<p>Midterms in less than one week, and I haven’t started studying for anything.</p>
<p>Lol I’m so screwed.</p>
<p>On the plus side, today’s a snow day!</p>
<p>AP Euro
AP Bio
AP English Lit
Chinese IV Honors
Precalculus Honors
Self Defense/red cross training
Newspaper Production</p>
<p>ECS:
Varsity Level lincoln-douglas debate
On 18-member student run philanthropic board (first in West Coast); hoping for leadership position next year
Newspaper Business Manager/Finance manager
Advisor of students in middle school
Work with the Nancy Davis Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis (8+ years)
Honors Research program in science coupled with UCLA/USC (still deciding)</p>
<p>I’m ON VACATION! You know the feeling when you turn off your alarm clock in the morning and don’t need to turn it bak on for the next day? HEAVEN…
I think I did OK in my grades (at the very least I think a 3.6- I just found out that I got an 80 on my most dreaded midterm which is actually pretty good- I think the average will be about an 85), but I have a problem. Basically, in my school, for every period you are found cutting class, they take two points off your GPA. So I’m on the school orchestra, which practices at random times so that I miss class, and I’m on the school literary journal, which also gets passes to miss random classes. So I found out at the end of the semester that I had 8 unexplained absences in various classes, and went to explain to the attendance lady why I missed them.
Basically, to make a long story short, I was able to get six excused. There are two, on the same day, that I can’t remember why I missed them or if I have an excuse, and the onus of proof is on me to prove it wasn’t a cut. The kicker? The periods were missed NOVEMBER 28TH! They came up to me six weeks later and asked me where I was periods 4 and 7! How the heck should I know?
So now my 100 average in my period 7 class and probable 95 in my period 4 class are in jeopardy as the case goes to the principals for judgement. Gulp.</p>
<p>My GPA is still a 3.75. Not exactly where I want it but I’m relieved my GPA didn’t take a bashing this year unlike other people I know.</p>
<p>Mine it chilling at 3.97 and is unlikely to move ever. My school doesn’t weight anything at all (which stinks) so my all A report cards just keep me steady there. I am 3/50ish though salutatorians for the win :)</p>
<p>I got an email from Swarthmore. I know that those emails are probably a result of my PSAT score and that it doesn’t mean anything. But I’m just happy to know I fall within their range of who to send automatic emails out to. Gosh…I have low standards lol</p>
<p>I calculated that my weighted GPA is a 4.12, but I don’t know how likely getting 6 A’s (2 are AP classes) and a B (AP Chemistry) make me jump to that from a 3.96, but w/e and my unweighted GPA went from a 3.82 to a 3.85. Also, I only got a 1630 on the PSAT, so yeah…</p>
<p>Anybody else find the emails sent out by the many colleges slightly annoying? I mean, I enjoy receiving a few, but getting an email from some community college on the west coast seems ridiculous when I live on the east coast.</p>
<p>I find college emails rather annoying. I like the letters and post cards much more. However, as DukeHopeful2014 stated, it is a bit ridiculous getting mail from places you’ll never go too. I keep on getting cards from Case Western and Cornell. I’m 100% sure that those are advertisement. </p>
<p>The other letters I’ve been getting lately are more realistic. Details on scholarships, aid, ACT scores, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t like them at all. Either they’re from horrible colleges with an average ACT score of 12 or something, or they’re so selective I have no remote hope of getting in and they really don’t need to be advertising anyway.</p>
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<p>Same with me. Cornell invited me to a special chat session with some students and I’m just like “GREAT! Now I can get false hopes for an ivy :)”</p>
<p>Midterms next week. Ah! I am so stressed out. My Spanish and History teachers all but told us their exams were going to be impossible. My Math teacher is trying to convince us it won’t be so bad, when really it is going to be horrible. My English midterm is going to be way too long, with so much writing that my hand may fall of in the end. I am pretty much ready to cry right now.</p>
<p>I cannot wait for midterms to be OVER!</p>
<p>@halcyonheather</p>
<p>EXACTLY. And I keep on thinking that there are so many people across the who are significantly more qualified than I am, so it’s nothing special.</p>
<p>Haha my friends keep telling me that they are going to get into into top colleges because they keep getting emails from UPenn, so they must want them! </p>
<p>And I’m like… -_-</p>
<p>Midterms already? Its January 16.</p>
<p>@MutaRiSC If we are talking about midterms, it’s because we have year-long classes. Were you thinking that we we’re having midterms for second semester? Because my semester doesn’t end until Tuesday.</p>
<p>hey guys do you know about the Millard Fillmore Trivia competition?</p>
<p>That moment when I accidentally take home a Spanish quiz. Great, now I have to convince my teacher, it wasn’t on purpose and that I didn’t cheat.</p>
<p>That moment when you fail a Physics quiz and you don’t understand anything and the only thing saving your grade is homework and you got to class late and forgot to turn in your homework which you actually did and your teacher is a ***** that probably won’t accept it and now your grade is going to drop significantly. effml</p>
<p>at least ur physics teacher gives homework grades. our physics class is 84% tests and quizzes, 16% labs</p>