<p>@Ashbry8 My brother was born in Kentucky! Irrelevant fact. Which UWC does your friend go to?</p>
<p>UWC of the Adriatic. I actually have a copy of their student manual. I read it avidly during the application process. It gives hope</p>
<p>I can imagine - I’ve definitely scoured the internet for things like that and found so many blogs and videos in the process!</p>
<p>To lighten up the stress a bit, UWC-USA posted a video of them doing the Harlem Shake. I highly recommend it, it made me smile right away!</p>
<p>[Harlem</a> Shake: UWC-USA - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>They could at least send the notifications before they went and did the Harlem Shake</p>
<p>I think I’m staying up, just in case by some miracle they decide to just send them out for us (which they probably won’t, but I’m getting used to staying up super late with all my homework anyways). And until then, I will be doing calculus, listening to music (thanks for the tips, guys. Some I’ve already heard, others are pleasant findings), and fighting the twisting feeling in my gut …</p>
<p>Yeah, I saw that 
It’s up there in my favorites (with the underwater one and the army one!)</p>
<p>@knoxandonyx I’m planning on going to bed super early and getting up to do homework and check my email tomorrow morning. A random question - do you like calculus? I’ve found that it and trig have been my favorite areas of study in math, but I want to know what others think. I love calculus <3</p>
<p>@lunascreatures I love it too… It’s my favorite class right now. I also liked trig a lot too 
I think it’s cause it’s more like a puzzle than anything else.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: I love random questions! Do not be afraid of random questions! Often, I find that they are the most revealing … </p>
<p>I find that I dislike trig (geometry and its related areas have never been my favorite), but I actually kind of like calculus! (It surprised me, too.) As my math teacher so likes to say (paraphrased), “Calculus really isn’t that bad. It’s the algebra involved that will kill you.” So far, it has proved true. I have a couple of battlescars, but so far, the algebra has only managed to graze me, though I can tell it’s been going for the killshot. 
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<p>Because of my screwy schedule, I’m only a month in to calc, and so we’re still doing derivatives (and now kinetics, etc) and the like. (IB Math HL, by the way, not AP Calc.) I still have time to dislike it, too. But it helps that I have a lot of friends in my class, which keeps it fun. </p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Back in your court: biology or chemistry?</p>
<p>Hang in there! Remember they are on mountain time and a human being has to send the emails. My D got her interview email at 11:30am in 2011. My son didn’t forward his email to me from last year so I don’t know what time it was sent. I just don’t recommend staying up for notification. It’s not going to come pearly in the morning like SAT scores.</p>
<p>Do you think they will come between 8 and 5 mountain time? </p>
<p>I’m really nervous that they’re going to send an email saying that they’ve postponed it and I’m going to freak out seeing an email from them.</p>
<p>Ooooh bio vs. chem is hard. I come from a family of biologists (my parents met when organizing a Biological Olympiad science competition thing for kids, and my sister entered college thinking she’d be a journalist or some other writer but instead became a biologist and is now getting her Ph.D. in microbiology. My brother’s the exception - computer scientist), I’ve loved studying biology in school (probably due to great teachers), and I’m fascinated by it, but chemistry comes more naturally to me. I’m not good at memorizing things, and there’s a lot of memorization in biology, but I’m good at concepts - and the calculations in chemistry that follow after concepts are really easy.</p>
<p>So I guess I enjoy <em>studying</em> biology more, but I feel more successful doing chemistry.</p>
<p>Physics, though, I am not really fond of. I get it, and the types of problems you realize you understand because of it make you feel like a wizard, but I feel like I would enjoy it more if I had had calculus <em>before</em> starting Physics. I would’ve understood the concepts behind many more formulas and they’d come more naturally to me. Memorization sucks. I can do it, but I don’t like it.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Fair answer. I have always found chemistry extremely fascinating (you know the Tom Lehrer Periodic Table song that has no real merit, as it does not pertain to symbols, families, or even the numerical order? I memorized it when I was 11 or 12, because I am a chem nerd ), but biology is pretty interesting, too. I love genes/DNA. My deciding factor was two amazing chem teachers vs. a not-so-fantastic-at-ALL bio teacher. That and having to dissect cats in upper-level bio courses. Frogs/mice/etc? Maybe. Cats? No. Also, I would have to agree with you. Stoichiometry, once you get the hang of it, is pretty easy. </p>
<p>Hmm … what other academic questions @lunascreatures… Ah-ha! Greeks or Romans?</p>
<p>@knoxandonyx see, I’ve had the opposite with teachers. My chem teacher has been not-so-fantastic - not bad, just not great, but my bio teacher is one of the coolest and most amazing people ever (and he actually wrote my extracurricular advisor rec, because he’s the head of some of my ECs), and the AP Bio teacher that my siblings had (that sadly, I won’t get to have because he moved to the professional studies building of our district, which is really cool but sad for kids at our high school) is also one of the coolest people ever and has actually collaborated with my dad on ~sciencey~ stuff. Biology teachers in my district are just really really cool overall.
I could tell so many stories about the cool biology teachers…</p>
<p>And AAAGH I can’t really say anything about Greeks and Romans beyond that I prefer Greek mythology to Roman mythology :P</p>
<p>I’m butting in on this. GREEKS! No question about it. No question at all.</p>
<p>another academic question - for those who have had AP history classes: FRQs or DBQS? I am firmly team DBQ, because they make you feel like an actual historian analyzing sources and supplementing them with previous knowledge. Plus you feel smarter doing them because you always know what you’re doing, even if you forgot some of the historical background…</p>
<p>DBQs for sure- they’re so much easier! I actually have one on Thursday on Progressive Era reforms. They pretty much give you all of the information you could need, with everything all packed in. Plus, on graphs and cartoons/pictures, all information is outside information, which is super helpful!</p>
<p>YES. GREEKS. Thank you. People look at me funny when I go into my ancient mythologies rants. </p>
<p>@mirvinvitela: I’m taking it one step further. Greeks, Egyptians, or Aztecs? </p>
<p>@lunascreatures: I don’t have any AP classes, but we do DBQs and something similar to FRQs in my IB HOTA class. Definitely DBQs. Things to pull from, things to build on …</p>