Swinter

@Apollo My city is like twice the size of yours but probably not nearly as competitive. Your high school looks so cool! It's like all high tech looking. And Bear Mountain looks really beautiful, mountains in Arizona are a lot more rocky looking. :P And yeah, I guess it is kind of weird that the creators of the thread don't post much anymore. They must be pretty busy. I was actually one of the first posters, but I was much less visible since I felt kind of timid being on CC. Everyone's smarter than me, I'm just an eighth grader, etc.

TheGreatCatsbyx

My town {I live in the suburbs/outer city} can be described perfectly into a blue-collar town. The place where my school is is pretty nice, fits the definition of a suburbia. Except it's in the middle of nowhere and there's nothing fun to do after-school since we're surrounded by woods and huge estates. Boring...

Oh yeah, and my school is really pretty ^__^ Think brick and ivy.

liliana16

Wish I loved in Arizona! I love the Southwest <3

I live in a sub-rural area of PA - it's really pretty and hilly, but my district has schools with pretty bad academics. Yay cyber school! haha.

I've never been to Boston, but I was in DC yesterday and I think it'd be a pretty awesome place to go to college...a lot to do, pretty places to go, big libraries, doesn't die after 5pm. I walked around George Washington University's campus and it seemed like a nice area, centrally located.

Apollo11 (from two pages ago, haha): I am all over the map: I'm interested in one in Colorado, one in Iowa, one in DC, two in NYC, one in Egypt, one in California, one in CT. I'm interested in a variety of locations (obviously, haha), thankfully, since there are only about 150 colleges (collegeboard-recognized) with Middle Eastern studies majors (so I can't be toooo picky about region, though my top region would probably be the Rockies).

Apollo11

Hey! I'm in my debate competition right now. I'll talk later but I'm doing well

marissafulx

@Catsby Thanks for the advice! I'll definitely take those tips in to consideration. Also, I don't know why but I just love the whole aspect of Boston so its definitely a bonus that there are so many good schools there.

@EveningStar That must be why I don't really like geometry. I prefer to work with formulas more than use logic. I had mixed feelings about algebra last year but overall I liked it. Although, I had an extremely strict but good teacher last year. I didn't like the whole truth table thing in geometry. We just finished that unit. We're doing mini proofs and I kind of like those since I got them all right on the quiz but I got a lot of the postulate and properties mixed up.

@Apollo Good luck!

Swinter

@marissafulx don't worry about the postulates at all. most of them are common sense and other maybe a quiz on the postulates, you will probably never have to use them. I know I didn't. i mean, you'll have to get the concept (which is common sense), but you won't really need to put a name to them.

BurningIce

I live in a very small country geographically but we have like 55k students per year. My school takes in top 2% of the cohort and it's pretty competitive here. We do O / A Levels though so our course offerings aren't that rich.

Also we have barely any natural scenery here, it's quite sad. The whole landscape is a blur of really tall buildings haha. And all my life I've lived in equatorial regions where it's like 28 degrees minimum all year round, never really experienced four seasons.

Also we get final results on 18th, quite worried. Know for sure that my GPA will drop but hope it won't be too much.

BurningIce

Do any of you guys do sports? Play instruments?

Swinter

^Haha no. I was in orchestra from 5-8 grade and I played recreational softball in seventh grade but that's about it.

BurningIce

Haha right after I posted that I got an email from my piano teacher about how I should attend classes more regularly and not just skip them. I skipped three in the last two months, two because I genuinely wasn't free but one because it was the day before a final I was so ill prepared for. Anyway now I gotta make all three of them up, and then there's a recital soon, and my teacher's really cross and I suddenly started to wonder about dropping piano. It's a love hate relationship with piano here and I know I will regret dropping, but it's so horrible right now ugh. I'm not a good player but I love music in general so now I'm listening to some wonderful classical music hoping to get that feeling of loving music back so I can be enthusiastic about piano again sighs.

TheGreatCatsbyx

@BurningIce: No sports. 0 athletic prowness.
I play the flute though, since 4th grade (our elementary school offered band lessons) I take lessons through the public school system for 30 minutes once a week. I also play flute for instrumental ensemble :]
I've also played the piano since I was 6... I quit my lessons in 7th grade because I was wayyy to busy and my mom didn't have enough money to finance them. So I chose the flute over the piano :]


I woke up at 12:00 today because yesterday was so much fun. I spent too much time hanging out when I could be memorizing Atticus's speech for my English oral presentation or studying. So my best friend's friend came from Florida to meet her brother who's currently a freshman at Harvard. They had some orientation there or something. So I spent the entire Saturday being their tour guide. We went to the Commons, walked the Freedom trail, went to a bunch of educational historical sites, ate at Fanuiel Hall, went to Chinatown for dinner, and then we went to MIT. My friend's brother was wearing a Harvard sweatshirt on the MIT campus, aha XD

Apollo11

Hi guys, I got first at my debate competition!!!
Except, the judge decided to back on her decision and I got 6th.

Soon.
Very Soon.

Apollo11

Ice, are you in Europe, I've only heard of A levels in like the U.K.

Apollo11

Gatsby, I wore a Stanford shirt to Yale!

Apollo11

More on debate:

My school is poor so we only have a debate team, no Model UN or JSA . So when we do well in debate it is really good. Especially since the debate was held at my school.

Anyway, my resolution that I debated was: Should inflammatory speech be covered under the First Amendment?

My first debate, I destroyed a person who had backstabed my sister in the past. It was amazing!

My second debate, I faced my dreaded rival. Staples. Which I know one of the posters here attends, Idk who. Anyway, I really schooled these kids.

However, these Staples kids began to touch my back and hair and chest after the debate and broke my tie (@#$!@&$#@! BURBERRY TIE) which got them kicked of debate, suspended for a week and facing a suspension possibly

In the third debate, my partner (and sorta crush) absolutely went against the rules by doing what the other team told us to do And while we might have lost either way, I pulled my act together and went crazy mode. Except, my partner, on the final debate part, didn't use our evidence to prove the case of abuse of the resolution.


Anyway, we lost that 3rd debate, it the judge had left it as we had won. So I won best debater and best team, but then it was shown that I had lost and that I had to relinquish my award.

I felt really bad.

As in I Rick Rolled myself for my failure to pull of a comeback.

Also, I am looking for a new partner.