@athenanv13 I explained to my parents last year and they changed the usual rule! I mean, yeah, I could get the healthy 9-10 hours of sleep every night, but I would much rather get 4-5 hours of restful sleep as opposed to 9-10 hours of restless sleep. I’m kind of a control freak, so I really have issues falling asleep if I know that I have a lot to get done. It was a major source of stress for me last year.
@Faultstart I literally just bought like 50 mechanical pencils off of Amazon. There’s something really really satisfying about shopping for school supplies, and there’s something even more satisfying about using a good pen or pencil.
The First day of School ended for me.Nothing really happened although it looks like AP Psych and Photography will be my favorite classes as my teachers made it interesting.And i have respect for my AP Psych Teacher because he told us that he got mad at a honors teacher who gave his daughter and i’m assuming all of his other students like 3-5 hours of homework that was basically just busy work.
Junior year ain’t so bad yet, even with five APs! Super worried about AP test season + SAT subject test season + track season all happening within the same few months.
I know I’m a little late, but for all of you guys who haven’t seen the 2015 AP score distributions yet…http://www.totalregistration.net/AP-Exam-Registration-Service/2015-AP-Exam-Score-Distributions.php
Yikes. It’s way too early to start stressing, but…eep. The one AP test I took last year seems to have been an easy one.
My Pre-Cal grade right now is tragic… a B-. I got a C- on the chapter test which brought my grade all the way from a 94% to an 81%. Luckily we have the opportunity to raise our test scores by making up our errors, so hopefully I’ll get my grade to an A before the middle of October when the term ends. I also have a B in APUSH and AP Chem but they will change to an A if I get a 4 or a 5 on their exams - so I don’t really have to worry about their grades - but I really need to start taking math seriously. I was looking at my test and I made so many silly errors…
Oh well, even though we only have three or four tests each term, we have around one quiz each week, so if I do well on them I should be fine.
Also I’m visiting this site too much… I need to block it during the weekdays so I don’t get distracted, haha.
@photogeek8 I’m applying to NHS this year, I applied last year but was rejected since I lacked leadership positions, only for me to find out later on that most of the students that got in faked their leadership positions to get into the club. It seems pretty pointless to me since I’m already in Key Club but I’m joining it anyways.
Also, your CSF actually does things at your school? Mine just has applications twice a year, and if we qualify for every single application period we get a fancy little graduation cord. Aside from that, we don’t do anything except for a yearbook picture.
@athenanv13 Well, multivariable is a self-study at my school, not sure about yours. They give you a textbook and you have a couple of tests early on, but then the teacher stops caring and you have a free period for the rest of the year. Fun stuff.
Basically everyone invited to join NHS apply at the beginning of junior year, but I hear the apps are a joke and everyone basically gets in. Good thing too because I doubt I could fill in 10 boxes worth of community involvement…
@Greninja CSF at my school has a college visit in the middle of the school year to celebrate our “hard work,” even though all we contribute are 10 hours a semester. The college visit has been to Stanford for the past three years. xD
If anyone has like a 3.5 GPA or above (I can’t remember what the minimum is), he automatically gets into CSF. There’s no actual application process.
What is CSF supposed to be… ? The teacher who promotes it just tells us to fill out a form, and if we stay in it through senior year we get scholarships.
3 weeks of juniority and I might have already reached senioritis. I really need to get my schedule and motivation together.
For a fleeting moment, due to A+'s in 2 AP’s and no grades from anything else, I now have an astronomical 5.37 GPA. It’ll be gone in a week’s time though.
Took my calc test and bio test today. Calc was ok, got a 91.5 (she doesn’t round up for some weird reason). Bio went pretty good too, I feel like. My teacher is really good; she was funded by UMD to do research for 5 years. She has lots of good insight and her students get good test scores.
Today was my second day of school, I was up until 12 last night doing homework, two graded assignments for english and one graded assignment for APUSH. Next week I have an English test on Beowulf which we read over the summer on Tuesday, a Pre-Calc test on Thursday, and an AP Chem test on Friday, as well as in class essays in Spanish, English, and APUSH throughout the week. Not looking forward to being sleepless again this year.
I’ve started working on my AP Comp Sci assignment, and it’s surprisingly difficult, but I’m having a really good time. I took an IT elective in my freshman year and I was really disappointed by it, so I’m glad to take a computer class that manages to meet my expectations.
My Third Day of School starts on Tuesday, I have a Job with my schools work program and may be dual-enrolling 2nd semester,and awaiting my MCAS scores, so hopefully I can go to NEU,BC,or BU which are my top 3 colleges
@MaxHeadroom NEU is in my top 3, too! My #1 school is my mega reach school, MIT, and I think I’m really on par for NEU. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up attending together
Mine just has applications twice a year, and if we qualify for every single application period we get a fancy little graduation cord. Aside from that, we don’t do anything except for a yearbook picture.