<p>I do on most days, but my spirit week doesn’t happen during football season, though. I don’t mind dressing up.</p>
<p>Also, unrelated to school…but what laptops do you all have? I’m getting a new one and I really need it to be small and easy to carry around, preferably 11.6" or 13". I don’t care about the brand, as long as it works fine! We want to spend less than $1,000, though, so the MacBook Pro is out. (I’ve actually been looking at older PCs with Windows 7 around $500, but a lot of them have complaints about the same thing, eg. bad wifi reception or not being able to boot after 1 month.)</p>
<p>I like the looks of Macs, but they’re just so pricey…I’ll most likely be buying one when I go to college, anyways.</p>
<p>Pro/cons of the one you guys have, or recs? Thanks!</p>
<p>Sorry I don’t have one, but I’d also be interested I knowing whatever one else has because I plan to get one. My schools giving everybody iPads in October so I guess I don’t really need one now.</p>
<p>haha thanks so much to everyone who told me to upgrade ios7! i actually didnt yet, because my phone doesnt have enough memory left to upgrade it lol i deleted a lot of photos and videos and i still dont have enough. :(</p>
<p>and my spirit week is sometime in april hahah but yeah i do dress up!</p>
<p>i have the xnote (company is lg) and its pretty good, actually. i bought it four years ago and it still works well. (its just slow sometimes and lasts like a minute if my laptop isnt charged). theres this one laptop that i do recommend, but idk if its pricey and idk the full name lol ik its from samsung though haha</p>
<p>its 11am and i just woke up D:</p>
<p>I have Lenovo for home, school has laptops as well, and they are Chromebooks. Not exactly the best, but better than nothing.</p>
<p>School has dells and at home our family shares a mac</p>
<p>our school has ****ty computers but at home i have an old windows xp, and two new smooth linux computers</p>
<p>Share a windows PC with my parents. My brother has a Mac which I will hopefully get when he’s in graduate school.</p>
<p>I got my bio test back today… Honestly, i cant even explain how unfair the teacher was. It asked to match up vocabulary terms. All the internet sources (they were reliable ones; they ended with .edu so it shows that they were actually educational) explained something. But then my teacher thinks that he is correct all the time-.-</p>
<p>Imhkim, I know EXACTLY how you feel. I’m self studying AP Bio, so I don’t have a bio teacher, but my English teacher thinks that she’s correct all the time and just BS’es all of her answers and it infuriates me.</p>
<p>As for my laptop, I use a Lenovo Ideapad Y500 (gaming laptop). While I don’t game on my computer much, I still wanted a powerful machine for the math/science academy I plan to attend after sophomore year. My mom may also buy me a Chromebook for casual/outdoor use and whatnot.</p>
<p>The only advice I have in terms of laptops is DO NOT GET WINDOWS 8 IF YOU CAN HELP IT OR UNLESS THE LAPTOP IS TOUCHSCREEN.</p>
<p>The only thing I dislike about my laptop is the disgusting OS known as Windows 8.
Lenovo usually has some good laptops and, if you buy from their site, you can usually get discounts and whatnot. My laptop was like 1.4k or something like that, but with the coupon that Lenovo provided at the time, I got the laptop for like 800-1000 (I think. It may have been slightly different; my memory fails me. I also got a warranty, so…)</p>
<p>What are some cheap laptops you guys recommend for casual use? Like a Macbook, but around 500 dollars or less? Are chromebooks good in this regard?</p>
<p>AP Bio for me is going very well. My teacher doesn’t give us grades, he evaluates how well we understand the standard and gives us a number 1-4. 4 being advanced and 1 being beginner. I just got a 4 on a quiz today! So far I have an A in AP Bio.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the laptop responses. I think I’m going to stick to the PC.</p>
<p>@imhkim - Frustrating teachers are the worst. /:</p>
<p>@TeamRocket - I’m debating between the Acer Aspire and the Asus Vivobook right now. Both of them seem like pretty decent laptops and are both touchscreen, and around $400. Sadly, they’re Windows 8. ): They’re not good for gaming because they’re core i3, though (might be a bit slow), but if you just need internet/documents/music/videos like me, they’d suffice.</p>
<p>Don’t get a Chromebook, unless you’re never going to bring your laptop anywhere and you’re planning on keeping it at home. The battery life is really short and the laptop is pretty much useless if you’re not connected to wifi. I also don’t really like the format of Google Docs.</p>
<p>I got a 71 on my AP Stats test. It was on the mean/median/standard deviation, the easiest stuff we’ll be learning all year. There goes my GPA. I’m an idiot…I don’t even know how I got that low of a score. I guess it was because there were only 12 questions.</p>
<p>My stats teacher is also kind of intimidating and I’m scared of asking her questions…):</p>
<p>Sorry this is my 3rd post in a row…but how do you guys deal with people who ask what you got on a test? There’s this one guy in my class that ALWAYS asks me what I got, and I never really tell anyone my grade, even if it’s a 99 or 100, because I’ve somehow just never been comfortable with that. Then he calls me pretentious, or b**chy, or something like that. And it’s not the words that affect me, it’s just how he constantly asks me what I get - it’s annoying, and it’s my grade, not his.</p>
<p>And then I got that terrible test grade. If he found out, he would probably call me stupid, or say something like, “Woah, I got higher than you!?”. So yeah, I’m really self-conscious and care too much about what others think.</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity ask him why he cares so much about your grade when he has his own. And be like “I’m not being pretentious or b****y, do you really think people are going to show you how much they get paid in the real world? Obviously they’re not because they don’t need you showing off to them” </p>
<p>Idk if that was good advice or not.</p>
<p>@Jawmess, I like your advice lol</p>
<p>Idk, i’ve never had a prob with sharing my grade, even when I do badly.</p>
<p>That’s just me though, I’m not saying everyone has to be like that.</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity or TeamRocketGrunt: Oh please, Windows 8 is not bad at all. Only ones complaining about it are those who like complaining.</p>
<p>Posting proudly from my Windows 8 Lenovo.</p>
<p>@fightthefuture - Hahah, not against it! I’m just used to the Windows 7 layout, and it seems annoying changing from the classic MS Word layout to the new Windows 8 one. I also don’t really use apps…how long did you need to adjust?</p>
<p>@Jawmess - Haha thanks. What you said is true and although I probably won’t say that to his face…it’s reassuring!</p>
<p>@sweetcupcake - I’m pretty sure most people aren’t, I’m just way too paranoid and care too much about what others think. I should change. :P</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt- Yeah, and English teachers are supposed to be more understanding since there are many ways of interpretating the same writing piece. 
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<p>@Highschool2016- ooh nice! haha keep up that good work 
(omg sorry if i sounded too motherly here lol)</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity- yeah, ikr! sorry about your stat test and that annoying kid. hmmm if i were you, id actually be like “can you please stop asking. is there a legitamite reason for you to know my test grade? no, so leave me alone.” hahah and stay confident gurl! i remember how i used to be like you too, self concious and stuff. but then just think- will all these people who judge me be an important part of my life five years from now? they wont, so try not to worry too much about what people think of you 
ik its hard but try to keep a carefree (not too carefree though!) mindset :)</p>