<p>Volunteeeeeeer!! And don’t slack off when it comes to clubs! Sob. :(</p>
<p>If you’re taking a college class where they don’t collect homework, DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, wait until a week before the test to start your assignments from the past two months.</p>
<p>::has a test tomorrow and still has five sections to read::
::suspects that her rank will decrease and her grades will soon turn to nullity::</p>
<p>Free periods are your friends. 6+ straight hours of class can really be overwhelming on some days.</p>
<p>You don’t need to waste 4 years of your life trying to get into an Ivy League school… I did practically nothing in high school and am going to a great university and it makes no difference where you went in the long run</p>
<p>When a college (Swarthmore) tells you that it’s no easier to get in Early Decision they aren’t kidding</p>
<p>Start your EC’s from freshman year. Volunteer. Find your passion and pursue it. And, for the love of God, apply to a school with rolling admissions so you’ll know you get to go SOMEWHERE before April.</p>
<p>there are no absolutes…your goals, circles of friends, everything will change at some point.</p>
<p>don’t make unnecessary drama. don’t hook up with people just for the sake of hooking up, high school is too small for that and it will come back to haunt you.</p>
<p>sometimes it’s better to just GO TO SLEEP and figure out finishing your work later.</p>
<p>never slack off. prioritize. don’t do things just because other people are doing them. focus on yourself.</p>
<p>Do better soph and junior year…if I had done better I would have gotten into Stern…but no I slacked off and now I’m going to CAS. Oh well.</p>
<p>If you are forced to choose between studying for the big test or going to the once in the lifetime concert, ask yourself which one means more to you personally, make your choice, then don’t think about it afterwards. Sometimes its impossible to do everything you want to, and you’ll only make yourself misreable dwelling on it.</p>
<p>Or study for the test while you’re at the concert :D</p>
<p>I’ve done that! XD</p>
<p>Don’t join the National Honor Society or California Scholarship Federation or whatever. You don’t care, colleges don’t care, and the club doesn’t care except for the fact that you’re giving it money every semester. Your parents might care, but they shouldn’t. Wearing a little National Honors pin on your graduation gown or a gold tassel on your mortarboard cap doesn’t mean anything either. So save your money and your time because you’re going to need them.</p>
<p>Self-studying is far more efficient than learning from lectures. The institution is structured in such a way that it makes people psychologically dependent on learning from an instructor and a curriculum, both of which control what the student is to learn and what the student is not to learn. When in reality, most of learning is done in the real world and by one’s own initiative. Had I the choice to change anything, it would be to drop out of school and homeschool myself. For all the hours I wasted on school, it breeded little more than cynicism.</p>
<p>I never had the imagination to go out and buy my own textbooks (or to download them off BitTorrent, though this wasn’t an option back then). I never had the imagination to realize that people who skipped class in college actually had mechanisms for learning on their own. I never had the imagination to realize that some of the best mathematicians and scientists were predominantly self-studied, not to mention that public schooling is a very 19th-century phenomenon.</p>
<p>The institution that you go to matters far less than your own initiative, intelligence, and personality. Those characteristics help select individuals into top colleges, but they do not select individuals for public schooling. Many of these characteristics are genetic, but even if IQ is highly correlated with parental IQ, it still stands that those who believe that IQ is malleable perform better on academic tasks than those who do not believe that IQ is malleable.</p>
<p>Source for attitudes => performance: <a href=“สล็อตเว็บตรง อันดับ1 ฝากผ่าน ทรูวอเลท ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บตรง ใหม่ล่าสุด”>สล็อตเว็บตรง อันดับ1 ฝากผ่าน ทรูวอเลท ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ เว็บตรง ใหม่ล่าสุด;
Source for IQ being highly genetic: The Bell Curve, Intelligence:Knowns and Unknowns, a whole sleuth of psychological research.</p>
<p>Not only that, but the institution discourages interaction with far more intelligent people elsewhere. Certainly, schools encourage closeted social interaction, by means of “school spirit assemblies” and group projects. Nearly everyone in my school is laughably idiotic compared with people here or at Artofproblemsolving.com. If only I learned of those websites earlier… </p>
<p>And self-studying APs is extremely easy. I wish I learned about this earlier, so that I could have started earlier. I did start in 9th grade, but only for AP World History. I also wish I could have started studying for the AMCs and all the olympiads far far earlier.</p>
<p>And most of all: I wish I realized that there is nothing to justify our current institutions, that our goals and world views have been changed by institutions that have no transcendental basis or value. I wish I had the maturity to overcome such a belief earlier, before such a belief wreaked havoc on me last year.</p>
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<p>HEY! those school spirit assemblies take a lot of work to hold!!</p>
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<p>Yeah, lots of things take a lot of work to hold, and turn out utterly useless in the end. It’s life. A lot of work gets into the activities/organisms/organizations that get weeded out. </p>
<p>Tell me - what usefulness comes out of a school spirit assembly? Certainly, they’re even more worthless than the National Honor Society. And - who pays for spirit assemblies? If the money wasn’t paid for such worthless pursuits, couldn’t it be redirected towards something more useful?</p>
<p>Not to mention that school itself wastes $$$$ on absolutely nothing - as we can see from its failure to educate children up to state standards (which are very low, from the College Confidential standard). That $$$$ could be redirected to say, universal healthcare or cancer research.</p>
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<p>I’m still a junior…but I wish I would’ve gotten my subject tests out of my way.
And uhm…Look at the Big Picture.</p>
<p>don’t join band, esp if the teachers assign grades with favoritism, or any class with teachers that don’t base grades on actual abilities etc. (all my band teachers haven’t done is openly admit it)</p>
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<p>1) It’s a diversion. It makes it so each day isn’t the same as the next for many students. Sometimes it’s nice to shake things up a bit.
2) So the SGA people, etc., have something impressive to put on their resumes.</p>
<p>(Though I assure you that if they weren’t mandatory, probably half my school wouldn’t come. Outside school assemblies + blistering heat => stay inside)</p>
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<p>Eh, it’s hard work trying to drill knowledge into a group of children who just don’t want to be educated, no matter how much money you invest in it. In fact, it’s near-impossible. There are reasons I think education should not be compulsory.</p>
<p>Do an activity because you love it, not for your college applications. I spent my freshman and sophomore years doing the student activities club and key club. there’s nothing wrong with these, but i was doing them for the resume, there was no passion. so i quit and joined what i truly loved- debate and yearbook</p>