<p>Actually, studying for AP/finals is FUN. It's so easy to get fun with the flexible schedule as you have in United States that I don't understand why would you refrain from having it.</p>
<p>hmmm im pretty sure i sat on my ass on summer since 9th grade doing nothing, and am going to a top college... ENJOY YOUR LIFE</p>
<p>hehe thats why i never refrain from it. just stick a lazy class or two to do homework in (i dont have to do it, we've got a 45-minute study period) so you dont have to do most of it at home and then just do whatever you want in your free time.
and if you think that studying for APs/finals is fun, you havent done it enough yet ;)</p>
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and if you think that studying for APs/finals is fun, you havent done it enough yet
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The only thing I have studied hard so far yet was for Chemistry Honors finals. It was "oh-my-gosh-I-sat-on-my-ass-all-year" revelation which was followed by two weeks of study and all-nighter. I can remember that as being fun though!</p>
<p>exactly my point. :)</p>
<p>RSA, who needs friends? If you want a nice job, you better start making friends and networking. Sorry to say but it isn't the degree that gets you in the door; it's networking. MAKE FRIENDS!</p>
<p>If you don't learn to socialize, and all you do is lock yourself in your room, working, you're going to have a BAD future.</p>
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it freakin' hilarious how high-schoolers or even college students say "yeah, i have to work to pay for college" (usually with a deep and low voice). thats just pathetic.
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<p>Ummm, how is that pathetic? Some of us actually HAVE to because we're not rich, spoiled brats with parents to pay our way. That doesn't mean we can't have fun. It just means WE HAVE TO GET OUR HANDS A LITTLE DIRTY to earn our degrees. In fact, it makes me appreciate it just a bit more...</p>
<p>you didnt read my post all the way, did you? theres nothing wrong with having a job. its just the fact that you dont make nearly enough money at a part-time job while in high school or college to actually pay for college and everything else that goes along with it.
yeah, btw i have a job, and the only thing my parents pay for is my food. ;) in case you thought i dont know how it's like to work in order to get stuff while in high school.</p>
<p>...ever stop and consider the fact that employers don't look at just your degree and the colleges you attend? Your work ethic may be fantastic, but if you can't look your interviewer in the eye and hold a good conversation, you're screwed.</p>
<p>"you didnt read my post all the way, did you? theres nothing wrong with having a job. its just the fact that you dont make nearly enough money at a part-time job while in high school or college to actually pay for college and everything else that goes along with it.
yeah, btw i have a job, and the only thing my parents pay for is my food. in case you thought i dont know how it's like to work in order to get stuff while in high school."</p>
<p>I'm sure there are quite a few college students who could be considered "independent" (student loans + scholarships + mediocre/good part-time job + living in poverty (in college) + living on-campus)</p>
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you didnt read my post all the way, did you? theres nothing wrong with having a job. its just the fact that you dont make nearly enough money at a part-time job while in high school or college to actually pay for college and everything else that goes along with it.
yeah, btw i have a job, and the only thing my parents pay for is my food. in case you thought i dont know how it's like to work in order to get stuff while in high school.
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<p>It doesn't HAVE to cover all your tuition, just the estimated contribution. And, yes, I read your entire post, and it had the tone that "having a job to pay for college is pathetic".</p>
<p>I guess it all depends on the job. I have a friend that makes roughly $20,000 a summer commerical fishing and he started about four years ago. So although $80,000 is not enough to pay for private school it easily covers the cost of state schools in an in-state resident. There are quite a few jobs that pay pretty well for high school students. You just have to do unplesant and dangerous things to get the money. But if college really means something to you you can just look beyond the experience and think about how much you will be gaining in the long run.</p>
<p>that's kind of skewed RSAbach. i have a full-time job this summer, and it's at a prestigious company, not food service at all. BUT i still find time to hang out, watch movies, go to the beach, read some fun books, and just chill. i am of course studying for AP Physics next year and also prepping for an SAT2...but you can have it all. having fun isn't against the law.</p>
<p>you're never going to have the opportunities for fun that you have in high school and college. you only live once. why not enjoy it? i know that i would much rather spend my summers ENJOYING MYSELF while doing a little studying and having a job and not go to an ivy.</p>
<p>i hear you jenny :) oh, and to bach, you CAN go to the beach in the summer and still go to college, why do you think beach week exists?</p>
<p>all this talk makes me want to go to the beach...
and I CAN because i don't spend all my summertime studying =P</p>
<p>I finished off my SAT's with good enough scores for me just so that i wouldn't have to worry about it over the summer (not that i would have studied anyway, but it's one less thing to worry about). And I don't get anyone who starts studying for school, even AP classes, during the summer; that's wickety-wickety-whack. Why would you learn the material and then go to school where they teach you the same thing you already wasted your time learning. Do you guys like feeling smarter than everyone else by understanding stuff that they don't just because you wasted your summer on it? The only time that people should study for Ap tests is 1-2 weeks before the actual day...this should be a law or something.</p>
<p>Mm to each their own... if you want to study, then just do it. If you want to hang out and bum, then do it. Just stop trying to convince the opposite party to do otherwise.</p>