I’m going through all the props right now and what a yes/no would mean for each one. These issues are so important and scary things could happen if people don’t vote a certain way. It actually makes me kinda anxious. All I can say is INFORM YOURSELVES! This will affect all of us, so vote! Encourage your parents to vote too and anyone you know that is 18+. I encourage you guys to really look at the other props other than just 30 and 32 (what all of us college students are familiar with). This is SERIOUS.

In some ways, I feel cheated out of Senior Year.

I don’t know. Maybe my hopes were too high. It was fun, but it definitely could have been more exciting. I never really even FELT like a senior in high school. Senior Seminar was ok, but it wasn’t as emotional or ground-breaking as it should have been. I guess my class was just too scared or stubborn to share their feelings. There were some people who really opened up, and I respect the courage it must have taken, but other people didn’t even try to connect with the people in our class. I was always stressed because of Math. It was my choice to take it but why am I being punished because I wanted to take a more challenging class. Whenever people tell me Senior Year was easy, I’m just like…”….Really?” I was always tired. I felt like I had no real friends. I had people to do fun stuff with, but I had no FRIENDS, who I could have fun with my doing absolutely nothing or who I could vent to, or who genuinely liked me for me and not for what I did or could do for them. I didn’t feel like a Senior in Showtime because sometimes people wouldn’t even listen to me and I felt like I was often undermined. LIKE SRSLY. ASB is forever downgrading because of all those lazy people. It just sucks when you try so hard to make your school an awesome place and there’s always someone trying to tear you down. Although it was fun, I feel like we got cheated a lot. I feel like we were a test run. They were always trying new stuff on us and saying “I know seniors usually do this, but this year, let’s change that and make it extremely boring and stressful for you.” Ugh. It really sucks. & now, the class of 2013 seems so much more spirited, they look like they’re having a lot more fun, and their gradnight is at Disneyland. I’m happy for them, but I’m a little sad that my Senior Year wasn’t great. It was like any other year when it should have been something special. I even had more fun at my Junior Prom than my Senior Prom. wow. There were some good times too, but nothing amazing. I wish I could have looked at my senior year as the best year of my high school career, but I just can’t.

Glee first aired when I was a Freshman in High School.

& now they are graduating in the show at the same time that I am graduating.

COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.

Gradnight

So at my school, Grad Night is held at a surprise location “for the safety of our grads.” The past two years, it has been at Dave & Busters. Doesn’t having it at Dave Buster’s twice kind of eliminate the surprise aspect? I’ve been hearing rumors that it might be there again. I’M TELLING Y’ALL, IF IT IS AT DAVE & BUSTERS AGAIN I WILL GO APE SHXT! It’s not even the fact that it’s at Dave & Busters, but that I’m paying $100 for it to be at Dave & Busters. I’m being cheap, but you would be too. I might as well be going to Disneyland or Six Flags for $100. hmmmmphhhh. I guess that’s not as bad as when the class of 2009 paid that much for it to be at school. I feel like who ever plans grad night wants to see us suffer. ughh. I’m gonna go regardless of these rumors, because Grad Night is not something that I would wanna miss, but I’m just saying, I will be upset if it’s there. I’ll still have fun, dance, & get buckwild, but deep down, I’ll be pissed. lulz. okay, that’s my rant on gradnight~

A different kind of March Madness.

Everybody is getting college acceptance letters! I’m really happy for everyone that is getting into their dream schools. I just can’t wait until I hear back from UCSB (supposed to hear back next week). It’s really crazy to know that we’re all gonna be doin’ our own things real soon. 94 days until Mayfair’s class of 2012 graduates!

California Laws effective January 1st.

For all of us Californians, here are some interesting laws that take effect today!

• Cyber-bullying: allows schools to suspend students for bullying classmates on social networking sites such as Facebook.
• Dream Act: The portion of the California Dream Act taking effect this year makes illegal immigrants accepted at California public universities and community colleges eligible for privately funded scholarships administered by the schools.
  
• Drugs: outlaws the supplying of a drug or compound containing dextromethorphan to a person younger than 18 without a prescription.
• Drunk drivers: authorizes courts to revoke, for up to a decade, the driver’s license of any person convicted of three or more DUIs in a 10-year period. Another law bars police agencies that set up drunk-driving checkpoints from impounding cars from sober but unlicensed drivers if there is a legal driver available to take the wheel.
• Infused drinks: allows bars to infuse alcohol with fruits and vegetables for use in cocktails.
• Insurance: prohibits doctors, when treating workers’ compensation patients, from prescribing drugs in which they have a financial interest.
• Job applicants: bars employers from using credit reports in deciding whether to hire someone.
  
• Maternity leave: requires employers to maintain and pay for health coverage while women are on maternity leave.
• Medical consent: gives children 12 and older the authority to get medical care for the prevention of sexually transmitted disease, including the HPV vaccine, without parental consent
• Protests: makes it a misdemeanor to create a disturbance on or next to an elementary or middle school campus where the action threatens the physical safety of students.
• Puppies: outlaws the selling of live animals on any street, sidewalk, parking lot or other public right-of-way.
  
• Restaurants: may use up their supplies of shark fins — a delicacy in Chinese cooking — purchased before Jan. 1. After that, sale and possession of shark fins will be illegal.
• Sexual orientation: encourages state university systems to collect data on students’ sexual orientation and encourages the legislative analyst to use it to recommend improvements in the quality of life for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students.
• Work rules: establishes an employee’s right to as many as three days of bereavement leave within three months following the death of a spouse, child, parent, grandchild, sibling or domestic partner.

I hope you found some of these interesting!

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I will just say that senior seminar was an awesome experience & I will never forget it. I got to connect with my class on a different level that I never imagined. Enough said.

Reblog if you’re an upperclassman in high school this year.

Man, I love the class of 2012.

The class of 2012 is about to be super close this year. Even though some of ya’ll can be annoying, I’m so glad to be apart of such a great, talented, special class.