Thanks. This is a really good idea. During that good year I had, one of my most passionate teachers was my English teacher, which was partly the reason I liked that year so much (that subject had been ruined for me before). My English class now basically consists of worksheets and vocab. books, but I suppose they still can't take away the value of the literature :)
1. My grades are A's and B's. They've gone down recently out of apathy but they're still not bad. I know they're important to college, but grades are something I just abhor because I feel they really diminish the value of learning the subject. Like I said though, they're "decent": I've had no C's, and the lowest GPA I've had is a 3.17, which is mediocre, but it's tough to make myself care. Really it's just a matter of extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation for me; I try to motivate myself to do better with grades because there's supposed to some benefit later on of getting into a better college and all that, but I'm just more motivated to do other things like learn programming languages or typography or how to play the drums, or just read. Probably a typical teenager thing to say, sorry.
2. A few, I could 'network' more as some people above me said. I guess I've been aversive to that because it seems that's the only thing most of my peers want to do. If that'll make it more enjoyable though, I'll try...