@photogeek8 Taking required PE I’ll say has its pros and cons. I don’t necessary agree with it (I mean come on, wasting two periods to exercise in the four years of highschool while you have all that walking around to get to class plus sports-if you do them-is enough.) but I saw somewhere that since human brains are prone to have the concentration span of 8 minutes, standing up and walking around is essential for the blood to flow in your brain thus helping you learn better. I guess the PE helps us in ways we never noticed before. Also if you don’t do sports, PE can introduce you to a sport you may come to love. It can also bond people since they struggle together. But that all said, I still don’t like the idea of required PE.
I only have to take gym for the first two cycles junior because we have health for the other two cycles.
I’m glad so many of us are taking APUSH next year!! #teamwork
My schedule ( it isn’t as impressive as all of yours!):
IB European History HL(heard its death at my school )
IB bio HL
IB physics SL
IB English HL
IB french SL
AP Calc BC
I’m self studying ap psych and ap computer science. Yep not as impressive as all of you guys
Hey everyone! I’ve been reading on here and decided since school just ended, I may as well participate on the forum!
This is my schedule for next year:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP English Lang
AP Psychology
AP World History
Honors Spanish 4
PE
My school requires gym every year.
@xxvintagexx Hey I’m in HOSA!
@ambers58 Going to nationals tomorrow?
I made it to Nationals for EMT but my school is a pain in the butt and wouldn’t let us go because we needed a chaperone 
So no 
@ambers58 Hopefully you can go to Nationals next year. Can you tell me how HOSA works at your school? What do you do there? Is it like debate or like Model UN? Is it a commitment? …sorry so many questions 
@athenanv13 Hey I think your schedule looks overwhelming hard. (It’s good you’re challenging yourself xD) 5 IBs??? And three more APs?? You can do it!!
@xxvintagexx Well, HOSA has been at my school for two years and i recently just joined. We meet every other Wednesday to come up with community projects and surveys (they did a sleep survey that currently has the school board trying to change the morning schedule) as well as taking tours of hospitals, getting members in touch with volunteering at hospitals, and bringing in different health professionals to talk to the club. The meetings last about 30 minutes to an hour. They are all, however, required meetings. This year we had our first competition where two groups and two individuals placed in first, and two groups placed in second. One individual placed in third. It is a little more strict than debate (I’m in debate). Dont know about model UN.
Studying for competitions is very independent. You have to work with your teammates to come up with a study schedule and such. The presidents didn’t really do much except prepare the items we needed for the competition and run the projects. The two biology and anatomy teachers that proctor the club help us out with stuff we don’t know how to do as well as guiding us with the procedures.
I’m taking 4.5 APs next year. Some kids at my school take 6, but I’m not doing an AP Math first semester and I have to take physical education (doing yoga instead, I didn’t take PE this year) . I’m also doing honors chemistry (in addition to AP Physics) because I don’t want to take AP Chem without an honors Chem background
@xxvintagexx I’ll give you an overview of our club. HOSA is the biggest club in our school, as it’s a magnet school specializing in healthcare. We have officer meetings every Friday for 30-45 minutes as well as a general meeting 1-2 times a month. The main objective of the club is really raising money for nationals competitors, but we have other projects. For instance, every year officers go to a nearby school and help teach students with disabilities. This year, we finally managed to pull off our biggest event, a health fair. We got healthcare professionals from around the community to speak to students as well as anyone from the community who had health concerns. If you’re an officer, it’s a small-medium commitment depending on what’s going on that week. For me, it’s been anything from 0 to 7-8 hours a week. General members don’t really do that much, but since you want to start the club, it’ll probably be a big commitment.
We had 3 groups and 1 individual place first, 1 group and 4 individuals place second, and 1 group and 4 individuals place third. Doesn’t seem that many for the biggest club in our school, but then again our school is 250 people. I believe all of us are going to nationals. The state HOSA president and vice president who come from my school are going as well.
As mentioned by @ambers58, studying for competitions is independent. Both times I’ve competed, I’ve been able to utilize school resources to study. You might not have the same ease of access if you go to the usual district public school.
@xxvintagexx @Frigidcold I guess it is worth mentioning that I attend a medium size public school in a very well-off district so resources are easily accessible. Not a lot of people are in HOSA, but I predict that it will get quite big next year.
Hey guys, I know a lot of you (including me) are doing ACT/SAT prep. I bought one of those books with a bunch of 3rd party practice tests in it. I was trying to photocopy the tests so i could write on them but the printer kept cutting the passage off. Any tips to make better photocopies of these stupid practice tests?
I use an app called tiny scan. With the free version, you’ll have to just save them to your phone and email it to yourself. And you’ll have to send the first two or three pages to your email and then delete them off your phone for it to let you scan more. It’s a little time consuming to do this with multiple practice tests.
If the printer is like a printer/scanner, and it copies it fine, but the printer butchers it, you might have to mess with the printer setting, idk
Thanks for your help! @ThatOneWeirdGuy
@xxvintagexx it’s not that challenging because the teachers work together in the IB classes to make sure that there is no test falls on the same day so it isn’t that stressful
My mom is having anxiety about me going to college. She wants me to stay instate but I will go out of state. She’s like “go to air force academy or colorado university because your uncle is ten minutes away and I can visit you all the time.” I’m like nope, not happening I need to go someplace new
Anyone in the same boat as me even though college is in two years? I want to go to Vanderbilt or JHU or Stanford(I know it’s the hardest school to but its my dream school)
@athenanv13 I wish the IB teachers at my school did that.
I don’t care whether the college I go to is close to or far away from home…actually I think a college close to home would be better because then I’ll be able to check up on my younger brother who is severely autistic (He is 12 years old now). My other family members aren’t as “nice” to him as I am. Which is why he always goes after me when he has a tantrum and tries to bite me.
@dsi411 That must be hard to deal with. But at least you know you can always be there for him and he’ll have someone. It sucks when you have to adjust your aspirations because of others.
@athenanv13 My parents are the same. They say, “YOU ARE NOT GOING OUT OF STATE! THAT IS WAY TOO EXPENSIVE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?” whenever I even mention an out of state school. Both my parents and I would be pretty happy if I went to UNC Chapel Hill, though it’s a little close (I live right outside of Raleigh, NC) but I’m also interested in University of South Carolina (a possibility since they give good aid/scholarships and it isn’t too far away), NYU (way too expensive), Emerson and UCLA.
If I went to an Ivy, I’d want it to be Harvard. But that probably isn’t going to happen. Would it be stupid to apply there just for fun?