I just started my online dual enrollment class this week. I’m excited but worried because this is my first time ever taking any online class. Does anyone with experience have any tips?
I have taking about 5 online classes throughout the last two years, including two college courses and an AP class. Start communication early with the teacher and keep it consistent throughout the course, if you have any questions ask it’s probably not the first time someone asked that specific question. Keep track of your daily work, that means logging into the program daily. Try not to get behind at all, it’s not like a normal class setting where you have a teacher reminding you something is due everyday. In my AP class we had daily announcements that said what was due that day while my college professor put the assignments up at the beginning of the week and then that was it, no reminders. Just make sure you stay motivated and keep yourself accountable.
@Iridescentgaze As soon as you get the syllabus, put all the dates in your calendar! I would often think I was done with my homework, only to be alerted by my alarm. Set one the day before a minor assignment is due and about two hours before the final due date. For major papers, extend that to two days or even a week!
Get to know your professors and email them even if you don’t really need to. They eventually know your name enough that they’ll be more willing to give you extensions(ask for those before and not after the due date!) if you are sick or have an emergency.
It’s easy to not take notes for online classes, but studying for the final will be a breeze w/ notes especially if your teacher reuses quiz questions.
At least you didn’t start off with senioritis in freshman year 
Same in the US, just next week.
@RMNiMiTz You would also have a 4-day weekend this week if your founding fathers were a little nicer to the queen 
@acomfysofa you mean if the king didn’t tax the hell out of us? lol
@RMNiMiTz I got senioritis at the beginning of 8th grade and it’s all been on a slow slope downhill from there lmao
By any chance is anyone here going to the Curie or Catalyst Academies at Cornell?
Half the people at my school act as if they have had senioritis since they were born. Either that or it’s just plain laziness
Are you guys going to change your Common App essay for each university you apply to? Like maybe trying to suit their “voice”?
ew no that’s so conformist lmao
i’m going to be me regardless of where I go, and I want to reflect that in my common app essay. i don’t want to be their version of “me”
@gigichuck If I end up applying to Reed I think those supplements would be much different than my Ivy essays. I don’t see it as changing myself. I would just be highlighting different aspects of my personality. Harvard probably doesn’t want to read how much Jesus Christ Superstar affected my childhood. That story would probably better suit Reed.
@gigichuck Yes, but within reason. If done wrong, essays will come out very cheesy. It’s not telling schools what they want to hear, but more showing what you could bring to their school in this very moment. Doing this gives schools a better idea of where your fit falls. Let’s be honest, who would in their right mind would submit an essay about the merits of atheism to BYU or Liberty? The argument can be made that you shouldn’t attend a school where you don’t fit its general ideals, but most campuses are diverse enough to have space for students from all walks of life.
@dietcig I hope you end up applying to Reed! It’s an awesome school. I’m applying regular decision. Also, what is the inspiration for your username? It always makes me think of anorexic models using cigarettes to diet. Idek
I think I have had senoritis since elementary school… I’m pretty sure I always did 99% of my homework on the bus ride to school. If only I could get away with doing that now. 
@gigichuck I don’t know, I’m probably just going to put my all into creating the best essay possible that reflects me. If I apply to some schools EA I might reconsider what I wrote for ED, but if I want to show a different part of myself to a certain college, I probably will do so through their supplement.
What is everyone doing in their AP classes, now that the exams are over? In AP Lang, we are working on a writing portfolio that will be graded as our final (but is due next Friday smh) and reading Amusing Ourselves to Death, which is the first book we have done all year. In APUSH, my teacher is teaching us about WWI, though he hasn’t spoken about America’s involvement yet at all, and we are working on a project which will be our final.
@LeopardFire No AP classes this year for me, but for my school, you don’t need to take the final if you took the AP exam. So I won’t really have any finals next year. Also, the more state exams we pass, the less finals we have to take. My DE classes will have finals though.
Although I am done with school we had a full week after AP exams (since both of mine were on the first week). For APUSH we had free time. For AP Psych we had a project on whatever we learned about this year. My school has a policy that if you take the AP test you don’t have to come to that class so the last week, with the online classes I take, I didn’t come to school until 1 and it ended at 3.
I’m going to highlight different parts of my personality in my supplements/Common App essays so that it aligns with the mission of the school (fit). I don’t see it as conforming, more of highlighting different parts of who I am. Even if it’s more work I think it will work out in the long run.
Asked for a LOR from my physics prof, his reply was “no! You should stay here! But fine” lol I think he’ll write me a good letter, as he keeps trying to get me to major in physics (I might, if I double major). I’ll also ask my robotics coach for one, and possibly one of my bosses from my jobs this summer, idk. None of the schools on my list so far require a humanities teacher to write an , but if one does, I’ll probably get my philosophy professor to write one.
I’m so jealous of everyone that’s done with ap exams. I still have A level US History, A level Sociology and As level, Biology to take. The one thing I love about Cambridge/Aice exams is that there are multiple papers for each subject but they are usually spread out a couple days to a week away from each other. It’s really nice because each paper is targeted towards one specific section or topic of the subject and I have more time to study in between each exam. While for AP exams you take a year’s worth of material all in one morning.
But I’ve had a total of 14 exams(one that’s actually a research paper and a presentation) to take from the beginning of may until finals week in June. So May is a busy busy month and I have a total of 6 more exams to go.
I’m still trying to finalize the list of teachers who I’ll ask for LOR, but because I"m applying to 10 schools that all require a letter of recommendation or more so I’ll ask all of them . I believe I need 14 in total.
1.) My current AP Calc AB math teacher. Because I go to a 6-12th-grade charter school I’ve actually had this teacher since 7th grade. I had her for Algebra 1 in 7th grade, Geometry in 8th grade, Pre-Calc in 10th grade, Calc AB currently and I’ll have her for BC senior year. She’s seen me grown so much as a student even though math is my worst subject so I feel obliged to ask her for one.
2.) Spanish 4 teacher. Had for Spanish 2 as a freshman and she loves me and tells me I’m basically a fluent Spanish speaker.
3.) History teacher. I’ve had him for AP Human Geo in freshman year and then As level international history in Sophmore year. Last year he really got to see my passion when talking about Mussolini and Hitler foreign policy and aftermath of WWI.
4.) Psychology teacher. She really wants me to ask her to write an LOR. She actually has a Ph.D. in psych and has so many years of experience as a teacher so for her to say I’m one of her best students was awesome.
5.) Club Advisor. She’s my club advisor for the fashion and beauty club at my school and she has seen my persistence the most.
I have good to very close relationships with all these teachers so I’m confident they will all write a strong LOR.