@shussain2 I’ve applied to several summer programs; depending on which I get into/pick, I’ll also do volunteering for city summer camps. Worst-case scenario, I’ll take Stats and Astronomy at the community college (and volunteer).
CAHSEE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHASHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHJHJASHAHAHAHJAHAHAHAHAH
easy as crud
Dude the essay was so stupid. “Hahaha where would I like to go?” “Hahaha how am I supposed to get evidence for this without research?” “Hahaha I’ll just BS some stuff and they’ll probably take it.” (Basically my internal monologue during the essay. I did Greece and I realized 90% of the points I made were for Italy but WHOOPS oh well.)
I’m surprised some schools have such low rates of people passing. I think the only reason two people finished late-ish (as in, 10-ish minutes before third period ended, which was the last period we were formally excused from for the CAHSEE) in the room I was testing in was because they fell asleep. One girl who was taking the test in my room is an ELL, and even she finished the test early. The passages were things you’d find on fourth-grade STAR tests.
That sounds great! As long as you enjoy what you do over the summer and gain a new insight from it, you can’t really go wrong. @Sally, I volunteered at my local hospital last summer and it was amazing! The people I worked with and encountered made the experience worthwhile (plus the coats for volunteers were super cool 
). My only problem with summer programs is that they cost a lot of $$$–which I don’t have. Guess I’ll have to stick with volunteering and maybe a job this summer.
@topaz1116 I wrote about Southern California for that since I’m from there. We had about 3 hours for the test and I and most people finished in two but there’s one person who was sitting next to me who I know to be very smart who took the whole time to finish. I don’t know why but this person always takes forever on tests. I think it’s because they check all of their answers very meticulously.
I don’t think math will be as easy because I forgot a bunch of stuff from middle school. But at least I only have one class tomorrow. I usually don’t like missing class because I miss the lesson or a test or something, but this is great because ALL of the sophomores are gone.
@topaz1116 I wrote about China, because I want to learn more about my parent’s culture. It was 99% BS.
I referenced architecture in mine and I used the Parthenon as an example and apparently I was right.
@shussain2 Actually, one of the programs I’m applying to is totally free and the others offer a lot of FA/are (relatively) inexpensive (as in, still expensive, but around half the price of similar programs).
Lol, CAHSEE… basically a day off.
@topaz1116 Cool! What are the programs you applied to?
@shussain2 COSMOS (which gives lots of FA to in-state/isn’t too expensive), Stanford Earth Sciences, and I’m applying to a third research program at UCSC as well (although I need to figure out who to get my second rec for that from, since none of my math/science teachers except for the one I asked are doing recs).
@mrnephew Two days for my school!
My essay question for the CAHSEE was this: If you could invite a famous person, dead or alive, to your social science classroom, who would it be and why?
I chose Martin Luther King, Jr. because I couldn’t come up with anything better at the time. 
We had the math section today and it was literally the easiest thing ever. I could have done 95% of those problems in elementary school, and all of them in seventh grade…
@topaz1116 Same!
Is there an award for those who get 100% on the CAHSEE?
@The5458Captain I don’t think so, sadly.
There was one math question I guessed on, it was a distance one about two people going opposite ways from the same start point. I probably could have figured it out if I tried hard enough but I didn’t feel like it. I was gonna go back and try to do it but then I saw that people were turning in their tests already so I just decided I’d rather not take the time. And the test is all middle school math (only goes up to Algebra 1), so it would make sense that you’d be able to do it in 7th grade.
@Boltingflame No, not yet:)
I have an AP Chemistry test tomorrow and I don’t get any of this stuff. Well, I get some of it but I need to get an A to move my grade up to an A. I’m only a half a percentage away from an A but this isn’t making any sense. The stupid prep book doesn’t explain WHY they got their answers very well and neither does the teacher!
lol, yesterday during the CAHSEE, the person behind me fell asleep. He had this dream where he was kicking his little sister, and he actually kicked the back of my desk (we were spaced slightly apart). That snapped me out of my daydream, and it woke him up as well, and it caused a huge commotion. Worst of all, our school was audited by the state of California or something.
That same guy drew inappropriate pictures all over his test booklet and answer sheet today
lol xD we were so bored