Hey you all-- now that school is over or close to over, what was the highlight of your year? That is, a particularly happy memory or series of memories-- you might have a few.
Homecoming. They’re changing the rules next year and it’s going to be very different; I’m glad I got to experience two homecomings the old way.
Going out with my friends to watch the Avengers was also great. We had a lot of fun just roaming around the shopping center (it’s sort of an outdoor mall, and it’s all really nice since it was built recently), eating (we met a strangely graphic rapper and pretended to be fans of his music), and watching the movie (one of my friends had heard that Captain America dies and made us stay past the first end credits scene. um, there’s still Civil War…).
And finally, my guard team <3 I love each and every person on that team, and we’ve gotten so far this year; it was an amazing, amazing experience and they have become my family over the long practices and exhausting competitions.
I don’t know if I should bother retaking Chem for an 800 from a 790; there’s not much of a difference, anyways. I’m taking AP Chem, but I’m still pretty sure that the questions are going to be just as ambiguous.
This entire year sucked for me in particular socially. It was pretty good academically.
@bbbaaa784 What exam canceled 8/9???
2017 graduate here! I’m actually starting at a new school this year, so wish me luck! ^•^
This year, I dramatically increased in the social area, and maintained good grades is all my courses.
And wow, I see all these people with SAT/SAT-subject scores and I’m just here like… I haven’t even studied yet. 
There’s definitely nothing wrong with not having a best friend or a giant group of close friends to hang out with 24/7. It’s just a matter of not finding the people who click with us or have enough in common with us. Some find them sooner than later. Also, spending our time doing more productive academic things in high school will pay off much more than investing all our energies in friendship. Of course it’s okay sometimes, but when if we don’t have many friends, it’s perfectly normal to focus our energies on more important things. I relate to a little bit of all of your social life comments and it’s normal and fine 
One day we will find our good friend when the time is right and it feel right and be the right friendship too. Everyone finds their person at some point I have a close friend but I can’t call them my best friend because they don’t have a lot in common with me and I usually prefer studying over hanging out with her. We’re mostly school buddies and stuff. but i understand all you guys said Our time right now is definitely the time to invest in our futures and everything else will fall into place when the time is right <3
@SirSly same here… everyone on CC seems to have amazing SAT and ACT scores while I have embarrassing ones!
@cocolover123 that was so relaxing to read it’s kind of rare to have such a positive message nowadays so thank you for that!
@Frigidcold this seems like a really dumb question but what is Math 2?
@Frigidcold and @topaz1116 - good to hear you guys did well, and I have faith in your Chem scores! My friend said today that Math 2 = AP Calc BC; is that true?
@topaz1116 Ah awesome - I know next to nothing about biology nor evolution (yay Darwinian mitochondria!) and that sounds exciting!
Haha @kfaustria then there’s me who hasn’t taken anything besides APs yet.
I suddenly got really confused guys! What grade are you all in? I’m in grade 10 (sophomore year) - does that make me class of 2017 or am I an accidental impostor??
@Ciella No calculus on the Math 2 test; just precalculus. I haven’t taken any APs yet either, but I’m taking 4 next year, so that’ll be an interesting experience.
We’re all sophomores here; 2017 for the win!
My highlight was definitely homecoming! Loved it, but I didn’t get to go to dinner with my friends because I was volunteering for a recycling thing that day.
I have a few friends but I’m not really close to them and I’ve never really had a best friend since middle school since most of my friends from middle school stopped talking to me when they found out I was going to a public high school. It was hard adjusting to high school because most people already new each other, I only ended up making friends because I was lucky since this one student wanted to sit with me at lunch because she didn’t share her lunch period with any of her friends…
I really want to make a lot of close friends next year, though. I’m an introvert but I enjoy meeting new people. I’m finally taking mostly advanced classes so I’ll have about the same students for every class, so it will be a great opportunity for me to know them. My best memories this year was meeting new people and hanging out with them during MESA, hopefully I can get closer to them and meet new people during junior year…
I’m not really doing anything special this summer regarding internships. I might do some volunteer work for key club but my break will mostly consist of vacations and studying for academic decathlon.
Man I’m really nervous for AP test scores, I thought my anxiety would end after the AP World test but I still have it since I think didn’t get a 5, and I really want one since the school displays our scores (3 and above of course lol) to recognize us for our hard work.
@kfaustria @Ciella
Like @topaz1116 said, it’s just up to Pre-calc. I would not suggest waiting to take. Now that I’m moving on to my third year of calculus, I’ve forgotten so many topics that are tested. Had to relearn what a pyramid was…
I’ve taken 4 APs, 2 each year. Only taking 3 next year because my school is very math and science AP heavy. There are no humanities APs until senior year. Hopefully my DE electives will make up for the lack of APs.
(quick clarification: Math 2 in this context refers to the SAT II Math 2 test, rather than a course; I know some schools label their courses differently such that there could be some Mathematics 2 class that might be Calculus. But yes, Math 2 is the SAT Subject Test for math that goes through Precalculus.)
Thanks for the Math 2 help! Man, this year was already this intense… I can’t imagine what next year will be like.
@Greninja One day, you’ll reach a point where nothing will ever faze you anymore 
I reached that point after getting a 60 something in a math quiz – it was a replaceable one, but still. The damage was done.
Self studied 2 APs this year, and will do 1 in school and 2 myself next year - my school is highly lacking in APs, even though we’re the #1 or 2 ranked public school in the province. Anyone else have experience with self-studying?
@pseudoprimal okay thank you! That’s what I was confused about.
@Greninja Oh I completely forgot about the AP tests!! After learning scores don’t weight anything in the admission process, I just stopped caring hahaha. Was your APWH class fun? Mine was just a mess and I didn’t read the book so my highest score will be a 3 
GUYS!! Should I take AP US History next year!? US History is already required so I was thinking I might as well. Downside is the one teacher in our school is extremely challenging and I don’t know if I can push through that since I hate history.
@kfaustria My APWH class was awesome. We had a great teacher but she gave an excessive amount of hw (sometimes she would assign 6 hour hw assignments and expect it to be done the next class and I’m not the only one who spent 6 hours because my other friends did too:(). Besides the excessive hw, I loved it and it was a really interactive class (whereas my other classes were just reading out of a textbook).
Is anyone still in school???
I’m still at school, and it ends NEXT Friday the 19th. I have a huge case of senioritis, and I’m only a sophomore. Sigh.