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<p>Oh, there’s a difference between shoulder and bench press? What’s the difference? </p>
<p>And man, you guys are benching a LOT of weight. How should I start?</p>
<p>Summer Goals!</p>
<p>Academic:</p>
<p>1) Neuro-Ophthalmology Internship!
2) Neuroscience Summer Camp
3) Read a lot of neuroscience material/research
4) Read a few “classics”
5) Have most of my essays done by the end of August
6) Summer School Work
7) A few college visits
8) Paid job as a Chess tutor
9) Study for MATH II + Physics SAT 2s
10) Some more that I can’t remember right now haha</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>1) Get ripped (I love how that’s a goal for so many of us)
2) Have fun? Nahh…</p>
<p>I see a lot of Math II people and “getting ripped” people :D.</p>
<p>@WorldsBB,</p>
<p>Haha yep. I’ve gotten 1st in the state for my age group, so a lot of people (mostly parents) I know want me to teach their kids. It’s not bad pay considering that most professional chess tutors get $150/hour xD</p>
<p>@IceQube,
Haha exactly! I have a feeling we’ll be seeing each other a lot on CC in the following few months because of application season…what schools are you looking at?</p>
<p>@Emc2Fma:</p>
<p>1) Duke
2) Chapel Hill
3) state school (lols)</p>
<p>Academic
- Study classics at McGill in July if I can convince my parents to let me
- Read ten lassics and five nonfiction
- Read Lingua Latina per se illustrata by Hans Orberg
- Catch up with Latin II
- Teach my little brother precalc so he can take Calc BC freshmen year and be a boss
- Take Greek Mythology, American Poetry, and Discrete Mathematics online
- Study for SAT and subject tests (math II, biology, and literature)
- Learn a huge amount of vocabulary words
- Continue to lead group of interns in melanoma research</p>
<p>Personal
- Go to a few volleyball clinics and play often
- Get a job if my parents won’t let me go to McGill
- Continue racquetball lessons from my mom (who recently won the gold medal at the national championships)
- Get ripped (like everyone ese here). I’m already really athletic, but wish I had more visible muscle
- Probably watch a ton of movies
- Try to hang out with friends at least once a week
- Babysit until I get a real job</p>
<p>Bench press is lying down flat on your back bringing the bar down towards your chest then back up. Shoulder press is sitting up straight bringing the bar down towards your shoulders then back up. Dumbbells or barbells can be used for either.</p>
<p>For every exercise try to adjust the weight so you fail at 9-12 reps. 9-12 is the optimal rep range to gain both mass (size) and strength. So for any exercise just use the proper weight, do 9-12 reps, repeat x3, then move on to another exercise. Also, eating a lot of protein is key.</p>
<p>Academic:</p>
<p>1) Study thoroughly for USABO (Campbell’s, Raven Plant, Alberts, and Lehninger)
2) Study thoroughly for the SAT (taking in October)
3) Learn Java (for AP Compsci next year)
4) Governor’s Latin Academy (starting Sunday)
5) Summer@Brown (starting late July)
6) Study through AoPS Volumes 1 and 2 (shooting for AIME qualification)
7) Acquire a research mentor</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>1) Hang out with friends often
2) Play tennis at least 3x a week
3) Keep in shape</p>
<p>Thanks dfree124 for the clarification :)! </p>
<p>Right now, I’m doing Calc BC. I’m using this website:</p>
<p>[Pauls</a> Online Notes : Calculus I](<a href=“http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx]Pauls”>http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx)</p>
<p>for my calculus BC needs. I’m first going to review the various means of finding area before learning shells (which is technically not BC, but still nice to know).</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is a sadistic book. Have fun with that.</p>
<p>I have found that I cannot do Calculus while perusing CC and listening to music. Time to shut off the music … but not CC.</p>
<p>And what’s Heart of Darkness about? I kinda figured it was a messed up book judging by the title …</p>
<p>Currently reviewing washer/disk methods of finding volume … I think I need a tattoo on my body reading “change the equation to y equals if the axis of revolution is vertical.”</p>
<p>Academic:
AP Human Geography Course
HOPE ( PE REQUIREMENT) Course
Learn more Spanish (spanish 3)
Self Study Chemistry (Prep for Chem H)
AP Psychology Summer work
AP Euro Summer work + ALL of the notes for the class (I have them just have to learn them) 
Aice General Paper - Summer work
Self Study Environmental Science
Learn Basics of Physics
Prep for science olympiad kinda.</p>
<p>Personal:
Workout
Party
Relax</p>
<p>** Summer Goals **</p>
<p>* Academic:*
AP Comp Sci online (halfway through)
AP Art History online
Study for SAT II Physics and Math IIC
Do at least 15 drawings
Finish 4 pieces for AP 2D
Read Art & Fear, The Art Spirit, Delirious in New York
Work on application for Art Competition
Experiment with new media: pen and ink, oils, pastels (oil and chalk)
Learn about different architects
100 more volunteer hours</p>
<p>Personal:
Get my drivers license</p>
<p>I’m going to focus on getting through Comp Sci first. I’ll keep this updated. :)</p>
<p>haha i thought your use of lucubrate in that thread was good :). I didn’t know you were that aware of your use of more obscure words…</p>
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<p>lols, thanks :). I didn’t know that you knew what lucubrate meant either :p.</p>
<p>Anyway, this calculus studying is BORING. I’m tired. I shall proceed and take a nap :).</p>
<p>Academic:
- Study for the SAT, which I will take for the first time in October. My diagnostic tests are around 2040, I ultimately want 2200+
- Finish my research program
- AP Macroeconomics self studying this summer
- Continue my volunteer work
- AP Chemistry summer assignment
- AP English language summer assignment, read the 3 assigned books
- AP Studio Art, I have to take pictures over the summer</p>
<p>Personal:
- Get my driver’s license (behind the wheel test in under a week!)
- Get tan! Haha and I used to run a lot, hopefully I can start that up again</p>
<p>Let’s see how this goes…</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is just…hnnnnng. The shortest book i’ve ever read for a class, yet the most confusing. They took it off the course syllabus this year. I can recall the first 15 pages and the last 10, otherwise everything in the middle was extremely pointless. </p>
<p>But maybe i’m biased, considering it’s the worst book i’ve ever read in school (and I like reading books, even school ones).</p>
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<p>Hey Weeknd around the AP just PM me for some APES materials. I have a lot of good prep materials for APES that’ll really help you out ;). </p>
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<p>I guess we’ll see how I like it :D.</p>
<p>Amazing. I’m totally hopping on board. I’m an incoming Sophomore. My name’s Indigo.
Basically this summer there aren’t any academics to obsess over but I have goals anyway.
- Horse farm Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. (Wednesday and Saturday it’s the therapeutic bit the rest I’m feeding stall mucking and riding <em>.</em>)
- GET APP IN TO VOLUNTEER AT Y
A) Volunteer 2 a week or more at Y - Figure out what hours you can get from harassing your aunt (Her daughter need like 50 hours and so she’s finding places ((places I can go!))
- Youth and Government
A) Work on judicial and find partner-- read over constitution - PSAT STUDYING. No excuses.
A) Study with Gracie once a week independently several times a week - Figure out how to play tuba (I switched instruments)
- Practice piano >.<
Personal:: - READ ALL THE CLASSICS
- Exercise like maybe?
- Breath.</p>
<p>^Your schedule is packed! Tuba? Haha, sounds fun. Well it is - kind of - I’ve played before.</p>