<p>I'm so jealous of them, they all complain about having to apply to college, but I would gladly switch places with them. Getting to take pretty much all electives, and deciding on the college you want to go to is basically my dream, it annoys me to much when they complain.</p>
<p>WHAT I don’t take all electives. Hell, I only take 3 APs plus a post-level AP class and I’m still stressed out with my college applications/essays, extracurriculars, etc. PSH I have a right to complain!</p>
<p>I don’t mean all easy electives, but for example this year I have to take lots of hard classes I don’t want to take like APUSH, AP Eng Lit, and pre-AP french. I’m more of a math/ science guy so almost all of those awful courses will be gone next year replaces with something I actually get to choose, except for English, but next year I’ll be done with AP english.
Also, they had all summer for college aps, and they waited till now, it’s there own fault…</p>
<p>Not necessarily. I was on an exchange program sans computer most of summer, and I got back on the 3rd day of school. Plus, the applications come out in August, and that’s when my school starts the year. Not only that, all the transcript and recommendations crap takes forever if you go to a big school like me. </p>
<p>Though you are right with classes, I don’t have to take some classes because I got all my requirements out beforehand. No more math, it’s nice :)</p>
<p>Well, maybe you get to take interesting classes if your schedule doesn’t get screwed up.</p>
<p>I’m a math/science-y person too, and I was looking forward to loading up on science in particular. But my schedule got screwed up so I ended up with two social studies classes, neither of which I particularly cared about or wanted to take.</p>
<p>And also, a lot of us were busy during the summer - plus, like emory said, supplements don’t come out until August for most schools.</p>
<p>maybe they wanted to have fun during the summer and didnt want to waste it filling out college apps.</p>
<p>just worry about yourself and stop thinkong your life is so much harder than theirs. they all did the same thing you did.</p>
<p>I felt the same way back when I was a junior…but now I’m a senior and let me tell you…college apps are ridiculously stressful. I mean, it’s not a ton of work but knowing that all of this stuff is kind of deciding where you’ll be in a year puts a lot of stress on you. Plus the administration at my school is horrible and can’t do anything right. -__- I turned in all of my application stuff like two days after common app opened…yeah still nothing done.</p>
<p>Yes and no.
Yes because senior year is rumored to be ridiculously easy (except for SAT’s and college apps) and I will get tons of benefits that seniors get.</p>
<p>No because all my upperclassmen friends will be gone and a third of the school will be people who are younger than me. Also many seniors start to become as obnoxious as they were freshman year and they become extremely full of themselves. </p>
<p>[Rant:] Envy means emotion towards someone who has something you don’t have.
Jealousy means fear of losing what you do have to someone else.
So you are super ENVIOUS of your senior friends. [/Rant]</p>
<p>It’s not as great as it seems. First semester still counts, so there’s still a bit of pressure.</p>
<p>Also, since in my school not that many APs are available to juniors, a number of seniors (including me) are taking 5, 6 APs vs. the 1-2 they took junior year. So my course load is actually more rigorous, plus if you’re applying to a lot of schools with obnoxious supplements that’s a whole lot of extra work.</p>
<p>So maybe senior year is a walk in the park in May, but it sure as hell isn’t now.</p>
<p>Also, what pbojkner said.</p>
<p>First semester of senior year is equivalent to second semester of junior year. I actually have a ton more work, but a lot of it is busy work.</p>
<p>I’m a junior graduating a year early. I’m taking four APs and three college classes, one of them requiring a thirty minute commute twice a week. Plus the apps and recs and transcripts… SATs and ACTs… It’s crazy! I haven’t even started on my college essays. I average about five hours of sleep per night. It’s nice though because I have my junior and senior friends, and I can relate to them both.</p>
<p>Having been through both years already, I know how it is to be envious that the seniors are already finishing up, and how it is to be stressed out as a senior. Junior year was spent mainly wishing I was a senior, and I totally understand. They’re almost done, getting out of there, and you’re still stuck with another year of high school to look forward to. I took 7 AP classes my senior year, so my year was not easy. I also had, like everyone else, college applications to do, and I had to finish them while on a trip to the Philippines, when we had internet access for only a few days (since we were in rural Philippines most of the time). In all honesty, senior year is super stressful until college apps are in, and then you’re just mentally indifferent to the world until acceptance letters come in, and then you’re exhausted, trying to keep grades up and just make it to the end. Senior year is emotionally draining. But it is nice to think that it is the end of the road.<br>
Just keep plugging along. College is worth the wait. I’ve been waiting for this ever since I learned what it was in elementary school. It is worth the years and years of waiting. You can make it.</p>