@Wolfgangbread Thanks! I will look into that!
@cliffnotes Haha APUSH students seem to be a community brought together by stress, no free time, and the after effects of cramming too much history info into our brains at once (for instance, I announced to my family a couple days ago that it was the anniversary of South Carolina’s secession from the Union haha)
@Marg532 haha whenever I cram a ton of history into my brain for APUSH after rereading our textbook I’ll memorize the most random details that our textbook gives that’s essentially useless like some president’s height or how many children/pets a president had
APUSH at my school is a lot easier then WHAP my most stressful class right now is AP Spanish which is an extremely easy class most of the time but you have to be focused so that you don’t lose easy points this way you can bomb the tests and still get an A in the class but I didn’t do this so now I have to ace this upcoming test(which according to my teacher had a D average last year) I’ll still most likely get an A but I’ve made the class much more stressful than it needs to be other than that I have relatively comfortable A’s in all my other classes.
@mirandaf I do that sometimes too :))
But let’s play a game called “Guess what Marg is procrastinating on tonight!”
Correct answer: her APUSH homework due in a little over 3 hours rip
My school’s general consensus is that AP Chem and AP Bio are the most difficult AP courses we have. Aside from that, most people agree that our advanced honors Pre-Calculus class (usually taken junior year) is harder than BC Calc.
@Wolfgangbread My school sees the two hardest APs as APUSH (just a lot of work and a lot of things you need to know about, with not a lot of breaks from the routine of constant, mind numbing history notes and packets and stuff like that) and AP Chem (not a lot of info on it, but friends say that it is hell on earth haha), closely followed by AP Bio (not too horrible work wise, but if you don’t pay attention to note taking/if you don’t take notes, you probably won’t do well in the class. He teaches his classes like a college class - he doesn’t care if you pay attention, take notes, or even fail his class. But he’s a good teacher - I had him for Regents Bio).
By the way, I finished my APUSH homework! Now to finally relax (for tonight, at least)…
That’s interesting, considering our school actually sees APUSH as one of the easiest (discounting APES and AP Psych), for the exact reasons you stated. One student’s meat is another student’s poison, I suppose.
@kitkat01 I was in a similar situation during my freshman year.
@Marg532 @Wolfgangbread @cliffnotes @BucketsUCSC My friends are either just passing or are dying in APUSH. It’s one of the hardest AP at my school, besides AP Euro and AP Physics C. One of the teachers who teaches the class at my school actually gives out a humongous amount of homework during the first quarter to see who’s tough enough to handle the workload. After the first month, if you hadn’t already dropped his class, you’re stuck with him for the rest of the year. One of my friends tried dropping his class after the first month and he told her no, knowing well that she had a D in the class. He actually watched her shed a few tears as she reviewed her first test. I feel really bad for her. And to think I almost had him for regular U.S. History. In his regular U.S. History class, he just has his students read out of the textbook and answer questions. It’s pretty boring in there.
@kassh4 I saw that Christmas present and downloaded it and it’s great.
Anyways, I’m proud to say that I just finished Module 1 of 7 of my online college class! 
This whole experience has been both challenging and fun. Doing all of this research makes me feel like I’m an actual scientist. My online teacher has been encouraging every step of the way. My goal, at this point, is to hopefully make it to the summer academy. Going to the summer academy would be life-changing as they actually recruit a lot of their NASA college interns from these programs. It would like open up a lot of doors and I’m honestly just happy that I at least have a chance. Whether or not I make it to the academy, I definitely want more students at my school to be doing this program, and other programs like it, next year. So I’m planning on becoming my school’s Virginia Space Grant Programs Ambassador next year as an outreach program to 10th - 12th graders. The program actually recommends doing this, so I’m plan on doing it. It’s really the least I could do!
I’m also planning on applying to a scholarship for juniors, here’s the link for anyone who also wants to apply: http://hamiltonscholars.org/1/the-program/program-overview/
Is this rigorous you guys?
Painting
Alg 2
AP English Lang
Philosophy
Con. Law Course
AP US History
Chemistry (barely taking it)
@cxprus It depends on what classes your school has to offer.
@Marg532 @ak2018 do people at your school think APUSH itself is hard or just the workload, because I think the people don’t think the workload itself is that bad at my school we just have weekly cornell which prepares us for the unit test and I usually do much better on these unit tests(same with most people in my class) than I did in WHAP. But DBQ’s are my kryptonite I feel like I know what to do but in the short time period it’s pretty difficult to do everything that we’re supposed to do
@ak2018 That looks really cool! I might apply haha
@BucketsUCSC I don’t know about the rest of my class, but I mostly find just the workload challenging. The information I’m golden on. But with my schedule, taking weekly cornells on a chapter and then ALSO completing a very extensive packet that the teacher makes for every chapter is kind of difficult, and I end up not doing anything very much during the week and then Friday - Sunday I rush and cram all this info into my brain and it ends up fried by the time I actually finish it haha but that’s just me and time management.
@BucketsUCSC It’s the workload. People at my school are just trying to make it to the AP exam without being crushed by the workload, especially near AP exam week.
@Marg532 You should probably apply soon as everything is due by Friday, January 13 (Friday the 13th) :)) lol Looking through all of the application stuff, you won’t be able to finish it in a day.
I would also say that this scholarship is for those who demonstrate finical need (somewhat low income at the very most), so anyone who fits in this category is recommended to apply.
Also, would you guys want me to post more scholarships, at least for juniors, as I find them? I’m perfectly fine with sharing this info as I’m not big on the whole “keep this treasure all to myself” mentality. That and scholarship-hunting has become my new favorite hobby! :))
APUSH at my school is all work. The content is all memorization and our teacher uses American Pageant which has a crap ton of useless info which shows up on the tests because he uses the test bank that goes with the book, so pretty much you have to memorize everything before the unit test. The packets everyone just copies.
I just taught myself braille! I’ve wanted to know how to read it for months and just didn’t have the time. Also read a book for fun the other day. Haven’t been able to do that for a loooong time. Sometimes I wish schools just gave us a month during the school year to learn whatever we wanted. I hate school, but love to learn/explore.
Just got a 1560 on my first timed SAT practice test… I can’t believe I’ve been taking the ACT this whole time.
@ak2018 I saw the deadline haha I’m going to talk to my mom about it tomorrow so I can maybe work on it a bit this week. Also I would definitely say that my family income is a bit lower than most, but not horribly so… So this scholarship might be a hit-or-miss but it looks interesting and I would definitely love to do it so I want to apply haha.
@Hamlon Agreed! Sometimes I get sick of learning what the state/my school tells me I need to learn, instead of being able to learn about what I want to.