School starts on the 31st for me
I start on the 3rd of September.
Wow I’m totally jealous you guys! My school started August 12th 
How’s school so far?
I start today. I’m so nervous.
This is the end of my first week, and I feel stressed lol. I’m pretty sure I got the hardest teacher in the school for my Honors Communication Skills class. It’s not even AP and I’m stressed out!
For example, he says that he’s the ultimate heavyweight grammar champion…which means he’s gonna be super harsh on our papers. If our sentences don’t have a subject, a verb, subject verb agreement, don’t make sense, or don’t have end punctuation, we fail the paper (can be a combination of any of these). I’m glad though. He’s gonna improve my writing and grammar skills. My writing skills are good, I guess. My grammar is a bit above mediocre.
Finally, we have a huge project due on the Odyssey next Friday…and we’re not gonna read and analyze it together. In fact, we aren’t supposed to read it. So how? Haha. Only one group gets a 100, the next gets a 90, then a 80, 70, and finally, a 60. So OMG. My science teacher last year was also a harsh grader, but not this extreme. (I received a 49 on a lab, but my grade actually boosted 4 points.) Then the last component is that our presentation must be 5 minutes+ or else we automatically get a 59 (failing).
I’m stressed because I want all A’s, but I’m not gonna cry if I don’t. I’ll be disappointed, but it’s whatever.
We also have like four tests today.
If high school is always like this, I’m gonna question the universe. Haha.
A project on the Odyssey, but you are not supposed to read the book? That sounds impossible
Wow. You freshman really don’t have much going on here. That’ll all change hopefully. I want to see some action!
@ElloLove, we’re not. We’re supposed to research and read a really condensed excerpt about it.
Some of us don’t start school for another week and alot of us mostly talk on kik.
True. Maybe more people will join the thread. We have like 10 '19ers on this thread tops. Most of them are inactive, too.
I think we have fewer members compared to the other classes because our threads is always getting buried. We could go up to a week without posting, and then no new class of '19ers see our thread.
Well, hi everyone!
I’m an eighth grader who repeated a year since I was moving schools to a JBS from a public school from Korea(anybody familiar with Gangnam Style? It’s kinda old but whatsoever)…so I guess that’ll count as a freshman somehow 
Even though next year I am supposedly going up to freshman, JBs are until 9th grade…so I’ll be going to a prep school as a new sophomore I guess…
Since it seems like everyone’s sharing their schedules:
English 8(I’m literally the oldest one lol and that makes me embarrassed of myself since I was the youngest in my Korean public school)
Physical Science 8
Ancient history
Pre Cal or Alg 2 since I’m not really comfortable with the Math terms in English
Engineering Class with a lot of high tech machines that I love. 3D printers I await youXD)
Mandarin 2 or ESL(they take all new kids to ESL…Ergh…I emailed the ESL coordinator but she seems not okay with skipping classes)
Advanced band/w or w/o Jazz band(auditioned)
Art2D/3D/Ceramics each for a term
yup that’s about it
Oh and our school hasn’t even started yet lol it starts at Sept. 8th and I literally got nothing to do.
Can I get in on the kik chat?
@fourXsquared you have to pm irrationalpepsi
Hi @fayexeter. Nice schedule! @fourXsquared, you can PM your kik to me if you want
Does anyone here watch Empire?
Honors English 1
Honors Geometry
Honors Biology
Honors German 2
Honors Orchestra
APHG
Lifetime Wellness
ECs:
Science Olympiad
Music Outreach
Chess Club
Science Bowl
Computational Linguistics Olympiad
Bighorn Society (climbing team, not school-related)
Hobbies:
Studying Ainu
Studying Icelandic
Piano
^that sounds really rigorous