PrepQWill

I would do music but it interferes with my electives, my school sucks at letting students participate in sports and clubs at the same time.

On a sad note, my cat after 8 years has cancer and its fatal. :'/

EveningSwan

@ BurningIce I quit playing piano because my piano teacher was forcing me to take that test! I take an annual 'test' for the oboe, which is way easier since all I do is play. They give you a rating from 1-5 (1 being the best) and so far I've gotten all ones!

Awwww................:'(

Apollo11

So...

How are you? (To ask the same question for the infinite time)

Also, a lot of you guys go to private schools. I personally live in a large town (125,000 people), but we have bad schools around. My school only goes up to AP Calc AB and has a lot of cool parts of it (I posted photos somewhere on this thread) but nearly no money.

My friends are kinda blown away to see what you and the rest of CC is doing as for them the highest they do in Freshman year is Honors Geometry (I am in Honors Algebra 2). I realize colleges compensate for the type of high school you attend, but I think you guys are really lucky. For example, there is nothing I want to do more than Junior State Assembly and Model UN, but my school can't afford it. Oh well.


Hope you all are well. I was without power for a while due to Hurricane Sandy messing up the East Coast, so I didn't post for a while.

Swinter

@Apollo I don't go to a private school. I go to a public school in a ghetto location but decent district. I live in a pretty large town of over 200,000 people and we've got poor parts and rich parts. My debate team is pretty pathetic. We have no funding whatsoever. No busses, no coach, etc. Even so, I'm really lucky for all the things my school offers. It goes up to Linear Algebra (with Multivariable Calculus & Differential Equations) being before that. Hope everything is going well for you and that Sandy didn't impact you too much.

BurningIce

I actually can't figure out where the local curriculum stands in comparison to the US one, because we do a spiral approach where we do some of everything every year. This year (8th grade) we did things like partial fractions, quadratic equalities/inequalities and graphs, polynomials, circle properties, trigonometry? I guess something like Alg. I + Geometry mixed together? Next year I'll be in an Advanced class and it'll go much faster, so maybe Alg. II / Pre-Calc standard?

And anyway to continue the conversation I don't go to a private school, but rather over here we actually stream students starting from 3rd grade within the school, then at 5th grade again, and before 7th grade there's a massive national Primary School Leaving Examination that determines what school you go to. And then schools usually stream internally after 8th grade, and there's another national exam end of 10th (O levels) and another end of 12th (A levels). So basically it's all public schools here and you need to be on your toes to survive each round of cutting to ensure you stay at the top. It's also a system that's not very generous with second chances, as though it's technically possible to do well in the next national exam after flunking the previous one, you end up in a lousy school with poor facilities and classmates who aren't focused and a generally bad atmosphere so it really affects you. Can't say I like this system much, though it means that my school does have a lot of funding and facilities and a nerd atmosphere because we're one of the best schools.

BurningIce

It's been five days since anyone posted - bumping this up from page 4! Anyway how are you guys doing?

NiteLite

Pretty well, especially because it's break now! a week to sleep

eaglesx22

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT Class of 2016 =D

rykun97

Just a had a conference with my teachers today. It went pretty well. In the beginning my mom brought up how one of my "friends" said, "You probably won't get into college. Maybe you should go to vo-tech." and I started crying lol. Anyway my gifted teacher said, "If I wasn't trying to be professional, I'd say she's a... " I felt a lot better after that, especially since my teachers all said I was a great student. Now I can sit back and enjoy my break.

So how's everything going for the rest of you?

Naomistar251

Our freshman year is like 1/4 done. My classmate and I were talking about how before we know it we will all graduate and go to high school. Now all I can remember is the vitamin c song called friends forever. It's making me sad

Swinter

^Dude I know right. My younger sister in eighth grade is about to start high school registration.

Guys, my grades are slipping. :O I have an 89.96 (only 0.04 from an A!!) in bio and it's only going to get worse because I just turned in science fair today.

Exeterlover

I am a freshman but I am hs class of 2016?

Swinter

@Exeter yes you are.

Naomistar251

I meant college in my last post not high school

PrepQWill

So did a bunch of work for a test and scored poorly on it... Nothing like tutoring once a week for 7 months just to do poorly on a test.

Anyways, did anyone like their homecoming activities?