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The last day of class. While I can’t stand having to go to class for over 3 hours, I do have to admit I’m going to miss it. Life will seem so boring after going through such a weird experience.

As I mentioned yesterday, the final presentation was a group persuasive speech so we all broke into groups and started presenting. These speeches went over much better than the individual informative speeches did.
 

• The first group gave an emotional presentation on homelessness, with one of the girls giving her own personal experience on the matter. I’m a laid back guy who likes to find humor in everything, but even I was touched.
•  We were up next and I have no clue how we’re supposed to follow a presentation like that. We were also, for those who don’t remember, 8 minutes short on our only practice run. Somehow though, we only finish a minute short and Mrs. Ms. Smith praises us for a job well done. One of the students even came up to me after our speech to tell me I convinced her to finally become an organ donor. I could not be more ashamed.
•  The third group spoke about protecting our environment. I’d make a crack about how unoriginal that is but my group spoke about organ donation so I’ll hold back. The presentation was pretty solid, except when one the members discussed “Bob Dole’s movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth.” Whoops.

When we were finished, Mrs. Ms. Smith said she needed a calculator so she could add up all of the grades. Forgetting her distaste for anything technological, I offered her my cell phone to use the calculator function. She then proceeded to scream at me for the next 5 minutes. When another student finally found a calculator and offered it to her, I joked that his calculator was really a cell phone. Let’s just say, wrong move.

10 minutes later, however, our scores were added up. My group received a “B”, enough to keep my grade for the class at an “A”. With that, summer school is officially over.

So what did I learn? Educationally, absolutely nothing. But I did learn that summer school should not be feared, but embraced. You finish early enough in the day to still hit up the pool, the work is incredibly easy, and you go to class with huge characters. I never thought I’d say this, but this will not be my last time enrolled in community college for a summer course.