<p>I’m going to be 16 for a few days of senior year…</p>
<p>I going to be 16 for the first month and a half of senior year…</p>
<p>Wait people get upset over not getting PSAT scores? I don’t get mine till way later.</p>
<p>@AStudyInPink-Dat Sherlock reference.</p>
<p>^YOU WATCH SHERLOCK?!</p>
<p>Does anyone else watch TV here? I feel like I know you all so well in terms of academics but I don’t even know what gender some of you are…e.g. I’ve known sweetcupcake12 wants to go to Stanford too for a long time, but if she had a more gender neutral username, I wouldn’t have guessed that she was a girl.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just because I’m semi-addicted to CC, but I kind of feel “connected” to some of you who post here often. And I just realized that I know literally nothing about any of you because we’re usually so caught up talking about college and whatnot.</p>
<p>I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, but I do find myself watching Dance Moms and the Bachelor online.</p>
<p>That’s right, I’m one of those people.</p>
<p>Anyways, I realize that CC is filled mostly with science oriented people doing research and USAMO for their ECs. However, I can’t be the only writing nerd doing multiple essay competitions this year, can I?</p>
<p>I find myself watching a bunch of shows on the CW. I’ve recently been watching The Carrie Diaries nonstop lol. </p>
<p>Good luck with the essay competitions! I would actually do those but I don’t think I have a chance at winning and I’m short on time, anyway</p>
<p>I watch TV, but I’m probably using this iPad at the same time .</p>
<p>I mainly just watch things online, too, because I’m too lazy and too busy to keep up with episodes when they actually air.</p>
<p>Yep, most of CC does seem to be science-oriented people…I’m not science-oriented so much as I am math-oriented. I guess the math community on here is larger than the writing community, though.</p>
<p>I enjoy creative writing and I used to write a lot, but I have the worst writer’s block right now (and haven’t been satisfied with anything I’ve written for the past few months). I’m most likely going to submit a poem or two to Scholastic and I’m thinking about entering the ARI essay contest again, only for a different novel.</p>
<p>I’ve already turned in an essay for the Gulen Youth Institute on Dec 20. Tomorrow, I have to mail an an essay for a state wide competition. All the ones I’m doing are centered around different prompts.</p>
<p>@Catchinginfinity, yeah I do lol. Currently waiting for the new season, of course. The only other show I really watch is House, MD; I have all the seasons on DVD, and this is my third or so viewing of the entire series. (I really love House :D) What’s the ARI essay contest? Do you know of any other good essay contests?</p>
<p>As for your feeling “connected,” you’re not the only one! I also feel connected, in a sense, to the ones who post often. If any of you have Facebook, feel free to PM me your URL/name/whatever, and we can add each other. I’ve added two people through CC, actually (MathGuy777 and Elf4Eva)</p>
<p>@Sweetcupcake, I’d say I’m a science/writing nerd. I’m currently planning to submit to three essay contests, and I’m working on a short story for Scholastic. As for most people here doing research, I’d like to quote a fellow CC (well, she was) user:</p>
<p>“From what I saw back in the day, a lot of people who did ‘research’ spent a summer somewhere because their family pulled strings, got in on the tail end of a PR-friendly project, and ended up doing Intel, etc with a project they had little to no hand in designing. (I will admit that I did precisely this - spent a summer with my dad’s college room-mate, now a chemistry professor. At the regional science fair, I seriously considered telling the judges to give it to the kid next to me, who had an interesting, well-defined project he’d clearly developed himself, instead of my small contribution to a professional research paper. Still regret that I didn’t.) A years-long commitment with professional recognition would stand out from that pack.”</p>
<p>So, when you say research, there’s really two levels of research that the users of CC do; the first level is the one described above, and the second level is the independent project.</p>
<p>As for writing, I like creative writing, but I’ve never really written anything concrete. As in, I’ve never sat down and written something complete; I’ve always had ideas bounce around in my head (some of them fully develop), but I never write anything down.</p>
<p>I watch a lot of TV in the summer each year. I guess I can’t this year, since I’m planning to go to a summer program, and do AP summer work.</p>
<p>You’ll learn one day that AP summer work is only daunting in theory - a veteran procrastinator can take on any AP summer assignment (even dreaded AP Literature work) in two days or less.</p>
<p>@Team - ARI = Ayn Rand Institute
Ayn Rand, the author/“philosopher” who writes unrealistic scenarios pertaining to individualism and how a man should have a large ego, etc. (I personally don’t agree with her views, but entered the essay contest last year for Anthem, threw in a couple large vocabulary words, and got semi-finalist.)</p>
<p>I know of a few other Scholastic-esque ones, but not too sure of essay contests. The National Peace Essay Contest is the only other one I know of…unfortunately, I’m not really into poli sci/international affairs, so I don’t think I’ll be entering that one.</p>
<p>I deleted my Facebook at the end of 8th grade, wish I kept it though. /:</p>
<p>@preamble - My summer homework for AP World took 5 days D: It was all busy-work and pointless crap that we didn’t ever end up using in class.</p>
<p>@preamble1776</p>
<p>What kind of assignments you get? I didn’t finish mine until like the 2nd week into school because I waited too long.</p>
<p>Oh God, AP World.</p>
<p>I didn’t start it until the night before (big, big mistake) - and didn’t finish it in time. I lied to the teacher on the first day, said that I had it on Google Drive and that I’d share it with him when I got home… He said casually that he’d prefer a paper copy and that it’d be ideal if I could print it over the long weekend and pass it in the following week. It was as if the angels above were smiling down upon me.</p>
<p>I passed it in after the weekend, got a 100 on it. I was really anticipating a disaster to arise from the summer work mishap but the teacher actually went ahead and read excerpts of my summer work aloud to the class to show what an “exemplar piece” was like. He even kept me after school to explain to me how impressed he was with the work.</p>
<p>It was then I realized I wasn’t your typical BSing high school Junior…</p>
<p>…I was a BS God.</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt, noted. I know next to nothing about research, so I could picture was a high schooler at a university lab throwing chemical together. Forgive my ignorance, but in an independent project, what exactly is the objective? To solve some scientific mystery? To find out more about a particular topic?</p>
<p>@preamble1776, my AP gov teacher just told us that in 8 years of teaching, NO ONE has gotten an A on her midterm. Gonna make studying feel like a waste of time.</p>
<p>There is no test that is impossible to ace if it is on material that you have access to and its not in some foreign language. If the midterm is on chapters 1-6, for instance, read 1-6 until you understand it inside and out. Understand it well enough to be able to explain it to children. Then you can ace the test.</p>
<p>@preamble</p>
<p>I just joined my AP world class like a week late. I got a 98 on 1 assignment, he didn’t grade the other 2 assignments. He is pretty unorganized.</p>
<p>@BattleForLA - The quarter for us ends in two weeks and my AP Calculus teacher has not graded any of the 15 homework assignments, three quizzes, and two tests we’ve had. That’s what happens when you have a hippie/former pot head who wears flip flops year round teaching you math.</p>