<p>Hey guys and girls, I have a question. So in one of my classes, only quiz grades have been put in so far and I know for a fact that this teacher has 6 other categories for grades and my question is: Can those 6 categories and future quiz grades raise my overall grade by 10%?</p>
<p>@Jawmess - Depends on your average right now. Obviously if you have a low average and you get 100s on all the quizzes, your grade will shoot up.</p>
<p>@Animefan1998 Read it for summer work for English. Although, I had read it 2 years prior to that to help somebody out and I remember I was so angry at all the evil kids I wanted to punch them in the face. It’s not that hard to read because of it’s length, though, and the contents of the book.</p>
<p>This week I literally snapped. There was so much stress. I had to work on a project at this guys house until 10pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, just to go home and work on my individual homework. Then I had to complete two essays last night along with homework in every, single one of my classes. This school week I have had a total of twenty hours of sleep…</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies was a good book, but such a pain to annotate with its symbols and metaphors.</p>
<p>20 hours of sleep is more than I usually get each school week…</p>
<p>So much work.
And this is only 10th grade.</p>
<p>tell me about it.</p>
<p>so i’m applying to a boarding school and i’ve heard it’s synonymous with death…</p>
<p>social life, sleep, or decent grades, you can only pick two</p>
<p>Junior year is going to be expensive, even worse is senior year.</p>
<p>AP testing, SAT, SAT Subject Test, College Apps…time flies wayyyyyy to fast.</p>
<p>At my school you need 4 history credits to graduate. The have 3 planned out am studies, world cult., ap gov/reg gov. Then you can pick two elective social studies classes. The classes that I know of are soc, psych 1+2, current political issues, and Econ. I plan to take Econ and either psych or soc. Which should I take?
Do you guys have tentative schedules/ classes you want to request for the next two years? What are they?</p>
<p>My school requires 4 years of history too! (eastern history freshman year, western history sophomore year, us history junior and senior years). I honestly thought my school was the only school that required 4 year, tbh. Take psychology- it seems like a really fun and interesting class (at least for me because im kinda into that field). I really want to take child development junior year! I actually wanted to take it this year but my schedule didny work out. And maybe this optional class called Peers. lol its like an elective but you gotta submit an application and be interviewed. It’s a class in which you help freshmen and give them a smoother transition. I was in a class like this in eighth grade and it was so much fun :)</p>
<p>Upperclassmen might laugh that a sophomore is saying this, but it’s actually scary how in a little more than 2 years, we’ll know what college we’ll be going to and where all our friends are going.</p>
<p>I wonder if there are any future valedictorians or Noble Prize Winners or Pulitzer Prize winners on this thread.</p>
<p>^Ikr…</p>
<p>In a way I’m very excited for the future but also scared and nervous at the same time. It’s going to feel weird opening those letters and emails then looking back at myself in a few years to see if all of this actually paid off.</p>
<p>I’d say we all are future Nobel laureates. We have some pretty awesome motivation.</p>
<p>Ha ha, puny sophomores!</p>
<p>…most of you have probably done college research than I have. <em>sob</em></p>
<p>hahaha thats so true. I don’t even know how I’ll be able to manage waiting for my early decison results and then dealing with future rejections from some colleges. Next year will be pretty hard too, with all the grades and SAT and stuff. sophomore year is the only year to have a stressless year 
boy i do miss freshmen year a bit.</p>
<p>I’m dreading Junior year. This year is pretty important to me in terms of work ethic and organization; I’m trying to prepare myself for next year so it doesn’t come and hit out of nowhere…Kind of like how I was a little unprepared for sophmore year :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I have a 90 question multiple choice and free response test coming up very soon. I’ve done very little studying too…time to see how well some of Cal Newport’s study hacks work…</p>
<p>It’s just scary because…the future will be the present, and if we don’t like how it turns out, we won’t be able to change it. At least we have the opportunity to shape our futures and the capacity to dream and wonder right now. In 20 years, we’ll have to deal with life, whether we like it or not.</p>
<p>I’m not sure where you all want to go in life, but I’ve always wanted to work in Silicon Valley for a tech company, whether that’d be Google or Oracle or a start-up. In 20 years, I’ll either be there or be a disaster.</p>
<p>@imhkim - Same…kind of regret not making the most out of 9th grade.</p>
<p>@letmeseetheworld - Good luck! One of my favorite study blogs is duckstop.stanford.edu. Study Hacks is too intensive for me sometimes - not sure about you, but I never find the time to make a billion to-do lists or go into the forest and meditate before I study. 
It does motivate me, though, to actually start studying!</p>