School starts on Tuesday and the only summer assignment I finished was for IB History and was pretty easy.
Now I have to finish reading and annotating a book, write an essay about a short story and finish a review packet for chem.
Obviously the logical response is to waste time on CC.
Why am I so irresponsible?
School started two weeks ago for me — adjusting to a new school has been tough and I’m trying my best to keep a positive attitude through it all! IB has been great so far, though, and it hasn’t hit me yet how hectic the school year will be.
Now back to homework I’ve procrastinated on!
Currently at 4 weeks of school. APUSH is crazy, send help. Math class is crazy. I might take Hon. Algebra I next year!!
Is anyone else studying for F=MA? If so, would you like a bad-*** physics groupchat??
I was wondering if any of you have published a research in a science journal before? How did you do it? because I want to do my own research, but have a professor from a local university doing the same are of researches be my mentor. I want to publish it in the science journal (because i love researching and will put a lot of effort into it and i want to see it somewhere such as the science journal ). I dont know if I can do this or not and idk if it will work. If any of you have experience please let me know. And to be published does your research have to be ground breaking or like a new discovery or something?
@TN034154 I’m getting published for some research I did this summer. I worked in a lab at UMass Amherst and did some electrophysiology research. The more prestigious the journal , the more impressive the research has to be. If you want to publish in Science, you’d better have some pretty fascinating discoveries, since you’re competing with professors and labs worldwide. I’d recommend writing to anyone whose research you’re interested in. If you’re lucky, they’ll ask to meet you. Feel free to ask any other questions.
@TN034154 Furthermore, publishing should be your end-end-end goal. Find research you like doing for the sake of it. Most high school researchers doing their own projects (whether or not they’re backed by faculty) are never published, and those that are often don’t get into prestigious journals. Most undergraduates are never published!
If you really really wanna get ‘published,’ you could try joining an ongoing project… but don’t expect to be a first author.
Then again, you don’t need to be a published researcher to get into college, and any real experience should help you land a lab in undergrad… and produce something really quality later on.
My Junior Year Schedule
Honors wind ensemble (we’re traveling to New York for the Grand Nationals!)
US History (I decided to drop APUSH because of extracurriculars and I’m a STEM person)
AP Chemistry
AP English Language and Comp.
AP Calculus AB
(2nd semester add psychology or journalism here)
Golf
I’m in lots of academic, community service, or science based extracurriculars but I feel like my schedule is not rigorous compared to everyone else on here! I’ve always been a straight A student so I wanted to make sure I’m taking classes that I can get all A’s and pass the AP exams in. Let me know your thoughts, congratulations to everyone on your schedules this year, and good luck with everything to come!
@OMPursuit Thanks for adding that. That’s completely true. My lab was pretty great in that they had me doing projects on my own pretty quickly this summer, which is the only reason I’m getting listed as an author. But, as OMPursuit says, getting published shouldn’t be the main reason you want to do research in the first place.
Oh yeah haven’t posted for a while. My junior year schedule:
Semester 1:
DE Regression Analysis (uni)
DE Probability (uni)
DE French II (uni)
DE Calc-based Physics with lab (CC)
Voice
Bible as Literature
PE
ACT/PSAT prep
Semester 2 (all dual credit courses are tentative though):
DE Analysis of Variance (uni)
DE Stat Inference (uni)
DE French III (uni)
DE Microeconomics or Psychology or Sociology or Anthropology (CC)
DE Astronomy (or physical geography or geology) (CC)
Voice
Bible as Literature
PE
I’m most likely graduating this year and then going to my state school on full tuition + most books scholarship.
@IAmNotCreativ and I have basically the exact same schedule, except she takes honors spanish 4 and i take honors french 4 and we have that 1st period. so from 2-8 periods we’re in the same classes this semester.
IB is not that bad, but its def a lot of work but if you dont procastinate youll be fine. i love my classes though 
@CharlotteLetter
Wow, you’re taking a full load of college courses in high school @-)
Good luck this semester.
the AP biology teacher has managed to turn my favorite subject into the most boring one, jesus.
@literallyliteral That’s how I feel about every bio class and every middle school science class I have ever taken.
Hi juniors!! I’m from the Class of 2018 thread and I wanted to tell you guys to apply for (FREE) summer programs/programs for senior year. First, attending will be one of the best experiences of your life and you will come back home looking at the world differently. Second, you’ll be able to pursue your interests in a non-school setting. Third Here are a few that suit different folks:
MIT OEOP programs (MITES/E2/MOSTEC)
TASP
LEDA Scholars
USC Bovard Scholars
Carnegie Mellon SAMS (also AP/EA through diversity portal)
Bezos Scholars
Hamilton Scholars
RSI (good luck figuring out how to apply :(( )
National Institute of Health programs (idk their names)
Your governor school
Girls/Boys State
And more I cannot think of right now. Here’s a link I used http://www.thecollegiateblog.org/2013/12/12/80-free-summer-programs-for-high-school-students/
At the beginning of my junior year, I was nothing of the student I am today. Had not much to be proud of except my grades and ACT scores, now I’ve grown and gotten to do some wildly cool things. You are a strong person academically, now go off and pursue what you love because that will sing louder than the cookie cutter impressive things. Don’t look at the things because they’d look good on your resume- do them, enjoy them and then bump them around later.
Email people, google for opportunities, carpe diem! Don’t be afraid to go after what you want, don’t be afraid to try new things even if they fail, don’t be afraid of what you can do. You got this!
SAT scores are out for Audust!
I’m pretty disappointed, I took the sat math 2 and I got a 760 which is apparently the 63rd percentile. 
How many questions did you complete IAmNotCreativ?
Had a change of schedule due to conflict I will be unable to take AP Spanish. So here is the updated schedule:
AP Calculus BC(Double block)
AP USH
AP Lit
Applied Object-Oriented Java
AP Physics(Double block)
STEM 3 Honors(Digital Electronics)
@Trekko10 I finished all the questions.
So the SAT Math 2 must be really difficult this time Scary
@IAmNotCreativ I got the same score too… really bummed out because of it. I skipped two questions and was 100% sure I got at least two wrong after the test (a parametric question and the second to last question). Overall, the test wasn’t even that hard for me. It was more like the Princeton Review and Kaplan practices, not like Barrons (which were like double the difficulty and full of more complex topics).
I would be pissed if I got two wrong (and two skipped), because then that would mean it was a scaling result. But I guess we’ll all never know.