<p>Why do all of the kids at my school hate Sophomore year?</p>
<p>I really like it so far.
I have 4 honors, 1 AP, and two academic electives. The classes are harder than freshman year, but not by much. I have alot of upperclassmen friends, but last year we went through this Freshman Academy program. We had our own bell schedules, classes, lunches, it worked really weirdly. It always conflicted our scheduling electives too. So basically I think they missed being only with their class and not having lunch with our class. Which I do kinda miss.</p>
<p>Everyone says Sophomore year stinks, and its your worst year. I don't get it?</p>
<p>For those of you that are seniors or even graduated, what was your favorite year?</p>
<p>lol no....they only say soph sucks because it's harder than frosh
but guess what?!
JUNIOR YEAR IS A ******!!!
if you think soph is hard...you have no idea what's coming for you</p>
<p>Everyone claims sophomore year is more difficult because you are transitioning from a freshman to a sophomore with more rigorous classes. When you were a freshman, all the classes were generally easy, but sophomore year, the class becomes more focus on college. Ie. AP and Honors. It is a difficult transition since you will not have as much free time as before. In my opinion, I thought Junior year was the most difficult. Horrendous year. I dreaded it like crazy! Slept everyday at 1-3 A.M., but maybe that was just me. Just don't procrastinate and you should do fine.</p>
<p>Sophomore year was my worst because I was depressed and realized I had no friends. Also, I was screwed over in my grades(ex. I did my AP US history project but left it at home the day it was due, and so even though all my tests and summer reading were given A's, I got an F for the marking period). My AP Bio teacher also loved making everyone in our class look like idiots and most likely had the harshest grading out of any teacher in the world(seriously). So yeah, after I came to terms with having no friends/being made fun of by random people for being ugly and got my grades back up it was ok, but for some reason my depression stayed with me until the beginning of junior year.</p>
<p>My favorite years from worst to best were: sophomore, freshmen, and junior/senior(senior year was the most work for me and gave me the least sleep... if I had managed my time better I'd put senior over junior; oh, and I didn't go to prom either year).</p>
<p>In other words, the reason varies with every individual. Some people probably liked sophomore year.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore, but my school's starting TOMORROW...so we'll see. Personally it doesn't look that bad; I don't think it's even much of a transition (I agree that freshman year was notoriously easy enough not to do anything, but then before I accidentally came here I didn't even know EC's and anything).</p>
<p>I actually plan to do a few EC's this year, as I have literally 0 (other than my great hobbies). Classes? Eh, no 5 AP's in a private school kinda thing, but I guess the "best" at my school. I really don't care.</p>
<p>The only thing I look forward to school ALWAYS, regardless of grades (and it's been always like this since...elementary?), is friends and activities. Nothing else, really. I've never cared about academics, the "favorite" teacher I need to get, or any sort of thing like that...and I still don't care.</p>
<p>Bio's just about a good seven infinity times more difficult than any other topic, and even every other topic combined.</p>
<p>My freshman year this year, everything was fun (games, computer, movies, hanging out, exercising), except bio made it epic and actually was the only class that I almost got totally pwned in (read: first quarter, I had a C+ or something LOL, and it wasn't even honors). Eventually the teacher CALLED my house (wth, who does that?) for not doing hw/getting mediocre scores in tests/projects and etc and I was forced to make up some work.</p>
<p>My take: anything with the word "biology" is hardcore to the extreme. If you excel in bio, +2 respect.</p>
<p>I think sophomores are the most unloved class. You're not freshman, so you don't get any newbie points. You're not juniors, so you don't get any sympathy points. And you're not seniors, so you don't get any awesome points. Basically, sophomores lose.
That being said, my sophomore year was awesome. School's what you make of it, so make it good. ^_^</p>
<p>Anyway, back on track :]
My sophomore year was really easy and I didn't think it was that big of a difference from freshman year [although I can't really remember back that far to either of them.. lol]. Junior year was ROUGH for me [I mean.. I actually had to try a little bit to get good grades lol]. My teachers [probably] got together and planned for to have to have 6 tests [4 APs] on the same day every week or so, and that basically killed me. Projects all due at once, jLKWEJFALW! It was bad.
Anyway, now, senior year I have 6 APs this year, but they're really just... not that difficult. :]</p>
<p>Sophomore year for me is going pretty good. I love AP world history, because the history is interesting to me, and it's completely new! Honors Engliush II seems like it will be a good class; lots of interesting books and my teacher doesn't believe in excessive annotating :)!</p>
<p>I am also taking honors geometry, which sucks. The class moves really fast, and I'm terrible at geometry :(!</p>
<p>Sophomore year is alright.
AP Euro is a great class; amazing teacher, and I love the subject! Honors Algebra II is going to be horrible, but that's because I hate/suck at math. Spanish III is fun! Hah. Honors English II is a joke - the teacher is awful. I have to take P.E., and ASB (because I'm on student council), and the only other class I could fit into my schedule is Math Tutoring, and that's actually really fun. Soooo, all in all, sophomore year is going to be alright. :)</p>
<p>Junior year is even better. Loading up on APs and college level courses; coupled with standardized tests, leadership positions, volunteering, and varsity sports, and you've got yourself a pretty unhealthy lifestyle.</p>
<p>I have 90 pages of history reading, outlining all of that, making detailed flashcards of every single vocab during those 90 pages, plus document analysis essay.
For English...let's see, reading 6 short stories, writing a long journal entry on each of them, plus a compare/contrast essay on the two?</p>
<p>Plus a couple more I guess...and I haven't started one sentence and it's almost 6pm here. LOL..time to think of some bs reasons and not do them.</p>
<p>I'm a sophomore. This year seems really similar to the last, except (so far) I'm doing better like actually doing my homework and studying for tests and stuff. I think the years will keep getting harder academically. We'll see. But I like this year :)</p>