<p>Div by college algebra do you mean linear algebra (matrices) or modern algebra (groups, rings, fields)?</p>
<p>Well, I’m a rising junior, so, I don’t really have this problem yet, but the more I look at this schedule. The more I realize that’s going to be me next year, the girl that goes straight home everyday, and comes back to school looking like she hasn’t slept a wink…because she hasn’t. </p>
<p>Meh, on top of that, I’m going to be in our student government, Mane Link, which takes up a lot of time, but we get a lot of community service hours. I have to study for my SAT and ACT along with all these APs. </p>
<p>I’m actually in my first AP class, right now, AP World History, and I’m doing alright-ish. But the teacher is a fluffhead so who knows how I’ll do on the exam. </p>
<p>I’m taking these classes Fall Sem.:
AP US History
AP English Language and Composition
AP Environmental Science &
Math IV.</p>
<p>And, I’m taking these classes Spring Sem.:
AP European History
AP English Literature and Composition
AP Biology &
AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>Meh, I guess, you CCers will be my only friends. :)</p>
<p>Nah not really. I took guitar, along with Human Geography so my courseload waz pretty lite!</p>
<p>I did, relative to those at my school. :P</p>
<p>AP Psych
AP Bio
Honors Precalc
AP US History
AP English Language and Composition
Spanish 3</p>
<p>I am one of only 2 people that I know of that are taking 4 AP classes in one year, most take what I am, switching out AP Biology for APES and minus AP Psych and/or APUSH.</p>
<p>I barely ever even have homework to do at home, lol, I’m gonna be so unprepared for the APUSH AP test.</p>
<p>My school only offers AP courses to juniors and sophomores :(</p>
<p>Not like I had a life to begin with…
Just kidding! Junior year feels kind of the same, but maybe it’s because I feel like I’m actually learning vs regurgitating information.</p>
<p>I was (and still am in) IB in my junior year (2011). A little IB joke (which I’m sure applies and is used outside the program) is that you can only have two of the following choices: good grades, a social life, or sleep. For me, however, I feel like I have a little bit of all. Instead of choosing two, I chose good grades fully and completely, but split my last choice into 1/2 sleep and 1/2 friends. If you really want to keep a social life and your friends, this is what you have to do. For me, I really didn’t go out on weekends with my friends more that once or twice a month. I kept most of my socializing to school and online chatting so I could still do my work, just be a little delayed. As a result, I slept a little less, but by communicating from a distance for the most part, I got to maintain my working schedule while being entertained and keeping in touch with my friends. There are going to be times, especially around exam season, where you really just need to close your Facebook and close your Yahoo IM and just get into studying, but between now and then, it’s good to get yourself prepared and spend progressively (and minutely) less time with your friends to do well on your exams. </p>
<p>You could always give up sleep if you wanted to, but this way work best for me. Out of my two IB tests and five AP exams, I got a 7, 6, four 5’s and one four :)</p>
<p>EDIT: didn’t realize i made this kind of long, so if you don’t feel like reading the last sentence is the most important part</p>
<p>Yes, this year has been absolutely horrid for me, and every day I’m slipping lower and lower into some kind of depth of oblivion. Our school in itself has really changed this year–more than half of my teachers are new and it’s our first year off academic probation while the new school administration is for the first time trying to pull themselves together…and failing.</p>
<p>At the beginning of the year I finally figured out where I wanted to go to college–University of Chicago. That hasn’t changed.</p>
<p>I have four AP’s on my plate, one of which I am self-studying for (Psych). I took the PSAT and was really upset that I got something that would most likely not make me a Merit Scholar, and since I was so filled with anger I ended up with only a 1700 flat on the SAT itself. I realized I needed to do something to get myself ahead (I’d worry about retaking SAT later) and tried my hand at a SAT Subject Test. That didn’t go so well either.</p>
<p>After that, sometime around November-December, I started convincing myself that I honestly am not that intelligent. After that I went reckless, I stopped doing my work in my most difficult class–AP chem, and literally just sat there during our test on Gases, leaving me with a 79 for the semester. </p>
<p>By some odd excursion I let my guidance counselor know how horrid I’d been feeling…even though at that point I had absolutely know way to describe my feelings. Right now my ups and downs are what she called “extremes.” </p>
<p>I had family problems on my plate as well as the most idiotic things going on in my head. I cried for no reason. I absolutely hated my school and all of my peers–and I would get so upset and sleep in and miss my morning classes or even the whole day for no apparent reason. Doing this I also missed my extracurriculars after school (I’ve really overloaded on those–with track and cross country, and quiz bowl and academic teams, and becoming a tutor for middle school kids and some other here and there stuff that piqued my interest) My parents encouraged me to spend more time with my friends because of how sad I seemed (they don’t let me do this a lot), so I did so and still am making myself do so, even though it really exhausts me to be social. But when I do hang out and my parents and family do act happy (they have been recently) I can get happy and do a lot of work, and get myself so encouraged…and then after a while it will come crashing down and I’ll feel like I just jumped off a cliff. </p>
<p>Some days I study so much I never sleep, some days I look at my work or old AP tests, decide I’m going to fail, and go to sleep by nine. I feeling kind of in between right now and when I do think about getting four fives on the ap tests, and raising my SAT score really high, and getting into my dream school it feels really good. I realized I have a strong belief that truly learning information is so much more important to me than saving it long enough to get an A on the test.</p>
<p>That was kind of hard for me to write and I don’t know if anyone is willing to read it, but…</p>
<p>Whether it’s junior year or senior year that you overload yourself, I think the solitude can cause you to learn a lot about yourself. Don’t ever let yourself feel as bad as I do sometimes.</p>
<p>Well, it’s honestly not terrible so far. I picked my AP classes to only be ones that I knew I’d enjoy (Physics B and Calc AB), and left classes like AP Language off of my schedule. Because I actually ENJOY my AP classes, I excel at them. It’s as simple as that.
As far as social life, I tend to save it for the weekends. Throughout most of the year, I’ve had some form of band during the week, but my weekends usually have at least one day free. My philosophy is to work my ass off during the week, then chill out over the weekend. Assuming no tests on Monday of course.
So far, it’s worked well. Honestly, sophomore year was far worse, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Bumping this thread for more imput from the cc community.</p>
<p>For my D, she did sacrifice some sleep because of APUSH. The first half of junior year is a very intense, she didn’t have time to cut her hair in some months. Otherwise, she partied the weekend before her SAT. However, she has some ECs but not too crazy. Now that SAT is out of the way, her schedule seems more doable, not too bad.</p>
<p>@bluedevils31, I just read this thread and wanted to know how you’re doing with your insane schedule? Also, this is a great thread and keep it going!</p>