<p>yea, this thread is the best thing on cc. thoughtprocess- I have no idea where I want to go. I'm a Junior, so I still have plenty of time. I'm pretty sure that I'd like to go to a liberal arts school, or at least any school that isn't too big. I agree that any college is fine for undergrad. I really just want to have fun and learn, simple as that sounds. I'm worried that most of the really selective schools are filled with all of the overachievers in highschool, and nothing gets on my nerves more than someone who makes 500 flashcards before their history test.</p>
<p>i turned in an ap euro assignment 4 weeks late and I got a 35 out of 40 points on it. What can I say, grade inflation is a little rampant at my school</p>
<p>haha, flashcard people are funny, as are the ones that take notes using multi-color pens and put tabs on all thier books so they can flip to chapter whatever in a second. (even though they get fined for "vandalizing" the book)</p>
<p>Oh, cantstandmenow, those multi-colored note people are so hilarious! I have no homework planner, so I scribble my assignments down on pieces of scrap paper and later on it's always a search for them. Those people that sit there during class and color-code their planners and [very neatly] scratch out the things that they've done make me laugh. Hard.</p>
<p>i don't have an assignment book because my school stopped giving them away for free to upperclassmen and I didn't want to pay for one. I never write it down, I just remember. Good thing my pre-calc teacher gives us a calendar</p>
<p>I heart this thread with a passion.</p>
<p>I've always thought of myself as a slacker. Be it the minimal effort I put on my assignments, or the lack of ambition i have on doing well in school. I almost never do my homework at home, but i always find time to do it the day it's due. ...It just feels so good when you get away with it. As for tests....well let's just say midterms are in 2 days and i'll be damned if i actually knew what was going to be on them. </p>
<p>However there comes a point when you realize the consequences. I'm mostly a B+, A- student with about a 3.4-3.5 gpa. Though this might not be bad per-se....i sometimes think to myself....if i actually worked myself to my potential..... ;o</p>
<p>gotta agree with you there dank, i'm in about the same position, workin with a 3.43 gpa at the end of my junior year, now i'm tryin to up it a little bit but i think it's too little too late.</p>
<p>-by the way, i created this thread and appreciate the way you all seem to love it. this is like my 2nd thread too, lol. maybe i've got a knack for it, i'll post some more good stuff as it comes to me. (i know, not very modest, but i revel in being the creator of this message board beast thread)</p>
<p><em>claps</em> it's a great thread. Most people can probably relate in some sense. Last year in algebra 2 I turned in less than a quarter of my homework 2nd semester. So yeah, I'm a slacker at heart</p>
<p>i put off taking a test (missed b/c of absense) so long that the teacher ended up not making me take it, he just took the percentage completely out of my grade like it never existed :) . of course, i always put stuff off a long time and tell myself i'm going to study for it, then i never study and end up gettin the grade i would've originally got, probly a C. and yeah, i do homework at 'home' probably like twice a month. it's pretty bad, most of my homework grades are non-existent, fortunately they don't count for THAT much of the final grade...or i hope. highschool - ha, what a joke.</p>
<p>i almost always do my homework now I see the effect it can have on a grade. I could have had a C+ or B- instead of a C for 2nd semester if I did all my homework. oh well, you can't change the past</p>
<p>haha you want to know what a real slacker does? well other than the fact that i dont really study, for my ap stats midterm this year. it was take home, you could use your book, notes, hell even other people. and i slacked off, i didnt evne do it all right, and i got an F on it. 1. who fails an ap stats midterm????? (me) 2. who fails a take home midterm????? (me)</p>
<p>ok that made me sound really stupid. it really wanst that, i just didnt care to do it right, and she grades it AP style so i got all the answers "partial right" so i got no points. but it still cracks me up. hahahaha.</p>
<p>the only homework I bother to do is usually ap english essays and projects. she doesn't accept late work, and even if you're sick and absent your assignment better be in her box or else. she'd only excuse it if you were in the hospital or had some sort of family emergency.</p>
<p>ap euro work I never bother. I read the chapters, but there's only one a week so it's not like I'm overexerting myself. all the take home essays I do during ap english, because I can usually turn out the teacher and have a decent essay by the end of the period. </p>
<p>my chem class is just easy. lecture and lab. no homework whatsoever. I'm supposed to do some reading but I remember the key details from the lecture so there's no point in picking up my book. I don't even try but have an A.</p>
<p>math is the devil. I try to do my homework most of the time but there's so much it's crazy, and there's no point in doing work I barely understand. but she said today that over half the class was failing so I'm not the only one, lol. </p>
<p>and my school started giving out homework planners, but since I failed to show up for "advisory" for the first half of the trimester I never got one. but if they did force one on me I'd probably give it to my dog to chew on.</p>
<p>AP Euro must have national trend of slackers....my euro teacher doesn't care if you turn in something on the last day of the semester, you can still get the points for it. Then again, she doesn't like the whole idea of a grade...but it's nice, very nice.</p>
<p>I promised myself this semester to try not to slack, and do stuff ahead of time so I'm not overwhelmed on my last semester of high school...we'll see how it goes.</p>
<p>my ap euro teacher doesn't care about grades either! in no other class can you turn in a 40 pt. assignment a month late and only lose 5 pts.! He's always telling us it's not about the grade, it's about the knowledge!</p>
<p>funny thread...</p>
<p>The sad thing is that the biggest slackers are sometimes the higest in the class... example ---> me. </p>
<p>I don't do crap in half of my classes yet somehow still get 99%s. Example is my AP Euro class. This super smart kid behind me religiously does his work and studies endlessly for tests and somehow ends up with Bs. I, who never studies, turns in all my stuff late, but is on great terms with the teacher, gets a 100%. I'm not even a "kiss ass" like some are, but I seem to show interest at the right time. Ask me why my teacher from two years ago called me the other night to "see how I was doing with college admissions"... crazy! And regarding skipping classes ---> I am the queen! </p>
<p>... but I feel bad for the kids who are good students and get screwed by the teachers.</p>
<p>a/s/l anovice?</p>
<p>All of you, my fellow slackers, are amazing. I have midyears tomorrow, and I can't say that I have studied more than an hour or so total. I was given essay possibilities for both english and history and I do not plan on even thinking about them. Some may consider it reckless, but I think it feels really good to get away with it all the time. Like when all of those "multi-colored note takers" study for days and do worse than me. Of course I wonder what I would be like if I worked to my full potential, but then I forget about it. I always get my homework done in other classes or a free block; I never spend more than 30 minutes on homework at home. Anyone else leave a bunch of longterm assignments until the night before and end up staying up till 5 or so? That's the way I like to work, get it all done last minute and not worry about it until then.</p>
<p>you're not alone. as has been proven here.</p>
<p>I've been in AP Calc for seven weeks (school is on trimester schedule) and today was the first time that I ever opened my book, or even stayed awake for an entire class period.</p>