How Has Your Summer Been? Mine Sucked
Sep 11th, 2007 by Usman
Summer is at end, and school has just begun. If I were to tell you what happened during my summer this is how it would go:
June 7th, was a good day, as far as I can remember, it was the day school ended. The only reason I was looking forward to my summer is because of the new movies that were coming for the 2007 year. In corresponding order I think it was Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Simpson’s, and some others. However, my summer turned out to be a dreadful disaster.
On the very same day school was out, another disaster began, drivers training or drivers ed. We sat down and watched a couple of safety videos that were made in the 70’s. Afterwards it was a busy month June because we had an immense amount of drivers ed training to do. Usually I went to school everyday at 10:00 am and stayed in class until 11:30 am. Then I waited 30 minutes for my range class at 12:00 to 12:30, and afterwards I wait another 30 minutes for a 2-3 hours actual driving class with 3 other people. So every other day I would have range and driving but each day of the week excluding weekends I would have class. It took about 3-4 hours each day. Even though it was worth it getting a permit, I had another problem on my hand.
Summer school is always a bummer as portrayed on most TV shows. It’s not that I am stupid, it’s because my sister and parents want me to take advanced classes in my sophomore year so I have to take the easy classes in the summer. In this case Health Ed and Biology, Health is a semester course and Biology is a yearlong course, both I had to complete together in less than one month. I would wake up early, go to school at 9:00 am and then study and finish work problems until 12:00 am, I would have no lunch to eat, so I waited one hour, and then went to class again from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm where I would get picked up. However, summer school wasn’t all so bad, aside from passing both classes with A’s I managed to design my new website and create blueprints on paper. While everyone else was eating, I was busy creating a new website on paper at school. I wrote down all the keywords, competition, drew the design by hand, made a list of all the requirements, needs, etc. It was all for my latest website called the Dev Network.
After summer school ended I focused mainly on my new Developer resource community. I got myself a nice programmer and he is still to this day from Aug. 19th working on the community which should be released soon. I planned everything out and after summer school ended on July 11th my real summer began. But still I was dedicated to work on my newest project. I spent many hours planning everything out, until July 18th I bought the domain, and bought a fresh vBulletin license for 85$. Afterwards I released the website officially on July 21st (21 is my lucky number). I had two interviews in the summer, and made many blog posts on the Developer articles section over 10 to be exact. I received on the first month over 2000 posts and 800 threads including 75 members. I was reaching the high 300k Alexa rank as well. I recently bought a custom design for 75$ and am getting it coded for more money as we speak.
It’s about the middle of August when I realize I have summer homework to do for AP Chemistry and Honors English 10. I have to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Crucible by Sept. 4th. And not many of you know that I discretely despise reading. I don’t mind reading informational things such as on forums, articles, blogs, or magazines. But fantasy books that are worded in old folk language just damn piss me off. Fortunately, I finished the 3 books and the two essays I had to complete for them. School has started for me, and it’s been dreadful. I have the worst lunch ever, the lamest classes ever, and my entire school life is controlled by my sister, who thinks she knows what’s best for me.
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