@raffie 1. I learnt through online schooling.
2. I feel you but my dad always told me to focus on my self and improve steadily
What classes are you guys taking next year?
I’m taking:
Debate (zero hour)
AP Calc BC
Honors Bio
Honors Spanish 2
Advanced Orchestra
Engineering 2 (drafting and design)
AP Computer Science
Student athlete fitness (online)
Honors English 10 (online)
I’m also self studying
AP Physics C (mechanics and EM)
AP Bio (maybe)
@snowfairy137 I’m going to an art school but I’m taking Honors English 2, Alg 2/Trig, AP World, Ballet (idk what I’m doing I’m terrible at ballet), Honors Chem, and Spanish 3
I’m self studying AP Music Theory and possibly AP CompSci as well
@snowfairy137 holy cow your schedule is nuts! Do you do anything outside of school? I would never be able to handle a schedule like that, keep high grades, and manage my EC’s…
I posted my schedule a couple pages back if you’re interested.
Question: do any of you guys do humanities? I’m super into language-- Latin, French, and English-- but all y’all seem to be hardcore STEM people. Also, I like history and am thinking of doing History Day next year. Thoughts?
I’m (hopefully) taking:
Honors LA
Honors Modern World History
Honors trig/pre-calc
Honors chemistry
Accelerated Hebrew
Choir
STEM (CIJE - biomedical engineering)
And then a bunch of Judaics electives and two other arts electives (we don’t find out about those until August)
In my school (which is a pretty competitive Jewish day school), honors is the highest level in everything except for hebrew (acc. is highest) and STEM (only one class, so no levels), and they only offer three APs and only for Junior year. But I’m trying to figure out a way to take AP bio elsewhere at some point (No AP science classes offered in school, and I’m not very good at online learning).
@gotmar I’m for the most part a “hardcore STEM person.” But I am very interested in poetry. I love languages (I took French last year, been learning Hebrew since kindergarten) however the STEM class is in lieu of Spanish or French and my schedule was too busy this year to take French outside of school.
@gotmar I’m for the most part a “hardcore STEM person.” But I am very interested in poetry. I love languages (I took French last year, been learning Hebrew since kindergarten) however the STEM class is in lieu of Spanish or French and my schedule was too busy this year to take French outside of school.
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@snowfairy137
Honors Lang 2
Honors Pre-cal
Honors Chemistry
French 2
AP European History
Chior
I will also be volunteering at a Pediatric therapy ranch that uses horses(yay) and will be starting gymnastics soon. I love STEM too but French is also fun.
@gotmar yea I’m pretty heavily involved in robotics and I’m also in debate, play violin, and rock climb. I also spend way too much time on my phone and being lazy. I don’t have much of a social life tho lol.
As for humanities, its a love hate relationship. I’m in debate, which is humanites, and I love reading but I don’t like English because the pace is insanely slow even in honors and I don’t like analyizing things much or writing. I can do it, and I’m better at it in terms of grades than most of my peers, but its boring and yea. Also I despise Springboard, which my English teacher loves for some reason. History is meh. I’m not the best at memorizing specific facts and definitions but I took AP Euro this year and did well. I think its interesting to look at the bigger picture and at why one thing lead to another.
@Lbelle43 It sucks that your school doesn’t offer more APs, but that STEM class looks cool!
@sewin2music the horse volunteering thing sounds fun and good for your resume too!
@raffie yessss Music Theory! I took it this year and loved it. What do you play/sing?
@Lbelle43 I also love poetry! Do you write any? I submitted a piece to Teen Ink and it was published (yayyyy), and I’ve been entering various and sundry contests lately. I had to drop French this year because of AP Music Theory, but I’ll study French 2 over the summer and test into French 3 next year.
@snowfairy137 I know what you mean about English class. My school doesn’t offer Honors English; thus, my English period is the most tedious hour of the day. (Luckily a bunch of my friends are all in the class so we just screw around xD.) I’m trying to get a summer novels seminar started with the AP English teacher, though. Should be fun, if it works. I think I feel the same way about STEM stuff as you do about English. I’m talented, sure, (I have a 98 in Honors Physics and a 99 in Honors Algebra 2) but I find it bleak and, to an extent, soulless. Naturally, it plays out that all my school’s most rigorous courses are STEM.
@llbelle43 I also go to a Jewish day school. Just asking how would you rate your Hebrew skills? I’ve also been learning since preschool and mine is still awful. I’m not even that terrible at languages in general (I’m acing Spanish) but the best Hebrew speakers in my school live in Hebrew-speaking households. (Not making excuses for myself, there are a decent number of people in my school who have good Hebrew, I’m just not one of them and they’re definetely not the norm.)
I’m not really a STEM person… I do like humanities a little bit @got Mar
But the only classes I love are medical type classes( sports medicine, athletic medicine, etc.) and colorguard or POM
@raffie I took the AP Music Theory exam this year and I can answer any questions if you have any! 
Do you guys think I should self-study music theory? I’ve been taking piano for a few years so I’m proficient in notation, but I’m totally dependent on my sheet music when I play and I have no “ear.”
@bfpoodle123 If you’re willing to put in huge amounts of effort, then maybe…
Music Theory requires a really good ear: I’ve been training mine since 1st grade, have probably the best ear in my city-wide choir, and still struggled with some of the ear training. I’m not saying that to scare you, just to inform you.