<p>Based on this</a> thread, which caters exclusively to Tulane students.</p>
<p>How have your first days of school been? How are your teachers, classes, etc.? How's the workload? Is it more or less than what you expected? What clubs have you joined/plan to join?</p>
<p>Heh, I've always wanted to start a thread like this:)</p>
<p>My first day was Monday. I’m a senior, and all my classes are dual enrollment classes at a local state university.
I’m taking Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Intro to Number Theory, and Intro to Ethics. On Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays I have classes from 9:45 a.m. to 2:35 p.m., with an hour for lunch, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays I only have school for an hour and a half in the morning. My Christmas break is a month long.
It’s college, so there’s no busywork, but everything is more stressful because it all counts for a higher percentage of the total grade. There’s a lot of reading and the homework is difficult. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of opportunity for procrastinating because homework is often assigned a week or two before it’s due.
I might join a club, but I’m not sure what yet.</p>
<p>That’s so cool, we don’t offer dual enrollment, and the highest math you can take is Calc BC.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have an official program set up with the college, but I finished my graduation requirements early so they let me go there my senior year.</p>
<p>Today was the first day of my senior year and I already know its going to go well, I just get really positive vibes from everything. With the exception of my Calculus class, I like all the people in my classes (those who I actually know) and I like the balance and rotation of everything.</p>
<p>My AP Literature class is only 8 kids (and 1 is dropping it tomorrow) and a close guy friend of mine is there and the whole thing is great. Plus, my Lit teacher looks like Velma from Scooby Doo. </p>
<p>The workload is definitely manageable, and a big part for that is the fact that I am interested in all of my classes, so larger assignments don’t seem too overwhelming. </p>
<p>No clubs, I already have after school commitments and whatnot.</p>
<p>My Dual Enrollment classes do not start until next week, but hopefully those will go well as well - though I don’t know of anyone who is taking the same courses as me. But c’est la vie.</p>
<p>I started my senior year about two weeks ago. I really love my classes so far and my teachers are nice. The only thing I don’t really like much is my math class. We’re barely on chapter two and I’m so dreadfully confused!</p>
<p>The workload was a bit more than I expected. I’m doing 18 credit hours of college courses along with my high school work so that takes a lot of my time. I’m still trying to adjust to my workload so it doesn’t effect the amount of time I participate in the clubs I’m in.</p>
<p>Taking 4 dual enrollment w/ 17 credit hours (Spanish, Physics, Academic Writing, and Modern European History), 2 AP (Calculus AB, Music Theory), 1 honors (Band/Choir), & 1 regular (psychology).</p>
<p>Spanish has 4 people doing DE and 5 doing regular level, but we’re in the same classroom and have one teacher. She said that she’s going to teach the DE kids the 1st half of the block and then regular level the 2nd half (because we’ll have independent work to complete). I have one really good friend in this class, but I don’t talk to the rest of the kids, and more than half of them are extremely awkward :l. Probably not going to be my favorite way to start the day. Teacher’s nice, though. </p>
<p>Next is physics. I hate physics, as a subject, I have one friend in this class (who is friends with a lot of the preppier girls in class so we’re probably not going to talk much anyway), and my teacher is a little strange. Probably going to be my least favorite class.</p>
<p>Then comes Calc. My best friend is in this class and I LOVE who’s actually in the class. My teacher is my advisory teacher, and he’s super funny and cares a lot about his students. Usually I don’t like math classes, but I like calculus as a subject, so I have high hopes for this one. Tests + quizzes are 90% though… this may or may not kill my GPA.</p>
<p>Last is psych. I walked in and best friend & I remembered why we don’t take non-band/choir/academic electives :l. A lot of kids who just really … aren’t there (one girl’s friend told her that she was moving to New Hampshire, and the girl genuinely asked her if she would still be attending our school. We live in CT).
Our teacher is such a dbag, but he’s pretty chill. He told us about how he used to work in an asylum for teenagers and a bunch of horror stories (got stabbed 2x). He also told us that he was the smart kid who just “got by” in high school on looks, charm, and minimal effort. During his freshman year at UConn, he didn’t buy any of his textbooks until one week before midterms/finals (because books have a 1-week return policy), read them, returned them, and still got above a 3.0. But then he got with this girl from Princeton and realized that he’d wasted his potential, started doing actual work, kept making Dean’s list, etc. Cool story.</p>
<p>Academic Writing. Friends are spread out, teacher is really kind and sweet, and she said it’s basically an inquiry class, aka write whatever you want to as long as it’s not total BS. She said that it’s easy to make an A in her class if you put in the effort, but she’s focused on the delta more than on the grades.</p>
<p>Music Theory. 9 of us. 2 good friends in this class. It’s another DE/AP class, and I’m the only one taking AP, so I’m going to be doing a lot of independent work, which I’m fine with. It’s going to be a struggle, though; one of the kids is already arguing with the teacher. Because she’s basically a kid herself (she’s 30 years old and looks + acts 18), she doesn’t really command respect, so people step all over her. She’s my choir teacher too.</p>
<p>Choir. Same as above, but larger class and more friends. Not too much work.</p>
<p>Modern Euro. 13 (?) people in class, friends with maybe half of them. My teacher is basically pro-Europe and anti-US. Also a fierce athiest-socialist. He clearly has very strong opinions and biases (he spent the entire first class telling us why America sucks and Europe is often), so I’m probably going to spend the year asking objective questions :P.</p>