<p>I’m not overwhelmed at all. Senior year is great!!!</p>
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Ikr! The biggest dilemma I have right now is whether I should wake up at 6 to go jogging or 7.</p>
<p>…kidding. </p>
<p>(I’d never wake up that early to jog lolz)</p>
<p>I am so overwhelmed by this sick senior year! Fortunately standardized tests preps are definitely over, but there is still college apps and homework!</p>
<p>Plus, I have to get up at 5.30 am every morning because school starts at 7. agh.</p>
<p>However, I know I’m not alone in the mental state so I don’t feel lonely :B</p>
<p>Ranting thread right?</p>
<p>Well this was my report card:
USH honors- 91
Trig- 96
English honors- 89
Physics- 98
AP Bio- 84</p>
<p>UGH</p>
<p>Plus, today my science bowl team lost the regional… 
</p>
<p>F^ck junior year.</p>
<p>@terpischoria – do you live far away from school, then?</p>
<p>I HATE BEING A JUNIOR. They weren’t kidding.
Why I’m upset:
-Grades came back. I already knew it, but I got an A- in Calc BC. This sounds totally asian, but I know I could have done better. Literally because of my laziness and that HW = 40% of grades. I had 102% in the test category, dangggit!
- Realized Harvey Mudd, my dream school which I will certainly not get into, requires a physics class. Damn me taking two bio classes and chem. Now I have to do phys at the community college this summer. On top of that, realized Harvey Mudd is an impossibility for me, which sucks.
- I do well in my classes, but I feel as though my teachers don’t even notice me. Awk when my calc teacher called me by another girl’s name.
- My friends have turned into some of the biggest a–kissers, just to get A’s. When they don’t, they complain… so much.
- Not doing well in science olympiad. I was the top scorer last year… definitely not this year.
- Need to self-study more calculus so I can take a class at CC and then multi var for senior year. Why? Because I want to. Apparently my counselor thinks I’m insane for wanting to.
- Track is so stress-relieving, and I love running, but sometimes I think I can do a lot more with those 3 hours.
- Probably going to fail AP bio exam… our class is taught at a sophomore (HS) level.
- Internship is going great, but takes up a lot of my time. Same with volunteering and fundraising for the hospital-- I love what I do, I just wish there were more hours in the day.
- Applying for summer camps (just local ones).
- Writing essays for scholarships.
- Just got booted up to leading chair on band. Now I’m playing a solo for a competition. Unfortunately… I haven’t practiced the solo at all.
- On the robotics team, and the capt. is the biggest d-bag of all d-bags. Of all d-bags. I just want to slap his nasally voice right out of his throat. F-ck this kid.
- Retaking SATs because I want to.
- My friends don’t understand why I’m stressed. I miss the friends I made this summer at camp so badly… perhaps since they always got A’s and stressed as much as I did. I tried telling my friends about college admissions, which I rarely do, and they shot back with, “Dude, you’ll get in.” Um, no. I won’t get in. It’s not possible. My friends want to go to community college or WWU simply to party. In their own words. I’m either with kids who think Stanford has an acceptance rate of 95% or kids who want to go to a 95% acceptance school.
- I’m constantly underestimated, but I always feel as though I’m acting in a really cocky way, or I think very arrogantly. This one girl had the gall to write her resume on the white board in AP Lang, and all I could think was “I do three times as much as you do… please stop.” She couldn’t stop going on and on about how she was going to get accepted into Harvard, and I had to bite down on my sandwich to stop from getting upset.
- I never have time to eat. I’m always studying, driving, exercising, or working. I’ve only had a couple fruit snacks since 3 PM today (it’s 9 PM now). I’ve lost a lot of appetite for food, which is really bad since I need fuel for running.
- My friend keeps bombarding with her boy troubles, even though she turned down a guy who has the biggest crush on her. “I wasn’t leading him on intentionally…” Sure. Now they make goo-goo eyes at each other in APUSH across her boyfriend and I can only gag on my own vomit. These days, I don’t even know.</p>
<p>Bottom line? Sometimes I wish a car would just run me over while I was running. I want more hours every day. I stay away from home as long as I can (7 AM-9 or 10 PM, from school to ECs/intern/volunteer), and coming home just reminds me why I want so desperately to leave. I’m often energetic, but staying up until 3 finishing my HW exhausts me. I do what I do because I love it, but often I wonder if I’m sacrificing too much.</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant…</p>
<p>@Mascara Aww :((((</p>
<p>Trust me, I know how you feel. I’m a senior who has BAD senioritis. </p>
<p>I have a Calc BC Quiz (Haha…the class is alright but ■■■) on Tuesday, a AP Euro test AND essay ALL due on Monday (■■■… my life SUCKS.), an AP Physics HUGE chapter test on Thursday (Haven’t done ANY problems for this one…I’m going to fail.), a AP English Great Gatsby Test on Wednesday, AND a major varsity lacrosse game on Tuesday!!! </p>
<p>I feel so crappy, I can’t even put in words. I KNOW I will fail 4 out of 5 of everything (Please God, not my lacrosse game…my coach is the Devil incarnate :((() and end up getting ZERO sleep while juggling my clubs and writing my REQUIRED (I hate my HS Sometimes) senior speech. How I will survive is beyond my comprehension. The only positive thing is that I got into Tufts U. (my top choice) 3 days ago. However, if I fail everything (I WILL), there’s always the ‘rescind admissions’ option :’(. ■■■. </p>
<p>My grades will plummet…I have a bad feeling about this. And being a Jumbo (EDII Tufts :)) is going to be the only saving grace at this point. Please Lord, don’t make my Euro grade drop more (it’s already a B. ■■■!!!) Please, please, please…</p>
<p>Thanks for the steam-blower…it helps! A lot…back to my crappy life then. ;)</p>
<p>I wish I could succumb to senioritis, but I can’t because of IB. It’s as if all these years of school have ingrained in me this mindless desire or need to work hard. I hate having to work so hard everyday and know that there’s a huge chance that all these colleges will reject me because I’m too “stereotypical Asian”. Guess what? That really sucks because I actually like science research and music, etc but it doesn’t help me stand out. I mean, at least I don’t want to become a doctor or engineer like every other asian. Scientist!!! Does that make me different??? Nobody can understand how stressed out I feel about college acceptances and every time I tell somebody I’m a senior they ask where I’m going to college. I DON’T KNOW! I haven’t been accepted anywhere yet except my safeties (which I’m still grateful for). There’s always one person that teachers pay attention to, but fail to realize that the rest of their students are smart, too. I hate how people constantly sympathize with one person, even though that student’s freaking floating compared to the rest of us. Oh, yeah, I complete understand, it’s soooo hard getting accepted to Harvard EA and being a finalist in every single competition. Yeah, the rest of us nobodies have it waaay easier. God bless.</p>
<p>And I feel horrible about it, but I really want to move out. I’m so tired of the constant bickering that goes on in my home and I just need a break from it all before I go nuts.</p>
<p>I’m definitely less stressed than junior year/beginning of my senior year. </p>
<p>But I need to get As in my 3 dual enrollment classes because the GPA will carry over to med school applications <em>sigh</em> I should have just done 3 APs.</p>
<p>Still, I’ve actually had some extra time to take little naps or watch tv so that’s nice.</p>
<p>I feel great!</p>
<p>As a second semester senior, I have two classes to worry about, and neither of them are APs (the AP/honors I’m taking, Lit and IR, are pretty easy). Physics sucks because I have a terrible teacher, but literally half the grade is completion = I don’t study. Precalc is sorta hard, as I am emphatically not a math person, but as long as I get above an 80, I don’t really care.</p>
<p>Good luck to those stressed out!</p>
<p>I am currently a high school senior and I know what you guys are going through. Junior year is undeniably strenuous. Between school, SAT, EC’s, sports, and whatever other activities you are engaged in, time seems to be moving at warp speed with no sign of slowing down.</p>
<p>Honestly, as you’re reading this, take a deep breath. If you are even in this thread, you are probably stressed because you are WORKING HARD, STRIVING TO DO WELL, WANTING TO MAKE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY PROUD.</p>
<p>So there is no need to worry. Colleges don’t expect every student to have a perfect resume, that would obviously be extremely unreasonable to say the least. </p>
<p>Do things you like! Don’t for example self study AP Chemistry if you hate science just because you think you won’t get into an Ivy League without taking as many APs as possible!</p>
<p>If you do what you like, you can work hard but not have the burden of stress piling upon you like a stack of bricks. </p>
<p>I am not saying by any means don’t challenge yourself, but seek to excel in areas that mean something to you.</p>
<p>College applications are far cry from being a mere representation of grades and scores. They are in essence a biography of who you are. Lets be real, having 6 instead of 7 APs isn’t going to cause Harvard to reject you.</p>
<p>I’ll digress and just leave you with this…</p>
<p>You are going to do amazing, keep working hard, but just take a deep breath and take time to do things that you love.</p>
<p>Well, my evil French II teacher decided to give us a quiz on something we had read in class two weeks ago. We couldn’t take the book home, so that quiz was a nightmare.</p>
<p>I have no clue how I pulled off a B on that quiz.</p>