High School Class of 2014

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<p>Do you guys think I should take action on my predicament?</p>

<p>I have an AP Biology teacher that is almost refusing to teach. Our weekly routine is the most general overview of the notes possible (equivalent of my Honors Bio notes from last year), labs and little stupid videos that are dumbed down for the layman for the next three days, a day of “review” if that’s what you want to call it, where he will put a list of topics that are supposedly on the test. </p>

<p>I will study anywhere from 5-7 hours for the test with the list of topics he gave us by reading the book and watching videos. I will have about 5 or 6 pages of notes by the time I am done. Then the test comes, out of the 30 questions about half were actually on the list of topics. He puts such specific things on the test and he even got his last one from Purdue. The highest grade on the test will usually go to whoever can guess the best. For the last test the best grade was a 76 and that person set the curve at 19 points. </p>

<p>So only one person in the class is pulling an A, should I say something about this?</p>

<p>Thanks
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4883

<p>Anyone taking the ACT on December 8th??</p>

4884

<p>Nate, I’d go for it. That sounds ridiculously unfair and it also seems like a bad way to prep for the exam, since this year it’s more about thinking and ideas than specifics.</p>

<p>Congrats, bio! I’m probably going to cancel and retake…</p>

4885

<p>what’s the point of cancelling them?</p>

4886

<p>My interest are all over the place. Right now I want to double major in Electrical Engineering and Linguistics, and yes, I know that doesn’t work at all.</p>

<p>As for what I want to be when I grow up, I would like to be a Director/Psychologist/Novelist/Satirist/Inventor/Entrepreneur/Scientist/Electronic Music Producer/Politician/Researcher/Professor/Programmer/Engineer/everything at once. I’d be one of those people that drift from occupation to occupation, winning major accolades in everything they dip their feet into, only to move on to a next, never to be heard from in that field again.</p>

<p>(watch me fail at everything)</p>

4887

<p>@SirSamAlot my school does not allow you to participate in duel-enrollement but I really want to take psych next year and the class at my school is a joke so I will be taking the class through a program at a local college for high school students with high grades/test scores.</p>

4888

<p>I’m getting my butt kicked in AP Chemistry right now. Thermochemistry is female dog… I feel like once I finally understand something or a concept, it’s really wrong. </p>

<p>/depressed</p>

4889

<p>^ I took a test on thermo in AP Chem last week… Not fun. I recommend that you read the corresponding textbook chapters. Thoroughly.</p>

4890

<p>I’ve read it twice and It’s still a little blurry, but I’m staying after on Wednesday. There wasn’t any school today because it was a teacher work day lol. I really needed this day too -.- for extra help.</p>

<p>I’ll read it for a third time, then take a nap. I have practice with my band tonight at 7:30 so I’ll take my book there.</p>

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<p>@onuho123 Yes, I am taking the December ACT</p>

<p>You guys make me happy that my school does not have AP Chem (the only AP sciences we have are AP Bio and AP Physics B)</p>

4892

<p>Got an 86 on my chem test (molecular geometries, orbitals, molecular orbitals, hybridization) /without/ extra credit. Would’ve had a 90+ had it not been for stupid mistakes/laziness (I hate drawing Lewis structures… but it was necessary for one of the multiple choices. I decided to guess xD), but I’m extremely pleased because it’s the best score I’ve gotten on a test this year, and like I said … no extra credit (she gives around 6-8 points for answering brainteaser-esque questions correctly for each test).</p>

4893

<p>Just got my final final grades.
A in: Math and Chem (yes she pushed me up)
B in: French, Film and English (I got it up! woo!)
My first C ever in History :’( :’( :’( I’m so PO’d I got n 80 on a project and a D (13/20) on an essay test that I thought I did decently on :(</p>

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<p>This thread is so dead. I rescued it from the bottom of the 3rd page. Come on, juniors. We’re all stressed overachievers. We should have plenty of things to talk about :)</p>

<p>Today I was freaking out.</p>

<p>So about 2 weeks ago I discovered this awesome summer program, and the deadline was today at 7:59 PM. All week, I’ve been chipping away at this (very extensive) application, which includes 5 essays, a teacher recommendation letter, a parent recommendation letter, a mailed consent letter and a transcript. (Thankfully, all the mailed stuff is due next month, but anyway.) </p>

<p>So, being the fantastic procrastinator that I am, I put off everything until the last minute. Today I wrote 4 essays, the last two of which I started at 7:04 PM.</p>

<p>7:25 PM. Frantically typing.</p>

<p>7:42 PM. Finished one. Crap, application’s due 17 in minutes. </p>

<p>7:45 PM. <em>Starts last essay</em> OK, I have time. I’ll be fine.</p>

<p>7:55 PM. Oh. My God. I’m not even done. <em>Startstypingnonsense</em></p>

<p>7:56 PM <em>LOGS ON</em> IT TAKES SO LONG TO LOAD.</p>

<p>7:58 PM <em>COPY AND PASTE.</em> Breathe. <em>COPY AND PASTE.</em></p>

<p>7:59 PM Why isn’t it working? What…one of my essays is over the word limit?
NOOO, this is not happening. <em>deletes important sentence, hits resubmit</em></p>

<p>8:00 PM <em>crosses fingers, waits for blank page to load, prays that the time stamp will say “7:59 PM”</em></p>

<p>It doesn’t. It says “8:00 PM.”</p>

<p>I missed the deadline by one minute.</p>

4895

<p>That made me think of the meme that flips a desk in rage.</p>

4896

<p>I’m about to rage, I’m still doing homework…</p>

4897

<p>What’re you doing?</p>

4898

<p>First quarter grades… I think there’s an essay still missing from the grade book in ap Lang…
AP Lang- B
US History- A
Precalc- A-
ASL II- A-
AP Bio- B+
Culinary Arts- A</p>

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<h1>4900 :)</h1>

<p>La de da doing a research paper. La de da its due tommorow. La de da its 11:09. La de da I’m gonna be up for 3 more hours.</p>

<p>Crap.</p>

<p>Oh and catch, that blows.</p>

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<p>Catchtwentythree.</p>

<p>Something similar happened to me on Tuesday. I had to submit a proposal and mail signatures to a city some 300 miles away. I sent the stuff by express but JUST missed the mail sorting deadline :(</p>

4901

<p>So… my teacher said we’re going to be on chapter 32 of Pageant by midterms. great.</p>