did i mention what state i'm in?

our last textbook was crap. it was selected because it did not mention that christians in the great awakening would roll ont he ground barking like dogs.

which is historically accurate, but the christian lawmakers didn't want it, so they found an obscure crappy book and issued that.

the whole book was basically in lawyer talk.

Yeah, but I'm in Georgia, so that's not much better than Alabama, which is probably why we both have it

I am completely out of this converstaion and off topic but I have that book.

I thought it was pretty interesting, how about you? (this is on topic, since I had to read it for APUSH)

I havent exactly read it yet, summer reading took up my time. I got it when I got The Catcher in the Rye. I had finished summer reading, and then started the Catcher in the Rye, because I've been dieing to read that book, just finished last week.(<<excellent book by the way, should read when have the time) Then stupid seminar gave me another book to read. A Walk in the Woods. Hmph. I'm going to sneak it in somehow though.

YAAY GO YOU! YOU'LL PASS THE AP WITH FLYING COLORS :)

Yeah, I'd like to read that among a number of other things, but i don't have the time to sleep and do my homework, let alone read things. i haven't had a chance to pick up catch-22 in over a week

to be honest, i only read about half of Lies and James finished the rest for me, because I procrastinated and had to read the jungle as well

lol i didnt know this topic was still going on. but yeah, im glad i dont have APUSH anymore ahhaha. i got a A- , and a B - in that class for the two semesters i been in there.

My biggest irk about American Pageant is that it doesn't format BOLD fonted terms! :'(

I've thrown away the methoding of outlining/text-notetaking and adopted the method of just reading the chapters 2 or 3 times. -_- It takes less time for me.

yeah, that's annoying too. i keep having to turn in my notes, so i have no choice

12 f**king 55 AM and i've only just finished my portion of the project. i have school in about 5 hours. dammit i hate this class

Yeah, I know how you're feeling. Last term, I had a new teacher for APUS, and she gave so much freaking work, including a huge term paper that everyone stayed up all night to work on. But, near the end of the year, as the AP approached, the class got easier.

im taking that.
i don't see what's so hard about it, though.
it's pretty much everything you learn in elementary school, expanded.

i feel you! im taking an AP world history, and lets just say the world is a lot bigger than the US.

I never took AP US History. It was in a similar time slot to AP Economics, and I took AP Economics instead. Then I took AP English, and hell, it was senior year, and I didn't want to take two AP courses.

APUSH isn't actually available to us senior year. I'll be taking at least 3 AP courses next year, though, because I can't very well go through high school and only take 2. Besides which, I'm stuck taking AP lit next year, because it's a 2 year IB course, and if I don't take AP stats I have to take calculus, and I refuse. And I'll probably take AP government and economics too, just because I can. Dammit, I'm going to die again.

You should take some time to relax.

I'd like to, but my grades aren't going to get me anywhere. I seem to make pretty consitant grades no matter what course I take, so I may as well take hard ones in order to look better.

Bah! I got into a fine school with only three AP courses (AP Econ, AP English, and AP Music), and I only took 1 AP test and never even submitted the results, and I had a measly GPA of 96.97%.

The fact that you're calling a GPA of 96 "measly" is what I'm getting at right there. I have about an 88% GPA because I'm lazy and can't do math worth shit.

Your school is probably more difficult than mine. I didn't exactly go to an amazing high school. My last two years of school, the only real work I did was writing papers (without even reading the book) and doing music theory homework, but only because I liked it. I never even really brought any textbooks home. Aside from that, the most difficult work I did was converting moles to grams to molecules and so forth, and I got through that by designing a spreadsheet to do the work for me.

Wow. I definitely suppose so, then. We have a ton of work, and it's far too easy to fail in many classes. Basically, to get anywhere, you have to take as many high leveled classes as you can. Like I wanted desperately to drop Spanish this year, but I talked to someone, and it was decided that it would be better if I moved up a level than drop out, even though I suck at it.

I think it's still possible to get into decent schools even if you are not loaded up on amazingly hard classes. Students from my school go to places like MIT, William & Mary, Penn State, Notre Dame, UVA, Cornell, MICA, and other such schools on a pretty regular basis. Classes matter, and grades matter, but so do a lot of other things, such as extracurricular activities, hobbies, interests, admissions essays, and the like. Colleges today are really looking for well-rounded individuals that will be involved in a lot of extracurricular activities on campus.

Besides, it's always beneficial to relax and keep your number of worries and concerns to a minimum.

Of course, one good thing about a difficult course load is that it will help you develop a strong work ethic, which is of great importance in college (and something on which I personally could work harder).

not so long ago i picked my gcse subjects and i picked history and people who took it when they were in year 10 said it is crap so i will have to wait and see how good it is or how bad it is

I know, but that's the thing. Right now competition for UGA is so stiff that my grades may not get me there. My PSAT scores have been ok, but nothing special, and I don't do much besides band, and even though that looks good as an extracurricular, it's still only one thing. At my school, they make it seem as if college prep classes are worthless, because most people who actually do anything get A's, so it seems necessary to take better classes. We're also an IB school, so my course load with only 1 IB class is a whole lot lighter than a lot of people I know. It makes me feel pretty mediocre, since I get so many B's, and so as much a I'd prefer to relax, there's no way I can really do it, or so it seems.

My language arts class is doing a really good job of building my work ethic. The teacher cares more about teaching us and making an impact than the actual grades she gives us, so it's really nice. I wish all my classes could be like that- hard, but purposeful.