3- Oh, wow. And much better than PSU. It’s ivy, yes?
I’m entering my senior year.
I’m rather traumatized by the fact that some colleges won’t allow you to apply regular-decision if you’ve already been admitted somewhere else early-choice…
So I have no idea. I think I’ll just regular-apply everywhere or something. Though I *would* have liked to do everything early. But required SATII subject tests are rather nasty. *goes to sign up*
Actually, I’m somewhere in the middle of figuring out the Common Application.
And wondering how to write an essay. Because I’m horrid at those sorts of things. Ideas?
Hmm. I’m going into high school in September, provided they don’t throw me out when they see how bad I am at math. Hopefully, I’ll be able to take college-level classes in my junior and senior years of high school, thus taking two years off that I would otherwise have spent studying.
5- Alice, daahling, you don’t have to worry there. I know a kid who took three years of “pre-math” classes. He hasn’t been thrown out. And, don’t worry, math’s not the worst of it.
6- I wanted to do it all early, and then sleep through the second half of the year. Then I looked at websites, scheduled three SATIIs on the same day, and cried in a corner.
-facepalm- I’m gonna be a junior. Which means SATs and PSATs and who-knows-what-SATs and attempting to plump up my apps while I still can. And APs, too. I’m scheduling six next year, so I will probably die.
Oh ambiguous deity, I really don’t want to think about this right now. I am so lost when it comes to this stuff.
I do know, however, that I want to apply early decision to Yale so they can reject me and I can get it over with.
Then, once many many colleges have had their way with me, their way being to yell “NO” and run screaming to Alaska, I will give up entirely on higher education and move into my nice comfy Toronto refrigerator box.
9- I see. Toronto would be cool. But not a refrigerator box, thanks all the same. My dad wants to move to Canada, but not, I think, Toronto. More like B.C., which would be fine with me, except for the grizzly bears.
My mother has a friend in Penatanguishine, (it’s probably spelled wrong, though) which is a town with a name even more fun to say than my own. (And that’s saying something.)
9- BUT. BUT. YOU’RE ONLY A COUPLE DAYS OLDER THAN ME. JUST BE SMRT, W/E
Ugh I don’t want to think about this. The fact is I’m not interested in going out of state for college as of now (realized I love California suddenly). As long as there’s a good international program and a major in Japanese available I am content. But no Cal States.
My brother was really stressed by the college process.So I have that to look forward to. Not that I’m not already freaking out over it, and I’m only going to be a sophomore this year.
I’m going to be in 10th grade next year. In 11th grade I’m taking all AP courses, because that’s the only year they offer AP at my school. And currently, I have a 4.0 grade average and I’m taking al honors classes, so I’m not really worried about that part, I just have absolutely no idea what else I have to do for the whole “college” thing. I mean, I’m a writing major at school, so my teacher will help me figure out where good colleges are, but other than that I have absolutely no idea what you have to do.
My first choice college is Amherst!!!!! I would most likely have to get an at least partial scholarship though. I just started studying for the SAT’s, because apparently, I might take them in seventh grade. I want to get an early start on the verbal so I can completly focus on math a bit later. I wanted to get a math sat study book at half-price books, but I haven’t yet learned most of that stuff.
14- Not Quebec! My ancestors, some of them, are French-Canadian, but I like the northwest. Plus I don’t speak French. Plus I think Quebec is a tad…cold. I don’t like cold. I like lots of rain, with a few really golden days in summer, and lots of greenness year round.
Oh I agree. My parents are totally freaked out b/c I got a B+ in math and a B in Spanish, which are the first grades that count 4 highschool, and they think now Iwill never be able to get into anywhere b/c I got Bs. I don’t think they’re that bad. My math teacher thought the reason I couldn’t keep up with work (reah right) was b/c I skipped a grade. I took the SATs, and got a 9/12 on my essay, which was good. Ithink I will be able to do really well when I have to actually take it, b/c I’ve taken it once and am going to be a freshman next year. I am scared of highschool.
Oh, and the reason I got a B in spanish was b/c I got a D on the final, and the reason I got a D on the final was b/c we were supposed to skip 10 questions and leave the spaces blank. Iskipped the 10 questions, but wrote in the spaces. i.e. 140 went in 130, so I screwed up my test and missed the last 30 or so questions. And my teacher retired, so I can’t get her to fix it. Life sucks.
I’m only going to be in 8th grade this upcoming year, and I’m supposed to be in 7th (read the latest friends thread if you’re curious-I was cellogirl26 then). I don’t really know what I want to be, but I want to study something with genetics.
8-yay! i always thought operating a lighthouse would be an absolutely amazing job. but there aren’t that many left that need operating much.
the first college i thought seriously of going to was carleton (thank you GAPA!) but i haven’t been to see it yet. If i don’t go there i’ll probably go to northwestern…mater dragged me on a trip there and i absolutely loved it. yay for lakes! and chicago! luckily for me we haven’t had too much time to wander around looking at campuses (campi?) because if we did i would’ve seen close to a bajillion by now (mom’s crazy like that) As it is, i’ve only actually been to northwestern, oberlin, calvin a looong ago for a choir camp, and of course cap and OSU. oh, and MSU a bit once. but northwestern was the only one i really liked.
meh, i have to actually try to get good grades this year. although i have hemmelgarn (squee!) so AP lang/comp should be ridiculously easy, and AP gov will be laughably so. Torch is basically a study hall and then you make a newspaper sometimes too, and band’s almost impossible to NOT get an A in. that just leaves math and honors chem, which will both probably end up killing me. oh well.
23- Correctemundo. I am pleased that you thought me older though. seriously look like I amd about 15. People my parents know have asked me wht college I am going to. ‘Tis annoying.
25- I’ve thought about going to Carleton since I was eight. (my parents, two/four grandparents, a cousin, a great grand aunt and a great grandmother and possibly/probably more went there.) I’ve recently expanded my possiblilities. (small midwestern liberal arts colleges are appealing.)
It’s worth mentioning that on the site collegeboard there’s a “college matchmaker” and it’s sort of neat to try. But you need to know sort of what you’re looking for.
I have summer AP homework…it glares at me everyday as I procrastinate more and more.
Reading this thread, it looks all incoming 11/12th graders to freaking out. plus 8th graders.
I suggest the following method of calming down.
1. take a deep breath. take many deep breaths.
2. re-read a random issue of muse. i would recomonend the self-esteem issue.
3- go pie someone.
25- Chemistry isn’t bad at all, so long as you pay attention half of the time and study on occasion. It all makes sense, it’s just the “applying logic” bit that screws people up. You shouldn’t have trouble with that, though. It’s way better than Biology.
28- So do I! I read one chapter in one of the books, got bored, and gave up.
29- It’s stressful!
I’ll probably end up applying to Yale and PSU Early-Admission. And then crying when I don’t get into either. And then going somewhere depressingly local. Meh.
Because I just realized that I have absolutely no chance of getting in CalTech, even though I really want to do so… Curse my slacking ways! Same with MIT, which I’ve been told to at least apply to. But I won’t do that one early. Everyone who takes H. Engineering at my school seems to end up applying to Lehigh, but I wouldn’t particularly fancy going there… I was actually planning on using that and PSU as safety-schools or summat. Where else? I’d probably stand a chance at the University of Pittsburgh, yes? I hope… Or Boston U. *calms down and stops babbling*
And I just have to worry about those bloody SATIIs. Because my SATI scores are, acceptable, I suppose. Sigh.
But, seriously, what the pie do I write for an admissions essay?
5- my brother did that, and I have one college credit for spanish already, and he’s cutting out 1 year of college, but his schedual will be jam packed. taking college classes in highschool is a really good idea, but it doesn’t necessarily take that much time off of when you really go to college
I’m plannying to go to a state school for a year or 2 to get all the basic stuff done as cheaply as possible, then try to get into Cornell (which happens to be only 2 hours away from where I live) It takes REALLY good grades to get into Cornell, but it’s a good school, so I’m gonna see what I can do
30: What do you mean chemistry is way better than biology? *starts to get scared* I’m taking bio this coming school year and chem next school year. Is biology really that bad??
34/36: Okay, good. *looks relieved* I love science so I guess I didn’t need to worry. And I know my teacher will be good…I’m really good friends with his daughter and my sister has had him for her teacher and liked him. I can’t wait to dissect a frog! At least, I think I can’t wait.
16 (Penty) – Yeah, that’s what I thought. So basically, I’m mostly all set with grades (this year, anyway), and extra-curricular and volunteery stuff, now I just have to take a bunch of tests and do applicationy things. Fun.
38) That’s good to hear, I’m going into Chemistry this year. Biology was rather uninteresting for me. Then, I’m not very science minded in the first place, but oh well.
When I was doing A levels (those are the big exams that one took before contemplating universty), I realised that there were some combinations of subjects one couldn’t do, simply because they were incompatibe with the exam timetables. I did find, however, that one could take ocenaography, carpentry and Serbo-Croat without timetable clashes. If any Yugoslavian fishing boat manufacturers happened to be hiring staff, you’d be the most qualified person in Europe. I must admit I was tempted, but given recent events in the former Yugoslavia, I’m glad I didn’t.
33- I like biology, but I absolutely hated the class and teacher, all we ever did (I’m not kidding) is take notes all class, and he read them to us and they were up on the overhead projector, then we would take a test every week… but I do like the subject, my mom taught it in a community college so she made it interesting
37- some people were squemish about that, but I liked it
45- That sounds like The Education of Robert Nifkin… Every class had the same routine, and that was that the teacher would write something out on the blackboard and all the kids copied it off into their notebooks, and they were later graded on the notebooks. Of course, that was a dreadful and (thankfully) fictional school.
I have… err… 4ish years until this shall become a problem. But I am having a chronic panic attack about taking Honors Geometry at the High School this year, because, well, the class allegedly starts at 7:15am. Oh, and it goes on my transcript.
I can barely WAKE UP at 7:15 to be at class by 8:00!!! How on EARTH will I manage?
Ah yes, back to the college issue.
Ivy League Schools! A list.
Brown
U of Penn.
Yale
Harvard, no duh,
Princeton
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
48- does “Ivy League” mean they are the best? I like Cornell
hahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha…School stars at 7:30 every day for me. we were talking about this in one of the last english classes of the year, my teacher used to teach at a school that started at 9AM and all the kids were apalled(sp?) at the idea of the teacher getting there at 8 every morning,they even thought it was too early. So whenever someone is used to being in school is just about right (or maybe a little early) and any earlier is WAAAAYYYYYY too early
oh yeah, we were discussing this because our school considered starting early (and of course everyone said, earleir than 7:30? that’s waayyy too early)
Apparently Ivy League is like, schools on the East Coast that are considered to be Higher Level Learning.
It’s all crap if you ask me. I think that ANY school can be “Higher Level Learning” if the people going there are willing to learn, and want to learn.
25 (Ebeth)- Woot Northwestern. It’s a super-pretty campus and they’re really good for journalism, business, and music, if any of that is what you’re interested in.
49 (Elizabeth)- “Ivy League” means that they are impossible to get into and ridiculously expensive.
Of course, I still want to go to Yale, not that that’s much of a possibility.
My school starts at 7:30 and goes until 4:15. This year my sister’s doing geometry at the local high school, though, and she has to be there at seven or summat. Lolz.
re:bio: Biology is actually my favorite of the three high school sciences. I’m not sure why, as I hate dissecting things and can’t see through a microscope, much like that one guy in some issue of Muse or another, but there you go. I like chem too, but physics is frightfully dull. You memorize a bunch of formulas and then you are given problems in which you use those formulas in totally incomprehensible ways.
51 (Axa)- But that’s 8:55 blog time, so you’re actually starting quite late!
44- I’m scared of A levels already! I’m taking them in 6 years (if I’m still around), but I already decided what subjects I’m probably going to take! Right now I’m thinking English (not literature), Maths, Physics, Music, and Engineering. I know that’s a lot, but I can manage… I think… Most people take three or four. I bet I can manage five…
What did you take at GCSE?
I’m going to have to start getting up earlier. *is horrified at the thought* Well, I knew that, but I’m going to have to start getting up at, like, 3:30 AM. No joke. I’m a horribly nervous person when it comes to being on-time, and I like to have hours ahead of me in which to get ready. And, no matter when my school starts, it’s on the other side of town, so I’ll have a long bus ride too.
*Sigh* No, l don’t go to college, but l’m going into 7’th grade next year. O great Ramises, king of gods, and Jamine, god of fate, why must we change clothes for P.E??? l will be thoroughly embarresed.
56- Consider if you would rather be stuck in disgusting sweaty cloths all day.
Besides, changing isn’t that bad.
55- Well, if you’re the first on you’ll be the last off, so you’d have more free time in the afternoon when it might be possible to get something done.
Now I am the exact opposite. I wake up about an hour before the bus comes, actually get out of bed about 15 minutes later, eat a peice of bread of a few strawberries or something (please don’t give me the breakfast lecture people- we have lunch around 11), brush my hair/teeth and leave about 6 min before the bus comes. I sleep for as loong as I can. Doesn’t help that I can’t fall asleep before 11:30 At the earliest.
And you’ll rethink the 3:30 thing after the first week or so. Once you do the smae thing every day, the pressure to be on time decreases… and decreases…
56- It’s not that bad once you get used to it. I’m going into 10th grade and now I’m just like UGH PE but I’m so used to it. In my experience, with girls it’s less about sweat and more about “OMG MAKEUP AND PERFUME” and they spray it everywhere…sigh.
63- The perfume I wear doesn’t even spray. It’s oil, and you rub it on your skin. And of course that means it smells different on everyone, so what people have reviewed as “It’s the most beautiful thing I ever smelled–it’s my Holy Grail scent! *slathers* I’m going to need five bopttles of this!” can actually turn out to be “This is disgusting! It gave me a headache and it wouldn’t come off! ARRRGHH! *scrubs wrist*”. So it’s an iffy business. But fun nonetheless.
That was way off topic. What can I say that’s a bit more on topic? Nothing at all.
i don’t really care what college i go 2, as long as i get and education. at my school, if you’re ahead, you can do dual enrolment..for free at local coleges. i’m soooo gonna do that.
56- ha ha i don’t have 2 do that until high school *gulp*
56- it’s not that bad to change, it’s not like people are going to be staring at you, i mean, would you want to stare at someone without clothes on? And everyone will be changing at the same time so no one really pays attention to anyone else. In my school, you don’t have to chaange as long as you have gym-class appropriate clothes on already. Like for the less active units during the winter, people sometimes just change shorts or something
59- last year I had lunch at 10:30 every day… I was SOOOOOO hungry towards the end of the day. What do they think they are doing, making me eat lunch at 10:30?!?!
56- its not that bad. you will have your underwear (and if u r a girl a bra) on. just change quickly, and in the bathroom if you are that self concius.
69. i had that in 6th grade. thats just crazy
9 – Six AP classes? Gah! Do you have to take the tests for all of those?
11 – I wouldn’t want to leave either if I lived in California!
14 – I don’t know any French yet (I’m taking it in the upcoming school year), but I’ve heard that Quebec is the place to go in Canada if you want to experience artsy, multicultural city life. Is that true?
20 – Good luck! I used to want to go to Oxford. Then I looked at the tuition and cost of living for international students. The only way I could make it would be if Oxford paid for everything and judging from my current math grades I doubt they’d want me that badly.
30 – Is chemistry only easier than biology if you’re a natural math/science person? I loved biology, but it took me twice as long as most people in the class to get things.
37 – We never dissected anything! I feel cheated.
51 – That’s insane! Do people sleep through their first classes? I would! I start school at 8:45. I get out later than most schools here, but it’s worth it.
57 – My previous school was private and we weren’t allowed to change clothes for P.E. It’s not necessarily a good thing; Thursdays were always unpleasant because we had to keep our sweaty, smelly uniforms on all day after P.E.
69 – That is crazy! That’s more like a second breakfast than lunch.
I’m going to be a junior this year and I’ve been told that this is the time to get serious about college applications. I’m completely unprepared, gah!
I think I want to go to the University of Tasmania for at least my first year of college. Is that a bad idea? I did want to go to an English-speaking university in Prague, but I’m going to wait on that until I’ve gotten used to living on my own and until I have time to learn at least some Czech. I could get a full scholarship to a state school, but I really don’t want to stay in Kentucky!
72- the junior horror stories are out of control. if it makes you feel better, my sister (going to be a senior) didn’t have any more breakdowns last year than the year before.
72) Actually I’m taking a zero period so I start way earlier than everyone else…school actually begins at 7:55. But I just had to take web design this year. XD
75-NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF WE HAVE A PIE WAR LET IT BE AGAINST NO MUSER BUT SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF MUSE. I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE ANY FRIENDS ON MBLOG BECAUSE OF A STUPID WAR ABOUT NOTHING. THANKYOUVERYMUCH.
69- Yeah, I hadlunch at 10:30 in 8th grade. Not. Cool. I wasn’t ever that hungry, but starving at the end of the day.
75- Eh, I dunno. If there is one I’ll go to it but I’m not ging to push for one.
76- Okay, they’re just for fun. It’s not a real war, it’s definatly not something that should affect friendship at all. I happen to enjoy pieing my friends on there.
Over halfway through summer. 45 days to go. I think…
75- I don’t really want another pie war yet. I’m not ready to put forth the effort that it would take. But, same as JS, I’d join it.
76- What do you mean? And you don’t have to join the pie war, just as you don’t have to join HT, R&R, or any of those threads. Just stay away from the threads that you don’t like, or feel are much more serious than they really are. And don’t post in caps like that, or if you do only one or two lines. And “That is all”?!?! After that all caps thing? Oh well. If you don’t take pie wars so seriously you won’t lose friends, you’ll have fun pieing them. How about we argue about whether we can lose friends from the pie wars?
Glassboro who is really annoyed at R-t H right now
Ah…Good!! Not all my pie war posts were zapped…(I posted it on like 30 threads)
*mopes ’cause no one really wants a pie war* Ah well… But if there is one…Please join MEEEE!!!!! (Glassbro and JS; you don’t count. And since no one ever joins my side I’ll probably rejoin the Jade–Ops)
(80, 81) My mistake. The hazards of mass zapping — I thought I left comment 75 on a less inappropriate thread and did not realize it was here until too late.
If I remember correctly, the consensus from last time was that pie wars tend to be more fun when they emerge spontaneously.
72– while Junior year was more difficult for me (higher homework stress levels for all of us led to one of my friends being rather moody but that’s another story) it’s nothing super scary and you’ve no need to start applying. Visit a few but you don’t need to apply or have interviews. Applications are for the fall of the senior year which seems scary to me as that’s what is coming up. aaahh!
27 -have you heard of Grinnell? My brother goes there (and I think that’s where Chin-tsu’s dad teaches, if you remember her).
Yeah, so I’ve decided that I”m going to do the conservatory route, which means that as well as applications I have to do college auditions. funfunfun, not. So, for instance, for Curtis, which is the top conservatory in the US, I”d need a full Mozart concerto, a full Bach sonata/partita, a paganini caprice, and another complete standard concerto, all memorized… I probably can do it, but I also probably can’t get into Curtis since it’s crazy hard to get accepted there.. something like 5% admissions. but since curtis has the hardest auditions, if I prepare for there hopefully I’ll be good everywhere else. I’ll also be missing a ton of school senior year since you have to travel to the colleges to audition…
87- Complete standard concerto, memorized? Is there any chance you could compose your own? If it’s good, I’d say the admissions people would be seriously impressed.
Aah! Admissions. They’re full of frightening statistics and much d00m. d00m with zeros instead of “o”s and not capitalized! That’s major d00m!
I’ve decided to try for MIT and CalTech with the EA option, and same with Penn State [my safety, just getting it out of the way]. I’d be thrilled either way; but I don’t think my chances of getting in are so hot.
My GPA at the end of last year was a 95-point-something. Which may seem good, but with the disgusting grade inflation at my current school, I’m barely in the top 20% of my class. Seriously. And two other kids from my class are going to apply to MIT, EA, and their GPAs are probably at or over 100. Once again, grade inflation. I’m going to talk to my counselor this week about getting extra Honours and AP points added to the classes from my old schools.
In all honesty, that’s the only thing I’m worried about. Oh, and I don’t have any particularly outstanding achievements in the maths/science fields, but I have loads of extracurriculars, so that should be fine. Not everyone gets to be a sooperjeanyus, you know… *pouts*
I think I can do the essays, even though some of them just make me want to be really sarcastic because the topics scream “URGH WTH?” and/or “MARY SUE TRAP!” And if the interviewer [who STILL hasn’t replied to my email; I’m giving him a week before I just call and possibly interrupt something] is chill, I’ll probably do well on that. If he’s all uptight, I’m a lost cause. But I have the feeling that won’t be the case. From the site, the ECs seem laid-back. Which is brilliant because then they’ll probably understand my “psh if I can grasp this concept after three homework problems instead of thirty, I’ll just do the three and make up for the points lost from homework on the test!” philosophy. The exception to this philosophy, of course, is interesting homework, which I’ll do for the fun of it! AKA my Engineering homework. Physics is love.
Sorry, just had to get that out. Thoughts? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?
ughhh…my school, which had been massively pro-college before, has now started a huge college-preperation regime which includes taking out seminar/homeroom, and replacing it with something called CAP. apparantly it stands for College Advisory Program, but most of us prefer to call it College Readiness Advisory Program…anyways, and they’re starting us with this in 6th grade. yes, i know there’s a legitimate reason, but honestly, 6th grade?!?!? on a lighter note, we finally got our chairs in MS Band today, and i got 1st Chair for percussion – fr00dy, no?
91. That is overkill. The gifted program at my school drove me out mostly by pressuring me WAY TO HARD to take the PSAT my sophomore year. Don’t burn yourself out. College is not (as many competitive schools and gifted programs would have you think) the end of the world.
I think I’ll probably end up at UCD or Cal Poly, because when you’re directionally challenged (I once accidentally told my uncle to walk off a cliff) it’s always nice to be somewere you’ve already been before. xP
92 – I agree that having college prep in 6th grade is overkill, but college has two things going for it: One, having a degree can get you more money later. Two, college can be a lot of fun if you know how to do it. You get to learn what YOU want to, and there are lots of ways to have fun on campus. Some places even let you start your own club, as long as you have a certain amount of people in it.
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I will be in 5 years.
my sister’s going to be a high school senior next year and she has coniptions if any one mentions the word applications…. quite amusing really.
My friend just got into Penn. University, but she’s annoyed because everyone thinks it’s Penn. State. She’s really smart
3- Oh, wow. And much better than PSU. It’s ivy, yes?
I’m entering my senior year.
I’m rather traumatized by the fact that some colleges won’t allow you to apply regular-decision if you’ve already been admitted somewhere else early-choice…
So I have no idea. I think I’ll just regular-apply everywhere or something. Though I *would* have liked to do everything early. But required SATII subject tests are rather nasty. *goes to sign up*
Actually, I’m somewhere in the middle of figuring out the Common Application.
And wondering how to write an essay. Because I’m horrid at those sorts of things. Ideas?
Hmm. I’m going into high school in September, provided they don’t throw me out when they see how bad I am at math. Hopefully, I’ll be able to take college-level classes in my junior and senior years of high school, thus taking two years off that I would otherwise have spent studying.
4- you’re looking at that sort of thing already? gaah… *feels behind…* I shall be a senior in high school this year too.
5- Alice, daahling, you don’t have to worry there. I know a kid who took three years of “pre-math” classes. He hasn’t been thrown out. And, don’t worry, math’s not the worst of it.
6- I wanted to do it all early, and then sleep through the second half of the year. Then I looked at websites, scheduled three SATIIs on the same day, and cried in a corner.
Oh god. *hides* I have no idea what I want to do with my life.
But if I fail at everything I’m going to be a lighthouse oporator.
And I still want to be a lighthouse oporator for at least a year anyway, but they’ll probably be outdated by the time I retire
-facepalm- I’m gonna be a junior. Which means SATs and PSATs and who-knows-what-SATs and attempting to plump up my apps while I still can. And APs, too. I’m scheduling six next year, so I will probably die.
Oh ambiguous deity, I really don’t want to think about this right now. I am so lost when it comes to this stuff.
I do know, however, that I want to apply early decision to Yale so they can reject me and I can get it over with.
Then, once many many colleges have had their way with me, their way being to yell “NO” and run screaming to Alaska, I will give up entirely on higher education and move into my nice comfy Toronto refrigerator box.
9- I see. Toronto would be cool. But not a refrigerator box, thanks all the same. My dad wants to move to Canada, but not, I think, Toronto. More like B.C., which would be fine with me, except for the grizzly bears.
My mother has a friend in Penatanguishine, (it’s probably spelled wrong, though) which is a town with a name even more fun to say than my own. (And that’s saying something.)
9- BUT. BUT. YOU’RE ONLY A COUPLE DAYS OLDER THAN ME. JUST BE SMRT, W/E
Ugh I don’t want to think about this. The fact is I’m not interested in going out of state for college as of now (realized I love California suddenly). As long as there’s a good international program and a major in Japanese available I am content. But no Cal States.
My brother was really stressed by the college process.So I have that to look forward to. Not that I’m not already freaking out over it, and I’m only going to be a sophomore this year.
I’m going to be in 10th grade next year. In 11th grade I’m taking all AP courses, because that’s the only year they offer AP at my school. And currently, I have a 4.0 grade average and I’m taking al honors classes, so I’m not really worried about that part, I just have absolutely no idea what else I have to do for the whole “college” thing. I mean, I’m a writing major at school, so my teacher will help me figure out where good colleges are, but other than that I have absolutely no idea what you have to do.
8th grade next year! Still have no clue about which college/job/major/high school/brand of frozen burrito I’ll go to.
9- BAD PENTY!!! COMMUNISTS BAD!!!!!!
9,10- If you’re going to move to Canada, move to Québec! Québec is far superior to the rest of Canada, for they speak French!!
9- Plus I don’t think they sell refigerators in northern Canada. It snows about nine out of twelve months.
Sorry for triple post.
11 (Axa)- THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR THINKING IT WOULD BE FUN TO SKIP A GRADE
But now I can be the Wise Elder Muser from my refrigerator box and tell everyone else what not to do, college-wise, and stroke my beard knowingly.
12 (Panda)- You have to take a lot of tests and write a lot of applications and do a lot of extra-curricular randomosity.
My first choice college is Amherst!!!!! I would most likely have to get an at least partial scholarship though. I just started studying for the SAT’s, because apparently, I might take them in seventh grade. I want to get an early start on the verbal so I can completly focus on math a bit later. I wanted to get a math sat study book at half-price books, but I haven’t yet learned most of that stuff.
Lawrence, in various guises:
1. PANTSLESSNESS GOOD
2. But I don’t speak French.
3. Toronto is hardly northern.
14- Not Quebec! My ancestors, some of them, are French-Canadian, but I like the northwest. Plus I don’t speak French. Plus I think Quebec is a tad…cold. I don’t like cold. I like lots of rain, with a few really golden days in summer, and lots of greenness year round.
I’m trying for Oxford. Looks like I’ll be applying in *counts* six years.
Oh I agree. My parents are totally freaked out b/c I got a B+ in math and a B in Spanish, which are the first grades that count 4 highschool, and they think now Iwill never be able to get into anywhere b/c I got Bs. I don’t think they’re that bad. My math teacher thought the reason I couldn’t keep up with work (reah right) was b/c I skipped a grade. I took the SATs, and got a 9/12 on my essay, which was good. Ithink I will be able to do really well when I have to actually take it, b/c I’ve taken it once and am going to be a freshman next year. I am scared of highschool.
Oh, and the reason I got a B in spanish was b/c I got a D on the final, and the reason I got a D on the final was b/c we were supposed to skip 10 questions and leave the spaces blank. Iskipped the 10 questions, but wrote in the spaces. i.e. 140 went in 130, so I screwed up my test and missed the last 30 or so questions. And my teacher retired, so I can’t get her to fix it. Life sucks.
21/22- You were in eighth grade last year? Wow, I thought that you were up with people like Penty in age. And you skipped a grade? So you’re 13 now?
I’m only going to be in 8th grade this upcoming year, and I’m supposed to be in 7th (read the latest friends thread if you’re curious-I was cellogirl26 then). I don’t really know what I want to be, but I want to study something with genetics.
8-yay! i always thought operating a lighthouse would be an absolutely amazing job. but there aren’t that many left that need operating much.
the first college i thought seriously of going to was carleton (thank you GAPA!) but i haven’t been to see it yet. If i don’t go there i’ll probably go to northwestern…mater dragged me on a trip there and i absolutely loved it. yay for lakes! and chicago! luckily for me we haven’t had too much time to wander around looking at campuses (campi?) because if we did i would’ve seen close to a bajillion by now (mom’s crazy like that) As it is, i’ve only actually been to northwestern, oberlin, calvin a looong ago for a choir camp, and of course cap and OSU. oh, and MSU a bit once. but northwestern was the only one i really liked.
meh, i have to actually try to get good grades this year. although i have hemmelgarn (squee!) so AP lang/comp should be ridiculously easy, and AP gov will be laughably so. Torch is basically a study hall and then you make a newspaper sometimes too, and band’s almost impossible to NOT get an A in. that just leaves math and honors chem, which will both probably end up killing me. oh well.
23- Correctemundo. I am pleased that you thought me older though. seriously look like I amd about 15. People my parents know have asked me wht college I am going to. ‘Tis annoying.
25- I’ve thought about going to Carleton since I was eight. (my parents, two/four grandparents, a cousin, a great grand aunt and a great grandmother and possibly/probably more went there.) I’ve recently expanded my possiblilities. (small midwestern liberal arts colleges are appealing.)
It’s worth mentioning that on the site collegeboard there’s a “college matchmaker” and it’s sort of neat to try. But you need to know sort of what you’re looking for.
I have summer AP homework…it glares at me everyday as I procrastinate more and more.
Reading this thread, it looks all incoming 11/12th graders to freaking out. plus 8th graders.
I suggest the following method of calming down.
1. take a deep breath. take many deep breaths.
2. re-read a random issue of muse. i would recomonend the self-esteem issue.
3- go pie someone.
25- Chemistry isn’t bad at all, so long as you pay attention half of the time and study on occasion. It all makes sense, it’s just the “applying logic” bit that screws people up. You shouldn’t have trouble with that, though. It’s way better than Biology.
28- So do I! I read one chapter in one of the books, got bored, and gave up.
29- It’s stressful!
I’ll probably end up applying to Yale and PSU Early-Admission. And then crying when I don’t get into either. And then going somewhere depressingly local. Meh.
Because I just realized that I have absolutely no chance of getting in CalTech, even though I really want to do so… Curse my slacking ways! Same with MIT, which I’ve been told to at least apply to. But I won’t do that one early. Everyone who takes H. Engineering at my school seems to end up applying to Lehigh, but I wouldn’t particularly fancy going there… I was actually planning on using that and PSU as safety-schools or summat. Where else? I’d probably stand a chance at the University of Pittsburgh, yes? I hope… Or Boston U. *calms down and stops babbling*
And I just have to worry about those bloody SATIIs. Because my SATI scores are, acceptable, I suppose. Sigh.
But, seriously, what the pie do I write for an admissions essay?
25- Nothwestern IL? Really? That’s what I think you meant vy “Chicago” and “lake.”
It is a nice collage, and right on the waterfront.
29- /me. 10th.
30- Write something brilliantly Muse-worth. Then if you don’t get in take it to the Muse offices and beg for a job.
…my back-up plan? What do you mean?
5- my brother did that, and I have one college credit for spanish already, and he’s cutting out 1 year of college, but his schedual will be jam packed. taking college classes in highschool is a really good idea, but it doesn’t necessarily take that much time off of when you really go to college
I’m plannying to go to a state school for a year or 2 to get all the basic stuff done as cheaply as possible, then try to get into Cornell (which happens to be only 2 hours away from where I live) It takes REALLY good grades to get into Cornell, but it’s a good school, so I’m gonna see what I can do
30: What do you mean chemistry is way better than biology? *starts to get scared* I’m taking bio this coming school year and chem next school year. Is biology really that bad??
33- I liked biology. It wasn’t that hard. I had a good teacher, though, and it’s different for everyone.
28- I don’t have real homework, but my mom is making me do math, and I have to play my cello.
31- i’m in tenth too…. i just figure i’m doing pretty darn well so i theres no point in stressing quite yet.
33/34- i didn’t find biology too hard either. even though my teacher was annoying and put SATII questions on every test.
34/36: Okay, good. *looks relieved* I love science so I guess I didn’t need to worry. And I know my teacher will be good…I’m really good friends with his daughter and my sister has had him for her teacher and liked him. I can’t wait to dissect a frog! At least, I think I can’t wait.
33- Biology is frightfully dull. All memorization. Chemistry is math and logic and properties of matter and oh-so-much-more interesting!
16 (Penty) – Yeah, that’s what I thought. So basically, I’m mostly all set with grades (this year, anyway), and extra-curricular and volunteery stuff, now I just have to take a bunch of tests and do applicationy things. Fun.
26- Wow. I was right. It had to happen sometime.
38- I agree completely. Plus Chemistry has purty reactions!
38/41-than you needed a better teacher.
38) That’s good to hear, I’m going into Chemistry this year. Biology was rather uninteresting for me. Then, I’m not very science minded in the first place, but oh well.
When I was doing A levels (those are the big exams that one took before contemplating universty), I realised that there were some combinations of subjects one couldn’t do, simply because they were incompatibe with the exam timetables. I did find, however, that one could take ocenaography, carpentry and Serbo-Croat without timetable clashes. If any Yugoslavian fishing boat manufacturers happened to be hiring staff, you’d be the most qualified person in Europe. I must admit I was tempted, but given recent events in the former Yugoslavia, I’m glad I didn’t.
33- I like biology, but I absolutely hated the class and teacher, all we ever did (I’m not kidding) is take notes all class, and he read them to us and they were up on the overhead projector, then we would take a test every week… but I do like the subject, my mom taught it in a community college so she made it interesting
37- some people were squemish about that, but I liked it
45- That sounds like The Education of Robert Nifkin… Every class had the same routine, and that was that the teacher would write something out on the blackboard and all the kids copied it off into their notebooks, and they were later graded on the notebooks. Of course, that was a dreadful and (thankfully) fictional school.
45- that sounds like my seventh grade bio class. that was one boring course. my teacher was amusing though.
I have… err… 4ish years until this shall become a problem. But I am having a chronic panic attack about taking Honors Geometry at the High School this year, because, well, the class allegedly starts at 7:15am. Oh, and it goes on my transcript.
I can barely WAKE UP at 7:15 to be at class by 8:00!!! How on EARTH will I manage?
Ah yes, back to the college issue.
Ivy League Schools! A list.
Brown
U of Penn.
Yale
Harvard, no duh,
Princeton
Dartmouth
Columbia
Cornell
Thank you wikipedia!
48- does “Ivy League” mean they are the best? I like Cornell
hahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha…School stars at 7:30 every day for me. we were talking about this in one of the last english classes of the year, my teacher used to teach at a school that started at 9AM and all the kids were apalled(sp?) at the idea of the teacher getting there at 8 every morning,they even thought it was too early. So whenever someone is used to being in school is just about right (or maybe a little early) and any earlier is WAAAAYYYYYY too early
oh yeah, we were discussing this because our school considered starting early (and of course everyone said, earleir than 7:30? that’s waayyy too early)
so that was very long and rambling, but yeah…
i start at 8:30
I start at 6:55 D:
Apparently Ivy League is like, schools on the East Coast that are considered to be Higher Level Learning.
It’s all crap if you ask me. I think that ANY school can be “Higher Level Learning” if the people going there are willing to learn, and want to learn.
25 (Ebeth)- Woot Northwestern. It’s a super-pretty campus and they’re really good for journalism, business, and music, if any of that is what you’re interested in.
49 (Elizabeth)- “Ivy League” means that they are impossible to get into and ridiculously expensive.
Of course, I still want to go to Yale, not that that’s much of a possibility.
My school starts at 7:30 and goes until 4:15. This year my sister’s doing geometry at the local high school, though, and she has to be there at seven or summat. Lolz.
re:bio: Biology is actually my favorite of the three high school sciences. I’m not sure why, as I hate dissecting things and can’t see through a microscope, much like that one guy in some issue of Muse or another, but there you go. I like chem too, but physics is frightfully dull. You memorize a bunch of formulas and then you are given problems in which you use those formulas in totally incomprehensible ways.
51 (Axa)- But that’s 8:55 blog time, so you’re actually starting quite late!
MY LOGIC IS UNBEATABLE
44- I’m scared of A levels already! I’m taking them in 6 years (if I’m still around), but I already decided what subjects I’m probably going to take! Right now I’m thinking English (not literature), Maths, Physics, Music, and Engineering. I know that’s a lot, but I can manage… I think… Most people take three or four. I bet I can manage five…
What did you take at GCSE?
*Sigh* No, l don’t go to college, but l’m going into 7’th grade next year. O great Ramises, king of gods, and Jamine, god of fate, why must we change clothes for P.E??? l will be thoroughly embarresed.
Ooh. Try to go to a private school, we don’t have to at mine.
53- not impossible, just very very very difficult. i have a
friend in harvard and one in yale
56- Consider if you would rather be stuck in disgusting sweaty cloths all day.
Besides, changing isn’t that bad.
55- Well, if you’re the first on you’ll be the last off, so you’d have more free time in the afternoon when it might be possible to get something done.
Now I am the exact opposite. I wake up about an hour before the bus comes, actually get out of bed about 15 minutes later, eat a peice of bread of a few strawberries or something (please don’t give me the breakfast lecture people- we have lunch around 11), brush my hair/teeth and leave about 6 min before the bus comes. I sleep for as loong as I can. Doesn’t help that I can’t fall asleep before 11:30 At the earliest.
And you’ll rethink the 3:30 thing after the first week or so. Once you do the smae thing every day, the pressure to be on time decreases… and decreases…
59- The sweaty thing only lasts for one period. l’m used to it.
51- O_O
56- Locker rooms are the worst things ever. Avoid the athletic kids if possible.
Admissions people frighten me.
61- *Is terrified* Thank you soooo much.
53- OH RITE this is immensely comforting.
56- It’s not that bad once you get used to it. I’m going into 10th grade and now I’m just like UGH PE but I’m so used to it. In my experience, with girls it’s less about sweat and more about “OMG MAKEUP AND PERFUME” and they spray it everywhere…sigh.
63- The perfume I wear doesn’t even spray. It’s oil, and you rub it on your skin. And of course that means it smells different on everyone, so what people have reviewed as “It’s the most beautiful thing I ever smelled–it’s my Holy Grail scent! *slathers* I’m going to need five bopttles of this!” can actually turn out to be “This is disgusting! It gave me a headache and it wouldn’t come off! ARRRGHH! *scrubs wrist*”. So it’s an iffy business. But fun nonetheless.
That was way off topic. What can I say that’s a bit more on topic? Nothing at all.
63- Urgh! I hated that. You’d come out smelling like several different things, including sweat…. grr.
Anyway, back to the topic. I am never going to get into CalTech. *cries in corner*
65- um…why?
i don’t really care what college i go 2, as long as i get and education. at my school, if you’re ahead, you can do dual enrolment..for free at local coleges. i’m soooo gonna do that.
56- ha ha i don’t have 2 do that until high school *gulp*
65- Because you need to be, like, supersupersciencysmart, and they only accept a couple hundred undergrads each year……
Sorry, that should have been “66”
56- it’s not that bad to change, it’s not like people are going to be staring at you, i mean, would you want to stare at someone without clothes on? And everyone will be changing at the same time so no one really pays attention to anyone else. In my school, you don’t have to chaange as long as you have gym-class appropriate clothes on already. Like for the less active units during the winter, people sometimes just change shorts or something
59- last year I had lunch at 10:30 every day… I was SOOOOOO hungry towards the end of the day. What do they think they are doing, making me eat lunch at 10:30?!?!
56- its not that bad. you will have your underwear (and if u r a girl a bra) on. just change quickly, and in the bathroom if you are that self concius.
69. i had that in 6th grade. thats just crazy
*butter pie*
9 – Six AP classes? Gah! Do you have to take the tests for all of those?
11 – I wouldn’t want to leave either if I lived in California!
14 – I don’t know any French yet (I’m taking it in the upcoming school year), but I’ve heard that Quebec is the place to go in Canada if you want to experience artsy, multicultural city life. Is that true?
20 – Good luck! I used to want to go to Oxford. Then I looked at the tuition and cost of living for international students. The only way I could make it would be if Oxford paid for everything and judging from my current math grades I doubt they’d want me that badly.
30 – Is chemistry only easier than biology if you’re a natural math/science person? I loved biology, but it took me twice as long as most people in the class to get things.
37 – We never dissected anything! I feel cheated.
51 – That’s insane! Do people sleep through their first classes? I would! I start school at 8:45. I get out later than most schools here, but it’s worth it.
57 – My previous school was private and we weren’t allowed to change clothes for P.E. It’s not necessarily a good thing; Thursdays were always unpleasant because we had to keep our sweaty, smelly uniforms on all day after P.E.
69 – That is crazy! That’s more like a second breakfast than lunch.
I’m going to be a junior this year and I’ve been told that this is the time to get serious about college applications. I’m completely unprepared, gah!
I think I want to go to the University of Tasmania for at least my first year of college. Is that a bad idea? I did want to go to an English-speaking university in Prague, but I’m going to wait on that until I’ve gotten used to living on my own and until I have time to learn at least some Czech. I could get a full scholarship to a state school, but I really don’t want to stay in Kentucky!
72- the junior horror stories are out of control. if it makes you feel better, my sister (going to be a senior) didn’t have any more breakdowns last year than the year before.
72) Actually I’m taking a zero period so I start way earlier than everyone else…school actually begins at 7:55. But I just had to take web design this year. XD
Okay people!!!! This might be random but so what?? I want a new Pie War!!!! Who’s with me?
75-NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF WE HAVE A PIE WAR LET IT BE AGAINST NO MUSER BUT SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF MUSE. I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE ANY FRIENDS ON MBLOG BECAUSE OF A STUPID WAR ABOUT NOTHING. THANKYOUVERYMUCH.
That is all.
RtH who doesn’t want to lose any friends
69- Yeah, I hadlunch at 10:30 in 8th grade. Not. Cool. I wasn’t ever that hungry, but starving at the end of the day.
75- Eh, I dunno. If there is one I’ll go to it but I’m not ging to push for one.
76- Okay, they’re just for fun. It’s not a real war, it’s definatly not something that should affect friendship at all. I happen to enjoy pieing my friends on there.
Over halfway through summer. 45 days to go. I think…
75- I don’t really want another pie war yet. I’m not ready to put forth the effort that it would take. But, same as JS, I’d join it.
76- What do you mean? And you don’t have to join the pie war, just as you don’t have to join HT, R&R, or any of those threads. Just stay away from the threads that you don’t like, or feel are much more serious than they really are. And don’t post in caps like that, or if you do only one or two lines. And “That is all”?!?! After that all caps thing? Oh well. If you don’t take pie wars so seriously you won’t lose friends, you’ll have fun pieing them. How about we argue about whether we can lose friends from the pie wars?
Glassboro who is really annoyed at R-t H right now
73 – Okay, that’s good to know!
I wouldn’t mind another pie war. But what’s left to pie? Oh well…I’m sure we could come up with something.
Ah…Good!! Not all my pie war posts were zapped…(I posted it on like 30 threads)
*mopes ’cause no one really wants a pie war* Ah well… But if there is one…Please join MEEEE!!!!! (Glassbro and JS; you don’t count. And since no one ever joins my side I’ll probably rejoin the Jade–Ops)
80- Pity that. I would appreciate it if all posts related to a new pie war were zapped, but that’s not gonna happen.
(80, 81) My mistake. The hazards of mass zapping — I thought I left comment 75 on a less inappropriate thread and did not realize it was here until too late.
If I remember correctly, the consensus from last time was that pie wars tend to be more fun when they emerge spontaneously.
82- ‘Zactly. If a pie war starts at random, then it’ll be fun. If it’s scheduled, it’ll just be boring.
well then…
*potato pie*
Ha very ha, Cil. So that’s your game. Well, I won’t do that. Hmph. *turns back*
Well…
*pies Cil*
72– while Junior year was more difficult for me (higher homework stress levels for all of us led to one of my friends being rather moody but that’s another story) it’s nothing super scary and you’ve no need to start applying. Visit a few but you don’t need to apply or have interviews. Applications are for the fall of the senior year which seems scary to me as that’s what is coming up. aaahh!
27 -have you heard of Grinnell? My brother goes there (and I think that’s where Chin-tsu’s dad teaches, if you remember her).
Yeah, so I’ve decided that I”m going to do the conservatory route, which means that as well as applications I have to do college auditions. funfunfun, not. So, for instance, for Curtis, which is the top conservatory in the US, I”d need a full Mozart concerto, a full Bach sonata/partita, a paganini caprice, and another complete standard concerto, all memorized… I probably can do it, but I also probably can’t get into Curtis since it’s crazy hard to get accepted there.. something like 5% admissions. but since curtis has the hardest auditions, if I prepare for there hopefully I’ll be good everywhere else. I’ll also be missing a ton of school senior year since you have to travel to the colleges to audition…
87- Complete standard concerto, memorized? Is there any chance you could compose your own? If it’s good, I’d say the admissions people would be seriously impressed.
Aah! Admissions. They’re full of frightening statistics and much d00m. d00m with zeros instead of “o”s and not capitalized! That’s major d00m!
I’ve decided to try for MIT and CalTech with the EA option, and same with Penn State [my safety, just getting it out of the way]. I’d be thrilled either way; but I don’t think my chances of getting in are so hot.
My GPA at the end of last year was a 95-point-something. Which may seem good, but with the disgusting grade inflation at my current school, I’m barely in the top 20% of my class. Seriously. And two other kids from my class are going to apply to MIT, EA, and their GPAs are probably at or over 100. Once again, grade inflation. I’m going to talk to my counselor this week about getting extra Honours and AP points added to the classes from my old schools.
In all honesty, that’s the only thing I’m worried about. Oh, and I don’t have any particularly outstanding achievements in the maths/science fields, but I have loads of extracurriculars, so that should be fine. Not everyone gets to be a sooperjeanyus, you know… *pouts*
I think I can do the essays, even though some of them just make me want to be really sarcastic because the topics scream “URGH WTH?” and/or “MARY SUE TRAP!” And if the interviewer [who STILL hasn’t replied to my email; I’m giving him a week before I just call and possibly interrupt something] is chill, I’ll probably do well on that. If he’s all uptight, I’m a lost cause. But I have the feeling that won’t be the case. From the site, the ECs seem laid-back. Which is brilliant because then they’ll probably understand my “psh if I can grasp this concept after three homework problems instead of thirty, I’ll just do the three and make up for the points lost from homework on the test!” philosophy. The exception to this philosophy, of course, is interesting homework, which I’ll do for the fun of it! AKA my Engineering homework. Physics is love.
Sorry, just had to get that out. Thoughts? Comments? Concerns? Suggestions?
Ooh! Eating fortune cookies solves everything! I just got a fortune that says, “Your ability for accomplishment will be followed by success.”
And the first lucky number listed is 42. This is a good omen. Even though I don’t believe in omens. Whatever, it made me feel good at least.
my brother is off to college and it’s so quiet around here now
ughhh…my school, which had been massively pro-college before, has now started a huge college-preperation regime which includes taking out seminar/homeroom, and replacing it with something called CAP. apparantly it stands for College Advisory Program, but most of us prefer to call it College Readiness Advisory Program…anyways, and they’re starting us with this in 6th grade. yes, i know there’s a legitimate reason, but honestly, 6th grade?!?!? on a lighter note, we finally got our chairs in MS Band today, and i got 1st Chair for percussion – fr00dy, no?
91. That is overkill. The gifted program at my school drove me out mostly by pressuring me WAY TO HARD to take the PSAT my sophomore year. Don’t burn yourself out. College is not (as many competitive schools and gifted programs would have you think) the end of the world.
I think I’ll probably end up at UCD or Cal Poly, because when you’re directionally challenged (I once accidentally told my uncle to walk off a cliff) it’s always nice to be somewere you’ve already been before. xP
92 – I agree that having college prep in 6th grade is overkill, but college has two things going for it: One, having a degree can get you more money later. Two, college can be a lot of fun if you know how to do it. You get to learn what YOU want to, and there are lots of ways to have fun on campus. Some places even let you start your own club, as long as you have a certain amount of people in it.