<p>One word: Homework!</p>
<p>@MIT- Ya, last June is when I took it. Are you saying you got a 30 as well? If so, what was your breakdown?</p>
<p>Applying to college. Way too stressed out for my own good.</p>
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<p>I find that difficult to believe.</p>
<p>Brick and mortar high schools provide one with limited exposure to a small group of people from one particular area, somethig that deprives one from a more diverse selection of students. The greater prevalence of social clicks and immaturity also serve as negative factors. </p>
<p>In college though, one’s enabled to communicate with a multitude of people from all over the world (assuming that one ends up attending a college that has over 5,000 or so students), so it’s plausible that one would be able to find at least one other person with similar interests.</p>
<p>My mother’s pushing me to attend a local college. She claims it’s because she doesn’t think I’m mature enough to go away to school, but I think it’s because she wants me to live at home, thus being able to be guilted into babysitting my 5 younger siblings that are 10 or younger.
Of course, she told me this after I’d fallen in love with Carnegie Mellon, which is about 5 hours away from Baltimore, my hometown.</p>
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<p>Fear of rejection. More specifically, rejection by Stanford since I applied there SCEA. I was hoping to be able to relieve some stress if I got accepted… :(</p>
<p>My grades, my test grades, my lack of a social life, the 3 combined. Yeah.</p>
<p>The people. I wish I was close to some people, not the others!</p>
<p>The plummeting C I have in my mandatory AP Calculus AB Class. I understand it better then I thought I would and he’s a great teacher, but literally your grade is four 6-question tests a quarter. </p>
<p>Oh, looking for temporary employment this Holiday Season. So much fun.</p>
<p>@puggly yeah it was the april one. My highest score was a 33 in reading. With like a 28 in science and 29 in English and Math</p>
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<p>High schools provide you with extensive exposure to a small number of people. Colleges provide you with minimal exposure to a much larger number of people (unless they’re small colleges, in which case it’s similar to high school).</p>
<p>Don’t most people typically live on campus? Can’t they join clubs?</p>
<p>You have to put yourself out there either way. You don’t have to do that in high school.</p>
<p>I’ve found that to be the case in high school too, but that’s just my perspective.</p>
<p>I suppose that I view the situation in the following way:</p>
<p>High school</p>
<p>-Small group of people
-Same/similar area
-Course requirements
-Social clicks
-Immaturity
-Limited exposure and time (in various forms)
-Graduation requirements</p>
<p>College</p>
<p>-Independence
-Diversity of student body
-More class options, thus enabling one to pursue actual interests
-A greater abundance of social activities
-A sense of community (the majority of people live on campus/in dorms with a smaller group of people)
-More in common with peers (everyone choose to be at that specific college)</p>
<p>I do think that you would have to go out of your way, but how else would you make friends? I don’t believe that waiting and expecting someone to befriend you is an effective method, regardless of whether or not you’re in high school or college. By simply pursuing your own interests, you’re bound to discover at least on person like you.</p>
<p>@MIT- That’s weird, brah. I would’ve thought you’d get an easy 34+ on the Math. My highest was also a 33, in English. 30’s in Math and Reading, and a 28 in Science. I’m shooting for a 33 composite next. How 'bout you?</p>
<p>Shooting around a 33 as well. I just slowed down on the math for some reason. I’m going for a 36 in that for sure.</p>
<p>College apps.</p>
<p>The Calc midterm I just took (read: potentially bombed)</p>
<p>I think it would be cool to get a credit for this class that I decided to take because I thought it would be fun</p>
<p>Is P/NP an option?</p>
<p>^ I have decided to take it Pass/Fail, so I just want to pass (although even if I weren’t, I’d be cool with a C :b )</p>
<p>Except now it’s choosing what book to read in a 24 hr period next weekend: I have a few choices:
- Spinoza’s Ethics - twice as long as I thought
- Huygens’ “Celestial Worlds Discover’d” - Has been checked out already?
- Something by Hermann Boerhaave - I’ll be reading it on the computer since there is no copy in the library, leading me to procrastination</p>