is not true at all. The education system has merely drilled that thought into your brain. Once you reach College, you will quickly realize that EVERYTHING you have learned pertaining to history, language, and logic is completely wrong. College changes your view on everything.

High School is bullshit, and so are those AP classes.

that last line...it burns!

Yeah I wrote some note to my g/f because math was so farking broing and in Language Arts I wrote how the value of society is becoming a thing of the past... also we had some debate about capital punishment :/