NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the collegeboard is canceling section 8/9 scores :-SS
Over the summer, I will be interning at a very well-known local university (: I’m pretty excited for it, too. It’s 8 weeks long, though, so I have to take the bus there (aka an hour’s ride, since buses make lots of stops) every day.
For me, I thought this end of year would get less stressful after APs. I thought wrong. 
@pseudoprimal I’m a total language geek and yeah, ambiguous tenses would be really cool! The math camp sounds intense and great 
I like math too, but I tend towards the unconventional side (low A for trig, high A for combinatorics) so my math marks aren’t stellar.
You make those jokes seem like a breeze! 
Huh, sometimes I skip the punctuation altogether after emojis… whatever looks good in the moment, haha.
@kfaustria Since high school, I’ve changed who I eat lunch with every single year!! (That’s 3 years now for us in Canada!) Grade 8 was some smart kids, Grade 9 some nice kids, and now the debate kids.
@topaz1116 That’s exciting! Is it a research internship; what will you be doing? Haha, don’t worry about the hour-long ride; many of my friends have that long of a bus ride to our high school every day! (Not helping the barren Canadian wilderness stereotype, am I?)
@Ciella Canadian wilderness? Sounds fun.
Passed my Multivariable final! I think!
@Ciella @Psuedoprimal that’s basically me every year! I have a lot of friend groups but no real best friend which makes me so sad. Would rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies but it’s better than nothing.
Guys, how do you get so many good opportunities like internships and shadowing? I’ve been trying to volunteer at Kaiser (a hospital) and local nursing homes. I would call almost 10 times a week and spam their email but would never get a reply back. Same with shadowing. My mom even works at Kaiser and can’t help me get a volunteer position. 
It makes me super nervous because I feel like I need to face the reality of nursing. Is 150+ hours in random volunteering okay or should I keep spamming hospitals?
@Frigidcold congrats!!
@kfaustria I volunteer at 2 hospitals, and did at another one until I dropped it. I imagine you’ve probably tried this, but I maybe ask some friends who are volunteering at hospitals. I got my volunteering gigs through some older friends. They were volunteering when I got to high school and they put in a good word for me with the volunteering departments.
Just adding to the discussion. I don’t really have a best friend either. I have a few very good friends, but I don’t consider them best friends. Other than that, I’m pretty much in every “clique”. Talking in a group setting is just easier, with few exceptions. I’m pretty happy socially though, there are enough people who I can rant to when I’m feeling down.
@Frigidcold Haha I’d say my city is a bubble from the frozen Canadian wilderness… go on the other side of the mountains though and things get pretty interesting. Congrats on your final! My Pre-Calc 12 final is on Thursday…
@kfaustria Exactly how I felt/feel!! You know when some friends are always X and Y, never just X or Y? I always wanted to have that, but between moving schools n times and taking classes with wacky grade levels, it never happened. This year though I made an awesome friend through debate (every other conversation we have turns into a debate hahaha) and we’re fairly close intellectually, so I’m hoping this stays. I hope you’ll find someone that matches you!
I totally agree with @Frigidcold about having close friends but not best friends. You can’t talk about some things with some people but you can with others, right?
About opportunities, my summer program had a competition for internships and I got one. I heard that startups are usually happy to have high school interns, but maybe that doesn’t work too well for nursing.
By the way, could you guys help with my SAT II plans?
Math II, Lit, and Japanese (maaaaaybe?).
Is that a good combo to take, or is it too standard? Also, CC told me that SAT II languages are around A2 level so I sort of want to learn Japanese and go for it (I speak Chinese so the kanji is no problemo). I’m also planning on doing AP Spanish and French next year, maybe German in Grade 12 (I love languages XD). Does anyone have experience with language tests, or anything in terms of advice?
I don’t really have any friends. I just sit by myself at lunch. But I sit near a group so that people don’t think I’m sitting alone and pity me or try to come talk to me or something. I quickly eat my food and then go read in the library.
I’ve never had a best friend before. That would be interesting.
@Frigidcold Most of my friends don’t care about volunteering which really sucks. I’ve tried getting them out to events with my club but they just try to avoid it LOL. But yeah, I only know 1 girl from my old school that volunteers at Kaiser but I haven’t talked to her in 3 years and I wouldn’t want to “use” her, ya know? Or should I just go for it?
@dsi411 Hi! That sounds really interesting and different- do you like staying in the library? Also, do you like it when people try to socialize with you? My friend Angelique stays in our library during lunch every day and Skypes her boyfriend. We’re fairly new friends but got really close quickly so I told her to come join me with a big group of friends. She joined a while and then started to go back to the library a month later
@Ciella I’m doing paleobiology (evolution) research! The program I’m part of has ~20 interns, and we split into pairs to find correlations between different outside factors and body size evolution in small marine animals (: It’s going to be really interesting, and I can’t wait!
Apparently language & lit are the hardest subject tests; math 2, though, is pretty easy. For lit, you’re either good at it or you’re not, from what I’ve heard. I might take the SAT Spanish next year, but since I’ve only done three years (and I don’t plan on continuing because Spanish 4 is absurdly hard/stressful at my school), I’m not sure how well I’ll do (esp. vocab-wise). Maybe I’ll watch the Avengers in Spanish to practice.
@kfaustria I applied to internship programs that were already established; my area has quite a few of them, so I’m really in luck. You can always reach out to hospitals, though.
@dsi411 Many hugs to you! I’d like to do my homework at lunch (stress levels are skyrocketing) but often friends are too loud/interesting/distracting…
@topaz1116 That sounds absolutely awesome! Do you live near an ocean? Are you planning to go into marine biology or something of the sort? Also, you sound like my friend who loves biology and is planning to go work in a nature reserve in Japan or something
Thanks for the info! Have you taken Math 2? I agree vocab is super important to build up, and my problem is that I know how to use grammar but I don’t know what the rules are… so say when someone says hey conjugate the pluperfect subjunctive I’m like @_@ but I know how to use yo hubiera vivido or whatever.
I haven’t even watched the Avengers in English!!
@dsi411 Sometimes I wish I could do that. My school doesn’t have a library first of all, but I haven’t gotten through a novel in months. I have so many books on my bookshelf that I get for free because I work at the library. I’m dieing to read some of them, but there’s never time. Strangely, I sit with the “jocks” and popular kids at lunch. My school is selective, so they aren’t drug dealers or huge bullies like you might expect. Some teachers still find it wierd though because I have the “genius, perfect student” reputation while they’re troublemakers.
@kfaustria Might be a bit of a stretch. I wouldn’t say overextend a relationship if they aren’t happy to help you out. My friends were pretty enthusiastic because they would have someone to goof off with while volunteering.
@topaz1116 That sounds so interesting. I also have a research internship, but I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to be doing. I’m so irresponsible.
@Ciella I took Chem in May and Math 2 last Saturday. Math is pretty easy even though I haven’t taken Pre-calc in years and the curve is pretty good. Chem is a bit harder, but luckily May was an easy test date. I was talking to some friends who took Chem last Saturday and if I had taken it in June, I don’t think I would have gotten an 800 like I had.
I have a best friend, and like a core group of 10 other people, as well as a few floaters.
Okay I’m p sure I can ask this question. If I had a graph on the CR section of the SAT, can I assume that it was the experimental section, if I know that the experimental section was for CR?
I wish that I could volunteer at hospitals or get an internship! I keep applying but for volunteering I get wait listed, and a really good internship I was hoping to get was one where I got turned down:(. And I looked an there are absolutely no internships in my area…eh, maybe I need to start spamming hospitals.
I’m not popular, but I try to be friends with everybody. Really helps when getting votes for leadership positions. (Unfortunately, I’m VP of 3 clubs and not president because they give that to seniors:( ) Hope to get president of those clubs senior year. I have a close group of friends but I don’t really hang out with them outside of school. (I make excuses like I have too much hw and stuff like that).
@athenanv13 you have to get waitlisted for volunteering?! I’ve never heard of that before. I usually just apply then show up. We’re kind of alike! My city is in the middle of nowhere and we only have one hospital in our area. They won’t reply to my spam
Is my school the only one that doesn’t do voting for club officers? We usually have to fill out an application and then the teacher/officers choose.
On the subject of friends, sometimes I feel like I’m always the third/fourth/fifth/sixth/whateverth wheel in my group; while I’m really close with some of my friends, I have problems approaching people/joining conversations, which gets a little problematic. I always feel like I’m being annoying. But my friends are very great. Our group is pretty big–around 15 people–but I’m a lot closer with some than others.
@Ciella I just took Math 2 and Chem, yeah. Math 2, as @Frigidcold said, was really easy; I’m pretty confident I got an 800, and I didn’t prep so much as take three or four practice tests. Chem, on the other hand, had some absurdly ambiguous questions and tested for facts that aren’t the easiest to remember (I mean, it’s pretty well-known that copper usually oxidizes to a state of 2+; however, can anyone say what vanadium oxidizes to? it’s not 2, by the way). I think I got a 780 or a 790, which, while not bad at all, is still lower than my goal and I know I could have done a lot better.
I’m actually not that into bio, but I love evolution, which is why my internship is really interesting. I live pretty close to a coastline, but we’re using cataloged data for our research because of the time it would take to catalog thousands of new animals. We will be going to beaches and tidepools, though.
Yeah, if I get a 790 on chem, I’m probably retaking, since I’ll be in AP Chem this year