@literallyliteral
Haha summer. I don’t even remember it. After I got assigned a 1500 word essay and a test on two history chapters, all my free time dissipated…
my sister has turned into hamilton trash. she will get a six on the apush exam
so my calc homework is split iinto an online portion and a written portion
and I’ll typically do the former really fast after class, then wait till the last few days to finish the latter
it’s like, I’ll tell myself ‘I’ll just do this quick thing. Then, I won’t be procrastinating!’
and then the after-class buzz is gone 
gonna finish up the last few problems now 
I start school this Thursday… I’m not ready
This summer has gone by so fast! And my soccer tryouts ended today, and I am still waiting to find out if I made varsity. I have a feeling I didn’t for some reason and I’m going to be really upset if this is true. I just want to know already!
Hi I’m a s sophomore here!
Pre-Calculus
HL IB Physics 1
Symphonic Band/ Chamber Orchestra
French II
AP US Government
World lit/comp-World lit/Speech
I’m so excited I’m glad I finished my physics homework for the whole summer!
My first day was yesterday!
Physics Honors: I already dislike the teacher, and I’ve heard from friends that the way he runs his classroom sucks. He flipped his classroom, meaning we watch videos that he makes and then do assignments. I don’t learn like that, I’m very liberal in my views, but, when it comes to school, I think it should be taught in more traditional ways. All of these technological enhancements are not cutting it for me.
AP Calculus Prep: We have ten people in this class! So cool, and I already love it! We jumped right in with unit circle and factoring review. Anyways, the teacher is super nice and I love the class.
Honors Chemistry: I like the teacher and the subject material, but there are too many people in that class for me to be comfortable rn. I’ll get used to it, but the room is so compact with like a million people. We did a pretest to test our Chem thinking skills, and lmao it was so easy
PLTW Principles of Engineering: I am losing sleep over this class. I skipped two prerequisite classes because they’re not really essential, but I’m not as experienced as the other kids. Oh, and we have FOUR people in that class. Such a small class, but I kind of like it. We started out with levers. Very easy, but I do not have the engineering mindset. How am I going to do on the projects? I do not know.
@IrrationalPepsi Haha, yeah, I’m right there with you, bud. PoE is a challenge for me too, practically, although it’s one I’m very happy to take on. 
Too bad about physics guy. My chem teacher seems to be going molasses…!
However, I found this cool online textbook in the NCO thread! I’ve started working from that :0
I just tallied it up and I’ve done 12 Science Olympiad events.
Just got home from a new STEM Club meeting that I’m helping run and I’m so psyched!!! The teacher is super attentive and chill, she has great ideas of doing a robotics competition with Lockheed Martin and possibly science Olympiad! So excited!!!
I’m also secretary of Mu Alpha Theta no big deal lol
woot! I’m starting a STEM club at my school too @Shanban1607 :DD
although it’s more like a math club p.p
if you’ve got any tips, pls give D:
First XC race this year in a week D: I’m terrified. At least I leave school 2nd period lol.
good luck @literallyliteral ! For the less athletically inclined among us- whazzat?
Block scheduling is jiving crazy well with me. For once in my life, I feel… I feel…
I’m prepared?
Heyo, haven’t been on here in a few days.
So today was the first day of school for me. I just finished trig homework a min ago and needed a break. I have a trig test on Thursday so I’m going to preview the next sections that we are going to be quizzed on and do a few problems. We’re not getting all of our bulky work until tablets are handed out before the week is over.
The was a huge mess with transportation hundreds of kids (including elementary and middle school) never made it to their schools. Almost myself included.
Anyway I thought i’d share a few thoughts on my teachers for this semester
(H American Studies). He’s really pun-y. And went back to school after 9/11 to teach history. He seems knowledgeable and passionate about the subject he teaches. I’m happy that the e-book and hardcopy of the book will be available. His grading system doesn’t seem harsh.
(H German 2). Super fun class! I’ve had the same teacher last year. Everyone loves her and she’s great at teaching german. The course has a lot of handouts which is my only complaint (I always end up losing something).
(H Chemistry 1A). I don’t know what to say about this one. I’ve never had him before either. He seems nice. BUT, half the class spent the entire period putting away all of his chemistry supplies while the other half talked. I hope we get to use them a lot. He has a lot of interesting stuff. I cant complain about not doing any work. However, I wish he would’ve used some of that time going over policies.
(Trigonometry) Had him before, funny guy. He actually self-diagnosed himself as dyslexic so sometimes he’ll switch up a few numbers. Most of his class is based entirely on test and quiz grades (all open-ended) so I already know i’ll loose sleep over his class. More than half the class is honors so we’re going at a honors pace which isn’t too bad.
I also got my state standardized test results back for biology. If you don’t pass you have to retake the course. If you pass one on your first try you get to use an exemption for your senior finals. I passed my biology and alg one so I have two exemptions.
XC? stands for cross country (x -> cross, c for country)
i can’t believe [my] summer is almost over!! it felt insanely short and i wish i had more time to practice.
@literallyliteral thanks! sorry for the dumb question
everyone’s doing this teacher/class analysis thing, so Ima do it too…!
Spanish III:
We have a new guy. He seems pretty great. He’s got the academically methodology that anyone putting in the effort in his class should get an A, but he also places an excellent emphasis on actually, er… teaching Spanish. I’m pretty dedicated to the language, so I went out of my way to ask him about opportunities to do moar learning. Huzzah!
This wouldn’t be necessary, but my school has only one class for Spanish III (as opposed to two for Spanish II) and it’s very lopsided; about half of us are great with the language, and the other half is more at the level of Spanish I (or hasn’t learned a darn thing).
One of many places where I’ll have to take learning into my own hands! 
Global Perspectives (Eng 10/World Lit)
This class has, so far, impressed me. We’re reading the Odyssey, and it’s a kick*** translation (Robert Fagles FTW)! It’s doing a good job of integrating the book with both history and current events- with the reading planned to transition into a report on refugees from the MIddle East in Greece in the next couple weeks.
Way too many kids are in the class, but I took some higher-level lit electives with the teacher last year and he’s got a soft spot for my writing. This dude knows me pretty well, too, so I’m darn excited for this class.
Visual Communications (DE class):
Lightroom, camera, Illustrator!
This is basically an Adobe (trademark) product class.
This is fine.
It’s also somewhat of a photography class, which gets me all buttery and melty inside as photography is something I looove to do. The teacher knows me (and my art) from drawing club last year, too. Woot!
Not to mention, this is a sweet way to nab those art credits for graduating.
Principles of Engineering (PLTW DE class)
I’m not gonna lie, this class is hard for me. Math and design may be fortes of mine, but instruments and measurements in general tend to fail and sputter within a five foot radius of my presence! I can break a spring-scale by looking at it. p.p
Although I nabbed a 9 on the IED test last year, I’ve already come into a bit of trouble here.
My theory-based, methodically mathematical approach drives my engineering teacher nuts, too. In a good way. I think?
Aw, what the ****, he still steals teacher’s lounge food for the class.
I’m trying to supplement this with 6.002.1x on MITx, although that requires a bit of dipping into differential equations. It’s only a four-week course, though… p.p
I have a feeling I’ll be covering some calculus stuff early in order to handle the material.
Film Literature (awww yeah)
Smashing my love of cinema, writing, and photography into some sort of magic concoction, I really really love this class. Same teacher is Global Perspectives. The class is divided between watching movies (we just saw Metropolis, woot), discussing movies (there’s a graded discussion blog where we have to organize and present our views on each film), and creating films for a short, silent film contest held by IU-B yearly. I love it. I love it love it!
Chemistry
I reeally like chemistry. I really want to like my chemistry teacher.
Only, she’s not really much help with… chemistry!
Luckily, this is a subject I enjoy. I’ve been doing very well on her homework thanks to my independent studying and math background, but my peers haven’t been so lucky. The teacher is a whip-smart former chemical engineer, but English is not her first language. Furthermore, her teaching style’s tainted by a string of horrible classes (as opposed to the mellow, dedicated students she’s got in my period)!
Because of this, she teaches to the lowest common denominator in lectures with little time left for questions or discussion; by the time her tests roll around, people are struggling to do all these things she failed to cover during lecture…!
I just hope she doesn’t take a disliking to me by the year’s end;
Calculus (DE at IU-B)
This class is my favorite class. More significantly: my performance in this class (alongside my imminent SAT scores) will decide the courses I take next year (which may be almost all from IU)!
We had our first quiz today. I finished the homework a couple days early, too, so I just hung around for most of recitation- chatting with the undergrads, asking the grad student dumb questions, and solving problems for the class on the board.
so much fun :’)
The professor is a visiting assistant professor from Rice University(!), all the way in Houston! She knows my name (which is sorta a feat, in a class of 59) but I haven’t yet gone to office hours (for lack of a good question p.p). She’s probably the coolest person I (don’t) know, rocking lime-green pumps and short-cut hair as she prances around the blackboard- swooping lines of vibrant chalk and dashing intriguing set notation with a characteristic ‘Zwoooosh!’
I have this biting feeling that I’ll attend office hours more consistently as we pass what I’ve self-studied.
I’m going to an info session for Rice, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, and Columbia tomorrow
UChicago and Brown be bae @awesomepolyglot
hope you like cornell!! @awesomepolyglot i’m in ithaca right now visiting family
Rice