<p>Haha, I have the same problem. I read 2 pages of the blue book today, and then gave up.</p>
<p>I’m starting my SAT/ACT tutor on monday… is anybody else using a tutor?</p>
<p>A large amount of people in my area, who are like serious about going to a decent college use them, but I’ve never seen them really mentioned on here.</p>
<p>I kind of need it though, bc I suck at standardized tests.</p>
<p>I’m trying to not use a tutor, but it looks like I’ll end up needing one anyways. But first, I want to try the Blue Book.</p>
<p>Ooh actually I think I’m going to try the Xiggi method, looks good.</p>
<p>not everyone is rich enough to afford one… :(</p>
<p>^^^ Believe me, I’m not either.</p>
<p>If you join new clubs in 11th grade, will colleges see it as resume padding and automatically assume that you don’t have a real passion for them?</p>
<p>^It depends. Just about every EC I’m doing will be 11th grade on, but all but one of those are only offered from 11th grade on so…</p>
<p>So what’s everyone’s summer reading?</p>
<p>I’m right now reading the Scarlet Letter for honors and hating it. I just found out that there will be an AP section so I likely won’t have to read it, but my mother is still forcing me to finish it. I hate my life.</p>
<p>^^^Yeah we have to read the Scarlet Letter too and write a report on it as a summer assignment for AP English L&C. I might switch out though.</p>
<p>^lol, I have to read Of Mice and Men, the Scarlet Letter, the Narrative of Frederick Douglass, and the Glass Menagerie. Do assignments on all of them, and then do a biography report on one of the authors. I flipped to the first page of Scarlet Letter and was like… no.</p>
<p>for AP Lang, I have to read The Crucible and for APUSH i have to read The Jungle, plus outline a chapter.</p>
<p>I have to read Old Man and the Sea. Oh and on an unrelated note, AP English does NOT look fun. Maybe I shouldn’t have decided to take it.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter was boring, we read it this year in English… well, “read”, i didnt read anything more than sparknotes past chapter 8</p>
<p>Do you think this schedule is too hard junior year?</p>
<p>Zero Period Phys. Ed
Honors English 11
AP Government
AP French
AP Chemistry
Teacher’s Aide
AP Statistics
AP US History
AP Literature
Dual Enrollment at Columbia: Calculus III and IV (Linear Algebra this summer), Physics</p>
<p>I also play the piano very seriously, in a couple clubs with officer positions, and do research at Columbia…
Help! O_o Guidance counselor meeting tomorrow!</p>
<p>^Yes. I don’t think that is physically possible. Maybe manageable w/o the dual enrollment but w/ it… o.o</p>
<p>I’m not sure because I’m taking AP Computer Science online through our school’s VHS program, and I have the possibility of dropping that and AP Literature in return for a study hall…</p>
<p>AP Environmental Science
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP Physics (Algebra Based)
AP English III
AP U.S. History
Spanish </p>
<p>What class do you think I could use to do homework? I’m pretty sure I’ll never be able to finish all the homework for these classes in one night, so which of these AP’s will I be able to do homework in?</p>
<p>@tsubomi: hahah good luck next year…</p>
<p>@I’m: Probably AP Calculus…at least in my school the class is pretty relaxed</p>
<p>Hey guys, any suggestions on what I should do?</p>
<p>I’m torn between my most involved clubs. Next year, in the span of 3 months or so (January-March), I will have countless hours of swim practice and meets, countless hours of Robotics (we work till 6 every day, until 9 for the latter half of the season, and for around 12 hours each day on the weekend), and a new Science Olympiad team I’m starting up as Co-President (which I plan on doing well in States, maybe even making nationals if we’re lucky), not to mention Science fair, which is a large deal in my school and I plan on making regionals and hopefully states, as well as normal schoolwork and midterms and such.</p>
<p>My question is, should I keep all these clubs? And if not, which ones should I eliminate? I am leaning towards swimming, because it would be the one I would be least involved in out of the three and the one that requires the least amount of time, compared to the other two. I love swimming and all, but I don’t think it is as important as the other two, and I don’t think that I’m as motivated for swimming as the other two. The problem is, people have always said that having a sport, no matter what, is always important to have, and everyone is telling me not to quit swimming because it would hurt me in college admissions. I need some advice, so anyone willing to help?</p>
<p>SAT practice tests are remarkably dull. Especially those bloody long critical reading passages. I’ve yet to actually finish a section, speak less of the actual test. So maybe I’ll forget about practicing and just wing it, bahaha. </p>
<p>@ tsubomi1993: Please don’t burn out. :]</p>
<p>EDIT: tmanneopen, you should probably just go with your gut.</p>