@dsi411 Neither have I. My sister goes to UCI so I regularly go there, and I visited UC Davis for MESA and a random CSU for the academic decathlon. I plan on going to SoCal to visit colleges this spring break, though.
I’ve been on a couple of visits over the summer. I’ve visited UConn, UNC-CH, Lehigh, and I’ve walked around the NC state U campus. There’s so many more schools I’d like to visit, but most of them are too far away so I probably won’t visit unless I get in.
Maybe I should start doing hw in class so I can release some of the burden. Plus, most of the homework they assign is busy work, so it’s sooo unproductive.
My lunch is 35 minutes long, but I mostly use it to do homework. My library doesn’t allow food so I usually eat lunch during class.
I haven’t been on any formal college visits either. I live in Chicago so I have seen Northwestern (Went there for tennis match). I have also been to NYU, Columbia & UC Berkeley but have only seen them from the outside.
Anyone getting that Sunday night feeling of dread right about now?
@LetsGoPats Yup! – lol. I had an incredibly heavy load of homework this weekend, and though I’ve done basically nothing but work (oops) I still don’t feel prepared for the week ahead. I’m greeted first thing tomorrow morning with a math test, too!
But there’s a local swing dance thing that I’ve been thinking about going to for the past month that I think I might actually go to this week, which is sort of weird (I’m still not entirely sure how I found the event or why I want to go) but hopefully fun-- and something to look forward to.
I live in the Bay Area, so you would think I have visited many UCs and good private schools here in California, but I still haven’t gone on a college visit (oops). I’m looking to go see the ones nearer to me, such as UC Berkeley, during the Thanksgiving break and others in SoCal during the Christmas break.
I really want to be more social this year, but I don’t know how I can manage that with so much on my plate at the moment. I didn’t go to a single social event at school in high school so far, so I told myself over the summer that I’d go to events such as Homecoming and Prom. I’ll probably bail on myself later.
@athenanv13 Same here, I’m planning on working on some of my homework - particularly the ones that don’t necessarily improve my learning - during class or lunch. I’ve seen it work for some students in my class and obviously people in this thread. I’ll save Japanese and Pre-Calculus homework at home, though, since they’re actually useful unlike APUSH and AP Chem, which are mostly busy work.
@photogeek8 I’m with you, I want to be more social this year as well. The only social event I’ve been to was one rally last year. I want to go to prom this year with my friends since I don’t want to go alone, but I don’t think my friends are interested in going to prom.
Gosh, I should get on here more often. I want to, but I’m always so busy with work (especially for APUSH!) that I barely have time.
I’ve realized that I’m a really bad practice test taker. I’m getting all of these lower scores on my SAT/ACT practice tests, and I think it’s because, once I finished a section, I move on. I really should try to emulate the real experience and go back and check my work once I’ve finished, especially seeing as I’m finishing 20-25 minutes early every time. Because my low practice scores are starting to stress me the hell out. I stayed up until 2 AM last night anxiously reviewing Algebra II material and I’m really feeling it today.
I find it really ironic how people will say, “Oh, the SAT and ACT test scores don’t matter! They just show how well you performed on one test one day! It’s not the end-all be-all!” If that’s the case, then why do all of these schools accept students almost exclusively from this one range of scores? You’ll have the last quarter of students in the bracket below, so you still have that very clear line of “You need to have AT LEAST this score.” I understand that, generally, smarter people do better on standardized tests, and schools admit smarter people, but I feel like if test scores /really/ didn’t matter, and if intangibles were /really/ so important, there’d be a wider range among accepted students. I don’t know.
My school starts tomorrow-I’m super nervous and excited. I hope I’ll be able to change my schedule though,because the new guidance counselor took me out of AP Statistics
I’m really stressed out over the ACT and the Math Level 2. I’m not getting the scores I want, even though I’m simulating the testing environment and taking a practice test every week until the September test and the October test for the ACT and Math Level 2, respectively. I want to cry every time I review my answers, because all I see are low scores that aren’t close to what UCs and other good universities want.
@Faultystart Ikr I’ve been going on CC less since school started. But I really like coming on here though, especially this thread. I don’t have a lot of people at school that I talk about my academics/general life with, so it’s kind of nice to talk about it with random people online 
@imbep49 When did your school start and what classes are you enrolled in?
@Dylan197 I started 2 weeks ago and I’m taking APUSH, AP Lang, AP Computer Science, AP Stats, and AP Bio.
…I feel like such a chemistry nerd right now. My partner and I did chemistry calculations for our programming project 
We did grams of carbon to moles of carbon, finding the volume of a gas using the ideal gas law, calculating molarity, and percent error.
Meanwhile… I’ve been lieing in bed listening to music and reading a book all day… Feel so odd having time off before school starts lol…
I just finished my 1st day of school!
I’m really not into the idea of block scheduling, too much time with one teacher.
No homework though!
I’m actually really looking forward to AP LAng. I wasn’t able to take AP Stat,which sucks, so I’m taking a SAT prep class instead. Algebra 2 Honors seemed ok, as did Business Language-Spanish. I’m really excited for AP Chem.
School makes me tired. Up til 1 last night doing AP Bio. The teacher was a former college professor, who is teaching it “at the college level”. Which is good, don’t get me wrong. It is just a lot of work. Like 50 pages of reading and an hour and a half of homework plus the other classes hour each=yikes.
But first calc test tomorrow and we’ve only been in school for 7 days 
@Frigidcold You are sooo lucky! I wish that I started school later.
Right now on the weekdays, I’m averaging 3-5 hours of sleep because of my school’s excessive homework! It’s just busy work and I’m losing soooo much sleep over it. Ok, guess I need to get back to hw now because I just felt like complaining.
Haha, glad I can complain to random people over the internet! I usually can’t complain to others because they start to start wanting to be around me less, so I keep it to myself. This is the place I release it all (although I barely read this site for anything else besides this thread)…