@gormar099 I’m taking lit next year and am in bio now
@gormar099 I’m taking Art History and Bio next year and probably the rest my senior year
@nyuhopeful44 @LeopardFire @HelloThereHola I have a lot of homework tonight.
@gormar099 Off of your list, I am only taking Calc BC and Lit. I plan on taking AP Chem and APUSH too.
I am a little hesitant about taking Calc because that means I will have to stay with my current pre-Calc teacher for another long year. I am pretty sure he’s only teaching to save up money for graduate school and doesn’t truly care about if we learn the material or not. There is nothing in place that tells our school district if we’re learning what we are supposed to. Only 2 out of more than 50 students actually passed the final exam. Let’s just say the curve was very generous. I have a high A right now, but feel like I never grasped any of the key concepts you’re supposed to have for Calculus. Has anyone ever had a teacher like this?
@ak2018 good luck lol. I have 16 problems to do, a quiz to study for, and a chapter to read. Not too much; I’m lucky. @Hamlon If you’re really worried, couldn’t you learn what you’re supposed to learn on the internet? Just to make sure you understand it enough for Calculus. I guess this would work, but then you’d go through the same process again next year…I’ve had a couple of bad teachers. Ones who literally did nothing in class and just goofed off the whole time. I just learned it on youtube lol.It worked for the most part.
@gormar099 I’m taking Calculus
cool, looks like I’m gonna have plenty of people taking the same classes as me. we shall suffer together.
To those of you that are in pre-calculus right now would you say that it’s a hard class? I am planning on taking it online this summer since I always get high A’s in math but I just want other people’s opinions on how hard the class/concepts are
Anyone planning on taking AP Chemistry next year?
I talked to the Engineering teacher at my school and he told me some pretty cool stuff. I asked him about what the curriculum of the two Engineering classes I’m planning to take. He told that the first class, Engineering Explorations I/Robotics, focuses mainly on Robotics and competitions. We’ll be working with VEX Robotics, FRC, Seapearch (Underwater Robotics) and even Robotic arms. This class will be more practical.
Principles of Engineering will mainly talk about the true aspects of Engineering. Which will make it more academic.
@av2222 I’m taking it right now, and it’s not a walk in the park. It certainly requires effort to maintain understanding of the concepts. If you apply yourself, you’ll have no problem.
@ak2018 Im either taking that or Dual Enrollment. Random but semi-relevant… The robotics class at my school is a joke. They didn’t have the materials or something so they ended up doing NOTHING the whole semester. Several people have told me that too. Hopefully you’ll have a different experience lol. It should be fun
@ak2018 I’m only taking Honors. Same weight for me. I need a (small) break.
Has anyone ever failed a test that got recorded in the grade book? I remember in 8th grade science, no one ever had any idea what was going on in there. Our teacher would give quizzes twice a week and everyone would make 10s and 20s on them lol. On one tests, I made a 68. I still had the highest GPA in there though at the end of the year. You could imagine how tough her class must have been. Lol no class in high school is as hard as that one was.
@HelloThereHola My school has one of the best Robotics teams in our county. Our Engineering teacher is also the head of the Robotics team. I’ve talked to some seniors, who were the last to take Engineering Explorations I/Robotics before it was cancelled two years ago, and they said the class was pretty fun. Now they’re bringing the class back.
Also, I’ve failed a bunch of tests, it’s not uncommon to me.
I need to study and work on so many things. Yet I’m here, stressing myself out even more, rather than actually doing anything… I really should study for my history test which is today (since it’s already past midnight).
@ak2018 I read “The Masque of the Red Death” last year! The rooms were pretty cool (though I did have quite a bit of trouble envisioning the actual layout), and my class spent a lot of time analyzing their meanings. Poe’s works are pretty cool in general. Sometimes he’s a bit convoluted, but I think that just makes it even more fulfilling when you figure out the actual intentions behind his words!
@HelloThereHola That has happened to me many times. In fact, this week I failed a math quiz.
@mutedmornings We used the story to further study the meaning of allegory. The numbers allegorical meant something. The most important being the number 7 which represents how many rooms there are as well as the 7 deadly sins. This is one of the things we had discussed in my English class. We also discussed how all the different rooms from start to end represent life.
Guys! I got an email from Caltech!!! I know it’s really dumb to be excited over such an insignificant thing, since they send emails to loads of people, but still… It’s my ultimate reach school, and so it just feels really nice. The email makes it feel like something more “real”, and less unattainable.
What colleges do you all want to go to?
@ak2018 Ooh, we didn’t talk about the meaning of the numbers at all (or at least I don’t remember so). That’s really interesting!
@mutedmornings The only school I’m 100% sure I’m applying to right now is UConn, since its my state flagship and both of my parents went there. I’d like to go to college in a city though, especially Boston. <3
@HelloThereHola My first of F on a quiz/test this year was on my take-home math quiz, but I remember distinctly failing the first few pop quizzes I had in Honors English last year. It was on The Odyssey, and as a ninth grader I was so lost. I might have just failed my math midterm though, which is an unprecedented feat for me. 
I had my math midterm and gov final today. Math… Happened. Gov was a joke. We could prepare before hand (we wrote an essay), my teacher let us use the Internet, and I was allowed to listen to music. Everyone around my was talking during it. It makes me wonder how her AP Gov class will be next semester.
I’ve noticed a lot of people on the high school forum take honors classes before AP. Is that common? At my school the only thing similar to that is that you take regular gov before AP, but its in the same year. For example, you can’t take honors bio sophomore year and then take AP the next, if you want to take AP Bio you have to take it as a sophomore.
@HelloThereHola yes, many times unfortunately. Math is my weakest subject 
@mutedmornings nice. I just got emails from UCF, Stetson, Rollins, and Stony Brook while my AP classmates received emails from the ivy’s
@HelloThereHola I failed a few quizzes in middle school, but I wasn’t the brightest kid then. I’ve worked really hard since then
@LeopardFire I live in CT too. Represent