Class o' '13

Because of AP Testing, I have done nothing in class for the past two weeks. I have gone to school with a folder and purse, armed with nothing but a pencil and a smartphone.

Smartphones have proven to be useful for several reasons:
1. The entire text conversations are shown, so I know to whom and what message I'm "RE:"ing. This also makes me less frustrated and more condusive to wasting money on texts. It also allows me to have a more wholistic concept of what my friends are thinking, so this function is kind of a social advancement. As Eungee said, I'm moving up in the world. Thanks sir...
2. Candy Crush, Ruzzle, 4 Words 1 Pic. When I'm sad, I play these by my lonesome. Candy Crush, by the way, is an extremely well-designed game. Its animation is very sophisticated, and the organization of its levels is complex enough to basically never get bored. Its employment of "lives" and tickets sells well in the gamer's mind. It gives us a sense of self-control, but not really. It also isn't necessarily based on time, which puts a lot of frantic smart people at ease. Its a lot better than games with basically the same objective, like Fruit Smash and Bejeweled Blitz. Kudos to King Games.
3. Youtube. The school network doesn't block the phone app, so I've spent many physics and chemistry classes watching the Ellen Degeneres show. Sidenote on Ellen - I was browsing the online shop. I didn't know men's underwear was so tight. Isn't that uncomfortable? If anybody wants to buy me something, I'm size small, but I'll accept men's mediums for a friend of mine.
4. Camera. I can now take pictures at will and put them on Facebook and Instagram. No longer do I feel the necessity to debate bringing a camera to special events. Plus, I can check myself out using the reverse lens in case there aren't any mirrors.
5. Wifi. So I can chat with my friends in my room while I pretend to study for some ridiculous test.

But anyway, since AP testing gets us out of six periods every day, I've spent a lot of lunch and health periods not particularly participating in lunch and health. Mostly, I curled up in my seat and almost cried because I felt lonely... just kidding. I didn't cry. But all of the seniors have left, which makes my aluminum grip on this school's networks the most powerful influence. Compared to the day I first stepped into North, I'm a lot less scared of people, and God and everything, and wow the trials, but now I've lost every generation of people that I looked up to. I understand the flaws in the year above me; a lot of them are actually really terrible, but I still have a wholehearted uplifting respect for my elders. Or maybe I've just heard too many "suck plairs" in my year to take them too seriously.

But it is our turn. I just got my senior photo appointment, and I'll be applying for parking soon. We'll get fliers about senior brunch, senior celebration, open campus lunch, hypnotists, and tshirts. We'll drive to school, talk incessantly about college, and regret lots of bad grades. I'll apply to big schools and make one or two schools of which I had never heard when I first dreamed about college.

Its okay though. I might end up with the camel after all.