[Toasty]

Well, highschool is taking up a lot of my time, and I'm spending more of the little spare time I have left after school sleeping and doing homework. Highschool here is very, VERY tiring. Heck, I came home and crashed from three to seven. And since highschool is a lot more important to me than middles school, I'll actually be spending less time on here, unlike last time where I said I would and then didn't.

I'll still be on on the weekends (unless some project comes up), and every now and then on the weekdays. But yeah, school sucks.

So I guess I'll see you guys around.

[Split Infinity]

Okay. See you tomorrow.

[My Best Wishes]

15 would make you in Year 9. That was my best year of school yet, so easy.
See you tomorrow indeed.

[Someone Else]

I know how he feels though. I'm always ready to collapse right when I get home from school.

[Split Infinity]

Tell me about it. If I miss my bus home, I have to walk nearly a mile to a tram stop.

[Aquamarine]

Shame, he'll be on GSSF only three times a day now. j/k :D

Good luck with everything.

[Julian]

lol, ironically, kids here in Inner Mongolia or China in general wake up at 6am, attend school which starts at 7am and comes back home round 6pm, takes extra night school (which is optional i think) till 8pm and does homework til midnight.
THANK GOD I dont actually live here...

Goodluck nevertheless!

[Golden Legacy]

^ Wow, that's insane.

I remember what my first year of high school was like... it wasn't so much the workload that was difficult, it was more of the adjusting to the entirely different atmosphere and style of teaching. It's just an overall much different (and you'll find, more mature) feel to school that you haven't experienced yet.

My best advice is to really work your school and take advantage of all the opportunities; take some classes you'll be interested in, join a few clubs and teams, really make the best of it - the first two years are very important for you to get involved (once you've settled down and adjusted to it, of course).

Best of luck, hope to see you around.

[Someone Else]

I like High School way more than Jr. High/Middle School, Jr. High was probably the worst time of my short life.

[Sea of Time]

HAHA YOU GUYS TAKE HIGH SCHOOL SERIOUSLY!!!!

Seriously though, the only year that matters is senior year.

[Toasty]

SoT, Colleges look at your grades from ALL four years, so it's probably a good idea to get A's B's in all of your classes. That, and the more credits you have, the better.

But my favorite class so far is band (percussion, the musical insturments have a seperate class) because you're pretty much takeing a break from everything else right in the middle of the day. And none of the people in the drum line are even nerds/band geeks. But they ARE good at what they do. If you've ever seen the movie Drumline, well, those are the kinds of things we're learning now. Except without all of the fancy marching patterns. Just the cadences/music.

So far the work load is fairly light, but I'd expect it to get heavier. The funniest thing about highschool for me so far, though, is the fact that my friend and I are the only two freshmen in an intermediate algebra class. Everyone else in the class are either sophmores or juniors. But if I pass this class, and Advanced algebra next semester, I'll be taking calc and pre-calc as a sophmore. Hopefully some college out there will be impressed. <.<

So yeah, I'm pretty beat. Weight training (my PE class) really does a number on your muscles.

[My Best Wishes]

American schooling is much different, all this Junior and Middle school and Jr High and Sopomore and crap. We just have primary school, high school and univeristy. I think we win :D

[Toasty]

Elementary school is for years (grades) 1-5 and Kindergarden. Middleschool/Jr. High is for years 6-8, and Highschool is for grades 9-12. Colleges/Universities come after that. Sophmores are year 10 students, or as us Americans would otherwise call them, 10th graders. Highschool students, years 9-12, range from Freshmen (9th graders) Sophmores, Juniors, and Seniors (12th graders).

Does that cover everything?

[Sea of Time]

I don't buy that school can kill any activity you have on an online forum. I understand that universities look at all 4 grades, but the grade they look at more than any of them are grade 12.

[Split Infinity]

Sea of Time, on Sep 1 2007, 10:40 AM, said:

I don't buy that school can kill any activity you have on an online forum. I understand that universities look at all 4 grades, but the grade they look at more than any of them are grade 12.

DETENTION! ;D

[Eugine]

True. Your senior grade is the most important, but they look at your entire school transcript and ECs.
If you get an A in your freshman year, then a D in your senior year most likely the college wouldn't accept you. The other way? Most likely they will. But then... someone getting As in both year has a higher chance of being accepted.

But doesn't most American colleges emphasis more on the SAT/ACTs rather than your school GPA? Like, in 2008/2009 (maybe I'll take a gap year) I'll have to go to a US, British or Canadian university to complete my BSC... and even though I'll be applying as a transfer student most advisors advise me to still do the SAT/ACT to increase my chances in an American University. Canadian and British Universities accept my A Levels.

[Folcon]

Eugine is right. colleges realy look at your SAT/ACT scores, in additon to your grades. It was my high ACT scores that got me into my local community college, as well as my EC stuff. (That does mean extra ciricluar activities like school clubs and things like Scouting, right?)

Anyway, that got me into the CC, and from there I earned my AA. And my CC has a partnership, along with many other CC in central Floridia, with UCF that if you have your AA, you have garentied acceptance. Its pretty cool. But you still have to have the grades to get into whatever program you want to be in. I have to keep a B average in my Major.

But your grades in your Senior year are very important. My bro teaches in HS, and several of his students are seniors. one of them maintianed an A average all through the first three years, and was to be accepted in UF. But he, or was it a she I don't remember, screwed around and got F's in all thier classes. And UF dropped them like a bad habit. So yea, screwing off in your last year will mess you up ggod in the college track.

And Eugine, if you get the grades and stuff, you should go to UCF. It's a great place.

[Julian]

hm, well in Canada, i think they primarily look at the scores of four provincially exam-able courses (which differ depending on the faculty ur applying for).
In all honesty tho, I think all the courses below grade 12 level are pretty much useless. As long as you've completed/passed them, then ur okay. (uhhh- i hope... >__>)
What im actually really stressed out over is the volunteer hours requirement that i need for the faculty that i wanna get into at UBC. I need like 130 hours or something ;__;

[Toasty]

Well, I'm hoping to get into an Ivy league IT school, or a good engineering college. Both are hard to do, and I know from my dad's experience, and the experience of my cousin's, that if you want to get into a good engineering college, you have to be at the top of your classes. So that means 3.9 and higher GPA. And then you have to score well on your SAT's. But I'm not worried about the SAT's, as I've always done good on tests. I am however, more concerened with keeping up with the workload and getting A's in most classes.

[My Best Wishes]

Mr.T, on Sep 1 2007, 10:36 AM, said:

Elementary school is for years (grades) 1-5 and Kindergarden. Middleschool/Jr. High is for years 6-8, and Highschool is for grades 9-12. Colleges/Universities come after that. Sophmores are year 10 students, or as us Americans would otherwise call them, 10th graders. Highschool students, years 9-12, range from Freshmen (9th graders) Sophmores, Juniors, and Seniors (12th graders).

Does that cover everything?

Wierd, we have the 'middle' school thing but that's mainly to divide the school for sport and things.
So I would be a Junior...
And you would be a Sophmore?

Sea of Time, on Sep 1 2007, 10:40 AM, said:

I don't buy that school can kill any activity you have on an online forum. I understand that universities look at all 4 grades, but the grade they look at more than any of them are grade 12.

In Victoria (My state) the system is VCE. Victorian Certificate of Education where subjects are either 1/2 (year 11) or 3/4 (year 12, I do 3/4 IT at the moment, my only 3/4 subject), and at the end of year 12 exams, you get a 'enter score' which is in a nutshell the score you need to get into a particular course, eg, say law is a 93.5 enter score.

[Toasty]

No, I'm in 9th grade, so I'm a Freshman.

But yeah, I got to play in the band at a football game today, which usually doesn't happen since they usually only have the upper classmen play for the first game, unless the section leaders think that a freshman in the section is good enough to play after only a few days of practice. But it was pretty awesome. Definately glad I decided to continue with band. By the way, our team won 40 - 14. :D

[Aquamarine]

Sea of Time, on Sep 1 2007, 02:40 AM, said:

I don't buy that school can kill any activity you have on an online forum.

Agreed

watch, on Sep 1 2007, 02:06 AM, said:

American schooling is much different, all this Junior and Middle school and Jr High and Sopomore and crap. We just have primary school, high school and univeristy. I think we win :D

Same here.

[Lemontime]

Watch is right, Australian School craps all over america... :D
Ours is so simple!

[Split Infinity]

Melbourne schools will always be the best, though.

[My Best Wishes]

Split's right. I have to move to NSW next year (coming to sexually abuse you Sibsag, I got bored of Split) because of my dad's work. Looking at the school system in Sydney I have to say, what the ****. Year 11 counts for nothing, Year 12 starts 3/4's into Year 11, and, you don't have Accounting (one of my top subjects), your Math's are way different and your History is split into Modern and Ancient! I wanted to study Revolutions next year!

[Lemontime]

watch, on Sep 2 2007, 07:14 PM, said:

Split's right. I have to move to NSW next year (coming to sexually abuse you Sibsag, I got bored of Split) because of my dad's work. Looking at the school system in Sydney I have to say, what the ****. Year 11 counts for nothing, Year 12 starts 3/4's into Year 11, and, you don't have Accounting (one of my top subjects), your Math's are way different and your History is split into Modern and Ancient! I wanted to study Revolutions next year!

1. 11 and 12 are the only years that actually mean anything in Australia anyway.
2. Accounting, which I assume is pretty much business studies = Commerce.
3. Who cares about history?! Lots of **** happened, there's your history!

[Toasty]

XD. That's quoteable, but I've already got a quote in my sig.

The only good/interesting classes for my highschool are all AP classes, or Running Start classes. If you don't know what that is, it's a program where you can take college classes and get a years worth of college credits for every year you take it. You can only take it in the last two years of highschool though, but it is nice to have two years worth of college out of the way. But I can't take any of those, AP or Running start, until I'm a Junior.

[Lemontime]

Oh yeah, and we get this friday off.
AND THE REST OF THE WORLD DOESN'T!

Suck it.

[Toasty]

Well we get monday off, so there. :D

[Aquamarine]

We get tomorrow off too. Tomorrow being Monday.

[Lemontime]

Yeah, well we get 6 weeks off over christmas, and we only have a maximum of 11 weeks at school before atleast 2 weeks off.
If that made sense..