You Know You Go To Peak to Peak When...
- All your friends walk around with rubix cubes and can solve them in less than 5 minutes.
- You are on the honor roll but feel awful because more than half of your class is on Deans List.
- When the hockey team wins state, and your at the pep assembly and you see your 8 year old sister.
- You know what a 'fundie' is.
- You hear "GET TO CLASS" yelled as soon as the first bell ring.
- When you have a 4.3 and you still cant crack the top 10%.
- When they make you go out on the field, when its covered in snow and freezing cold for a fire drill. TWICE.
- When you know and dread the word "Link".
- When your biggest fear is forgetting your school id and you cant go off campus for lunch.
- When a teacher doesnt assign homework and you wonder if something catastrophic happened.
- When you write essay and you can never get it to "sing".
- When a teacher give you hints for a quiz and then says they expect 100's.
- When teachers choose scapegoats and threaten to throw chairs at them.
- When you have had math with the same kids in your class every year.
- When you skip junior days, its like you have committed a felony.
- You build a paper boat and paper people in physics and still have an A in the class.
- When the eighth graders think that they're cooler and more badass than the seniors.
- When people play on their calculators and write programs for them for fun.
- The cafeteria is also the theater, and the tables turn into theater seats.
- Your AP calculus class has at least 3 freshman in it and it is way over crowded in the classroom.
- You know the boot-jig by heart. You also know that when done with the opposite gender, the boot-jig is flirting.
- You had your reach, middle-range and safety schools all picked out when you were a freshman.
- Not only is it acceptable to yell, "I'm bringing the integral of e to x times y back!", but someone will probably yell back, "Them other functions don't know how to act!"
- When you try and wash your hands and the sinks either give too much water or none at all.
- You understand the green m&ms story.
- Character traits are posted in your classrooms.
- Boosters doesnt let you do like anything to raise money.
- You start at 7:55 and end at 3:05.
- You remember the time they tried to play music during lunch to make us a cooler school.
- You wonder why there are volleyball poles out back but not nets.
- Your foriegn language teachers have always scared you
- Gossip spreads as if the whole school were in a single hallway...oh, wait...
- People have told you that your school looks like a prison
- You use student aid, digital photography, or going to the library as an excuse to ditch class.
- Rule breaking is parking in front of the yellow line.
- The XC team gets into arguments about Harry Potter over lunch.
- When you can make jokes about tangents and derivatives and a) not get slapped and b) still have friends.
- When something happens to you, everybody else in the school knows within an hour.
- When you live on the wild side by ditching access class.
- When sometimes it seems like several teachers know more about your life than you do.
- After the Honor Roll Ceremony your access class goes back with their diplomas/rolls of paper and has an Honor Roll fight!
- It's perfectly normal to take more than three AP classes a year.
- When you know the "what what" cheer
- When you feel stupid for not being on the deans list because about 60% of your class is.
- You go to AP study parties.
- You can't buy food with cash.
- You take pre-calc and there are sixth graders in your class.
- Pi day is pretty much a school holiday.
- You look up in the cafeteria and wonder if they didnt have enough money to buy the other squares or if its "art".
- You know what a jogathon is.
- You go to parties and play word games.
- The teacher drop out rate is higher than the student drop out rate.
- Your Homecoming game was a soccer match.
- You can't stop analyzing humor after studying scansion techniques. ("omg verbal irony and alliteration lol!" wink
- You laugh when you hear "Junior Days".
- Your cheerleaders won state for being smart.
- Instead of the regular football star and cheerleader, the Homecoming royalty consists of choir geeks. (Yeah, I said it.)
- Whenever there's an assembly, the word "soccer" is always used by someone at least once.
- You know you can destroy the freshmen when doing your class cheer with ease.
- Every kid with wheels on their backpack is your sworn enemy.
- Possible snowday or not, Friday is and will always be pizza day, not chili day.
- You remember the original reason rolling backpacks are shunned: single-file-wide hallways and rolling luggage used as backpacks.
- You know that access is just a nice way of "reinventing" advisory groups. "Yes, you will ALWAYS be with the same people in your advisory group, we promise."
- The students have been there longer than most the teachers.
- You understand the meaning of LEVEL 10 and are fairly sure that alarms will go off in anyone says it.
- You know about junior days and hate them.
- You know what a charter school is.
- When you tell people you go there you either get a look of confusion, disgust, pity or combination of the three.
- When people ask you if its a rich private shcool and you laugh.
- When you know people who consider an A failing.
- When you may not necessarily be smart but you know how to fake it and how to procrastinate better than anyone you know.
- Everything that tries to grow dies, all the plants die.
- You know you can't get lost.
- When walking down the halls you know almost everyone, about 9 out of 10 people.
- You remember when we could have been the Peak to Peak phoenix.
- Your social life is dying as you go more into high school.
- When not many people attend the dances.
- When you have to pay 20$ to go off campus, but the catch is you have to be a upperclassmen.
- You've failed everyone because you got a "C".
- The snack machines have healthy foods.
- The doors are ALWAYS locked.
- When your electives (health, tech, etc.) arent electives anymore.
- When you take hardcore written tests in PE.
- When you can't graduate early due to elective credits, usually art.
- When you cant say auditorium anymore.
- When you need your planner to go to the bathroom.
- When you remember the day you looked up and saw holes in the lights of the "cafeteria".
- You know you go to Peak to Peak when people complain about elective courses bringing down their GPA.
- When you're excited that they are getting new clickers.
- When your foriegn languages teacher has a cage in the back of your classroom.
- When you fear the words "key terms" or "11:37 sharp".
- Charter day is a treat.
- When your teachers lie to you and say that you have extra lunch time on block days but really you don't.
- When you either play soccer or are on speech and debate or both.
- When the clocks stop working for a long period of time and never come back.
- When you cant drink the water from the water fountains.
- When you've played the water foutain game a few times.
- When you know all about your teachers social lives.
- When your computer is like your gameboy.
- You and your friends think it's fun to disconnect your teachers Ethernet cord
- Everyone plays Halo on the school computers
- When it rains hard there's a lake in the front
- People in your math class get bored so they call math "sexy"
- You know exactly where the cameras are and when they go off
- You get laughed at for not spelling "Sophomore" right
- Everyone fears the Australian Accent
- You see someone with a backpack you can fit in (I did that!!!)
- Half of the Freshmen walk around thinking there cool because they onomonopioa
- The lunch line takes more time then Lunch it's self to get through
- You have a holiday to celebrate administrators
- You can't use stairs during the C.S.A.P.s
- The senior prank involves 1000 Forks and the athletic field
- Your social life is only active for 5 minutes before classes
- You open you locker and find papers you were missing for a year
- You considered "rich" if you bring $5 to school
- You are forced to go to a collage visit day
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