The Adventures of EgoBoy

15 years ago on April 2nd, a boy was born. He was given the nickname, EgoBoy, as the years passed, because of his egomania. He went through school being the smartest in his class. His 8th grade year finished and he was off to high school. He started to get intimidated over the summer, but when he actually started high school, his ego only increased. He discovered he was #1 in his class, and his ego went into overload. In February 2008, he had to make the decision of taking AP US History or regular US History. Thinking to himself that he was the best, he went with AP on the sole purpose of raising his GPA.

In the middle of May, he heard there was an AP meeting and went to it. The minute he walked through the door, he saw the huge stack of papers. Four piles of papers at least a foot high each, literally. This is when EgoBoy's ego sank. He received 121 pages of summer homework and procrastinated it until the middle of August, a week before school started. Luckily, EgoBoy completed his work, turned it in and received his grades: 100% and 105%. At the discovery of these grades, his ego shot up to an unbelievable state, and within two minutes it was shot back down when he learned he would have to read a college textbook chapter a week. His first test he failed, and the next two also.

His ego sank to an unknown level. He studied more and got up to getting high D's and low C's on his tests. Of course, he studied more each week, but the tests also became harder each week. On the 7th he took another chapter test and received a low D as a grade. EgoBoy realized he would have to kick up his work like he never had before. On the 8th, the teacher gave out a 22-page essay for the students to read. The students would also have to answer 5 questions in paragraph forms. The questions were due on Friday. Unfortunately, EgoBoy had a Huck Finn Essay Rough Draft due on Thursday, so he did not get to the essay on Wednesday night.

Thursday night became the busiest night of EgoBoy's life. He came home from school, finished his Final Essay, did his Geometery homework, his Chemistry homework, and his Spanish homework. At 6:30 EgoBoy started the essay and at 10:30, he fell asleep with 2 more pages to go. EgoBoy woke up the next morning in panic. He could not believe he fell asleep. Luckily, it was only two pages so he was able to finish it on the bus.

EgoBoy went to P.E., Spanish, and then English, where he turned in his four page essay that he was very proud of. After English was Geometry, where he decided he would look over the questions for history and then type the answers in Study Hall. While the teacher rambled on about notes that the class was already assigned to take, EgoBoy studied over the questions and had a basic understanding of all of them. The bell rang and he sprinted to the Media Center (where one is able to go instead of Study Hall to use a computer) to find a sign: "No Study Hall Students Today! Media Center Full Due to Students Taking Online Tests!" EgoBoy's jaw dropped. He went to Study Hall, lunch, and then his history class, where he could not turn in his questions, because he did not have them finished. The teacher required the questions to be typed.

EgoBoy realized since he just lost some points for turning the questions in, he would definitely have to study hard for the next history test. All weekend, EgoBoy followed his study plan:

Hour 1 of Studying: Read Section 1 of chapter
Hour 2: Read Section 2
Hour 3: Read Section 1, then 3
Hour 4: Read Section 2, then 4
Hour 5: Read Section 3, then 5
Hour 6: Read Section 4, then 6

He continued this method of studying because it allowed him to read new information while reviewing old information at the same time. He followed this pattern all weekend until he finished all 23 sections. On Tuesday, he went to school with a high ego knowing he was ready for the test. When he went to English, he received his essay back with a score of 104%, the highest in the class. His ego shot up more. He saw it as the best essay he had ever written. When he went to history, the teacher handed out an outline of the chapter. EgoBoy went home later that night to study the outline and review the chapter to be ready for the test on Wednesday.

Wednesday came around, and EgoBoy was definitely prepared. He went to all his classes with an eagerment to go to history. In English, he had a sub who actually called him Smiley. The substitute stated, "I have never seen someone smile so much! Don't your cheeks hurt?" EgoBoy went to Geometry, Study Hall, Lunch, and then walked into the history room. He saw the Scan-Tron, and noticed it was different than the usually ones. This one had a special section where you had to answer an essay question. EgoBoy's ego went down again, but it rose back up to the top when the teacher stated there was no essay question; he just ran out of the other type of Scan-Tron.

The teacher passed out the test. EgoBoy took it, turned it in, and did the walk of shame back to his seat. He knew that even as hard as he studied he did horrible. He sat in his seat watching the other students walking back to their seats giving thumbs down to the ones that were finished. Everyone finished their tests, the teacher put them in the machine, and they received our grades. EgoBoy received a low D. Even at this point where EgoBoy was supposed to be angry, he was actually happy. The week before, EgoBoy told himself he would do everything to study for the test and if he didn't get at least an A or a B, he would do a level change into regular US History.

So now that EgoBoy is transferring, he will have more time to put in his other Honors classes and more free time to write in his blog that he realized he hadn't written in for 8 days. It did make EgoBoy happier when he found out two other classmates were also transferring along with the three classmates that had already transferred. He knew he wasn't the only one who was struggling. So tomorrow EgoBoy will talk to his counselor and see when the transfer can occur. And when the transfer occurs, EgoBoy can go back to being an egomaniac.