The first day of the new semester, Wednesday, was the worst day I have ever had the misfortune to experience. Branner High School does not have the most intelligent of administrative staff. I can tell you that right now, because today was my first encounter with the blockheads. Somehow they managed to completely screw up my schedule so that I spent my whole morning waiting in a line to talk to my counselor. They had put me in French 1-2, AP Calculus, AP Biology, Orchestra, Athletics with the softball coach, CP English and Contemporary World Studies (both of which were classes for freshmen - read it again - freshmen ). How they managed to flip my schedule around that much was beyond me. None of those classes were even remotely related to any of the classes I should have been in. Actually,

