<p>Short term to do list:
-Do book interview
-Write news analysis
-find topic to write an investigative article about
-finish this APUSH homework today</p>
<p>Lol, mine’s pretty much like that too…a ton of chapters to outline for APUSH, SAT prep, Econ project, English reading, JRP, and basketball every day for 3 hours…crazy.</p>
<p>I actually don’t have that much homework tonight, but I’m kind of dying regardless, and there’s a ton of long-term work that I should be doing…</p>
<p>we haven’t gotten our report cards yet and I’m really worried that I did badly, although I know I’m doing at least as well as everyone else with the same teachers. I hate having hard teachers this year!!</p>
<p>I’m kind of enjoying this year though…</p>
<p>My short term list…</p>
<p>-APUSH notes tonight, quiz tomorrow!
-Do Calc homework, starting integrals, fun
-Study for ACT that’s in two-ish weeks</p>
<p>Is anyone else getting their midterms back? So far I’ve gotten back two of six… so nervous!</p>
<p>I’ve gotten 4 back so far, A’s on them all. Pretty pleased.</p>
<p>98 on my IB History midterm (I got the stupidest question wrong), and about a 96 on my IB Bio midterm. I’m happy with Bio, as only 11% of both classes scored over 85%. Those were my only true “midterms”, although I had tests in other subjects.</p>
<p>The first half of junior year wasn’t bad. I feel midterms week has opened the gates to Hell. I can seriously already plan out all the stuff I have to do until the end of the school year, and that’s not even taking into consideration the stuff that will come up along the way.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>I already got my first semester final grades, finals included :P</p>
<p>PreCalc - 100
Journalism - 95
Gym - 100
Chem - 100
Japanese - 100
Advisory - 100
APUSH - 92</p>
<p>Chugging through my IB Math IA. I’m so tired, and I still have homework and studying after I finish.</p>
<h1>junioritis</h1>
<p>Lol yeah I got a bad case of juniorities as well</p>
<p>I’m so ready to apply to college and get to the next phase in my life.</p>
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<p>True that.</p>
<p>I’ve gotten my first semester grades as well.
Straight As; Went up from Rank 10 -> Rank 5. *****ES WOOT. Seriously, the day I found out I got Straight As was possibly the best moment of my life thus far. </p>
<p>I had to give up Yearbook for grades, which was something very difficult to do…I was very passionate about it but I decided that for the time being, I would focus on grades. But it’s okay, the adviser was a ***** and I’m still doing things I love. :)</p>
<p>Oh, I got a 96 on my AP Calculus BC final (following the 100 on the AB final last year). Oh, how I love math.</p>
<p>Got straight A’s in full AP/IB schedule but class rank stayed the same…because the other top people got straight A’s too. Ugh. Outside the top 10% though, most people can just coast through and still rank decently well. </p>
<p>Junior year, why are you so fruitles…</p>
<p>I wish I knew my grades…my school’s server went down and apparently that messed up all the grades. They were supposed to be posted yesterday but now I keep having to check if I can log in to the server…</p>
<p>Got final exams back though…all As and a B+ in AP Chem which is impossible at my school.</p>
<p>Everyone at my school got owned by IB Chem… I managed to get an A in Chem but a B in Calc BC, the easiest class to get an A in… what is this madness?? Haha i’m just kidding though, i’m pretty happy with my grades. And happy that my rank didn’t plummet because my school is so competitive that one B can drop you from 3rd to 10th. I guess somehow chem saved me? oh the irony.</p>
<p>^ This makes me glad that my school doesn’t do rank, percentiles, deciles, quartiles, or anything.</p>
<p>I’m upset my school doesn’t do rank or valedictorians.</p>
<p>My school does something like with every transcript they send a histogram of weighted GPAs, but its not really useful for figuring out rank other than a general idea…</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank because we have about 9 kids every year who end up with a GPA above 4.6; getting a 4.6 requires A’s in all classes, including 4 weighted (honors/AP) classes every year (save for 5 weighted classes presumably senior year, if taking a 4th year (honors year) of a foreign language). There are a lot of competitively strong students who would certainly be valedictorians elsewhere, but they might only be in the top 9 or 10 in our class here. To say the least, I’m a bit relieved. This means I don’t have to go all out crazy like the girl in my class who is taking 7 AP classes this year. Gives me more time for learning valuable skills like leadership in Student Council and other classes that are still rigorous and diverse, but not necessarily weighted.</p>