@ambitiousgeek @coffeeaddicted
Yeah I have the same problem! They were short naps and they turned into longer ones. When spring season sports arrive, I won’t be able to take anymore naps!
And yes they do increase mortality rates but I’m not sure by how much. It could be 1% and the source I got was just being dramatic.
@neoking Your class has already finished covering all the material? I have no idea where our teacher is going with the class, honestly. He skips from chapter to chapter, and I frankly am not sure what material we have and have not covered because the class organization and planning is so haphazard ://
What’s NMSI? National something Science Institute or something of the like?
@desideratum Dang, that definitely sucks. I hope you’re not gonna have to resort to a review book in the end. And NMSI stands for National Math and Science Initiative, and they actually reward us with $100 for any STEM or English AP test we pass! The school’s paying for all our exams this year, so I’m gonna rake in the dough!
Right now we’re doing ICE Charts and Ksp values…what concepts do those fall under (I’m this clueless right now!)? Acids/Bases? Equilibrium?
@neoking Meanwhile we have to PAY $100 for each test and get no reward 
Do schools get rewarded in anyway for students passing AP tests? Because all my teachers seem to care more about our scores on the AP Test rather than our class grades, while I tend to be the opposite 
@GrandBudapest HAH SAME. PAYING UP FOR THOSE AP TESTS @neoking - I wish our school was involved in that program :’))
I already partially have (resorted to a review book, that is). I just hope that my Honors Chem foundation is strong enough that I’m able to comprehend everything else. At least I’m interested in the subject, because I can’t imagine hating science and going through this class!
I think we still have acids and bases, kinetics, and electrochemistry to cover. I really don’t think I’m ready for that AP test…
@GrandBudapest That’s general and solubility equilibrium. Not the horror of acid/base equilibrium
Seems like my teacher is preparing us pretty well! Meanwhile, I’m still anxious about AP Lang!
rt about the AP Chem and Lang tests.
@neoking- do you know how your school became registered with NMSI?
Ahh - we just started learning equilibrium today. I think the only problematic AP Chem concept for me so far would be molecular geometry - I was never very good at Lewis structures, even during Honors Chem, so we’ll see how that goes :’))
AP Lang - the multiple choice is from the devil, as my teacher likes to say. Hopefully the essay prompts aren’t too bad and the rhetorical analysis one isn’t on an article too far into antiquity!
Is anybody else having trouble narrowing down their list of colleges? I know that no decisions have to be made anytime soon, and it will help once I’m able to visit more places, but right now I feel so scattered.
Seems like everybody here (and at my school) is taking AP Chem this. Is anybody taking it next year? I know my firiend and I are.
@desideratum I agree. The multiple choice is death. I like the synthesis better than the rhetorical analysis. The synthesis is kinda like an APUSH DBQ. We haven’t done the third style of essay though.
@bfc2017 Torubling narrowing my list of colleges? I’m having trouble creating one! On that train of thought, does anyone know of colleges that are strong in linguistics?
@tigerman333
Really? I prefer argumentation and analysis to synthesis, but maybe that’s just because DBQs - both during APUSH and WHAP - have always felt too cumbersome for me! I prefer working primarily with my own opinions and situations as evidence, not so much utilizing others’ opinions and viewpoints.
@desideratum Same! At first I was really nervous about writing argumentative essays but I really enjoyed them. I think it’s really interesting how you get to implement examples from your own life to support your essay. Even though I do better on DBQs, I enjoy argumentative essays a lot more.
I just finished selecting my courses. We have the option to change them so it’s tentative, though. Also I put them in order from most excited to take and least excited to take:
• AP Japanese
• AP Government
• AP Economics
• Animation 2 (I don’t know if I’m going to change this, it’s my only non-AP class)
• AP Calculus AB
• AP English Literature and Composition (It’s strange, English is my favorite class and I was extremely excited to take Lang, but I’m hardly excited for Lit…)
• AP Environmental Science (I only took this because there really wasn’t much other AP classes I wanted to take… I could’ve taken Statistics or Art History instead but I didn’t want another math class plus I heard that the teacher for Art History is harsh. I also could have taken Biology but that was year-long, so it would’ve taken up a lot of space on my schedule.)
Surprisingly, I like the multiple choice section of the AP Lang test. The essays, however, will be the death of me.
@SockandBoots Ah, how come? I suppose the multiple choice isn’t //that// bad…
@Greninja Exactly! That’s something I liked about the (old) SAT essay - I’m not a very assertive nor persuasive person, so the thought of having to write a persuasive essay for the new one makes me feel quite a bit of trepidation. Sigh. AH YOU HAVE AP ECON AND AP JAPANESE AT YOUR SCHOOL I’M JEALOUS. Our school has so few AP courses to choose from, it’s ridiculous (and sad) - sometimes I wish I could take more than 6 courses, or that the time turner from Harry Potter was real because there are not enough hours in a day to take all the courses I want!
Animation sounds fun though!
@desideratum LOL this is like many posts later but I’m also doing invasive for sci oly… Finished literally 3 insects and state is in a month- give me a medal :))
@desideratum Having a real life Time-Turner would be amazing. Knowing myself though I’ll probably just end up using it to procrastinate on my work. :))
Does anyone that’s taking a huge AP course load for senior feel like they’ll be extremely overwhelmed?
I’m currently taking APUSH, AP Lang, AP Biology, and AP Psychology and I took AP World History in 10th and AP Human Geography in 9th.
We’re in the process of course selections now and I plan on taking AP Lit, AP CompSci, AP Euro, AP Environmental Science, AP Stat, AP Macro, and AP Gov. I’m also considering AP Art History online. I’m doing this because I’m trying to raise my class rank (per parents’ request) as I am currently 5/259.
Personally, I don’t feel as though it will be too heavy a burden because I’m not big on going out during the weekends anyway so it’s not like I’ll be missing out on much but I’ve been cautioned by other classmates to only take about 4 again.
So thoughts from others taking multiple APs?
@yunguc I’m currently doing APUSH, AP Lang, AP Chem, and AP Physics 1. It’s not too bad, but I’ll have 5 next year.
I wouldn’t take too many just to raise my class rank. That’s not going to benefit you for college applications, and (for me) it isn’t worth it to sacrifice so much just to go up a rank or two, especially when that would have no impact on anything.