@greeneggsandsam9 I got that as well, but I can’t go since it’s being held like 50 miles from where I live. I think it would be really cool though, meeting kids from other schools and possibly admissions officers
We are doing a partner presentation in English and my partner still hasn’t done ANYTHING! The presentations started on Tuesday and one or two groups have been presenting a day. Luckily we haven’t been picked yet. I already have a low grade in the Speaking and Listening category and it’s going to be even lower if I do badly on this. On the last one of these we did I got an 8/9 and apparently he got a 5/9. So if he does the same thing he did last time, I’ll probably get a 5 or lower (group grade). Ugh, this is so annoying.
We have a shared Google doc that he was supposed to put his research on, but he hasn’t added anything. We’ve had around two weeks now. Is it really that hard to do some research?
@sprights The closest one to me just over 100 miles away.
@dsi411 That’s what I hate the most about partner projects! Last year we had this huge (250 points) project. I was in a group with three others. We had to make a storyboard for an advertisement, and print advertisement, a presentation and a short essay. All they did was make the print advertisement–and it took the the length of the who,e project to do so (2 weeks in and out of class). I did all the rest.
@dsi411 before the presentation, tell your teacher that your partner has not contributed anything. It’s not your fault if he didn’t do anything.
But yes, that is why I hate group/partner projects (especially when you can’t pick the group). I always end up being the only one doing any work (we had to write/perform a skit for English a couple of days ago, and I wrote the whole thing for our group; but that’s also because I’m halfway decent at writing/making up stories).
@greeneggsandsam9 I got that too and I may go to the Baltimore one because it’s really close. I’m not really interested in any of the schools besides Cornell, but I guess it would be helpful.
@dsi411 That sucks, luckily I haven’t had any serious group project incidents this year (plus my teachers this year grade us individually for group projects) but in the past I dealt with people like those by sharing contact info with them and negotiating with them outside of school to make are they’re working on the project.
Chemistry teacher gave us four assignments this weekend. Thanks.
How is everyone doing this delightful week?
I’m a bit swamped with work, but the musical is finally over so I have a bit more time on my hands, and all of my classes are really interesting right now.
My classes are generally not interesting because a) half of the classes are full of imbeciles, and b) I don’t have good teachers for several subjects. And a good teacher isn’t always interesting… Really, my only “interesting” teacher is my math teacher; I guess English isn’t bad either, and history is okay sometimes, but other than that, I have to plow through the day.
I can’t wait until next year. Yes, I’m going to die, but I’m going to die buried by interesting material.
@topaz1116 at least this year is nearly over! I’m sort of sad because this was the year that it’s obvious I’m in contact with interesting material (my most work-intensive classes are Calc BC, Physics C, and Latin III Honors, my favorite subjects)-- next year is a weird hodgepodge of courses (still filled with math, though! 
) and then senior year is humanities APs, which aren’t nearly as interesting to me.
It’s weird to think that we aren’t even halfway done with high school yet.
I have three tests tomorrow (Economics, Algebra, and Spanish). 
I’ve been stuck on the same chemistry question for four hours and it’s ridiculous. My speech class has been knocked down to two people; I don’t know if this could even be considered a ‘class’ anymore.
I’m pretty sure next year will be so much harder than this year, since I’m going into even more work-intensive courses and adding a second science to my schedule.
I find it somewhat hard to believe I’m almost halfway done with high school–I still remember my first day of freshman year quite vividly.
@Faultystart what is the question?
@Cornbread1999 We’re doing a lab on determining the molar volume of a gas (hydrogen gas). The question asks, “How does Avogadro’s hypothesis relate to the results obtained in this exoeriment.” I’m not sure if this is a hard question or I’m just too dumb to realize the answer 
@Faultystart isn’t Avogadro’s law something about how equal volumes contain equal molecule numbers? So the volume of any other gas with the same number of molecules at that same temperature and pressure would be the same.
GAHHHH I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT I LEARNED LAST DECEMBER
We have a chem test tomorrow that’s supposed to be the hardest test of the year (although his tests aren’t necessarily hard, he puts quite a few ambiguous questions in there for which there are multiple correct answers; this specific test is also supposed to have fill-in-the-blank questions (aka I actually have to study), plus it’s on two chapters (and I keep getting negatives mixed up on calculations)), and I need a 100% on it to raise my grade back to an A (long story short, I failed a quiz for converting minutes to seconds).
@topaz1116 Yeah, but the thing is none of our calculations or anything had anything to do with two gases having the same temperature or pressure.
Hm. You could say that this data could be used for all other gases? I dunno.
@topaz1116 what is your test on?
Our short answer is never fill-in-the-blank. Just calculations and essays. Galore.