School

[kevin]

Good luck HH914!! At least you're guarenteed a few visits to S2K after school if you have time. Not so true once you're a sophomore in High school...

1 month away and I'm nervous as heck

You're nervous? Why? It's nothing you haven't done ten times before, and you're still going to know everybody there. Classes might be a touch more difficult, but it's nothing that's impossible. Some of the teachers might be impossible, but the classes aren't. Plus, if you can line up your schedule right, you can get off with doing all of your homework at school, either in class or in homeroom, leaving you plenty of S2K time at home

I have AP Calc, AP Chem, AP European History, and Honors Humanities all in one semester. No off roll. Sigh. Personally everyone (even some who I know are REALLY smart) says it's impossible to get an A in Honors Humanities or AP Chem. First day I have a two essays and two tests in H. Humanities, first week an essay and test on Sophie's World in AP European History.

And then add the AP tests later in May, and PSAT in September, and the fact I'm behind on my community service, whew!

That's a heavy load.

My advice on the classes people say are impossible - they're wrong, its very possible, people just generally aren't willing to work every day when they are in high school. They are under the impression that studying is something you do before a test, but that's the wrong way of doing it.

Sophie's World is a very good book. Good luck with your classes!

[JonathanBelles]

god only 36 hrs left!
im gonna have AP bio, Ap US history, AP english, and dual enrollment meterology gahh
im gonna die the 1st day lol

[wxmann_91]

Sophie's World is a very good book. Good luck with your classes!

Thank you Kevin. Everybody I know said it was a boring book, but, in fact, it was pretty good. I mean, the plot is a bit peculiar, I know, but it was interesting and intriguing. The only is I can't remember all the philosophers mentioned in the book, which is what I'm tested on!

Good luck, fact789, with your classes. You're lucky to be able to take a meteorology course in HS, though.

[WindRunner]

Good luck HH914!! At least you're guarenteed a few visits to S2K after school if you have time. Not so true once you're a sophomore in High school...

1 month away and I'm nervous as heck

You're nervous? Why? It's nothing you haven't done ten times before, and you're still going to know everybody there. Classes might be a touch more difficult, but it's nothing that's impossible. Some of the teachers might be impossible, but the classes aren't. Plus, if you can line up your schedule right, you can get off with doing all of your homework at school, either in class or in homeroom, leaving you plenty of S2K time at home

I have AP Calc, AP Chem, AP European History, and Honors Humanities all in one semester. No off roll. Sigh. Personally everyone (even some who I know are REALLY smart) says it's impossible to get an A in Honors Humanities or AP Chem. First day I have a two essays and two tests in H. Humanities, first week an essay and test on Sophie's World in AP European History.

And then add the AP tests later in May, and PSAT in September, and the fact I'm behind on my community service, whew!

AP Calc isn't bad, especially at the beginning. First week or so is limits - and it's a review of what you've done before. It'll ease into derivatives by limits by the second/third week, then you'll do the rules, and you'll be doing derivatives in your head by Halloween, trust me.

AP Chem - I'll be with you for that one this year, and to boot it's two semesters! That's going to be fun . . .

The AP European History is something I wish they offered here at our school, but they don't. It's something I'd love to take, instead the closest thing to it is Geopolitics Honors, which is being offered for the first time in eight years - finally got enough kids to sign up for it.

As for my first day, I've got an essay contrasting Locke and Hobbes for AP Gov't (luckily I've done something similar before), and AP English 12 has some short stories that we are supposed to have read and filled in a chart/done a visual on. Problem is, I've started neither, and I've got three weeks to go until the first day. I'll be getting my schedule next week, then I can figure out what I need to kick butt on and what can wait until Christmas Break . . .

And (hopefully) I'll be getting an independent study in meteorology, partially with Mike Eckert of the HPC. That's going to be the highlight of my year, and probably my easiest (maybe second easiest) class . . .

[wxmann_91]

Where do you sign up for these met studies?

I heard AP Calc wasn't too bad, it's just the Chem, Humanities and AP Europe that scares me. I'll be writing essays and reciting the periodic table in my sleep by Christmas.

[JonathanBelles]

im scared of AP calc, but i dont have to take that till next year

[WindRunner]

Where do you sign up for these met studies?

I heard AP Calc wasn't too bad, it's just the Chem, Humanities and AP Europe that scares me. I'll be writing essays and reciting the periodic table in my sleep by Christmas.

Haha . . . the periodic table should be the least of your worries . . . it's more the fact that you actually have to physically use the thermo you learn in physics . . . ughh! And the essays, yeah, get used to it. You'll appreciate the practice by the time you get to college.


And the met stuff wasn't exactly a sign-up-and-I'm-done-with-it kind of thing. An independent study (at least at my school) is something that you decide that you want to learn about. Then you have to have a teacher "sponsor" you, basically a baby-sitting job, though usually the teacher will have some knowledge in the realm of what you're independent study is (for me, I got our Earth Science teacher to supervise). Then you/your teacher or some combination of the two must find/develop a curriculum (including tests, etc.) that you're going to follow in the class. I kind of cheated here - we're going to be using the DataStreme project - http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/ - though I don't think it'll be the online version. It might end up a little below me, but it's 90 minutes a day I get to spend on weather, and of course that probably won't take me 90 minutes It's also an opportunity for me to sometimes spend some time with one of the senior HPC forecasters (he does some of the QPF stuff). Anyway, the other good news that comes with this is that (for us, anyway) a) it's a pass/fail class - no letter grades, and b) it doesn't have any effect on your GPA, which is good when a 4.0 will bring your GPA down

We still have to see if the principal approves of the study and if they have a place to schedule it (so it is very much still in the air), but my dad has really pushed them about this, so it will most likely happen.

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And don't even bring up the AP chem - last year's AP chem class was a HUGE fiasco! The teacher for the class was in her second year here (probably second year teaching anywhere), and it was the first AP Chem class taught here since any students could remember. The class started with 16 kids, and within the first month, they were all complaining about the copious amounts of homework (except for one, who was practically acing the class and loved it ). By the time the end of the first semester came, all but 6 dropped it and 2 of those still wanted to leave as well. The teacher ended up getting the message, as well as a few parental complaints to both her and the admin, so she is conveniently go off to the University of South Carolina to seek her PhD (in who knows what). So now I get the next best chem teacher they had in the dept, who was my regular chem teacher last year, and has told me that she believes that I can get my homework done in class, knowing the kind of student I am So, I'm not too worried about the AP Chem, personally.

[wxmann_91]

You have a >4.0 GPA and you're a junior and you already know Calculus, I mean seriously, you're pretty darn smart. I don't know many who can take a bazillion AP and Honors classes and yet get A's in all of them. (I'll try my best but I barely got a A in Honors English last year, which means I probably won't fair much better in Honors Humanities which is 100 times more demanding.)

I think I should start a weather club at my school, although, I'd doubt anybody would be interested in weather in southern California.

[WindRunner]

You have a >4.0 GPA and you're a junior and you already know Calculus, I mean seriously, you're pretty darn smart. I don't know many who can take a bazillion AP and Honors classes and yet get A's in all of them.

Haha, thanks for the compliment, I guess.

Since I'm going into my senior year, they'll be telling us our GPAs/class ranks in the first week or two of September, so I can't say anything for sure until then. However, I can say that English G/T (same thing as Honors, different name) last year finally gave me my first B as a final grade in a class.

[feederband]

Yes, finally some peace and quite in the house...

[JonathanBelles]

im awake for the first day of school. im not quite bushy tailed kinda nervous. starts in 1 hr 15 mins gahhh lol update later if i survive

[O Town]

Good luck fact! My twins started yesterday, the little one starts tomarrow. Ahhhhhh, 6 hours of peace. lol.

[wxmann_91]

I really can't believe school starts a week in less than a week. I get nervous just thinking about it.

[brunota2003]

I start school on friday...sorry, no smart classes here...(like any of them have to do with weather anyways ) I have the first semester Earth/Environmental Science (ohhh...we might cover weather...watch it be a half of a second long) Concert Band, Algebra II, and Comp & Lit III...second semester I have Wind Ensemble (which for juniors like me is actually an honors class ^^) Digital Communications, Spanish I, and US History...

[Extremeweatherguy]

god only 36 hrs left!
im gonna have AP bio, Ap US history, AP english, and dual enrollment meterology gahh
im gonna die the 1st day lol

dual enrollment meteorology? I've never heard of that before.

[Skywatch_NC]

Never have understood why a school system would have students report for first day of classes of all days...on a Friday.

[brunota2003]

Never have understood why a school system would have students report for first day of classes of all days...on a Friday.

neither do I...last year it started on monday...this year...friday...I will forget everything we go over on friday by saturday night...

[wxmann_91]

Oh, I definitely like how our school starts on a Thursday, and the first day is a late start. It relieves a lot of the stress on students, and we can look forward to the weekend to relax a little before really "starting" school. The only thing done on the first day is the introductions and in my case a couple of tests and essays.

[HurricaneHunter914]

I got to skip a whole week of school to go on vacation. Can't wait till I get back, my teachers probably have a pile of homework ready for me.

[Yarrah]

9/11 is my first day at university. I'm going to study Geography and Urban Planning. Wish I could study Meteorology though, but I don't have the right qualifications.