<p>Nice job! Good luck keeping that up in the next quarter!</p>
<p>Yay, good job! As logistics said, good luck. I'm happy for you:)</p>
<p>thanks you guys!!! :D</p>
<p>I didn't read all the posts so maybe someone else said this but I'm assuming you're in New Jersey (or maybe Pennsylvania). It's not you - it's your school. My daughter did Freshman year in New Jersey and Sophmore and Junior in the midwest. The workload is so much lighter in the midwest. She is in AP English and she's written maybe 3 essays so far this year. Last year in AP History she didn't write a single essay. She has so little homework even with 2 APs, 2 honors and Physics which she struggles with. So the reason why people aren't cracking up is because they probably have much less homework than you do. It's also really sad because people in the midwest seem to have a much easier time getting into college. But they probably are not nearly as well prepared. Don't listen to people who say you don't belong in the classes - they probably go to much easier schools.</p>
<p>wow, I never knew that and never thought of it that way. Yeah, I'm from NJ. I've written 30+ essays for AP english so far from 2-7 pages. It's a killer, but it definitely has whooped my writing butt into shape. I get this weekend as a little break from most of my classes since we just got done midterms on friday except for ap calculus and ap english. I have a 7 page paper due wednesday and a 6+ page paper due friday. Microsoft word WILL rebel.</p>
<p>Yeah, Jersey pretty much rocks.</p>
<p>I live in cali and we havent done one essay this whole year in AP lit =] yayy</p>
<p>you suck..lucky</p>
<p>I am so jealous! I have to now go write about how the hidden part of our inner selves are manifested in western literature through certain characters/tangible objects in order to take the abstract conceptuality out of it...and how this "other" , as it is called, has grown and evolved over time, using the works Faustus, Dorian Gray, Young Goodman Brown, and Where are you going, where have you been?</p>
<p>I'm dying with anticipation.</p>
<p>lol your ap english class is insane.</p>
<p>we've written essays every fridays (*wrote 3 essays for the finals), but all of them were extracted from former ap exams and we didn't have to read a single work of literature...</p>
<p>good luck peachy. it'll all pay off when it comes the ap exams.</p>
<p>people like me will have to spend sleepless nights a month before the exams to get a 5 now :)</p>
<p>OP: i went thru the same **** you did. but now i'm pretty much done with it all!</p>
<p>just tell yourself every morning "only <em>insert month left till apps in</em> left!*</p>
<p>thats how i managed to drag myself thru each day... oh and with coffee + tea of course</p>
<p>My AP lit class is quite easy. Only about 5 1-2 page essays this whole year and we read most of the time in class (or talk).</p>
<p>wow i'm new to this thread but why do you work so hard during your senior year when it doesn't even count that much? i know what you mean though. during my junior year i started getting sick for months and by the end of the spring semester it got so bad that i would yell at my clock at 2:00AM, hoping that it would go at least an hourback in time. </p>
<p>i'm only taking ap gov and art 1 at my school hopefully i'll get into MIT.</p>
<p>right now i'm falling apart...because of IB.
working on my extended essay due monday, i have a lot of normal school work due this week, besides english A2 essay, tok essay, spanish A1 essay, lab papers, tok presentation, english presentation, spanish presentation....AAAHH i'm gonna go crazy!</p>
<p>My AP English teacher actually accepts essays if they're written neatly by hand. I just put a solid folder on the steering wheel of my car and write them while driving to school. Get A pluses, no sweat.</p>
<p>...I'm kidding.</p>
<p>Hey, just one more week until decisions.</p>
<p>And then you can relax.
Then tense up again for APs.
And then it's all out playing after.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>For the person falling apart over IB, I totally know what you mean. 6 IB classes (plus the two semesters of TOK) is probably the cruelest thing known to man. IB murders souls. The only thing I have left (before the tests of course) is all of my Theatre work. And I mean all of it. </p>
<p>Kids at my schools have breakdowns all the time. There are several ways to handling it all and they involve friends, food, and the ability to whine. We always have so much going on that we manage to whine our out of unnecessary work. It helps being with the same 20 kids in every class for 4 years. In a lot of ways, we aren't alone, and we can all get through whatever we have to do together.</p>
<p>I think reminding yourself that it's almost over helps. May 19th (the day after my last IB test) I am celebrating non stop until college starts.</p>
<p>haha, after six weeks of school this semester, we had 5 grades. One of my friends wasn't in school when we had to turn in the only essay we had to do and had a 56. sux that you have to write 22 essays.</p>
<p>it sounds like you have the disease that my best friend has. he took 1 ap sophomore year, 2 junior, and is taking 3 this year because he studies WAYYYY too hard. he has environmental science, stats, and lit. his main problem is that, like you, he studies for like 6 hours but gets distracted. i'm not saying YOU get distracted, but you mentioned that you have "ADD", a disease that I do not believe in. YOU must dominate your body when it tries to shut off. trust me. when I was little, they told me I had ADD and learning problems. turns out I was just smart. just.focus.</p>
<p>btw: orange juice (enriched with vitamin D and calcium) is the key to happiness. better immune system, more energy, stronger bones, longer life (green tea and an occasional bit of red wine help increase longetivity as well), and it tastes oh so delicious!</p>
<p>Haha, thank you all. I'm 10x more relaxed this semester than last, partly because I've calmed myself down, and partly because there're just less things going on (no soccer/college apps!).</p>
<p>Just an update: My friend DID get accepted to Harvard, and i DID get accepted to Princeton!</p>
<p>Well i had 6-7 AP classes this year alone and I survived... THough you have alot of ECs going on.. might want to hold on that. (unless you love one so much you can't give up) you can still put that EC down on your college applications and it seems you are swamped already with difficult classes.</p>