<p>@fostej, I think the colleges will find out why and they’ll like your effort in taking college courses. </p>
<p>My question - has anyone done some college visit yet? One of my friends (who is a senior) told me he started to do college visit in his sophomore year. One of my family friends told me the same thing. This friend told me that they visited the schools when she was a sophomore. Her parents arranged to have her go to open houses and kind of talked to the guide, visited dorms, etc. </p>
<p>@UKgirl: Wow, congrats!! I would probably take at least 5.5 minutes on that!
Ha well we’re all sophomores, so you have plenty of time to get back in shape. :)</p>
<p>@shmluza: My mom was thinking about having me go this summer, but not during sophomore year. Right now I’ve got too much crap going on anyway.
Then again, we’ll probably be even busier as upperclassmen, so…</p>
<p>@shmulza…uh, not really. I’ve been to college football games, but that doesn’t count as a visit :D</p>
<p>Probably some over the summer, of in-state schools, or close by out-of-state (e.g., D.C., since I live in VA). I’m applying for a couple of summer programs at colleges, so if I go to one, I’ll see the college that way too.</p>
<p>@shmluza: IB and AP and chair placement tests (in three different groups :() and math things (grr…) and a bunch of other stupid stuff (e.g. uncooperative counselors)… oh and swim season, too.
I will admit, though, that so far I’ve mostly liked swimming this year, as opposed to last year when I hated it so much. I joined the swim team last year because my mom made me. I hated it even more when I did the fall pre-season training right at the start of sophomore year.
And then, miraculously, I began somehow finding enjoyment out of not just our competitions (no matter how well/awful you swim, these are absolutely AMAZING experiences!! Team bonding! :D) but also our practices. This happened sometime in November right after my birthday. (Though maybe it was mostly because I finally had a breakthrough on my favorite stroke, breaststroke :p)
But practices are still really torturous. Like today, we did 3 500’s of a broken IM (I’m pretty sure only UKgirl will get that term xD), and then 2 450’s pulling with back-free and then breast-free (I hate pulling with breaststroke…it SUCKS.), and then 2 300’s kicking with flutter for the first set and mix for the second set.
All of that was just our warm-up. A freakishly long warm-up, yes, but one nonetheless.</p>
<p>^WOW, that was long. O.o Sorry, had to let off some steam. ^_^</p>
<p>That’s soooo awesome! CE thanks so much because one of my best friends is looking for a camp in Annapolis area. Thanks so much. I will tell her.</p>
<p>Once one of my best friends who is asian went to a mall with a bunch of others. They attracted a cop. The cop followed them wherever they went. I told her it must because the cop was thinking how come these Asian kids were not home doing math?! there must be something wrong with them. lemme follow them.</p>
<p>Haha that’s hilarious!! But also so true! Most kids I meet for the first time I are all like, “Don’t you fill up all your free time with math?!”
And then I kinda look at them like they’re crazy (which is probably true), and they look back at me like I’m crazy (which is definitely true lol), and then we all burst out laughing because we can’t keep straight faces for long enough.</p>
<p>XD Anyway. When I get mad, though, I can keep a straight face for an almost unlimited amount of time. Unless, you know, someone tickles me or something. :D</p>
<p>@shmluza…you’re welcome, glad I can help. Tell her applications are now open, just Google “USNA STEM camp high school”. </p>
<p>@Elven…well I don’t know what broken IM is, but I know IM= Individual Medley. I love to swim, just don’t do it competitively or anything. Took swimming lessons until I was 8 to get really good, but then I wanted to quit, and my parents didn’t pressure me to keep going, though now I wish they would have. Oh well. </p>
<p>Oh you think you have it hard, track practice ain’t easy. My sport is your sport’s punishment. A couple of my friends on the swim team complained when they ran a mile. As if. That’t my warm up.</p>
<p>@CE: broken IM is just breaking the IM into pairs of respective strokes, so like in today’s warm-up, the first 500 was free-back (because no sane swim coach would ever make his team do a 500 fly-back :p); the second 500 was back-breast; and the third 500 was breast-free.
You could probably still join your swim team! Two years of experience in high school is better than nothing though it sounds like you’ve been doing track</p>
<p>Oh, track practice definitely isn’t easy. I know that. But seriously, at my school, my sport is your sport’s punishment. Cross country/track people die when they only have to do like 5 laps. Ha. There have been several swim practices where we got in over 3000 yards in 2 hours. You have to admit, swimming 3000 yards is at least several times harder than running 3000 yards.
And a mile isn’t bad at all. We swim at least 1.5 times that much every practice unless he’s giving us an easy day at the end of the season (which, sadly, has not arrived yet :p). Now, running a mile? Even easier.</p>
<p>See, at my school, the girls’ swim team is pretty competitive. I’m only barely varsity right now, and that’s only because of my breaststroke. If my breaststroke hadn’t improved dramatically during pre-season I’d still be in JV.</p>
<p>^wow, nice. Seriously, they have issues with 5 laps? Jeez, we normally do an Indian Run of 8 laps or so. </p>
<p>At my school, pretty much anyone can join the swim team, but they don’t swim unless they’re good. My school has an OK team, but it depends on the year. </p>
<p>Yea, I guess swim would be fun (or…well…maybe that’s not the word, hearing your practice ;)) but I’m good with just track.</p>
A freakishly long warm-up, yes, but one nonetheless.</p>
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