Summer Science Program SSP Introduction Thread

<p>For the most part I mean taking pictures from inside of a plane, but I also like taking pictures of planes. I'll be taking plenty of pictures of the sky at SSP, though, I'd imagine... </p>

<p>I really really like aircraft, so I usually take (out of about 100 total pictures on my memory card) about 15 to 20 at an airport of planes and the rest in the air to wherever I'm going when I'm flying. This can produce awkward (but amusing) situations becuase on school trips or competitions people will see this and assume I'm taking tons of pictures on the trip and ask me to post them or send the pictures to them. Of course, I usually take about 1 picture on the ground, which leaves them confused.... but seriously, I really think the photos you can get from an airplane are a lot more interesting than taking 5000 pictures of a street or a hotel room. My parents never let me fly (safety concerns) until I started getting free flights from things like academic team competitions and research, so I get every photo I can get. Trying to make up for that lost time ;).</p>

<p>You know, I've never taken a picture from inside an airplane... I'll have to try that on the planeride out to NM!</p>

<p>Usually I take pictures of people and insects and buildings and the sky on trips, an of plants and my cats and the sky when I'm at home. I have 3 incredibly photogenic cats. I take a lot of pictures of clouds... and mountains and trees and clouds. Its kind of interesting, because I go back monthes later, and sometimes I still see stuff in the clouds, and sometimes the pictures still look neat, and other times I look at it and wonder what I was trying to take a picture of <em>grins</em></p>

<p>It was definately like the best moment of my life when I figured out how to take lower resolution pictures so I could fit a ton of them on a card... :)</p>

<p>Shadow, your trademark is the "<em>grins</em>" in your comments :P</p>

<p>eeh......<em>sigh</em>
i dont know what to bring
actually, i dont have a lot of stuff, to be honest :)
i will definitely bring my beloved TI-89 Titanium, for which i was saving money for the whole summer (2005) :)
hm.....oh yeah, i'll bring a camera, too...101%
eer.......what else?....i dont have any DVD's, CD's, laptops, ipods, etc, etc....
yeap, i guess i will be pretty boring (Note: boring, not bored) there
hehe :)</p>

<p>oi ppl, how were your SAT(II)'s?</p>

<p>wait...is ssp just a think where you take classes at harvard? then you can't even compare it to rsi; they're totally different! RSI is for research...where ssp is not....</p>

<p>10 bucks says i'm probably wrong about this...please correct me if i'm wrong</p>

<p>Coolphreak, you, like the 3 other people that invaded these boards, are wrong.</p>

<p>I'm not going to even explain what SSP is anymore...this is just freakin annoying lol.</p>

<p>haha... I'll try: SSP is the Summer Science Program - nuff said? :)</p>

<p>WEEEE Im pretty stoked about my SAT IIs! I was expecting a really bad physics score (we didnt learn nuclear, optics, or waves AT ALL) but I still got 800 :).. Ironically, I thought I owned the US history test but I got 790 (which is still pretty awesome :D)...</p>

<p>TWO MORE WEEKS GUYS!! :D :P.... Stupid SATs saturday :(...</p>

<p>so....is it research? or science classes?</p>

<p>btw i'm only "invading" this board to kill some time as i'm on summer vacation...though i should be studying...</p>

<p>both</p>

<p>790 SAT II Chem <em>sigh</em></p>

<p>hopefully better this sat with math and physics</p>

<p>800/770/750 - 2C/chem/ush respectively. Oh well, I'm pretty satisfied since I was just aiming to get the 800 in 2C this time. This set of scores combined with my 800/800/770 in 3 other subjects I think would be enough for college apps...I'm now officially done with SAT II's! w00t! =)</p>

<p>School finishes tomorrow for me...(goodbye junior year)...what about you guys?</p>

<p>wow oasis very jealous am i, you are done SAT IIs and school</p>

<p>commencement ceremonies are on June 7th but we have to stay until June 19 but of course i will have to miss the last day to fly to socorro June 18!!</p>

<p>Me and my sat II scores are going to go hide in a corner and be depressed together away from all you people...</p>

<p>800 World History & 800 Math IIC (thank god, a retake T_T. i would've died for anything less)</p>

<p>I'm expecting to fail both Physics & chemistry, so no biggie.
Even though school is over, i've been playing and hanging out (watching movies..gahh) so i'm destined to fail my tests....just make sure y'all remind me to kill myself once the SAT II results for this saturday come in (while we're at SSP).</p>

<p>Gahhh I am fairly humbled by all you brilliant SSP-ers...^^ and will be more humbled once we're there and APs and SAT II scores come in...</p>

<p>And shadowdancer, no worries :P i'm sure its not as bad as you make it seem to be (a 790 <em>gasp</em>) ^.^ its just a test anyway....</p>

<p>And Oasis! What other SAT IIs did you take?</p>

<p>Its kind of interesting... because I beat like... everyone at my school... and yet... I didn't break 700 on either of them.... and yeah <em>cries</em>.... </p>

<p>I thought I did allright on them too... well I knew I did badly on chemistry because of those crazy true/false things... but I didn't think I did as badly as I did....</p>

<p>its just a test though</p>

<p>agreed</p>

<p>i hate tests because i have to work my ass off to do well on them</p>

<p>examinations dont come easily for me</p>

<p>im more of a performer than test taker as you will see at SSP</p>

<p>ahra, if you dont get 800 on SAT II Chem, im going to hate you intensely</p>

<p>as of now i love you all</p>

<p>Has anyone noticed how slowly time seems to be ticking away?</p>

<p>i must disagree :)
time for me flies fast.....waaaaaay too fast
and, i noticed, the closer it gets to this Saturday's SAT, the faster it passes
ya know, i suspect that SAT is some kind of a black hole: it sucks in everything, ranging from my life to my time.....hehe....im going to do my PhD on this phenomenon :D</p>

<p>however, i do think that once i pass through this black hole into another universe, the universe where there are no more standarized "black holes", no more homework, no more school......the time will drastically slow down and continue to tick at this rate untill i get to socorro, where the notion of time is non-existant (at least for me)
:)</p>

<p>congrats on those SAT's you were glad to find out about, and dont worry-there is still another chance-it's just a test on those SAT's you were dissapointed about</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>yeah, I'm in super intense study mode for SATs saturday. Any of you who has any good advice for that writing section that you want to tell me... I love you. :) </p>

<p>I'm going on a really exciting field trip to Washington D.C. tomorow!!!</p>

<p>Definately spending time at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum... its my favorite museum in the whole place!</p>

<p>Pianist. I'm sorry. Please don't hate me immensely because with all candor and honesty, I'm just praying to god that I can pass 750 on Chem. Books can only teach you so much, and I haven't done any labs and everything's going to confuse me and...<em>sigh</em> and to think, I love chemistry too. sucks I'm more of a humanities person. oh well. Physics & Chemistry I am destined to fail. And the sad thing is, I'm SO not in "super intense mode" for Sat. SATs. Especially Physics (boo physics!) i've been lounging at my house, getting fat and depressed and overwhelmed all the while accomplishing nothing. Don't you ahte that!? Arggg, I hate myself.</p>

<p>Shadowdancer, for the writing portion. Just continue writing for the whole time. Be formulaic (my english teacher will kill me for having said that haha) and stick to the 5-Paragraph essay :P I can't write worth a h00t and I got an 11 essay. It didn't help me any, since my writing portion grade turned out to be crud anyway but <em>shrugs</em></p>

<p>Man. Time is going by so fast. I'm not ready! I hate standardized tests. Seriously. Hriundeli, you are right. THEY do suck you in. I'm eagarly awaiting the Sat. and Sunday after the tests - parttttaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!!! <em>blows party...fan...thingy</em> and then, y'all, a chance to meet you all!!! :P we're going to be all very good friends :P ..I hope.</p>

<p>standardized examinations are terrible; they emphasize rote </p>

<p>instead, for science classes, we should submit projects, and for history, historical reports --- something applied, i guess</p>

<p>for physics, just remember the right-hand rule for E&M and you'll be fine hehe</p>

<p>fingers in direction of magnetic field, thumb in direction of velocity, palm in direction of force, or for a wire, current in thumb, mag field in fingers, force in palm when you have your hand in an L shape but with all digits stretched out</p>