<p>I have a MacBook. And @nothingto, I’m in the process of moving, so I haven’t really been able to volunteer thus far. :(</p>
<p>I just got an ipad2 which will be my primary word processor, note taking, research device. I have a pc but because I’m going to be taking courses that require a lot of studying, but i will also be on my school soccer team and my club team during fall (annoyingly our school does a fall soccer season which interferes with club)!so I will be traveling a lot requiring Internet, therefor 3G from the iPad</p>
<p>@hazelphase I can relate to your battery woes. I used to get a 3 hour charge on my old PC. Though my Mac is advertised at 10, I can get about 7-8 hours after a full charge, which is fantastic for work.</p>
<p>It’s hard to see students functioning without mobile computing nowadays, seeing how well immersed our world is in the internet.</p>
<p>I too use a mac 
and well… I swear by it as well :D</p>
<p>I’m life guarding this summer for 10 bucks an hour (wooooo super chill) and on sunday I leave for a mission trip I’m also doing summer swim team and err procrastinating on summer assignments.</p>
<p>I use an old MacBook now, and am thinking about updating. Would it be better to get an MB Air or iPad 2? Also, I am volunteering for my local congressman and am a part of a band, as well as looking into the page program in Washington for junior year!</p>
<p>If price isn’t an issue, I’d go with the MacBook Air, hands down. It’s has the amazing portability of an iPad, but it has the ability to do full-fledged computing.</p>
<p>All I’m going to be doing is hopefully starting hospital work and volunteering at a theatre camp.</p>
<p>I’ve mostly been just relaxing, doing a lot of babysitting, seeing my friends, and reading. A lot. A lot of reading.</p>
<p>What books are you guys reading/have you read thus so far this summer?</p>
<p>This summer I traveled and now i’m just chillin’ :P</p>
<p>I use a custom made gamer PC at home because well, I used to play games competitively. Seeing as how that wouldn’t be a good EC and it was very time consuming, I had to stop. Even though I had the option to buy a macbook pro this summer, I’m going to wait until next summer to buy it. If i need quick access to internet, i’ll use others people’s laptops :P</p>
<p>I have really no idea what my rank is right now. Although, I have only gotten straight A’s so far. I’d imagine I’m pretty well ranked in a class of over 400 students. I’m probably in at least the top 20. It all depends on how many people took more than 2 high school classes in middle school and still got staight A’s freshmen year.</p>
<p>Also, right now I use an HP computer with Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit. </p>
<p>My summer reading books are Keeping Corner and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.</p>
<p>My rank first semester: 3rd</p>
<p>My rank second semester: 1st</p>
<p>So if I try harder Sophomore year, I can be pushed to 1st all semesters.</p>
<p>^Good job jumping from 3rd to 1st. It can be quite difficult to supplant the top two in the class.</p>
<p>I’ve been meaning to read Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, but I’ve (idiotically) put that off. Once I completely finish my AP US work, I’m going to have a reading frenzy.</p>
<p>Cat’s Cradle is so good! I love Kurt Vonnegut. Last week, I finished Galapagos, and it was excellent.</p>
<p>Oh, Vonnegut is fantastic. I’ve heard that Cradle is his best work, so I’m looking forward to it.</p>
<p>I’m behind on my volunteering, only around 60 hours so far 
but i just got a volunteering spot at the local observatory for 4 or so hours a week. I’ll probably keep that for the rest of hs.</p>
<p>This is probably been asked-but what are yall schedules for this year?</p>
<p>History of the Old Testament
Chemistry
AP Lang
Geometry
APUSH
German 2
AP Psychology</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I miss geometry. And I know what you guys mean. My pre-cal teacher wasn’t very good and was absent a lot. Despite 80% of the class being upperclassmen, me and 5 other freshmen took turns teaching the class, lol.</p>
<p>I do not know how Sophomores are getting so much AP’s. If only it was available in my school… AP World History is the only AP available to Freshmens/Sophomores (it is a 2 year course, so you have to take it as a freshmen). </p>
<p>Junior year you get to take 3 AP’s.
Senior year you get to take 3 AP’s. </p>
<p>I hate our schools budget…</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t offer AP classes, since they don’t want to have to be mandated to teach that specific curriculum… However, we can take the tests junior/senior year and most people do well.</p>