<p>What do you guys use to study for the SAT? I’m taking it for the second time in March but I didn’t really study the first time and I want to do better.</p>
<p>@Hstr96- I just used the BB.</p>
<p>Senior schedule: DE is Dual enrollment with local CC
1 semester
DE Comp 1
DE Speech
DE College Algebra
DE Pysics
DE Spanish 1
DE Environmental Science
Anatomy
World History
Early Choir</p>
<p>2 semester
DE Comp 2
DE Government
DE Statistics
DE Calculus
DE Spanish 2
Dramatic literature
Anatomy
World History
Early choir</p>
<p>Comments/suggestions?</p>
<p>That is a ton of dual enrollment…</p>
<p>My schedule for next year is
- AP English Lit
- AP Bio
- AP Calc AB
- AP Euro
- Anatomy
- Yearbook
and then in my major I am taking - Art History 4
- Digital Media 4
- Sculpture 4
- Ceramics 4
- Fiber Arts 4
- Printmaking 4
- Drawing 4
- Painting 4</p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer AP and I’ve pretty much exhausted the other non agricultural based classes. Sigh.</p>
<p>I’m in love with liberal arts schools. Seriously a lot of them are beautiful and they will give me that closer exposure to the professor. I just like the smaller more intimate setting. Being from Chicago, I don’t get to experience nature that much so I would love to go to a school with a natural setting. I’m really loving Vassar, but it’s such a reach.</p>
<p>There’s a class of '17 thread. I’m going through a premature mid-life crisis.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I picked up A Fault in Our Stars today, and I’m about 200 pages in. I’m definitely enjoying the book, but I don’t understand what’s so “spectacular” about it? I mean, I’d give it 5 stars myself, but I don’t really consider it a standout among other novels that I’ve read.</p>
<p>^
I agree.</p>
<p>@lldm21- I agree, and so do many others it seems. Like, it’s a good book. Really. But I guess my expectations were set too high- in the nerdfighter community, we were all freaking out about the book and we expected it to be like the next great American novel, but it wasn’t. I liked other books by John Green much better, like (unpopular opinion) An Abundance of Katherines.</p>
<p>How do you guys get through text-heavy textbooks? I have to read one and I can’t stay focused at all! D:</p>
<p>It has 4.54 stars on Goodreads (my screen name there is /lldm2, in case anyone else has one), so I thought it would be life-altering, or incredibly insightful (yet easy to latch on to), or … <em>something</em>.</p>
<p>But it’s … not. lol.</p>
<p>@anyone: What are some of your favorite books?</p>
<p>@ecouter: </p>
<p>*Set a timer, see how much I can read in anywhere from 2-5 minutes (depending on how much I dislike the book), try to beat myself
*If I’m texting while reading, I tell myself I have to read x amount of pages before responding.
*If I get through x amount of pages before 0:00, I allow myself to switch to another subject or take a break altogether.
*Skim.</p>
<p>There are a lot of ways. Get creative :)</p>
<p>Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson is really good, so it Wintergirls. I also like Cut- I forget who wrote it. Patricia something. (Don’t read it unless you want to cry).</p>
<p>I love realistic fiction. I just read an amazing one called Send Me a Sign. In was really sad about a girl in high school who gets cancer. I’ve never actually gotten into John Green. I read A Fault in Our Stars and thought it was an okay book, but I didn’t really like it that much and I usually love sad books like that where there may be a death.</p>
<p>Got my physics midterm grade back! 
I got 14 out of 30 questions correct. And I got an 87.</p>
<p>Look at that curve. :D</p>
<p>Ahhhhhhh…curves :)</p>
<p>I’m going to take AP chem. Algebra 2 English 4 Physics Us gov. Yay SR year</p>
<p>The problem in the fault in our stars for me was that I didn’t feel anything while/after reading it. It did not feel like a sad book. </p>
<p>Haha, I got a 31/60 and it became a 84% after the curve. Class average was about 48%</p>
<p>I was looking at the IB grading and it said that 100-80% was a 7 (A+), 79-65% was a 6 (A-), etc.
Would this affect GPA in any way (my school doesn’t calculate it)? Is a 5 in AP or a 4.0 GPA better than, e.g., 41/45 in the IB (with 7,7,6 HL)?
I’m only in the first year of the IB diploma, and haven’t taken any exams yet, but I’m just wondering.</p>
<p>I didn’t like the Fault in Our Stars all that much. I mean, I love John Green so I did like the book, but it was only okay. </p>
<p>Paper Towns is one of my favorite books of all time, and I think is John Green at his best.</p>
<p>I finished it last night, and I’ve never cried so much (or at all) over a book before. Figures that I post right before it “gets good” (p. 208 where Gus reveals his cancer has spread completely). I now consider the book to be scads better than when I posted, but I still don’t quite agree with all of the hype that it has been given. </p>
<p>My favorite books tend to be paranormal/sci-fi. My favorite is Season of Passage by Christopher Pike. Picked it up in 7th grade, I believe, and I still haven’t found a book that I love more. Crime/murder is nice too, but I haven’t read too many of those sorts of books.</p>