@Kelvin82 I feel the same way. A lot of my classes this year aren’t that interesting and I didn’t really have a choice in taking them. APUSH has to be the most boring class on the planet and all my teacher does is use someone else’s powerpoint. Reading the textbook is more interesting than going to class. AP Stats isn’t hard and I just don’t see how my school thought it would be sufficient enough to replace my math class for this year. They said going to the CC for Calc would’ve been too difficult, but I am not interested in Stats at all. I’m thankful my teacher is a really cool person or else I would have dropped the class. I only look forward to Chemistry, Choir, and AP Lang everyday(Orchestra some days). My schedule last year had challenging/interesting classes for math and history. I wish that were the case now.
My math teacher said today that if I get an A in his class this year I can skip to AP Calculus BC instead of taking AP Calculus AB!
@Kelvin82 I feel you. What bothers me about a lot of AP Lang teachers is that they don’t even let you get the hang of things before they start strictly following the AP rubric. Apparently I’m supposed to churn out a 9 on my first try. The bright side is that the more you learn about rhetoric and the more intuitive you become in regards to how your teacher grades, the easier it’ll be. And trust me, I understand your frustration with busywork. I don’t mind homework, but it really gets to me when I’m spending hours on something and not learning anything. I had to organize a list of a couple hundred tone words the other day for AP Lang. Needless to say, after about an hour I started crying and got a bad headache. Maybe talk to your APUSH classmates about collectively letting your teacher know that his teaching style isn’t working out. Useless projects shouldn’t be cutting into your time to do important work.
I have some good news. My AP Stats grade just went up a percent and my Precalc teacher said my project was very well put together. I’m feeling much calmer today.
More good news: After blood, sweat, and tears, I finally figured out my AP Comp Sci assignment.
Crushes suck.
Crushes as in what?
Has anyone had any experience with UCLA summer sessions?
crushes suck. Especially when your crush rejects you outright
Crushes do suck.
Just took sat subject test for spanish with listening, thought it went ok… Hoping for a 700 
Ah ok I wasn’t sure if that was some different type of crush than I knew
When you’re heavily procrastinating writing an essay that needs to be handed in before Thursday…
@Marg532 it’s saturday fam. i have one due monday. won’t start till tomorrow night lol
How do you guys think you did on the PSAT? I don’t think I will get in National Merit but I’m hoping for at least a 1300 Thankfully, I finished all the sections on time and did most of the grid-ins for the math. I honestly don’t get why teachers assign so manywork before the PSAT - I think we deserve a bit of a rest to study and do well.
@preciousdiamond I am 99% sure I got commended, but who knows about nmsf? During the PSAT, I felt really weird about the writing section and had to guess on two math questions, so idk. I took an SAT practice test today and got a 1450 (CRW 740 and Math 710) after running out of time on both math sections. I feel like I scored >1450 on the PSAT because the math is easier and I haven’t touched some of the math topics tested only on the SAT in over a year…
I spent my entire day watching documentaries about America’s homeless problem and it put me in such a funk. We had the resources to easily fix the issue years ago, but now the problem is so out of hand who knows if it will ever be remedied? There was one part with a college grad talking about how he used to be somebody and was now just somebody else. Another section discussed the invisible homeless who live out of their cars, sleep at airports, or even sleep around their college campus at night while attending school during the daytime. Unreal…If people aren’t going to treat homelessness as a social issue, at least recognize that it’s a public health crisis. People living in such close proximities under extreme weather conditions can encourage potential outbreaks(not just of physical diseases, but also mental health crises/addiction). This is getting ridiculous…
@Kelvin82 I was literally able to pull a B in AP Chem this quarter and I almost cried tears of joy!
Hope this makes you feel somewhat better! I try my best everyday to not catch feelings!
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@Hamlon what do you think the minimum score for commended scholar will be this year
I just realized that Daylight Savings Time ended tonight, so we got an extra hour of sleep.
Anyway, I’m kind of in a really great mood because I just did some more research on the VASTS and VESSS programs I applied to and had seen that they each accept about 550 applicants for their individual online courses. Today, November 6th, at 11:55pm is the deadline for both programs and based on the online course portal, 463 juniors applied for VASTS (Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars) and 185 juniors and seniors applied to VESSS (Virginia Earth Systems Science Scholars). The VASTS program is my first choice.
I don’t want to jinx, but…THS MEANS I’M PRETTY MUCH IN THE VASTS PROGRAM! 
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It’s not exactly certain at this point, but since it looks they have less applicants than usual for both programs this year, everyone who meets the requirements is pretty much accepted. They actually extended the application deadline six days in hopes that more students would sign up, and 100 more students did. The requirements for the VASTS program are that you must have at least a 2.7 UW GPA, be a high school junior, and attend a Virginia high school. The requirements for the VESSS program are the same, except they allow juniors and seniors. Also, one of the things I kind of liked about both programs is that they do not require a transcript to be submitted, they only need the GPA. I also needed to write two essays and get recommendation letter from my guidance counselor and one of my teachers. If all of these requirements are met, then, I guess this year, applicants will receive a conditional acceptance on November 18th. We can consider ourselves officially accepted once we login to the online course, create our profile, do the course pre-assessment, and fill out a few more forms.
While I though the hard part was over, it’s really just begun. If I do end up taking the class, I will be receive actual college credit since I applied for dual enrollment. Not only that, but the class will be really competitive. The top 180 out of ~463 students will be selected for the summer academy at the NASA Langley Center this summer. Meaning if I want to go to the summer academy, I have to be in the top 38%-39% of all of the students. Overall, this is definitely motivation to do well in the class! Especially since I’ll be spending at least 5 hours a week doing the course content. Essentially, we can’t really fail because we’ll also have tutoring, if needed and we won’t be working alone. The course actually promotes collaboration and online discussion through forums. Since we’ll be in class of 25-28 students, we’ll definitely be getting to know each other. I’m really excited to get started and “meet” my professor.
Question: For anyone in a dual enrollment/online class, how are you able to not fall behind? In my course, we will be going through one module (unit) every two weeks and timeliness is a very important thing for this program.
I also apologize for the length of this post.
Double post by accident please ignore.
@Ak2018 the issue this time isn’t that I have no chance with him, its that he goes to school 5 hours away :((
Anyway, for the online class, I’m kinda in the same situation as you. I’ve had trouble with online classes in the past but those are ones that only had “suggested” deadlines. For this one, I’m planning to set aside an hour every day to work on it, and if I can, get ahead over winter break. I think the summer program thing will also motivate me to do well lol.