true that ^ @parkj360
ughhhhhh guys, ap world is going to kill me tomorrow. it’s now almost midnight and i am almost done reviewing for my test tomorrow…
i studied a load of spanish 3 conjugations before i started my ap world, drank a cup of coffee, and now all i can think about is converting all the words i see on my textbook’s page to spanish verbs
I AM GOING CRAZY
@SallyStephens At least you’re done. (and have coffee to boot! I’m the only one up in my house). Ah, Spanish verb conjugations. My favorite are the present perfect subjunctive.
@Cornbread1999 I mean a four-period-a-day block schedule; they get eight regular classes instead of six. But they’re the dumb school, so I doubt their classes are very hard.
@SirSly I got a 216 on my PSAT without studying.
@pseudoprimal I’m reading the Across the Universe books by Beth Revis and they’re really good (: Also I’ve started reading Feed, by M.T. Anderson. I want to read 1984 and Brave New World soon, too; I started Catcher in the Rye a while ago but never had the chance to finish it (although I love love love the writing style). And I’ll get to read 1984, Brave New World, and Catcher in the Rye again in English junior and senior year 
I also need to read the Odyssey, since my class never read it freshman year and we’ll read the Iliad senior year (I already know the story of the Odyssey, but I haven’t actually read it).
We read A Midsummer Night’s Dream in eighth grade; it’s one of my favorite Shakespeare plays We also read Much Ado About Nothing in seventh grade (and we’re reading it again this year, for some reason, along with The Merchant of Venice), and Romeo and Juliet last year. I can’t wait to read Hamlet in class junior or senior year, though–it’s my favorite among the Shakespeare plays I’ve read.
@Spiral7 our midterms are next week and I’m really stressed, since I’m borderline B+/A- in three classes (out of seven). I’m pretty confident about two of them (history and chem), but I’m worried about Precalc… That class will be the death of me.
Taking four AP courses is considered very difficult at my school as well, although many of the people who do that take AP Stats and AP Psych (which are considered really easy) as two of them. I’m taking three “hard” APs next year, as well as Honors English (which is basically AP Lang) and people think I’m crazy. My counselor’s only consolation when we were planning schedules for junior and senior year was that I’m not taking APUSH; APUSH is death at my school (unless you get the easy teacher; but there are two classes with the really really hard teacher and one class with the easy teacher).
@apandia omg I’ve gotten a gazillion and it’s annoying the crap out of me. They started trickling in in December, but they’re coming in a dozen a day now. I got nine today and that’s like five or six less than yesterday.
@SallyStephens I studied three days for my precalc test (which I took today) and I overlooked the most simple of formulas by studying the harder stuff (of which there were none on the test); so automatic B right there (no partial credit + six questions is not a good combination; at best, I’ll get a 90%, at worst, a 75%).
Everybody lol: my school offers a lot of APs, but the most anyone can take is 12 with gen eds; that would require being a native Chinese speaker, being in Precalc as a sophomore (~20% of students) so you can take AP Stats, and being willing to murder yourself. Nobody takes 12 AP courses at my school. Nobody. I’m planning on taking 6 and it’s considered murder (but tbh they’re all “hard” APs); but then again, I go to a high school that is considered very, very, very difficult. I think the most anyone takes is eight or nine? Ugh I could have seven AP courses done by the end of high school, but I decided to be stupid and take Engineering instead of AP Stats. And I hate engineering. I think I did it to be in a class with my friends… 
Has anyone gotten some invitation to a “Congress of Future Leaders in Science and Technology”? It seems like a scam ($1500 + travel expenses for a three day thing), and I searched it up and apparently anyone with a 3.5 GPA on their College Board account with an indicated interest in STEM got an invitation… But the invitation looked pretty xD
In other news, our Winterguard theme is natural disasters! We get to shake the flooring at the beginning to make it seem like an earthquake.
I got 1984 from Walmart probably around 6 months ago, but I’m still not done with it because I just keep it in my backpack and read it when I have absolutely nothing else to do. I would read it more but I’m so paranoid about reading at school these days because I think the librarians or someone else might be reading over my shoulder. So I usually take it out and read it for about a minute, and then put it back in my backpack because I’m worried people are watching. I guess that’s just my anxiety kicking in.
Plus, I absolutely cannot read when it is noisy. I don’t know why. This makes it hard for me to do some things, for example, sometimes we’ll have to read a passage and answer questions in groups, however, its always hard for me because of all the people discussing in groups makes it noisy in the classroom. But somehow everyone else is perfectly fine and unaffected.
Can you all read well when its noisy?
I get so many college emails. I’m supposed to be getting about 10 posters from various colleges I never heard of. Funny thing is did very poorly on my PSAT. (161)
I got tons of emails from colleges. At first I was all excited but now I’m kind of annoyed receiving emails from colleges unheard of. And yes, one of my first emails was the Orange one. :))
Speaking of which, what colleges do you all want to go to/what are you planning to major in?
I kind of want to double major in English and History, but don’t have a set of schools that I wish to apply to yet.
@SirSly I know that I want to go out of state for college, unless money is an issue. I don’t know what I want to major in (maybe something in the sciences?)
@SirSly Harvey Mudd, Stanford, and MIT are my dream schools, although I’m not sure what I want to major in. It changes regularly. Right now I’m thinking geology, although others on my shortlist include physics and chemE. I’m probably going to minor in English/creative writing. Obviously, money is a factor, but my family is at the point where the UCs (we live in Cali) are about equal to the cost of privates with financial aid, so it honestly doesn’t matter where I go as long as it meets a substantial portion of need (aka colleges where I’d be above average or top universities/LACs; of course the UCs are part of my list as well).
I put my mother’s email on the PSAT and so now she is getting all the annoying emails (My mom sometimes makes me type emails for her so I know the password and stuff). I should have put my email address because I actually like reading some of those emails. Mostly when they offer free stuff. The University of Minnesota said it’ll send me a free gift because I filled out the mailing list form thingy.
@SirSly i definitely want to major in something math-related…and probably not applied math or physics. I’m also pretty interested in linguistics and classics, but I’m not sure if those will have a named manifestation. I don’t love the idea of having to get through an extensive core curriculum, so right now the colleges that appeal most to me have less (or at least more generally fulfilled) gen ed requirements. I’m curious to see if that will change in the future, though.
@SirSly I’m probably going to major in molecular biology, computer science, or something along that line. I want to go into bioinformatics, so there are multiple majors that would prepare me for that. I don’t know exactly what college I want to go to, but I’m pretty sure I want to go to a technology school in the Northeast. Of course MIT’s my dream, but it won’t be the end of the world if I don’t get in.
Finals are next week (for me). I really need to study–namely for math, chem, and history, although the latter are generally easy courses (the only reason I have a low grade in chem is homework; history because of one test where no one got an A because of super-specific questions). But lol hahaha ain’t happening. Precalc isn’t even that hard–it’s just that I make stupid mistakes. Our chem textbook is literally the easiest thing in the world. I learned everything we’re working on now in middle school (although our textbook does get into more difficult concepts second semester).
And I really, really hate studying.
my AP Physics C class had its third (? maybe fourth) person drop…we’re down to 9. It’s a little scary how small this class has gotten.
Cornbread1999 - Musical Theatre
@SirSly I’m probaly going to major in business or political science. I really enjoy business/law and after undergrad, I want to get a MBA or JD
Im not really sure where I want to go or what I want to do. Probably majoring in computer science and mathematics, though im kinda interested in teaching. Carnegie Mellon would be my dream school, though I probably wont get in, but MIT or Stanford would be great too
@MALQSA ahh. Actually idk what to do for musical theater lol.
@iamnotironman Sameeeeee…
Ooops I’m sorry I posted on a thread not in my Musical Theater group! Sorry.
@MALQSA haha ok
I think I want to double major in Political science and Bio or Biochem… although that will probably change really soon hahaha