Time for YOU to BRAG! GOOD STUDENTS needed!

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>"Very laughable indeed to see upper-middle class Americans who think their hardcore, yet wouldn't last a day in my shoes."</p>

<p>Looks like you're worse off than me, Deviant. 25% of kids at my school get free or reduced lunch. I only went to a school with a disadvantaged majority from k-5, and I've never been to a school that wasn't mostly white.</p>

<p>My problems definitely stem from home, and my school didn't care enough to do anything about it. If I were self-motivated, I might have been able to make an on-topic post in this thread. </p>

<p>Hey, isn't Hot Topic owned by the same company as Abercrombie? hah.</p>

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<p>Hot Topic is owned by Banana Republic, actually. But they're in partnership with Abercrombie and The Gap. </p>

<p>Banana Republic. The official attire of the Ivy League, the prep school uniforms, the "rich white upper class Americans" whom these so-called 'punks' and 'goths' claim to be against.</p>

<p>I lived in a trailer or apartment with no electricity and infested with roaches until high school, and I'm still adjusting to living in a house with my own room and my own personal things that I paid for myself (my television, video camera, drums, bass, stereo, laptop). I started seeing more white people after I moved to DE. </p>

<p>I still shop in thift stores and warehouses despite having more money. I still have this mentality that I can't afford yet. My priorities are paying for college. I have to get a cap and gown or I can't walk at graduation. Cap and gowns cost $200. My mother wants me to get a class ring. The cheapest class ring I can find is $324. </p>

<p>I learned to sew and only use safety pins to hold my things together until I can get around to sewing them. I remember crying in 5th grade because I got a perfect score on the rhythm and music test that we had to take if we wanted to be in band, and not able to afford drums to be in the band. Joined the band in 6th grade after I moved to DE and my dad rented me a set of drums. </p>

<p>I laugh at the kids who complain that 345749 other people have the same shirt as them. I laugh at the kids who complain about getting a scuff mark on their shoes and spent $60 on a pair of faded, ripped jeans. When I was growing up, all I had were faded ripped jeans and its wasn't cool back then. It wasn't cool to have your pant legs ripped up to the knee and held together by safety pins because they got a little tight and ripped on a rock. Now it is. </p>

<p>I may not be 'disadvantaged' anymore, but I know what it's like. I don't regret anything. I wouldn't change anything about my life because if I did, I'd probably be one of those make-believe trend-following sheep. I wasn't disadvantaged; I have more of an advantage over them.</p>

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<p>Everything in my closet is from Hot Topic and Abercrombie. I don't know any other stores. Do other stores exist?? jk...</p>

<p>bragging time...In third grade I was measured to have an IQ of 149. That wouldn't really motivate anyone huh?? um..</p>

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<p>hmmm...<em>thinks</em> I went from having a relatively easy 9th grade schedule to having the most rigourous last year and this year by taking summer classes to get ahead and doubling up in science, giving me the most possible rigourous schedule. Science periods 1-3.</p>

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<p>Okay...I know this is an old thread. But I had exciting news and wanted to tell other people about it but nobody in my house is up yet.
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Anyways my exciting news is that the research I did at NASA SHARP is really popular now. Like 210 articles posted within the last couple days about the exact same topic I researched this past summer. All the conclusions that I reached on my own last summer, and the suggestions I gave were the same as the ones that the researchers are publishing over 6 months later! I'm so excited! It probably isn't too big to a lot of the CC geniuses that get published before they're in college but I had never even done a science fair before I went to NASA SHARP! Thanks for letting me brag :)
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<p>P.S. I pasted a link to the article here --><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/29/tech/main1168905.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/29/tech/main1168905.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>No time(slept at 4 last night working on a prototype for a wireless mouse w/ my friend) to say much now, but I bet I can give 99% of juniors on these forums a run for their money on how far they have gotten in math.</p>

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<p>you people rock:)</p>

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<p>were all great at our own stuff!! yayy!!!!</p>

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<p>My life rocks so much that I actually have to force myself to be sad, like at times during funerals and in the rare event that a girl turns me down when I ask her out.;)</p>

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<p>we all have wonderful talents!</p>

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<p>OMG, my life is so hard sometimes. A few weeks ago when I was going to take the SATs, my BMW broke down, and I had to drive my backup car (a 2004 Lexus). Then when I got home, my butler was sick, so I had to cook my own lunch.</p>

<p>I amaze myself sometimes.</p>

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<p>85 POSTS/DAY mUAHAHAHA or is that a brag?</p>

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<p>In eighth grade I had several personal problems that had been accumulating over time (family, depressed suicidal friends, emotional and social stress etc). I prettty much crashed.</p>

<p>I eventually dropped out of every club including one the day before competition. My final grades were A's in french and gym, B's in TV production and LA, C's in social studies and reading, D in science, and an F in math (I was in the super advanced math with incredibly smart Asians... I dropped down to honors for freshman year). That summer, though, I totally resiliated. Freshman year I got a 4.0 with the max number of honors courses (4.5 WGPA... only about ten), secured a couple leadership positions in EC's the next year, made the Varsity debate team, etc. I got an 800 on an SAT II (only one other person got a perfect) self studied two AP's sophomore year, founded a club, developed my interests, and won some more leadership and awards.</p>

<p>I've made the best of a very, very bad situation. I was definitely going downhill in so many ways in eighth grade. And, contrary to most stories I guess, my friends and family didn't help at all with my situation. One of my best friends (suicidal and depressed) moved away - thank god - but I still wasn't in a crowd of self motivated people, so they provided no incentive to improve. My parents' situation (arranged marriages... <em>sigh</em>) intensified that summer when we went to India because my parents' families hate each other. My dad emotionally scarred my sister because he wasn't satisfied with her SAT prep (she was a junior at the time) and when she stormed to her room crying he often turned to me to release his anger (he has an anger management problem). My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer and my mom literally cried nonstop for about three days before deciding to go to India to visit her (thankfully, she's ok now). I pretty much had to learn how to take my focus away from emotions (I was very emotional in eighth grade) and focus on productivity. I surrounded myself with friends with better influences and intentions, got a (short term, lol) girlfriend, and focused on real priorities (developing solid, respectful friendships, doing well in school, and pursuing my interests through EC's).</p>

<p>For the couple years I've been extremely happy with my life and the new direction I've taken. In the past few months, though, I think living alone (my two sisters are in college... I haven't been without at least one of them for this long before in my life - it's a huge change for me) is making me turn away from all my friends and I think the intensifying situation in my family is making me turn away from them, too. Right now my concern is that I'll journey beyond independence into social solitude. However, throughout my life so far I've gone through so many "phases" - including some extreme cases - but I always seem to bounce right back into a state of pleasant balance.</p>

<p>Wow what an incredibly long post.</p>

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<p>now its 87</p>

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<p>... I've never really anything wrong happen in my life. I think its because my parents have very good values. The only major shift that happpened for me was going to boarding school. But the whole family was comfortable with it(except mom had some doubts about taking care of myself, but that's typical).</p>

<p>Living with people around you 24/7 is interesting. At least I never get bored.</p>

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<p>I don't know if I have much to brag about. However, since I'm usually a modest person I think it will be good to finally be able to boast. Whenever I think that I brag I always feel bad afterwards, though. </p>

<p>Anyways, thats random. I'm an Army brat and have been a military child since birth. I was born in NY, moved to Hawaii, after that NC, then Germany, Upstate NY, and now I am back in NC until I head off to college. I love the military, and am planning on following my father's footsteps and making a career out of being an Army officer. </p>

<p>I'm perhaps most proud of the fact that I am a well-travelled person and have been places that few (or no) other people my age have been. While I was living in Germany I had the chance to visit 9 European countries (including Germany). After my freshman year in HS I lived for a month on a remote military base in the middle of the Sinai Desert in Egypt with my father. We were only a few miles from the Gaza strip, and whenever there was fighting going on we heard (and felt) it. I would hear an explosion and turn on CNN a few hours later to find out what had happened. I went to Sharm el Sheikh only a few months before the terrorist attacks there. I was able to scuba dive in the red sea and was exposed to semi-legal checkpoints, bombed out tanks (leftover from previous wars) and desert bandits (they left us alone). </p>

<p>I was a loser in Jr. High. I spent 6th-8th grades at 3 seperate middle schools. I failed some classes and can remember getting grades like 8 or so on tests and quizzes. I went to HS not knowing too much about the college admissions process. I believed that people with 4.0s could pretty much go wherever they wanted. Because I tested well, I was put in the enriched classes in HS. </p>

<p>I somewhat tried for my first few years of HS, pulling out an 89% UW GPA for both my freshman and sophomore years, but I did shine in history (95% in AP Euro and a 98 in enriched global history). I did miserably in Chemistry, however, finishing the year with a final grade of 80% (B-) (will that kill me??). I always assumed that I would do well on the SATs and that would be my ticket to a good college. I didn't know that all of these other factors (besides GPA were considered). </p>

<p>When I was a sophomore my sister went away to Syracuse University. A year later (this summer, before I started my junior year) we moved to North Carolina. I enrolled in a private college prep-school, and finally it hit me that I actually had to try, that these years really did count. I recently started putting forth real effort. In my hardest class (APUSH) I had an 89% the first quarter, which was actually one of the highest grades in the class. This quarter I am at a 94% or so. So far I have pulled an A in Physics for the year, and I brought my math grade up from a 79.6% last quarter to an 89% so far this quarter. I also brought my physiology grade up from a 88% to a 99.8%. I'm working hard, and it looks like I will be well above the 90% mark for my overall GPA this quarter (unless English screws me like it did last quarter, that class is so random and I never have any idea what to expect when report cards come out). </p>

<p>My main goal is to gain admission to USMA (West Point). I only have one varsity letter, but I started playing on the varsity team as a freshman (hopefully that will work towards my credit). I have tried hard and achieved some good things in other areas (music and extra-curricular clubs), but have won no awarsd in anything (yet). I did score a 210 on my PSAT, which isn't uber-high like a lot of people on this site but I was still happy with it considering that I did no studying at all (I didn't even know the format of the test). I hope to use my life as a military child as something to distinguish me to the people at USMA, but by far I hope that my experience in the middle of nowhere in Egypt will set me apart from the rest (at least in the eyes of someone recruiting for a service academy). </p>

<p>If I don't attend West Point (or another service academy), I would love to attend Syracuse University. Those are pretty much the only schools that I have strong feelings for. Anyways, this isn't about college, its about bragging, and I hope that I have done my part to contribute to the selfishness of this thread (hahaha). :P</p>

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<p>since freshman year i've been the kind of under-chair for the social chair heads at my school and they always say "we can use as much help as we can get." so every summer when we had to plan for freshmen orientation, they basically did the whole thing with everyone but me. so when they graduated in june, i became the only social chair, a three person job down to one. so when the frosh orientation came around, i had to do the whole thing alone, the advisor wasn't even around, she was on vacation, so i spent my entire summer in a tiny little office making packets, calling people, sending out over 250 letters to freshmen (do you know how long it takes to taste of envelope sticky out of your mouth?), and planning a BBQ. </p>

<p>in the end everything was totally perfect and everyone said i organized it better than when they were freshmen, and basically everyone was really happy with me. the principal gave me flowers to show apprication for me basically living in that office over my summer vacation. yay me and my bragging story. lol</p>

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<p>Freshmen... aren't ... worth it.</p>

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<p>i was born.</p>

<p>i went to high school.</p>

<p>i saw the cut-throat competition that goes on in the real world.</p>

<p>i say screw it :)</p>

<p>haha just kidding.</p>

<p>i don't have that many things to show for my 11 years of school. just a couple of math and science awards, a few research opportunities.</p>

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<p>I came. I saw. I conquered.</p>