<p>@Catsby I’m from Arizona.</p>
<p>@Swinter: Is Arizona a nice place to live?</p>
<p>Also, marissa, it isn’t bad to want to do honors classes. In fact, not to say you are in anyway a bad position, but many colleges prefer the students who are willing to work hard (and maybe fail) in a harder, honors class than slack around (not to say that you do) in a non-honors or non-AP etc. class.</p>
<p>@Apollo It’s hot as hell, I’ll tell you that. Summer lasts about four months. The heat gets worse in August, I remember when it was 115°F for a week straight. But winter is like 60°F, haha. It’s finally cooling down a bit but we’ll be back in the 90s by the end of this weekend. It’s not an awful place to live, I like how I can always see mountains, no matter where I’m at. Phoenix isn’t an amazing big city, since there’s not much to do, but we’re only six hours from California so I could be in Disneyland by midnight if I wanted to. Plus, I feel like college competition isn’t as competitive as the northeast. I’m content.</p>
<p>just finished my flute practice session!! :)</p>
<p>@marissafulx: Boston is amazing, aha considering the vast opportunities one has. The weather isn’t so great but sometimes you can enjoy a change of scenery/seasons Oh, and the shopping and dining is awesome here. Newbury Street is my favorite hang-out place ^__^</p>
<p>As for the Geometry class, I would seek the teacher for help and be super prepared!! Sometimes when you ask the teacher for help (assuming you haven’t already) they leak information about the quiz/test. They’ll also maybe add a few extra points to your tests because of your effort/time to care about your studies. I took Geo last year, and it’s so much more challenging than Algebra 2 (depending on how your brain works, meh)
I would also preview chapters in advance, if you haven’t already That way, the lectures will be easier and you can show off your knowledge during class (and the teachers will love you) Like I said, it makes studying so much more easier.
Also, I wouldn’t just rely on the textbook. Seek other resources, aka independent study. High school math courses really stress on that part. I remember my Algebra 1 class was horrible; our teacher couldn’t teach but the tests were challenging (for 7th graders) so we all had to learn by ourselves. Which was okay since Algebra 1 was easy.
And with everything, practice makes perfect. I’d practice a ton of problems just to get the hang out a question, because it becomes part of your committed/muscle memory (or some fancy psychological jargon I don’t know) Also try to study in a place similar to the setting of the exam. That way, you will be in the “mindset”… if you get what I’m saying (some other psychological thing)</p>
<p>My tips are probably very self-explanatory though. Sorry if I rambled too much.</p>
<p>@Swinter: Yes the college admissions is very competitive here!!! Surrounded by so many qualified, smart people…</p>
<p>@Marissa People say that if you like algebra, you’ll hate geometry. But it can also be vice versa. I personally loved geometry because it was logic, and not so much math wise. As long as you get an A or B you can still be in honors. Last year, I took adv algebra 2 and I rocked the first semester, but the second semester, my grades dropped, significantly (in my opinion). But I’m still in adv pre-calc. </p>
<p>@Catsby I’m living in Ohio which is pretty competitive from the area that I live in. But I know that there are schools in Ohio that are way more competitive than ours. I used to live in New Mexico and I always loved seeing the sun set behind the mountains. Now that I live in Ohio, it’s just a sunset over cornfields. :P</p>
<p>I wonder how school competition is in your area. There are about 110k people in my town alone, so I have to really do well to stand out. But where I live is amazing view wise, my high school is super cool. The pics are in a future post.</p>
<p>I’m so jealous about your mountains. I live near Bear Mountain, in New York, and I am an avid hiker, so the views are really good there.</p>
<p>Links to Major Welch/Bear Mountain
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<p>More Pics of my town:</p>
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<p>My favorite park
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<p>PICS OF MY SCHOOL:
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<p>Isn’t it weird how so many of the people who started this thread no longer post here?</p>
<p>Heres My schedule</p>
<p>Algebra 2 Honors
Chemistry Honors
English 1 Honors
Spanish 3
AP Human Geo</p>
<p>@Apollo My city is like twice the size of yours but probably not nearly as competitive. Your high school looks so cool! It’s like all high tech looking. And Bear Mountain looks really beautiful, mountains in Arizona are a lot more rocky looking. And yeah, I guess it is kind of weird that the creators of the thread don’t post much anymore. They must be pretty busy. I was actually one of the first posters, but I was much less visible since I felt kind of timid being on CC. Everyone’s smarter than me, I’m just an eighth grader, etc.</p>
<p>My town {I live in the suburbs/outer city} can be described perfectly into a blue-collar town. The place where my school is is pretty nice, fits the definition of a suburbia. Except it’s in the middle of nowhere and there’s nothing fun to do after-school since we’re surrounded by woods and huge estates. Boring…</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and my school is really pretty Think brick and ivy.</p>
<p>Wish I loved in Arizona! I love the Southwest <3 </p>
<p>I live in a sub-rural area of PA - it’s really pretty and hilly, but my district has schools with pretty bad academics. Yay cyber school! haha. </p>
<p>I’ve never been to Boston, but I was in DC yesterday and I think it’d be a pretty awesome place to go to college…a lot to do, pretty places to go, big libraries, doesn’t die after 5pm. I walked around George Washington University’s campus and it seemed like a nice area, centrally located. </p>
<p>Apollo11 (from two pages ago, haha): I am all over the map: I’m interested in one in Colorado, one in Iowa, one in DC, two in NYC, one in Egypt, one in California, one in CT. I’m interested in a variety of locations (obviously, haha), thankfully, since there are only about 150 colleges (collegeboard-recognized) with Middle Eastern studies majors (so I can’t be toooo picky about region, though my top region would probably be the Rockies).</p>
<p>Hey! I’m in my debate competition right now. I’ll talk later but I’m doing well</p>
<p>@Catsby Thanks for the advice! I’ll definitely take those tips in to consideration. Also, I don’t know why but I just love the whole aspect of Boston so its definitely a bonus that there are so many good schools there. :)</p>
<p>@EveningStar That must be why I don’t really like geometry. I prefer to work with formulas more than use logic. I had mixed feelings about algebra last year but overall I liked it. Although, I had an extremely strict but good teacher last year. I didn’t like the whole truth table thing in geometry. We just finished that unit. We’re doing mini proofs and I kind of like those since I got them all right on the quiz but I got a lot of the postulate and properties mixed up. </p>
<p>@Apollo Good luck!</p>
<p>@marissafulx don’t worry about the postulates at all. most of them are common sense and other maybe a quiz on the postulates, you will probably never have to use them. I know I didn’t. i mean, you’ll have to get the concept (which is common sense), but you won’t really need to put a name to them.</p>
<p>I live in a very small country geographically but we have like 55k students per year. My school takes in top 2% of the cohort and it’s pretty competitive here. We do O / A Levels though so our course offerings aren’t that rich. </p>
<p>Also we have barely any natural scenery here, it’s quite sad. The whole landscape is a blur of really tall buildings haha. And all my life I’ve lived in equatorial regions where it’s like 28 degrees minimum all year round, never really experienced four seasons. </p>
<p>Also we get final results on 18th, quite worried. Know for sure that my GPA will drop but hope it won’t be too much.</p>
<p>Do any of you guys do sports? Play instruments? :)</p>
<p>^Haha no. I was in orchestra from 5-8 grade and I played recreational softball in seventh grade but that’s about it.</p>
<p>Haha right after I posted that I got an email from my piano teacher about how I should attend classes more regularly and not just skip them. I skipped three in the last two months, two because I genuinely wasn’t free but one because it was the day before a final I was so ill prepared for. Anyway now I gotta make all three of them up, and then there’s a recital soon, and my teacher’s really cross and I suddenly started to wonder about dropping piano. It’s a love hate relationship with piano here and I know I will regret dropping, but it’s so horrible right now ugh. I’m not a good player but I love music in general so now I’m listening to some wonderful classical music hoping to get that feeling of loving music back so I can be enthusiastic about piano again sighs.</p>