<p>haha, i like how we both realized what we wanted to do around the same time :)</p>
<p>i’m not sure if i’ll be good at ap stat, but i guess i can give it a try?
and we don’t have honors stat in our school T_T</p>
<p>i’m also not the most talented in science 
as seen by my b- in honors bio freshman yr T<em>T i’m doing good this yr-A average, but that’s cp lol ^</em>^’ rutgers won’t kill me for my cp alg2 and chemistry soph year, right? -_-</p>
<p>do you ever pull all-nighters? i hear in college, many people pull all-nighters…but the thing is, once i’m tired, i’m knocked out…lol i’m not productive anymore after that. what do you suggest i do to wake myself up at night besides coffee? i’m still trying to grow taller lmao 
would exercise help? </p>
<p>oh, and do you guys do a lot of dissecting? i’ve only ever dissect crayfish, worms and owl pellets (4th grade) we were going to do rats freshman yr in bio, but my teacher ended up doing the orders all wrong and they never came in…what is your experience with dissecting? is it bad if i’m the type to get squirmy around cutting dead things to pieces? it just seems so gross and not very human-like…</p>
<p>and do people bring laptops to lectures to take notes or do they use regular paper and pencil? what do you suggest?
thank you! :)</p>
<p>I think it’s good to have some knowledge of stat in high school, even if it’s not really particularly hard at Rutgers (probably one of your easier classes during the preprofessional years). I think you’ll be fine. 
Don’t stress out about it before you even take it, haha. </p>
<p>Show some improvement/take more challenging courses during your junior and senior years, and it should be okay.</p>
<p>I have pulled all nighters before, but there are also plenty of people who do well in the preprofessional years while still sleeping at a reasonable hour. A lot of people I know are like that (once they’re tired, they’re just not productive)…and if you deprive yourself of too much sleep, you’re not going to be functional for pretty much the whole day anyway. I tried eating healthy snacks (I would get a whole box full of celery sticks from Douglass take out and eat them with peanut butter. I also had a lot of food from home). Other than that, I was practically on a continuous infusion of coffee sometimes. I’m lucky though, since I’ve never gotten the jitters. I don’t get hyper either…coffee just keeps me awake. I’m definitely lucky with that.
I guess exercise would help. My exercise = walking to and from the dining hall for the celery takeout (a fair distance, since I lived on the other side of the campus from the dining hall on C/D). I’ve found that just being active/willing yourself to get up out of the chair and walk around for a bit can help too. It takes a lot of willpower to get out of that stupor though, haha. </p>
<p>There’s a pig dissection in bio lab (I APed out of bio and didn’t have to do it). I doubt that it’ll ever come up again. </p>
<p>Some classes are good to have laptops for, like micro (although this depends on professor…for my professor, it was definitely useful). In systems, it’s definitely VERY useful to have a laptop in order to transcribe the lectures (the professors speak quickly). For other classes though, like orgo, there’s no reason to have a laptop. You’d be better off with paper and pen. You’ll pretty much always see laptops in class though, as well as people on facebook. :P</p>