The only time I’ve ever seen snow was when I was four, and that was slush, not real snow.
For some reason it snowed last year where I live in southern California. It was pretty nice.
Off topic, but Questbridge added Duke to their list of partner colleges a few days ago. So if any of you guys plan on applying for Questbridge next year and want to go to Duke on a full ride (despite the fact Duke already has its separate scholarship), good luck! 
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So my dad just said I have to skip debate practice for two weeks so I can study more for the ACT. The thing is our biggest tournament is 3 weeks out and as captain, I’m in control of everything. Uhhhh. The struggle is real
@tigerman333 I run a program at my local middle school (there are other people who work with me, but I’m the one who makes all the worksheets, sends out all the emails, etc. and one of them is new, one of them works in art while I work in writing, and one of them only started helping at the beginning of this year), so when my parents made me skip a meeting because I had an AP Chem test the next day, it was not fun >.< The struggle is real.
Also, have any of you guys heard of the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success? A bunch of colleges are going to be accepting it in addition to the Common App next year… It seems really interesting because you can include portfolios and more eclectic things in addition to essays. However, there won’t be one universal essay like there is for the Common App, from what I’ve gathered.
(I just really hope counselors only have to write one rec letter for the whole coalition–my school has a rule about how many schools a counselor can write a rec letter for, but the Common App only counts as one, which makes it way easier to apply to lots of colleges.)
@tonystarkofwinterfell I feel ya. The worst part is it’s for 2 weeks straight. This better not prevent me from being captain next year…
For us, HOSA results came out this week :)>- time to study for SLC lol
In Colorado, HOSA isn’t that big (compared to our DECA, FBLA, etc) so we don’t have regionals. We just go to state.
I’m driving my counselor crazy by asking for so many recommendations for summer programs! I hate how they always require a counselor recommendation. Usually, I can ask various science/math teachers for recommendations for different programs…
My counselor is going to hate me by the end of this…
@athenanv13 really? I only had one program that required my counselor to submit something, and those were my test scores.
Our HOSA program (and our DECA and FBLA) are in danger of being shut down next year because of new state regulations; it’s a little sad because we have really, really big and successful programs in HOSA and DECA (I don’t know about FBLA). Students are now required to be enrolled in career technical courses to participate, but our school doesn’t offer any.
@QueenOfBohemia Can you or someone else explain what QuestBridge is? I have seen it mentioned on CC a lot but am not sure what it is.
lol guys, i made a thread about this but i guess it didn’t get any attention. Can any of y’all help me out? I took the Subject test for Bio this saturday and my address on my admission ticket is not my actual address. I wrote it wrong so the street number on my admission ticket is wrong. I wrote my correct address on my test. Should I be worried?
Oh my god, I’m so upset/terrified right now.
We had an APUSH quiz that we were supposed to do in groups of 3, chosen be our teacher on Friday. Well today, one of my group members was absent, so now it was only me and this girl. This girl, though, never does ANYTHING and I know because I’ve had to peer grade all of her previous quizzes before (by virtue of our seating arrangement), and she usually get D’s on them. To make matters worse, there was a group of 4 next to me, and instead of 1 of those people being moved to our group, I had to just work with this one girl. We got a 22/28 on it. I’m so mad, not only because of that, but because I failed my last quiz too (another C). Usually I get all A’s on these quizzes. Now my grade is probably going to drop to a mid-B from a 98 
Terrible start to the new semester.
@GrandBudapest You’ll regain your A…I’m sure of it. The same thing literally happen to me in AP Stats. I got a 97 on my first quiz, then somehow failed my first test and went down to an 86. That B gave me all types of motivation and I got a 96 on my next test which brought my grade back up to an A. I know History isn’t equal to math lmao, but brilliant, hardworking kids always find ways to get what they want. I believe that you will get your A…no sweat. 
My life is hectic! I have to finish my portfolio by February 2 and then all juniors are required to attend a “career fair” and do interviews in March.
I got a “C” in AP Lang and Comp this quarter. Oops, but better than a “D”.
No school tomorrow due to the snow storm.
I got a B- on my first calc quiz, but I think it’s a good base start since math isn’t a strength of mine anyway. I will only work up from here!
@dsi411 Lol this might be weird but I live like 15 minutes away from the area that got snow in SoCal last year. It was pretty odd
anyone have any good books I could read? I am probably stuck in my house for another 2 days
@luckyme123
classics:
crime & punishment
les miserables (this is a whopper, and some of the historical descriptions can be boring af but the story iS SO GOOD)
pride & prejudice
persuasion
tale of two cities
the picture of dorian gray
modern books:
fangirl - rainbow rowell
the imperfectionists - tom rachman
the rise and fall of great powers - tom rachman
the lover’s dictionary - david levithan
ender’s shadow (sO MUCH BETTER THAN ENDER’S GAME IMO) - orson scott card
(hope these help! i’m not sure where your book taste tends to fall, though.)
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does anyone have any ideas for a club i could start? this is bad but i feel like i need to be a founder of a club for colleges that i would like to go to to even consider me…especially since my classes haven’t necessarily centered around my major.
i enjoy books/reading, writing, discussion, playing guitar/ukulele (but i can’t read music well), singing, drawing, and the like. (i also enjoy things that are science/math related, but our school already has a programming club, science olympiad, and an amc - things i would have joined earlier if i had my major/college/career plan figured out LMAO)