I’ll also be applying to 1 or 2 “prestigious” summer programs that are extremely selective…Is anyone applying to jackson ssp (I started a thread for 2016)? Have a backup internship but hopefully I’ll have something to do this summer instead of mulling around binge watching anime/kdrama LOL :))
@QueenOfBohemia Hamilton!!! I love the soundtrack so much wow like same I’ve been listening to it on repeat for a while also lol. What’s your favorite song on it?
My WTP application is due tomorrow and I’m still not done qq. It’s crunch time. I’m also applying to TASP, SSP, HSHSP, and (maybe) SPARC. Also applying to one other program (my top choice), but I don’t want to mention it on here since they select five people and if I do get in, it’ll be very easy to discern my identity.
@pseudoprimal Aw man, asking me what my favorite song on the soundtrack is? It’s so full of hyped up history stuff, it’s honestly hard to choose. I would have to say “My Shot” because Alexander spits that hot fire. xD It made me learn that Hamilton felt really passionate about his ideals and the state of then-Colonial America. I hope I continue to feel that passionate about my views and ideals until I die.
@QueenOfBohemia History is so compelling when you get to see it as individuals and institutions interating in a personal manner, isn’t it? Listening to the soundtrack made especially the post-Revolution time come alive for me, because it to some degree switched the roles of the microcosm and macrocosm in America. I love “My Shot,” but for me I think it has to come second to “Non-Stop.” Ah I just switched into total fangirl mode so instead of listing and excessive use of exclamation points and caps, I’m going to post this comment. 
@pseudoprimal Haha no, it’s great! I would love to hear your points for loving “Non-Stop.” This entire album really hit me in my history senses. Lin-Manuel really did his homework on this one. fangirls with you
@pseudoprimal @QueenOfBohemia It’s nice to see people who think of history as something else than just a stupid subject we’re forced to learn at school. Some people at my school irk me when they say that WHAP and APUSH are useless (and I’m a STEM focused student, mind you).
@pseudoprimal I know both Hiragana and Katakana along with base sentence structures and particles. I still need to study some Kanji and learn to develop more complex sentences, though.
@neoking yes, I agree!!! Most people are like “history is dead, why do we need to learn it”? But me, I love history and I think it’s critical to learn ( and I’m also a stem focused student) 
@neoking Agreed! I’ve been looking through the YouTube comments on each of the songs and came across one where someone said that “This is a prime example of how history isn’t really boring; it just needs to be presented differently!” My god, it’s great! History has always been so fascinating to me.
I watch too much Crash Course and SciShow on YouTube…it is so distracting but soooo interesting
I love history, but my history classes at school are so boring. Probably because I have the same teacher for both and she seems to think that we’re all 8-year-olds. I get dumber every time I walk into my history classes.
It makes me so happy to see all these Hamilton fans here!! One of my favorite songs, Cabinet Battle #1, shows that history can be presented in a fun manner without losing any educational value. I love that Lin was able to incorporate so many facts into the musical and get people interested in history again.
It’s hard to decide, but my favorite song would have to be Satisfied! Angelica is just mind-blowing in my opinion.
I’m trying to explain the value of summer programs to my parents. They never did that sort of thing when they were growing up, so they don’t understand the purpose of it. It’s really hard to make family vacations work around summer programs. We might have a tough choice come April when I find out if I made any of the ones I applied to- skip my family vacation or give my spot to someone else.
@tigerman333 if you’re talking about the trip to D.C., it’s all expenses paid.
@athenanv13 Lol I like Crash Course. I’ll have to check out SciShow.
@SockandBoots “I’ll show you where my shoe fits!” Buh-buh-buh-BURRRRRN. insert reference about a congressman getting beat with a cane decades later
@tonystarkofwinterfell Both history classes? Which ones are you taking?
@QueenOfBohemia Haha, now every time I listen to it, I’ll think of poor Charles Sumner :))
The songs get stuck in my head at random moments. My AP Chem teacher was talking about water being attracted to the glass, thus leading to the water rising up on the sides and forming the meniscus, but once he said “rise up”, I got that part stuck in my head and couldn’t focus on the rest of the lecture.
@QueenOfBohemia AP World History and CP US History (only because APUSH is 3 hours of homework a night at my school, and, well, ain’t nobody got time for that).
@bfc2017 Well, I was not aware of that…I guess it’s too late now. I’ve already planned accordingly…
Calc BC is literally crushing my soul. I feel so dumb because everyone else is getting solid 90s and I’m barely holding onto my B.
Guess I’m not applying to MIT!