@luckyme123 I think you should! I think they just want you to know the very basic reactions, which are super simple!
@pseudoprimal How was physics C? I’m taking it next year without any prior knowledge too. I literally know nothing about physics, not even Newton’s laws lol
@Bse15578 I really enjoyed the class – though, given, I’m very much a STEM kid. It strikes a really nice balance between theoretical, conceptual understanding and actual applicability – and it made Calculus way more fun, too, particularly because I took them concurrently, so the ideas of one would pop up at the same time as the other. The class wasn’t easy, but it was reasonable and fun; AP exam was difficult, but the you typically only need a 60% or so to get a five, which lowers the stress a lot.
If you take Mech, you’ll start applying everything you learn to everything you do; if you take E&M you’ll have a lot of moments of “oh, /that’s/ how that works!” and get introduced to some pretty cool equations (looking at you, Gauss and Ampere!) (and Maxwell…)
@pseudoprimal Thanks! That’s really reassuring. Everyone else has been telling me that class is a complete nightmare lol. I’m not sure if my school offers M or E&M, but there’s only 1 Physics C class available so should I assume it’s E&M?
@Bse15578 Although there are two AP tests for Physics C, most schools only have one Physics C class that covers Mechanics 1st semester and E&M 2nd semester. It’s most likely that way at your school 
@Bse15578 again, seconding what @neoking said: it will be Mech first semester and E&M second, in all likelihood. Apologies that I wrote imprecisely!
@neoking @pseudoprimal thanks!!
Yas, they’re letting us take the SAT in order to determine if we are eligible for NMS or not because there were issues during our PSAT testing day…
Oh, God. Physics. ._.
Anyone else get flak from their family because of school? I’m desperately trying to make myself a competitive high school student, and that obviously takes a lot of time when you combine academics with meaningful extracurriculars, but my mom just doesn’t seem to understand it. I try to make time to spend with her, but it doesn’t always work out.
Should I put family over school? I don’t want to squander the opportunities I have now, but I love my mom…
Family over school any day. School is important but strengthening and sustaining your relationship with your mom is even more important. Maybe she feels as if you don’t spend enough time with her?
@neoking
Yeah - that really is a tough decision. To put it into perspective though - the majority of your life, especially if you live to the good old ripe age of 70-80 (and hopefully beyond!), is spent away from your parents. A few moments here and there, although they might feel painful to sacrifice in hopes of making yourself more competitive academically, are worth it. You might not get these kinds of opportunities again in the future, because from here on out life is just going to accelerate - so I think it’s best for you to make time for your mom. It’s okay to put academics on the backburner even just for a little :’)
I don’t have many problems with not spending enough time with my family, but I get flak from them about school in general for the randomest things. Like they used to have all these problems with me wanting to take more than 3 AP classes, and now that I’m thinking about college it’s way worse. My mom sees no purpose in wanting to leave the state to go to a better school–granted, our flagship is decent, but I want more–and they hate that I always ask them questions about college (especially paying for it, when I’m trying to come up with realistic options and they don’t even give me information). It freaks me out that so many parents are so on board and my parents are restraining me.
Finally glad that spring break is here :)) been working nonstop since January and it feels nice to get a lil break before AP cramming :^)
@ambitiousgeek I am so jelly we don’t even have a full week of spring break this year
@penngirlpending Really? We have a full week and good friday.
@tigerman333 We have good friday off, but spring break is only 2 days and with the weekend 4 days. This is what happens when you live in the northeast. My school is still making up from snow days from last year!
@penngirlpending Ours is from Mar 28 to Apr 3 so a total of 5 weekdays and with the 4 weekend days, that’s 9 days, but it ain’t that much. Still got two more weeks before spring break lmao. Sucks
@YoohooAddict That’s decent enough but could be better. I think that would be our usual spring break length but taking place towards the end April. We did have a longish holiday break with the new years bring in another weekend.
@penngirlpending Yeh, but our spring break is like this every year. It’s either that or shorter; never is it longer, which sucks a whole lot.