High School Class of 2017

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Top three classes? Hahahaha.

But, if I had to choose:

Honors Precalc–BS class but I lovelovelove my teacher.
Honors English–class was kind of annoying, but we occasionally had interesting discussions. Also BS.
World History–see above. Really annoying teacher, but interesting topics and discussions.

I was just made club officer of one of the three clubs I applied to! Hopefully I make it for the other two (although I don’t expect to for one of them, since I’m not even a member LOL).

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@topaz1116 Congratulations for getting that officer position and I hope that you get the other two you want.

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congrats, @topaz1116!

My top three classes were the following:

  1. AP Physics C, for the reasons mentioned in my last post. It was almost entirely seniors, so by second semester the nine person class was effectively a three person class, and the material we learned, especially during E&M was interesting to my mathematical brain.
  2. Latin IV Honors-- it was a reading class, so essentially it meant reading poetry (and prose, but especially this semester an awful lot of poetry) out loud in class. Some people didn’t like it due to the monotony, but I fell in love with the works we read. It was so rewarding to finally be able to piece them together and be see the artistry within them. I had to put in a relatively large amount of work outside of class to keep my grade up (usually sixish hours a week), but it paid off: my quarter grades have been A+'s through the year while most of the kids in my class have high B’s.
  3. Art. This sounds a bit pathetic, I know-- I loved my Calc class and thought my English class was pretty great-- but it was so nice to destress in this class, and I found that I really like working with clay. The teacher was hilarious, too, which was a relief since the composition of the class was not so good. It’s funny to think that I might actually end up taking more art credits than needed to graduate.
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My favorite class was AP world, followed by chemistry, followed by chorus :P.

I was playing around on Parchment and I have a 9% chance of getting into Stanford, apparently…ouch

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POLL: Would you work at Hardee’s? Would you guys be embarrassed to say you worked at Hardee’s?

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Just found out I didn’t get a position on the council. It’s kind of a bummer because I know I’d do a good job, and I always go to events, and the kids that got all the positions either are in the advisors class, or are popular. I think they chose the popular kids to recruit more kids to join council but I don’t know. The girl that got my desired spot cheats on all her tests and wings everything. Oh well. I’m down to 0 leadership positions, hopefully I can get something with the clubs im currently in, but I don’t know. Everything is such a popularity contest

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@sprights I completely agree with you. Everything, EVERYTHING is a popularity contest. I was running for president of French national honor society and I was the only one to prepare a speech. Yet, I was bumped down to vice president (there are co-presidents, so I got 3rd place) and there were only four people running. I had the best speech and worked my butt off to get president (had the most points out of everyone in the club) and yet it came down to sheer popularity :((

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What were your worst classes this year?

  1. Child Development (needed it to fill an elective spot and that was the only class that was open) I don't want to learn about babies all day, baby needs to do this and that and don't be a bad parent :(
  2. Chemistry: I had a horrible teacher. I loved the class and the stuff we learned but the teacher was so bad that everyone complained about her. I ended up teaching myself everything and found it soooo interesting. With the teacher, it was boring and impossible to understand. I loved chemistry when I teach myself but with this teacher, it was horrible.
  3. Multimedia: I needed it as a prerequisite for another computer class. Hated it! WE didn't learn anything new and it was plain old boring. Can't wait to learn programming for real instead of the 1st grade stuff we did in there.
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@petitlion That’s almost double the chances of your average applicant!- Stanford’s acceptance rate is lowest in the NATION- 5.1%. Don’t feel bad!
@MissSuzyQ =Yes, I’d work at Hardee’s… money is money lol. And no, I wouldn’t be ashamed to say I worked there…money is money and no one expects a hs sophomore to hold a job as an investment banker.
@sprights Don’t worry about it, if the council elections were that much of a popularity contest, then I’m almost sure that the council wouldn’t be optimal for you. Focus on getting leadership positions in clubs you’re currently in and you’ll be good!

I’m running for vice president of my class, and I’m nervous! Schoolwork is basically done since we have 9 school days till benchmarks, and thus I don’t have much work. First day in a while I have barely any homework.

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@athenanv13 @bbbaaa784 thank you guys! I went to every event and fundraiser and they choose some kid that can barely take a math test without rolling their eyes on someone’s paper… I hope it works out for you guys! For me right now, I’m most concerned with my ACT score, I just need a 32 and I can get a full ride to UA which would be amazing. Sigh.

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My 3 worst classes (this’ll be a fiasco!)

  1. JOURNALISM: It actually took away what passion I’d had at the beginning of the year for journalism. The teacher was terrible and didn’t seem to to have a thorough grasp of the material. I also have her for AP Lang next year, so :((
  2. Driver’s Ed-- We went really slow, and took 9 months to do what I could’ve done in 3 weeks… :frowning:
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We are all taking such similar courses! We will have to keep in touch during the year and help each other out :slight_smile:

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Yes please! That’ll be really helpful! @cocolover123

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@cocolover123 that’s a good idea! Is anyone taking AP Physics? I’m kind of worried for that class since I’ve never taken physics of any kind, ever.

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@sprights I’m taking AP Physics :slight_smile: And same here lol, I’ve never taken any sort of physics before. I’m sure it’s different than chem and bio, like by a lot!!!

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Yes, we got each other’s back @sprights @cocolover123 :slight_smile:

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My worst classes this year :frowning: -

  1. AP World History - OMG this teacher was horribly mean!! She made us suffer to get an A, or at least me. No one else cared about their grades, but I worked so hard to get an A and she would give it to me with such torture. I had to literally beg for her to put my grades in and she would pretend to "think about it" and purposely take years to put in grades that would help my average. I didn't like history either so I just cried my way to it. End of the story: I managed to get an A all four quarters HALLELUJAH Idk how I did it honestly. I look back now and feel like I walked to Paris barefoot with no water or food.
  2. Spanish 3 Honors - The class was an easy A. The only issue was the teacher enjoyed yelling at us for the most absurd reasons. breathes HOW DARE YOU BREATHE? I'm not even joking, she yelled all the time. We just walk into class and she yells that we made too much noise. She claimed to love us but we all rejoiced the time she lost her voice for three weeks because then she couldn't yell anymore. She blamed her loss of voice on us, though... yet she's the one who caused me to lose some hearing tho???
  3. AP Environmental - OMG OMG OMGOMG this class was so hard to get an A in! Our teacher kept changing tests and going hot and cold over test corrections, and randomly curving our grades DOWN. Yes I repeat DOWN. She was paranoid we cheated so every single test she changed it up. Sometimes she made it up from a different chapter we didn't learn or from a different textbook, so we would fail and then she would refuse test corrections. I mean, I BARELY managed to get an A and that's coming from someone who never gets less. I graduated the class with a constant average of like a 90.5... I'm sure the class is different at every school. It's SUPPOSED to be easy lol
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Which AP Physics? @athenanv13 @sprights @cocolover123

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What AP’s are you guys taking next year?? :slight_smile: @athenanv13 @sprights @bbbaaa784

AP Physics 1 @pseudoprimal

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Ahhhh my chemistry final exam was so bad. There wasn’t enough time to do all the questions ;_;

I’m worried for my schedule next year. I’m going from no AP’s to 3: APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Spanish Language. I’m also adding a second science class, so that’s another bunch of work. I’m really worried about the winter, because I’ll have midterm exams and a sport going on…

I guess I can’t do much about it at this point in time…