Official Unofficial Class of '11 Thread

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<p>You know, I earned a 790 on Chem as well, and for a few minutes, I also was annoyed at my stupid mistakes. But hey, I later realized that the difference between a 790 and an 800 is negligible. Plus, with all the triple 800s they get from Singapore and other Asian powerhouses, I bet they’re looking for a more interesting applicant, one who isn’t perfect but has a truly unique personality. Besides, any college adcom that will differentiate its 800 and 790 applicants can kiss my ass. :)</p>

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<p>We get our own lockers, and, better yet, they’re not in hallways clogged with gridlock between every class period (public school ftw)!</p>

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<p>How many posts do you guys have in this thread? I have 50. :D</p>

<p>(put your mouse over the star to the left of the topic title on the main HSL page)</p>

924

<p>woww, I only have nine. 10 including this one.</p>

925

<p>I have 36 (well now 37), I didn’t realize I had this many.</p>

<p>How is everybody’s summer going so far?</p>

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<p>17.</p>

<p>Yep.</p>

<p>So. Yeah.</p>

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<p>I’m not checking, but probably like five or something.</p>

<p>I’m debating between taking a free period this year or not.</p>

<p>APUSH
AP Calc/Honors PreCalc (I better get AP Calc, but it depends on how well I figure out how to learn trig… uhg.)
Honors English/Online AP English Lang (My teacher and I are working together so they intertwine.
AP Bio
Latin II/III. (I’ll be in the Latin II class learning Latin III… Don’t ask.)
Symphonic/Marching Band
Release Time Sem. (I’m begging them to let me take early morning, but so far, not too good. UHG.)</p>

<p>Then I can take either my free period, creative writing, physcology, maybe chem or something like that (non-honors/ap), but I have yet to decide.</p>

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<p>50 posts .</p>

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<p>29, now 30. Quite interesting. Summer’s going pretty good. Playing civ IV colonization right now =]</p>

930

<p>I haven’t posted on this thread in sooo long.</p>

<p>Just a question for next year, do you think this schedule is manageable?:</p>

<p>APUSH
AP Bio
Honors Precalc
Honors Spanish 4
Honors English 11
Visual Design
AP Art History (self-study)
AP U.S. Gov/Politics (self-study)
APES (self-study)</p>

<p>Plus a sport a season/a job/a bunch of ECs.</p>

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<p>^No not with the sport a season + job + ECs. I barely survived second semester sophomore year with just a sport. </p>

<p>That being said, what does everyone do for volunteering? I do events here and there but don’t do anything long-term. Any suggestions?</p>

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<p>AP Lang & Comp
AP Calc AB
AP Macro
AP Gov
Chem
German 4
Newspaper (might drop)</p>

<p>…and b/c my district built a new school, they’ve decided to change everything. they’re helping those who are behind by making it a 7 period modified block. i’ll miss normal block =/ no more time for slacking here…not that that will stop me.</p>

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<p>The volunteering I did, well, for NHS, I helped my school’s science department. Me and the other volunteers (like 5 of us) got to go out for brunch each day, one day we walked along the beach, other days we got off early, but overall, we only had 13 hours or so, but got put down for 30. </p>

<p>We actually did do inventory, but I guess we did the work so fast, the science department head didn’t know what to do, so she just let us do all that. I’d say one of the most fun parts was playing “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” while doing random inventory stuff with 10 year old speakers found in the room. =]</p>

<p>For you, I’d suggest trying to find something you would actually have fun doing or isn’t so bad that you actually wouldn’t mind going back and doing it again and again. I know that’s very generalized, but it is the truth. Good luck with the search!</p>

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<p>I go to a High School that is at our local college. We have Homeroom check-in at around 8:30 and then we go to our college classes, then High School classes at 12:30 till 4. </p>

<p>My Classes for the Fall Semester are:
Introduction to Microcomputer Usage
Biology and Environment
Human Sexuality </p>

<p>And then my year-round High School classes are:
Pre-Calculus Honors
AP English Literature
AP Government
AP Macroeconomics </p>

<p>I’ve been working for a Pet Rescue since the start of my freshmen year, moved up to a Volunteer Coordinator back in December. I have about 1000+ hours or so, waaay passed my needed hours, but I do it more for fun now xD</p>

<p>The best places I can think of for Volunteering would be local Pet Rescues (to get hours), and I know a lot of Local Hospitals and Zoos accept volunteers too. Maybe go around asking if you can volunteer as a tutor after school for Elementary/Middle schools? It really depends on what your interested in doing that you’d enjoy.</p>

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<p>I volunteer at my local library (I’m just doing it for the summer though, I think, and I only have about 10ish hours right now, so I don’t go that often) but it sucks.</p>

<p>It’s soo boring.</p>

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<p>^Agreed.</p>

<p>Working at the library is sooooooooo boring, I don’t recommend it.</p>

937

<p>^Same here.
I just shelve books for hours and hours. But I do get a fair amount of studying done there so it’s not all bad.</p>

938

<p>my schedule is more or less like everybody else’s
-Physics honors
-Pre Calc Honors
-AP Statistics
-AP Lang
-AP USH
-Spanish 4
Learning Micro and Macro Economics on my own for the AP
Then I have soccer, tkd, and volunteering at the hospital.
SATS, APs, and the other 3 million tests that we need to take.</p>

<p>Sounds like a fun year to me. :(</p>

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<p>College board won’t give me my AP scores :frowning: It would be ironic if they said I cheated because I’m sure I got 1’s.</p>

940

<p>so…who’s halfway through accomplishing everything they wanted to this summer? not me. :D</p>