@dogJournalism summer colleges are always so expensive D: If they weren’t, I’d probably attend one; but if I don’t get into any of the summer programs I applied to, I’ll just take CC classes and volunteer and stuff (either way, I have to get my volunteering done).
@SallyStephens I wouldn’t consider myself lucky for it. All their programs are insanely overpriced and they’re not exclusive at all so its not like it looks impressive to attend one. Additionally, it puts me in a location where colleges see “oh you have access to so much you should’ve taken advantage of more of it!”
@KE3299 That’s true when you put it that way…
Hey guys! Looking for some advice: my academic decathlon coach wants us to stay until 8 pm studying during this next year. As an upcoming junior I am freaking out, I’m taking 4 APs and doing soccer conditioning, I don’t know if its worth telling her that she is being too ambitious for our team… (we werent even close to getting to state). Do you guys think its okay to stay late afterschool studying even though everyone on the team is doing loads of APs?
@sprights five hours after school seems like a lot. I get it if it’s until five or six (somewhat reasonable), but your coach should trust you guys to study on your own time; otherwise, no one on your team will get any sleep and performance will go down.
@topaz1116 my thoughts exactly! Its not like a sport, lets say swim- many students do not have pools at their home so they cannot practice outside of school. But this requires sitting down at a desk which I’m sure 99.9% of the people have on the team. 
@sprights Honestly that’s ridiculous to be expected to stay til 8 every day for a semester, I don’t think anyone will actually be able to devote themselves to those requirements.
Am I the only one on Spring Break right now?
My spring break always starts on the week preceding Easter, and in this case that would be next week.
@dsi411 My spring break just started last Friday. We get two (!) weeks off.
I just took an optional chemistry exam for first year chemistry students. It was embarrassingly easy.
My spring break starts on Good Friday and goes on for a week.
Took a Government test today on the Executive Branch. Was super easy.
The Chemistry quiz I took, however, was horribly hard. It was on colligative properties, which I still don’t completely comprehend.
Tomorrow, I have an Algebra 2 test on logarithmic functions, which I hope will go by smoothly. I find the topic able to be understood, but I don’t want to jinx my luck. Later tomorrow I also have a Spanish quiz and 3rd Quarter writing assessment in Spanish.
After that, I will finally be free of school (won’t be attending on Friday).
We had a math quiz today that involved absurdly annoying numbers (plus no calculator)… All the multiplication had to be done by hand D: But I think my answers were correct. (Note the “I think,” as the numbers were not nice; therefore, I do not know whether the numbers were right. However, I did get some of the same answers as other people for the really weird problems, and I checked the other ones.)
I got into a UVA Writer’s Workshop for the summer! I’m so excited. 
Lol my “spring break” starts with a half day next thursday. We have Friday off and Monday but we go back to school Tuesday. I guess that is what you sacrifice when you have like 8 days off of school due to snow :wtf:
@greeneggsandsam9 Seriously?? My school had 11 snow days this school year and we start Spring Break from Saturday March 28th to Monday April 6th (a little over one week).
My school only has a one-week spring break and we never have snow days (the California life). Count yourselves lucky.
I receive my first acceptances on April 16 and 17… The only thing is that a deposit deadline for one program (my second choice) is due three days before the results for my first choice program come out. I probably won’t get into either (both are pretty competitive) and I almost want to go to my third choice (which is also competitive, but people with similar stats to me have been accepted) because it’s residential… My second choice is research, but there’s no interaction between different students in the program, so I’m not very sure about it. My first choice is an internship where you’re doing group research, and everybody in the program interacts on a daily basis (and my first choice is free).
I kind of hope I either don’t get into my second-choice program or my first-choice program because it’ll save me a lot of hassle.
My spring break starts April 3 (Friday) and goes for a week. I hear back from COSMOS on April 17, but I already got accepted to Carleton College Summer Science Institute
My spring break is April 4-10, and I’m actually going on a short college tour over it!
@petlion where to?