1 day left...June 8, 2011

The unofficial guide to surviving middle school. (These may be recycled, sorry)

Don't have a bag half your weight or greater.
Excessive emoticons are repulsive.
Be around things and people that make you happy.
Don't tell jokes you don't get yourself.
Don't let someone who isn't a teacher teach you any Spanish words.
Beware the mid-door poles and mats.
Hold on to your pencil at all times.
Don't say abbreviations like their words. Except btw, pronounced b-t-dups.
Know at least one rapper and one of his song titles.
Get a catch phrase.
Don't swear, because you have no idea how many times I have seen my friend slip up and crash and burn and other bad adjectives.
Sit on the darker side of the cafeteria.
Always have your hand raised in PE, just always.
Don't correct your teachers. They don't tend to like it.
In order to get to class faster find a way to go through a 6th grade hallway, they always run everywhere so its generally easy to pass through what with them all being long gone.
Don't ever encourage someone to play 'Whats in your bag?' unless your positive all the freaky stuffs out of yours.
Do not take your favorite stuffed animal with you on the first day of school, people react poorly to that.
Make sure the sound is off on your phone before you show anyone the video of you dancing to Love to love you.
Find a video that makes you happy, mine is Love to Love you by Donna Summers. Google it. Now.
Don't ever google blue waffle.
Learn the names of the Jersey Shore characters. For reference of course.
Remember that most 8th graders favorite movie has Will Ferrel in it so keep conversations below intellectual.
Refrain from using words like correspond and barren or parched.
No one looks good in blue eyeshadow. Less is more.
Don't quote Star Wars in public. People laugh now and then post mean things about you on FB later.
Don't be disappointed if you aren't invited to a party. Your invite was probably lost with all your Birthday cards in the mail.
Don't carry around Simon and Garfunkel lyrics in your back pocket.
And I think most importantly, but often most over looked...
Don't wear Crocs.