#ap eng

[saintmoonface]

I'm going to die during my ap exam

[silicondioxidegelpacket]

AP LIT TEST TOMORROW FRIDKSJ i dont want to write 3 essays in 2 hrs no

[susanaalvaradoapliterature]

part 2 of assigned blogging: on the subject of love

I think we read about love, but then we experience it, and so we scramble to express this incredible phenomenon we feel and realize that all we have to say has already been said, even though it feels so new to us. And what's even more amazing is how we realize that all those people that wrote about love have felt what we're feeling, that's really so many people, and that's incredible.

We can fall in love with an individual, we can fall in love with ourselves, we can foster a deep platonic love for friends and filial love for family, we can feel such utter wonder in regards to the world at large at certain times (such as stargazing or dancing) that it could be called love. Love can come and go as it pleases. It can be meaninglessly written on cheap sparkly t-shirts or spit out with choking difficulty after months of festering withing someone. It can be the difference between snitching on your brother and backing him up. No one's perfected it except Jesus Himself, probably.

So love, then, is: constant and fickle, large and small, intrusive and inherent, trivial and real, religious and romantic, infectious and unavailable, torturous and relieving, caring and rough, a phenomenon that puzzles and is generally difficult to define but really wild to experience.

Really, though, I'm just throwing out vague characterizations that I can apply to "love". I'm only seventeen, I'm not going to pretend to know the exact definition of love right now. I don't think anyone can claim to really, fully, 100% know. That's probably why everyone's obsessed with it.

[susanaalvaradoapliterature]

current era in art and literature

I don't want to officially characterize my era or generation in terms of art an literature, simply because of it's diversity. There is so much to be said, and so many who feel they are saying it, experiencing it, discovering for the first time, that our world is saturated with... everything. Everything being expressed in every manner, in dull colors or the entire spectrum, words upon words, two lines of text, a melody harsher than reality and sweeter than daydreams, a dance that mimics the flavor of life. I suppose the only characteristic you could tack onto my generation's creative expression is: expressive. From what I've observed, we have a lot to say and have really embraced every possible opportunity to say it- obnoxious, wrong, pretentious, self-righteous things, or witty, creative, beautiful, relatable, simple, complex, hilarious, nonsensical, trivial, wildly important things. I hear a lot of criticism regarding my generation's expressiveness, but I think recording our stories and lives through creative statements is crucial and very human.

[subtlypeachy]

this is totally NOT worth my time

[misselegantheart]

So we're watching The Dead Poets' Society in AP English Literature right now because we took our ap exam last week already, and this is my first time watching it.

Everyone is always raving about how amazing this movie is.... and I've only seen a bit of it now..... but I am in love.

I can't wait to watch it in bits every day in class. I'm going to look it up online right now to watch the entire thing.

I am so in love with this movie already.

Also.... if I ever find a boy who is just as in love with language and literature and poetry and words and life.... I swear I'm going to marry him.

[throughstormyseas]

Ap bio test tomorrow! Hopefully things go better than my Ap English one went haha.. x.x

[getrreal]

Feel like I had some pretty solid ideas going on that AP eng lang writing, slightly disappointed I won't see them again and they'll count for nothing more than a number from 1-5