Will anyone read my essay? It’s for the Questbridge College Prep Scholar program 
@eyrar99 Sure!
@neoking I’ll PM it to you… Thanks so much!
I’m taking the AP Lang and APUSH exams. I was going to take AP Bio, but my teacher* hasn’t prepared me enough, and there’s too much on my plate to be self-studying.
*This is my AP Bio teacher’s first year teaching. Ever. Since he’s had no prior experience teaching, my classmates and I aren’t getting much out of the class. (We only got up to Chapter 6 in the first semester!) Thank goodness another, more experienced teacher has stepped in to help, but we’re still nowhere near to being caught up.
I know politics is kind of a topic we try to stay out of here, but I’m really disappointed with the current projections for this year’s presidential candidates…neither Clinton’s nor Trump’s policies resonate with me at all, although of course I’d prefer Clinton leading the nation as opposed to Trump.
Anyway, how did all of your days go? We’re MARCHing toward the end of the school year, haha!
@desideratum Same with the politics! I’m eagerly and nervously awaiting the end of March because (finally, after almost 5 months) my summer program results come out! I hope I’m accepted but, of course, I do have a back-up plan.
I don’t have a backup plan for any of my summer programs, and all the decisions come out in late March/early April… I honestly don’t know what I’ll do if I’m not accepted. It’ll be too late to contact labs for research, and while I can take classes at the community college, I feel like that would be anticlimactic because I interned somewhere last summer.
I didn’t finish my chem test, but even the Science Bowl kids didn’t, so I think it’s okay–this is the one test that’s supposed to be curved heavily. All I want is a B on the test after the curve; I can bring that up. It’ll be a problem if I do worse than that.
& politics make me angry and I’d love to rant about the elections, but sadly that’s forbidden on CC.
@tonystarkofwinterfell In my opinion, it’d be better to at least take classes at a community college than doing nothing.
@Faultystart that’s true. I can also do some independent research, but I plan on doing that regardless. My CC just has such boring classes. Nothing eclectic, nothing interesting, and nothing remotely difficult. Just your standard set of (really easy) courses.
However, I would be able to take MVC if I could take classes at the community college–I’m not taking it next year because I don’t want too much stress in my schedule.
Spring break is nigh!
@tonystarkofwinterfell Ah, I see. Perhaps you could do some online courses or something? edx and coursera have some interesting courses that you can pay some money to get a verified certificate. (or you could take the course for free)
@Faultystart actually taking some EdX courses right now (finishing them, on the other hand, is another matter–ain’t nobody got time for that). I probably will end up taking CC courses–maybe a CC a little farther away (there are many in my area, but the one I took classes at the summer after freshman year is a five-minute drive from my house) has better summer course options.
Okay, yeah: turns out a nearby community college even has individual research classes in environmental science (!!!) over the summer. If I have to take classes anywhere, it’ll be there.
If anyone is going to the TN stuco thing this weekend, PM me lmao
Do you guys have any advice on how to tune others out? (Oh, this sounds bad :// I don’t mean it to!)
Because in my chemistry class, there’s a group of people in front of me who are constantly bashing on others (others including me :’) ) and sitting behind them stresses me out to the point that sometimes it’s impossible for me to concentrate on my work. I would move seats, but there are none open and I’m too shy to ask anyone else to switch with me (because then I’d probably have to explain why I feel uncomfortable, and…yeah).
Thank you! (Sorry if this seemed weird. oop)
@YoohooAddict Right now is probably the best time to contact all the schools before the March 15th deadline. I tried reaching some places but they haven’t responded. (emailing). Have you heard back from your counselors yet?
@desideratum Do you sit in the back row? If your teacher is cool with it, I have earbuds with me to listen to music. My teacher is really nice with electronics and food (nom nom) so there are always distractions to use.
@penngirlpending nope, I sit smack in the middle row, although oriented a column to the right. Long story short, my teacher can see me, and he’s been pretty gung ho about the “no headphones” thing in class :’)
@desideratum try talking to your teacher or counselor about the students… if they’re being hateful about you and other students, that’s not okay!
Has anyone seen this video? Amazing! I can’t believe people can build something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q