<p>we now have less than a year before we apply :(</p>
<p>how's everyone doing? :)</p>
<p>I was insanely enthusiastic about college admission last year during my sophmore year, but that 'passion' died out now...</p>
<p>Now I'm more interested in working out, hanging out with friends, and just enjoying high school. But I always feel guilty when I think of my parents working to pay for my high school education here in the US.</p>
<p>And I can't believe my passion for math just died out!<br>
These days, I'm finding literature and french, the two most awkward subjects to be my primary interest.</p>
<p>High schools excellent to experiment around with myself.</p>
<p>Second semester junior year = the busiest 4.5 months of my life (so far). It starts tomorrow.</p>
<p>I'm sofa king souped.</p>
<p>Basically now there's absolutely no break (clubs, competitions, APs/SAT IIs, classes in the spring; programs in the summer; apps, classes, clubs, and more competitions in the fall) for 1 year. Scary thought...</p>
<p>I'm MAD excited for college apps (and decisions!) next year though.</p>
<p>I'm not quite as busy as most of the other juniors are; english, history and science all come natural to me so academics aren't making me crazy.
calculus is shot to hell, i have decided that its not worth pouring hours of work for the A instead of the B.</p>
<p>im done with the sat I for life, im satisfied with my score on the first try.
only thing im worrying about is the ap exams and college visits/interviews.</p>
<p>I'm with you! College admissions was so cool and exciting last year; this year, it's incredibly scary.</p>
<p>And there is no break. None. I have no weekends. I took a survey at church, and they asked how many hours I spend "hanging out with friends because I have nothing to do." Yeah, I wish. </p>
<p>There's this new pressure to get better grades. 93s used to be good; now, I feel like it's a 96 or failure. I never used to grade-grub, but I find myself asking for curves and extra credit, just to meet some invisable standard no one cares about besides me.</p>
<p>That said, the work pays off. My classes are interesting, my peers are exciting, and life is good.</p>
<p>I've been really busy, or at least I was my last semester. I started my second semester today. I'm in Ib and doing well so far....cleighdrie I feel exctly the same way regaarding grades. I used to be really excited with a 93 etc and nowadays I find myself bumbed for any grade less than a 97...which is quite absurd considering I take a pretty hard curriculum. Another issue is that even though everyone believes I'll get into a good college etc I'm absolutely freaked by the idea of having to attend college here in costa rica. I've had time to work my ass off but I've also enjoyed my friends and the new set of right/responsibilities my parents have given me ( going to bars, staying out uberlate, going on trips with just friends etc). I'm super hyped about college applications next year, hopefully I'll be able to apply to Penn (wharton)</p>
<p>I'm just trying to have some fun before I start thinking about college apps (uh oh. is that a sin?).</p>
<p>I've been stressing out about my history grades. Last week was midterms and AP's will be here very very soon. On top of that, I registered to take the SAT I in May and the SAT IIs in June. Oh boy...</p>
<p>Same as a bunch of people, the whole college search madness has become a major headache. A year ago I was an inquisitive, happy sophomore; now everyone and their mother is trying to tell me where to go and how to get there. I am slowly chipping away at the list. Meanwhile, high school is awesome and only getting better!</p>
<p>Gliding by. Got a 4.5 last semester, and I'm happy with that. I spend less than an hour of homework a night. 2.5 hour lacrosse practices every day are much more enjoyable. Soon the season will start up, and that will consume my passions. I've been seeing my girlfriend every weekend (on top of at school time). The only semi-stressful thing in my life is that I have to play all the songs in jazz band now (I'm the bassist...) We used to have three bassists, then one ran away and isn't coming back, and the other one isn't too great, so I have to play all of the songs, and I have less than 2 weeks to learn them. Not easy crap either.</p>
<p>I'm registered for SAT in April, and I will register soon for SAT IIs in may once I decide what I want to take. Getting above the cutoff for national merit was a relief. </p>
<p>I can't wait for college apps. I'm really excited now. I'm going to be recruited for lacrosse in the ivy league, and the DIII schools I love (amherst, et al.) so I don't really have that "I MIGHT NOT GET IN ANYWHERE!!!" idea going on.</p>
<p>And my safeties are great. I can get a full ride at Miami, which is a private school... and also at UF, which is public. So I mean, if all else does fail, I have those. But hopefully come may next year, I'll no where I am going, and be able to go into my IB exams with confidence.</p>
<p>Killed the first semester (5/5 As-best since 4th grade!), and I plan to do the same with the second, with a few added non-academic things to boot (ie foreign exchange #2 to China).</p>
<p>I dont' know there's a part of me that wishes to say you know what F high school, i just wanna have fun, do whatever I want, but yet there's also the part of me that says Holy S**** I'm going to college! that's gonna be so awsome! :D I'm leaning more towards the 2nd statement! yes, college apps are going to be difficult but hey it'll be worth it!</p>
<p>Wow I'm right with a lot of you. This semester will most likely be my hardest semester in high school...I'm sooo crazily busy with band, school, JSA, work, band, school, school, tutoring, school, band....:p</p>
<p>I can't wait to visit colleges in April and to apply next year. Somehow if I make it past AP tests and SAT II tests I am also really looking forward to this summer, with my trip to France and all! :D</p>
<p>crazy, friggin hard year. btw I go to the same school as JTC007... harder classes, studied for the SATs over summer so I have no drive left for the school year, got a weekend JOB this year, along with theatrical society stuff, newspaper stuff, gymnastics, NHS, academic decathlon, now JSA and hopefully tennis in the spring, but APs and SATIIs also in spring... it's so hectic!
and now i'm seriously worrying about colleges because I don't think I'm good enough for my top school.
My rank is slipping through my fingers to this awful kid who's rude, and obnoxious and has abosolutely no ECs or people skills for that matter.
PLUS, I'm procrastinating like crazy! And I'm completely stressing about not being in any school theater productions (because 1st one didn't get cast, doing costumes for the musical this time) because that would mean I won't get the position of president, which i think I deserve over the competitor.
I was going to say something else, but I forget so I'll add later if I remember.</p>
<p>now I remember...
math used to come naturally to me. I've been ahead in math since 7th grade... but I took AP Stats last year because precalc would not work with my schedule. And now, I get to precalc, I'm in the same level math as the rest of my grade and I just can't DO IT! I'm getting horrible grades (IMO) and on the PSATs, math was my lowest! What is happening to me?!?!?!?</p>
<p>Conclusion: CALCULUS MUST DIE AND GO TO HELL. So must Newton for inventing this mess. If you have some brilliant way to find areas of a random shape, keep it to yourself. I DON'T CARE. </p>
<p>I HEREBY CONDEMN YOU, SIR ISSAC NEWTON, AND YOUR STUPID CALCULUS, TO DEATH AND ETERNAL SUFFERING IN HELL.</p>
<p>Thats awesome!!^^^, I'll probably be thinking like you in about a month or two since calc just started today. The way I see Calc, if I can get a good grade on the first couple easier tests, then I'm set.</p>
<p>Starting my 2nd semester tommorrow and I'm trying to figure out how fit taking the SATs, ACTs, SAT IIs, APs abd raising my GPA before the end of junior year.</p>