AP Exams Coming Up! What Fun!

I have two AP exams coming up. My AP US History exam is Friday morning, and my English Language and Composition exam is next Wednesday (the 11th and the 16th). I can't wait—to get them over with. These exams might get me college credit and get me out of freshman English and History. As I plan to major in Engineering, it would be great to get the humanities out of the way. Not that I dislike English or History—I would just rather focus on being a nerd/geek. Er—engineer. Whatever.

My English teacher decided to wish us all luck on the upcoming AP today. He often tries to make class interesting by showing us various things he has picked up over the years, such as a unique vase he picked up while he was a garbage collector in college, or old photos from when he was younger. Today, he pulled out a tin lunchbox with a picture of Wonder Woman on it and asked one of the boys in our class what she was wearing on her wrists. I don't know how exactly the boy knew that Wonder Woman wore deflector bracelets, but he answered the question correctly. Our teacher then proceeded to open the lunch box and show us that it contained a large quantity of green rubber band bracelets that had "webvan.com" printed on them in yellow. (This domain seems to be unregistered, by the way.) He explained that, in case we got distracted or started feeling hopeless and overly emotional during the test, we were to snap the bracelet on our wrist to snap us back into reality and deflect distraction. Corny, but cute. He also gave us each a little flat colored marble, like the kind one uses to play mancala. He said that they had been blessed by his wife (I'm sure he was joking on this one) and if we came upon a particularly tough question on the test, we should rub the stone to help us focus. Mind you, we were all laughing from the moment he started passing out deflector bracelets. All the rest of the day, I would see other people who were in his classes snapping their bracelets and accidentally knocking their mancala marbles off their desks. Maybe it was funnier when it was actually happening than it is on a computer screen, but I think it was hilarious.



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