<p>Probably interning at this same research lab as last summer. I want to also try to volunteer at a hospital on the weekends and possibly get a job. I really need to earn money to pay for all my trips next year, namely for MUN because my parents not paying for anything anymore. I also really want to go on my school’s trip to Spain but that costs like $2500 so if I try to go I will need to get a job during the school year.</p>
<p>I applied for the Rochester Scholars program this summer. I was planning on working at the same summer job that I worked at last year but I didn’t get hired so I had a mad scramble to meet the deadline for the program, but I did! I will also take the drivers ed. course and possibly an internship with a local optometrist, but that seems unlikely.</p>
<p>HSHSP! Just need to come up with the money now :P</p>
<p>Good luck with the ACT tomorrow for all the Illinois students taking it!</p>
<p>Hoping for anything over 30.<br>
Predictions (wishful thinking):
Comp: 32-33
English: 33
Math: 34 <— LAWL
Reading: 29 (maybe 31-32 if I don’t run out of time)
Science: 31</p>
<p>Good luck TinnyT! Remember, always guess B.</p>
<p>Well, first I was going to go to go to North Carolina Governor’s School, but since every white male applying for the mathematics focus is identical to me in every way, I won’t be doing that. Then I found out I was 2 days late to sign up for summer classes. So, now I am using family connections to get an internship at an engineering firm that does stuff with methane collected from landfills. Yay family connections!
And I am now crossing the entire Midwest off of my list too… narrowing my list down to eight- a healthy number, in my opinion. :)</p>
<p>Does anyone else’s school do Junior Marshalls?</p>
<p>Took the ACT today, english and reading were easier I think this time. I actually understood some of the science words. Math still doesn’t make sense. I need a 4 point rise in math and science and 2 points in english and reading to get the 34 I want. Currently have a 31 :/</p>
<p>The ACT was pretty decent. I found the English to be decent, expecting 30-33. Math was surprisingly easy. I only had to guess on like 3-4 problems, 30-33. Reading was meh…27-30. Science was unusually difficult 26-29.</p>
<p>Think I did worse on this ACT than my first. Probably because I was too relaxed this time.
English- easiest ACT section I’ve ever had. I really think I could get a 35-36 here
Math- pretty tough this time for me, though everyone else said it wasn’t bad. 29-30
Reading- pretty easy I guess. We’ll say 33
Science- absolute hell for me. 26-28. Hopefully. </p>
<p>I guess I’ll predict a 30 overall, which would be 2 worse than my original. I didn’t take the writing test on this one, so I don’t know how much this test would’ve helped me anyway. </p>
<p>Work Keys or whatever it’s called tomorrow. Couldn’t care less about it.</p>
<p>I have state standardized testing tomorrow and Thursday. Last year! Not gonna miss it at all.</p>
<p>Congrats to biovball and studious on Michigan HSHSP! </p>
<p>I ended up not applying to any programs this year because travel costs would’ve been prohibitive and I have some local things planned out. Plus, my relatives from far away might come to visit 
So it’ll probably be that and finishing an independent project for credit + french distance learning. </p>
<p>@quidditch, yep! I’m really, really excited. I know what you mean about competitive local fairs - my regional fair is basically the biggest in the entire country and probably the most competitive one, too and we only send 12 students to nationals (CWSF). Our local team for nationals is a lot weaker this year, since most of the experienced kids either graduated or are going to Phoenix. Internationals are determined by a national panel that includes a proposal, presentation/report/abstract so it’s separate, thankfully.</p>
<p>I need to buckle down for APs and SAT2s (Bio/Math II/ World History). After May, I’ll feel so much better. (Assuming all goes well, lol)</p>
<p>Then college apps. </p>
<p>Honestly, I feel a little lost wrt: apps. To be honest, fit has never been a factor worth considering in my family. We moved because it was convenient. I went to X school because it was most convenient and met our needs. I never had a choice, really. I feel like I’ll end up throwing out a ton of apps and figure something out in March. </p>
<p>I have a general idea of what I’d like to do as a career but I wonder how much of that is because I don’t know anything else. I feel like if you do anything moderately interesting for a few months, it’ll become extremely interesting. </p>
<p>Bah, life.</p>
<p>As for schools - heh, mine are mostly on the coasts. I might apply for some merit scholarships, too - idk yet. I have a US visa now so hopefully I can just visit places after being accepted. I don’t know if I can justify visiting without anything in hand.</p>
<p>Tomorrow is Student Council elections. I have to give a speech. Yay! I’m running for Secretary. This girl against me is so nice so if I don’t win, I hope she does! Screw the other candidates.</p>
<p>So the PSAE and work keys whatever crap are the most useless tests ever created. I wasted an entire day doing them, and I will never get that back. Am I right Illinois?</p>
<p>Yeah today was a complete and total waste of time. That Work Keys was actually the dumbest thing ever. I could slap the ACT for that.</p>
<p>Guess what, guys?
My APES teacher thought it would be a wonderful idea to have a project due three days before the AP exam.</p>
<p>What’s Work Keys? Is it like a state standardized test?</p>
<p>^ Yeah pretty much. It tests skills in the workplace, like reading graphs, memos, notices, etc… It’s pretty useless and seems to be designed for only incompetent people.</p>
<p>okay…</p>
<p>haha today I had the first part of my state’s standardized test (it’s called the STAR test). I had Language Arts and Science today. I finished the language arts section in like 10 minutes (thanks a lot SAT!) but I had to wait a whole 1 hour and 20 minutes doing homework. </p>
<p>For the Science section, I got the physics test. It was funny because I actually didn’t learn some of the stuff despite being in AP Physics C. Like thermodynamics, waves, and sound? haha, no.</p>