<p>S thought the Euro test went well. He is another kid who is not good at estimating how well they do on tests. So I take “went well” with a grain of salt. </p>
<p>I wish he was as motivated as a lot of the kids I read about here. No worries about all nighters with this kid. I sometimes worry he will not be ready to go off to college.</p>
<p>^ Students on CC are far from the norm haha.</p>
<p>LuckyBoy was positive about the APUSH exam, said he killed the DBQ and thought he wrote the FRQs well. Omitted 2 or 3 multiple choice (Stressed Friend omitted a bunch more but he is definitely not a humanities guy). We’ll see.</p>
<p>And he thought he did really well on Calc :)</p>
<p>Have some proma (prom drama) going on here apparently. He told H last night that GF’s mom is having issues, so we’ll see what’s up. GF is quite sheltered, which I totally approve of btw (our poor D’13 will be suffering from her father’s sins 
), youngest, at strict all girls’ school. Her prom is next Friday, S’s is the following Friday.</p>
<p>My S is taking a pre AP Chem test today, teacher made it mandatory. He should be home any time now… he got a bit concerned about it after the AP Stats test last Tuesday, so we’ll see how this goes.</p>
<p>Happy Cram weekend to all of you! </p>
<p>My dd was at school this morning (Sat.) at 8:00 am for a review session for AP Eng. Language and is now trying to learn AP Chem in 3 days…we’ll see.</p>
<p>She felt she did well on AP Spanish and APUSH, but her goal for Chem seems to be just to survive it!</p>
<p>50isthenew40, my D1 and your D are in agreement about AP Chem. 
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<p>D1 thinks the APUSH curve is going to be harsh because everyone seemed to think the test was easy. We’ll see.</p>
<p>Happy cram week indeed !!</p>
<p>AP Chem & AP Eng. Lang. here. I told my son today I was a bit concerned because I hadn’t seen him crack a book. He said (quite respectfully) ‘Because I don’t crack books in the family room?’. Point made and taken. He’s been on auto for most of his life… while I am more of a helicopter mom than a free-range mom, he is not the child I am usually hovering over.</p>
<p>Prom was ‘promtastic’ according to all facebook status updates today. After all the work my son did cleaning, his gf didn’t see a thing beyond him the entire time she was here. A bomb could have gone off and they wouldn’t have noticed! To be 16 and the only two people in the world… oh and 14 of your bff’s!! I finally pulled the plug on their magical night at 4:30am. I just couldn’t stay awake any longer.</p>
<p>Here’s hoping all of your students say happy mother’s day, and remember the ‘mothering’ some fathers do as well !!
Peace</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day to all. Tough break it comes in the middle of AP studying (two down, four to go). S will take a study break and join family for dinner with grandparents. In the scheme of life, the dinner is infinitely more important than a few more hours of studying.</p>
<p>My S makes computer generated cards for birthdays, Mother’s Day, etc with amazingly creative poems in each. The family always looks forward to receiving them. Today we’ll get three. Two Mother’s Day - one for my mom and one for me and my Dad will get one for his 86th birthday.</p>
<p>Hi all
Happy Mothers Day (belated)</p>
<p>Busy weeks here–Aps etc
and then finals—</p>
<p>Why on earth teachers give finals to kids taking APs too–puuleease…just found out our student will also take a final in AP chem and AP Latin Vergil … so it looks like the only teacher not giving a final to the AP kids is the calc teacher–</p>
<p>part of it is the skipping the final is a “senior” privledge? uh—ok so what about the jr who took the 4 APs this year??</p>
<p>sigh…</p>
<p>D received a brochure from a school we are planning to visit. D: “Oh, their color is purple? Now I really like the school.” Hmmmm…I guess everyone has to choose a school somehow!</p>
<p>D1 is looking ever more doleful about Chem tomorrow. Ke sera sera.</p>
<p>In other cheery news, D1 might have to retake the APUSH test. Even with all of the warnings, one idiot student left their phone on vibrate during the test. Of course, it went off several times during the test. Though it was in a backpack in a pile of other backpacks, the proctors still need to inform College Board, which will then rule on retesting or not.</p>
<p>Happy belated Mothers Day to everyone!</p>
<p>Four more APs this week and I can say the year is almost over. S will miss 6 days of school between the APs and the finals, but I don’t think he’ll miss any learning. They mostly watch movies after the APs. He will have to present a project in his AP Eng that will count as the finals grade, but other than that I think he is exempt from finals.</p>
<p>No prom for S, as he will be gone that weekend, luckily GF will be out of town too. So no proma (love the word! ) over that.</p>
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<p>That sucks! :eek:</p>
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<p>Well that really stinks. I am sure s/he is one poplular kid right now. </p>
<p>S has one AP test (Eng Lang) this week, but also has a Calc test and a portfolio due in English. I don’t understand why the portfolio is due Wed when the kids are also taking the AP exam, except the class stops meeting once they take the exam.</p>
<p>They don’t know whose phone it was, unfortunately. Gah! Apparently, something similar happened last year at one of the English tests. </p>
<p>Back in the day when I took my AP tests, no one brought their cell phone to the test. Kids these days just don’t know how to behave. :D</p>
<p>The college emails solicitations continue. I don’t have a problem with them generally - I think it sometimes is a good way to hear about a school we otherwise might not have known about and they’re easy enough to delete. But lately the captions have been getting a little creepy. “We still haven’t heard from you, _<strong><em>!” “It’s not too late, _</em></strong><em>!” “Contact us before it’s too late, _</em>__”. Geesh, they almost sound like threats. Listen people, you started this - not us! We didn’t ask to hear from you. I can’t see how anyone could see these communications in a positive light.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think some of these schools need to have an outsider evaluate their marketing. There was only one school that Son visited to which he didn’t apply. Even after the application deadline, fairly late into the spring, they’d call the house, urging him to apply. Desperate anyone?</p>
<p>D had AP Bio this morning. Got the ‘dreaded’ call from the school nurse a while ago - picked her up and came home. She’s feeling crummy, nauseous, dizzy…lying in bed right now. She had almost finished her test - but now, will probably have to take it again next week. GC is going to look into it. She has another one tomorrow - not sure if she’s going to be ok by then. And here I thought this stressful period was almost over :-(</p>
<p>That is NOT supposed to happen during AP exams!!!</p>
<p>oh, I hope she feels well enough to take her exam Tues and won’t have to makeup 2 exams. Who wants to drag this out any longer than it has too.</p>