AP’s are finally over – and due celebrations have erupted all over the school.  The last two weeks had been remindful of the chaos surrounding a time bomb counting down to inevitable oblivion – frantic studying, alarming levels of distress, and sighs of frustration dominating the classrooms, the hallways, and even the P.E. bus on the way to the tennis courts.

And now that a year of unforgiving stress has now been completed - regardless of how potentially terrible our AP grades are – we can contemplate: now what?

1. SAT World History.  The despicable phenomenon that is the standardised test is once again looming over the horizon, this time in the manifestation of an SAT Subject Test.  I had hoped that I could wave goodbye – at least for the time being – to our Kaplan study guides as we sent them on a coerced trip to the incinerator, but that is sadly not to be.
2. Finals.  A threat to anyone’s happiness (or sanity, depending on the person) come the end of the semester, I have always been somewhat lax with final exams.  Unfortunately, I face the burden of pulling up my grades, and finals will undoubtedly be significant to that cause.  Damn.
3. Summer.  At long last.  A well-deserved two months of respite for everyone involved … I wish.  For all I know, I could be rotting away at hagwon all day, daydreaming of an SAT-free summer while knowingly doing a half-assed job of memorising a list of a thousand SAT words.
4. Junior year.  And here we go again, back at school for another roller-coaster of an academic year - only that junior year is most probably a much more distressing ride than its predecessor.  Oh, joy.

Let’s have FUN, guys.