This is probably the only time I’ve ever been mad at the guidance department at my school—and it just had to be during the most important year of high school.
I’m not even mad about the teachers; I don’t hold a grudge against any of those names beneath the censor bars. If anything, I should be happy about miraculously getting physics and English first semester, which is exactly what I wanted since those are the main courses that I wanted to improve on going into Grade 12.
What makes me so angry is the fact that they somehow put me into the only advanced functions class in second semester, which shouldn’t even exist because they’re meant to be prerequisites. I mean, they’re technically co-requisites as stated by the school board, but it really doesn’t make any sense to take a precalculus class at the same time as a calculus class. The entire point of advanced functions is to ready your algebra skills for what’s to come when you finally leave the realm of algebra.
I also requested to swap out biology for data management, since every sliver of interest that I had for the medical field had faded away in the last six months. This of course, did not happen. This was especially irritating to see, since there perfectly happened to be slot for MDM4U at the exact same time as my biology class. It might be a smaller inconvenience than having advanced functions second semester, but the lengthy process of asking for another course change in a guidance appointment is really something I don’t want to experience again for my own sanity.
Edit, Sept 8, 2026 9:20 AM:
I didn’t think this would happen, but guidance actually fixed my schedule pretty fast, and miraculously placed the new courses exactly where I wanted. Maybe I don’t hate them as much as I thought I did.
