Top Ten Most Thrilling Academic Moments of My High School Career

1.      Passing AP English 11 for “it had always been a girlish dream of mine” (33)

2.      Getting an “A” on the 10^th grade research English project, a grade that I would call “all in all sufficient” for my hard work (4.1.265)

3.      Passing Honors Trigonometry, for this class was a “monster in thy thought, too hideous to be shown” to the weaker minded (3.3.07)

4.      Receiving an 8 on an AP English essay. I remember “clutching the scrap of paper as if it contained the secret to saving the world” or at least my grade in AP English (100)

5.      My first sticker on the Othello datasheet filled me up with “a happiness so strong you just know you’re going to pay for it later” (157)

6.      Third highest scorer in an AP multiple choice game in AP English 11. As I heard my name called I first doubted my ears, surely this was a mistake. But as the truth of the moment set in “I [was]… in a state [of extreme] happiness” (196)

7.      Receiving positive comments on an English paper. This accomplishment truly proved to me that “anything, anything, anything is possible” (302)­­­

8.      Earning a sticker on my The Importance of Being Earnest analysis. “What? What?” another sticker to add to my modest collection (4.1.33). I will gladly accept this reward!

9.      My group winning first place in a game of AP Multiple choice. Finally! “I think it is high time” that I finally receive the maximum extra credit points (9)!

10.   Maintaining a 4.0 GPA for the fourth quarter of my senior year. “I felt instinctively” that this would prove to be quite a difficult task, and it has lived up to my standard (23)