<p>study hall was the hugest waste of my life, EVER.</p>
<p>ap human geography was the biggest waste of time (apes too).</p>
<p>Spanish 3-4</p>
<p>I got into Honors, but I took regular because it was my freshman year and I didn;t know what the courseload was like. I ended up finishing the textbook by the end of the semester and was extremely mad that I didn't even get Honors credit.</p>
<p>UConn Co-op Physics this year. I loved honors chem last year and thought about taking AP Chem this year, but I was advised that (a) I really should have a year of physics under my belt in high school and (b) since I'm good at math, physics would be a snap for me.</p>
<p>Turns out, exactly one other kid signed up for the UConn-level physics class, so we got lumped in with a college prep physics class. Shall I count out the ways I hate this now?</p>
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<li>Due to the class setup, we have a UConn-only meeting once a week, during an extra lab period. That's it. It's like I'm taking two physics classes at once: a regular college prep class and a college-level independent study. Ugh.
2.a. Had I taken AP Chemistry, I would have been able to fit AP Spanish and Culinary I (I know, I know) into my schedule quite easily. Physics conflicts with both of them. I would've had four APs instead of three, giving my apps a much-needed boost, and gotten free food almost every day.
2.b. All my friends take AP Chemistry...well, okay, except for the couple of weirdos who take Anatomy, but most of them take the former. I could have been in there with them, and in the gym class that alternates with their lab period, along with them. And I am not.
3.a. Our school is weird and doesn't offer Physics as a normal AP class. Instead, if I pass, I get a UConn credit, but since it's being used to fulfill a high school requirement, a couple of my top-choice schools won't take the credit.
3.b. It's district policy to exempt seniors with 90 averages or better from finals. I could have an entirely final-free schedule (AP exams finish well before our own exams), but I don't get that UConn credit unless I get a 70 or better on the final. I know I have an awful case of senioritis, but I really, really do not want to spend the last few days before graduation preparing for an impossible exam.</li>
<li>The last two points are probably completely irrelevant, because I completely suck at physics. It's a near certainty that I wouldn't get the 90 anyway, and very likely that I won't manage a 70 on the exam- and if I didn't, I'd cry. Putting myself through this torture for nothing?</li>
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<p>In conclusion, I'm an idiot. Take AP Chemistry, kids.</p>
<p>AP Lang & Comp is an absurdly difficult and time-consuming class, and I don't enjoy it at all. Probably would've bumped back to honors.</p>
<p>AP US History is a lot harder than I thought it would be, and the worst part is that I didn't have to take it. I only took it to avoid taking AP World History, which is on the same level of difficulty as Lang & Comp. Would've taken AP Psych or AP Euro instead.</p>
<p>AP psychology - SOOOOOO BORING and my teacher doesnt really know how to teach</p>
<p>AP English Language: Again..its's ridiculously easy and i feel my time is wasted</p>
<p>i LOVE AP bio. i sometimes go insane with the intense workload, but i am geting a solid A+ in that class :)</p>
<p>I sure as hell regret taking Music theory, There is no way I am going to pass the AP, don't take it unless you are really good at music to start with...as in hearing it, the writing it down.</p>
<p>well, the computer I'm in now is horrible. It was somewhat unavoidable-I needed it to continue an activity to some extent-but it is horrendous. It takes up more stress than half of my academic classes. You might say...how? well, my teacher gives us a full project to do, doesn't explain how to do it in a very hard and expensive program ($1000 and they only have it at schools or design places), and then makes it do within 2 classes. BUT we can't even just normally do it-we need to go according to her crazy schedule. Like, she only opens the computer room before 6:30 to 7:30 and closes it. Classes start at 8:10, and homeroom is made for this sort of stuff until 8:30. Then, she only has it open from like 4:30-5...it's basically impossible. I put so much work into it! And she doesn't believe in giving grades > 95. Which would be fine, if it wasn't in my GPA as a full academic subject (dumb, huh?). I know it doesn't matter for college directly, but it still matters for other stuff like scholarships and rank. AND if the computer classes were this hard, I'd be fine. But I don't know ANYONE who has under a 100 in those classes-and they're on facebook the whole time!!!</p>
<p>AP Sciences...chemistry/biology are terrible.</p>
<p>For me, I joined this science program senior year thinking that if I did this I could actually pass two impt. AP classes (Calc BC and Physics C). The Physics teacher is cool, but hard work. And the calc one doesn't teach. In addition I have to take a research class with the $@%$^#@$ teacher ever. She brought down my GPA and my happiness in senior year...</p>
<p>Other than that I wish I had taken AP Psych cuz it seems SOOOOO cool. I wish I hadn't taken AP Computer Science, cuz ti was jsut a waste of a class...(atleast I know I dont' wanna be a computer programmer)</p>
<p>Drama 10 =X</p>
<p>Latin.</p>
<p>Most useless thing ever. Oh yeah it teaches you those prefixes and suffixes and whatever, but those are picked up easier from reading English anyway. I use my English knowledge to translate Latin, not the other way around.</p>
<p>I agree with you about Physics; for me AP Physics was quite killer. For some reason I signed up to do this special program to get credit at our local community college for the class (I dunno, it's this weird thing at my high school where you can only do that for that specific class. Whatever.) ... but what I didn't realize was that it would count whatever grade I got TWICE on my transcript. So really, all that going in after school and getting help, retaking tests, etc. to end with a really high B both semesters was like getting ... four Bs. Instead of two.
Yeah, not really the pinacle of my existance or anything ... and my GPA's quite a bit lower now due to that.</p>
<p>AP Spanish (it makes me want to take a siesta :()</p>
<p>APES. It's not a bad class in and of itself. There's just way too much overlap with AP Bio, which I'm taking at the same time. It's good in that I don't have to study much, but it gets kind of stale learning the material twice.</p>
<p>Sculpture. We do "abstract" stuff all year long. I ditch that class every single morning (it's at 7:40) and just turn in a bundle of things stuck together on the due date.</p>
<p>Last year, chem was a joke. we didn't have a teacher. seriously. for the first six weeks, we had a security guard show us videos geared toward 8th grade biology classes. Then we got a long-term sub who talked a lot about her son and basically showed us the periodic table. She quit, and we had another teacher who had never taught high schoolers before. she only lasted a week. We had some more security guards, and finally, in the first week of may, we got a teacher. She stayed the rest of the year (a whole three weeks!) and tried to teach us the years worth of material.</p>
<p>All the required courses, which have ambiguous titles on the transcript like "PHHSCPC 1", "Mod Hist Demo" and "Car Life Pl Wks".
By the way, these are: "Public Health and Human Services Career Pathway Core 1", "Modern History of the Democracy"[which is still unclear], and "Career and Life Planning Workshop".</p>
<p>Everyone seems to be saying they regret taking Spanish. That's by far my easiest and most favorite class. But, then again, my teacher is really good, and it might not be any fun if your teachers aren't.</p>
<p>I really don't like my Chemistry class, but there is no way around it. There is only one Chemistry class with one teacher, so I kind of have to take it.</p>
<p>I wish I'd taken French instead of Spanish. The French classes are more interesting,more challenging, and everyone really speaks French. The Spanish classes have a mixture of kids who want to learn Spanish, kids who speak Spanish at home and are taking it for an easy grade, and kids who think Spanish is the easiest foreign language. The last two groups cause trouble in class and generally are there only for the credit. Even though people think Spanish will be more useful, I'd rather really learn and be in class with other students like me.</p>
<p>But Spanish in the long run is the most useful I think. That's the main reason I took it. But I do have to say French sounds awesome, but I wouldn't want to waste 3 years or 5 years on a lang that just "sounds awesome". In my school it is mandatory to take 3 years of a language and 5 years is what the really smart people take.</p>
<p>every single class</p>