Happy New Year, all. I don't know if anyone else I knew is even still on here, but I'm back. I've been gone for oh... About 4 years.
"I have my hopes up for 8th grade - hopefully it won't be as bad"
Unless you're in Sparta life is what you make it. Ask questions. You can get about 4 times more "learning" out of a class by asking questions, because seriously in most classes the teacher teaches about 1% of what they can teach because 1% of the class is too stupid to learn more.
Unless you're outside of the US. If that's the case please ignore everything I just said because I have no clue how school outside the US are in general.