Liberal Arts Major
1. AP English 12 (whatever it's called)
2. AP Biology
Interim: "Break"
3. AP Calculus (AB)
4. US History
Interim: Ranchi Time
5. AP Computer Science (AB)
6. Nothing
This schedule has numerous problems. First, I want to be in Calc BC, but apparently there's only one calculus class and it's AB, so I'm stuck in Dumped Down Ville unless the teacher teaches BC anyway. Second, I don't even recognize the US History class I'm taking, and it's located in the darkest recesses of the school: both factors that will make taking a class with everyone a year younger than me suck unusual quantities of suck. Lastly, my empty period is sitting there uselessly at the end of my schedule, but I guess that doesn't matter because I'm filling it anyway.
After about five seconds of scanning the available classes, I have concluded that fourth period is awful and should be burned. With the exception of AP Chemistry and Debate, nothing in that slot is even remotely interesting or useful to me. Thus, I'm going to have to get the CS teacher to let me come in during his Math Analysis class to teach myself CS (lol @ concept), giving me this schedule:
1. AP English 12
2. AP Biology
Interim: "Break"
3. AP Calculus
4. AP Computer Science
Interim: Ranchi Time
5. AP US History
6. AP Statistics
The problem with this schedule is that I intended to take AP Macroeconomics as well, which meant I had to somehow get a zero-hour class. English is the usual suspect for zero-hours, but my peers came up 5 or 6 people short on the petition for the class, so that's out.
My other option was to tempt the CS teacher into letting me take the class without actually being in his class, taking tests in my free time or after school and submitting assignments in Calc or somesuch (the guy teaches both classes). But I already have to move CS to fourth period in order to get APUSH, and AP Macro is not a fourth-period class, so that empty space doesn't help at all.
This situation is also complicated by the apparent absence of AP Macroeconomics on the list of available classes.
-_-
Thus, my final schedule should look like this, assuming I can get CS in fourth period:
1. AP English 12
2. AP Biology
Interim: "Break"
3. AP Calculus
4. AP Computer Science
Interim: Ranchi Time
5. AP US History
6. AP Statistics
Intarwebz: Economics
If fourth period weren't so terrible, I'd have a shot at top 5 in my class. Now I'll be lucky to make top 10, and I still have to take bad classes like AP English 12.
THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR GOING BACK TO SCHOOL
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Message last edited by Ogordemir99 on 8/20/2007 at 03:24:56 PM
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geez, isn't it your Senior year, live a little
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Liberal Arts Major
Actually, you can drop out of school at 16 here.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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WHY would you take a year off High Schoo
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COSTS
- I now can't take Macroeconomics. Darn.
- I lost a few AP credits that I wouldn't have used toward anything meaningful. The time spent on those classes would have been awful anyway, and I would have done it solely for the AP credit. Am I the sort of person who would enjoy physics, you think?
- I would add that I lost my class rank, but once I got cheated out of a viable opportunity for rank one in 10th grade, I don't really care as long as I get in the top 5-10%. Top 10 is a bonus.
- I'm going to have to rely on my pitiful piano ability to count as my half-semester of arts class for college.
BENEFITS
- I was able to go to France, Austria, and Romania. This was the original reason for the time off.
- I didn't waste an entire, say, month studying such garbage as Modernist American literature on an AP level.
- I was able to study economics to the point where I should be relatively capable of doing everything not explicitly mathematical in economics with some ease in college. At the very least, I'm familiar with what I would have been taught in macroecon.
- I was able to learn other things, like basic semantics.
- I was able to write SS and pay some attention to TFN.
- I can now claim all sorts of half-truths on my college application essays, because who knows what amazing things I did during this period? Other than myself of course.
My target college is the University of Washinginton - Seattle, so it's more likely that my year off will improve my position than it is to hurt it.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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You know, people you go to school with
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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But then again, I'm smart enough that I can pretty much get into any college I want to, so I can pretty much just dick around my Senior year.
Plus I'm racking up the volunteer hours at a local library. >_>
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Plus I'm racking up the volunteer hours at a local library. >_>
I can do you one better. I helped Tiger make this site, and although it sort of sucks, I can claim all sorts of community service benefits off of it. >_>
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Liberal Arts Major
Stats, macroecon, and CS all deal with possible majors. Calculus is entertaining. I'm taking the other ones as a challenge to myself (lol) and as an attempt to increase my class rank - it's always better to be higher up that list.
also I don't want to be too noticeably outdone by my ex-girlfriend lolmirite
Anyway, I only need four classes to graduate, and if I took the normal versions of those classes I'd become so bored I'd probably not even do much of the classwork. It's bad enough already I have to take normal economics and, from the looks of it, another semester of normal government.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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My highschool (after I moved to Philly) was so terrible credit wise. That I fear I can't get into any real college and I'm going to my home country for college so that I could have my permanent record reset.
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Indeed, high school is easy as hell to pass. >_>
This is why a student should take as many AP classes as possible - to (maybe just appear to) be better educated than a completely lazy shmuck.
Liberal Arts Major
there's a Calc BC class fifth period
Then who's teaching it? Hills has Computer Science that period and that's it according to the first semester class listing.
second semester.
That explains why there's no Macroecon first semester but there's AP government, which I'm not going to take, on the grounds that I've already done the major assignment for the class and I don't want to do it again.
CS is usually a year-long course but the teacher'd prollyz let you take it as a first semester course fourth period letting you take CS and Macro.
If it's in fourth period, then I can attempt to implement my make-CS-a-zero-hour class plan, which is bound to fail and is now about half as useful anyway. I'm probably going to end up dropping CS or stats if I have to drop a class for Macroeconomics: all three classes are boring rehashes of near-obvious details, but Macroecon is the most entertaining rehash.
Or you could try for MicroE fourth period 1st semester and possibly be the swing student in getting the class through (It was dropped, probably from lack of students?)
First, Microeconomics is awful on numerous levels. Second, I don't even think the teacher has the intention to teach it. But if given the opportunity I'll ask about it regardless of the fact that the day I take AP Microeconomics is a dark day indeed.
don't let the counselors trick you
Well, duh. I only let that happen if my intuition tells me the counselor is probably right, which is how I ended up not taking PE over the Internet this summer. I'm going off the class listing in making these assertions: I'm assuming it's accurate, given that it's supposed to be used by teachers to find other teachers.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
What's your home country?
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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I pretty much just avoided anything that has to do with college. And I'd say it paid off. At least in my case.
I got to make my decisions for myself.
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