Tales of Tenth Grade

It’s been a long school year. Okay, so maybe it’s technically only been three months but already each break seems too short and each weekend a fleeting moment of sanity, the calm before the storm. By now the homework is being assigned, the tests and quizzes coming full force, and the due dates as fast encroaching as that dirty gym dodgeball barreling towards your face. And with the great uptake in work, the differences between students and their methods of coping with the workload are becoming increasingly more obvious. Whether you are the Teachers Pet, somehow finishing the project a week before it was assigned, the Sleep-Deprived Procrastinator, submitting the work a second before (or after) it was due, or the Zero, simply giving up altogether, each of us has a different way of dealing with the stress and managing our “ ever so sacred ” grades. As the Teachers Pet, you are practically a magical being. What else could explain the awe-inspiring ability to complete an assign...

     People always ask me whether I like being a triplet, to which I always respond, "I don't know, what's it like to not be a triplet?" And that's mostly how I feel- its hard for me to say how I feel about being a triplet because I'll never not be one. That said, there are a few things, good and bad, that I know are different about being a twin or triplet. One of the biggest things is that I can often rely on my siblings to remember things for me. I'm a very lazy person, so I have always taken advantage of this, especially when it comes to remembering homework or to study for a test. You would think this would cause some problems, but it really hasn't for me, at least, not until this year. This year I have a different history class than both of my siblings and it's already given me problems. Just in this first month I've forgotten what feels like ten homeworks, including one just yesterday, and I've studied for a non-existant test because ...