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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Holy CRAP, it WAS 11 years ago now!!!
My valedictorian was a chick who could have gone to an Ivy league but went to probably the worst college in Pennsylvania on a free ride. She got raped her freshman year and lost her mind. Now, whenever anyone from high school sees her and says hello, she'll scream I DON'T KNOW YOU! And will walk quickly away.
Incidentally, her older brother was valedictorian two years before us, went to Georgetown for two years, then disappeared without a trace.
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bahahaha. interestingly OUR valedictorian only applied to Columbia, swearing it was the only school good enough. she ended up getting waitlisted and settled on St. Johns, which is an OK school, but obviously no Columbia. Imagine her face when the same scholarship offered to her by STJ was also offered to this random girl our year who had two children and missed a good portion of her junior and senior years because of maternity leave.
The last i heard from the girl, she founded a local which got absorbed by Theta Phi Alpha and was engaged. I'd pay top dollar to see her at the reunion. And the guy who (IMO) shouldve been valedictorian? Full-ride to MIT and now works for some engineering firm.
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Originally Posted by nate2512
Oh, mine weren't for credit, if you were an athlete, due to your athletic p.e. being the last hour of the day, you were forced to stay. There was nothing left worth taking, except being stuck in classes with bitchy freshman girls all day, so I took those. The only time I ever actually did anything was on discipline day, we would harass the kids in trouble.
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Our school pulled similar stunts junior/senior year-the program office would make your last period (or worse, 9th period!) class a required class, like History or English. Those were the only Regents you could theoretically only take as a senior, as there was some flexibility in Math/Science. The worst was having a 0 period lab (7:15-8am), which was absolutely a requirement for graduation.
So you could, as a senior, have a 1-6 schedule and then have some BS 8th or 9th period history class. it SO cramped everyone's (cutting) style. luckily for me, borderline-couldve-graduated-in-3-years, i had 1-5 and occasionally stuck around for Yearbook (which was on my schedule but the teacher didnt give two craps) and Class President stuff.