What classes to take as a senior?

[fatbaby]

home economics -- GREAT CLASS

 

[cchen]

Doing well in high school has nothing to do with "smarts." If you work hard, your grades will show it.

 

[bmd]

My schedule this year (Senior):

AP Calc BC
AP Statistics
AP Physics C
English 4
Spanish 5
Intro to Economics (No AP offered at my school)
Culinary Arts 1

Which leaves me with 2 free periods each semester =).

Calc / Stat / Physics are all pretty easy.

 

[bmd]

<< Doing well in high school has nothing to do with "smarts." If you work hard, your grades will show it. >>


I'd have to disagree... I know kids that work really hard and get pretty bad grades to show for it. I, on the other hand, sit on my lazy butt, have studied for all of maybe 3 or 4 tests in my High School career and i still pull a ~4.0... Smarts are definitely part of it, but hard work can help.

 

[Jerboy]

<< Doing well in high school has nothing to do with "smarts." If you work hard, your grades will show it. >>




My schedule:

Morning: Procrastinate procrastinate and procrastinate and arrive late to school....


Study hall is spent socializing...

Lunch is spent socializing and eating and ocassinonally arriving late to school..

after school: I socialize for an hour or two or three...

after getting home: nef on AnandTech

then dinner:


after dinner: waste time on the phone or ICQ

after that: more time to be wasted on my computer...

then its 1AM and I'm in bed..

 

[cchen]

I would have to disagree.

How are "smarts" needed in high school? Maybe this is just me... but I've never encountered anything that needed a hugh amount of intelligence... if you worked hard and studied... then you would be able to do any problem solving that dealt with the material

 

[deerslayer]

DONT TAKE BLOWOFF CLASSES

i did this last year, and i'm regretting it now, you get lazy, you don't want to do your homework when u get to college, and it's harder to remember all that important stuff you need like Pre Calc stuff. i wish i would have taken AP Calc as a senior, but i went to Vocational Classes instead and played with Autocad Architectural Desktop 2 instead and it was hard to remember stuff for calc.

even thought you have to take a lot of it over in college, its nice to have a little bit of background in it

 

[worth]

<< Doing well in high school has nothing to do with "smarts." If you work hard, your grades will show it. >>



I disagree. Many smart people don't study, and they do very well in high school.



<< How are "smarts" needed in high school? >>



Well, if you take challenging courses, you need a brain to pass. I guess it all depents on your highschool...

 

[CrimsonWolf]

My planned schedule for nest year:

AP Statistics
Advanced Humanities
AP Govt/ Windows 2000 Administration (was going to take AP Econ, but they announced this morning it's no longer offered)
Business Internship (2 credits + work at least 15hrs/week in an office environment)

Next year is going to be so easy and I'm going to enjoy every second of it. My workload sucks this year and I have almost no free time. Besides, I still have my 4.0 GPA and I don't want to ruin it my final year. Also, I don't want to go into college already fried out.

 

[Jerboy]

<< I would have to disagree.

How are "smarts" needed in high school? Maybe this is just me... but I've never encountered anything that needed a hugh amount of intelligence... if you worked hard and studied... then you would be able to do any problem solving that dealt with the material >>




It depends on the school most difinitely. I'm in a school where everyone else is an over achiever and holds one of the highest standard around here. You go to ghetto school where 60% of kids are getting free lunch and holds one of the lowest academic standard in nearby states, I can easily pull all A's.

 

[eLiu]

<< I would have to disagree.

How are "smarts" needed in high school? Maybe this is just me... but I've never encountered anything that needed a hugh amount of intelligence... if you worked hard and studied... then you would be able to do any problem solving that dealt with the material >>



I know a few kids in my Calc AB/BC class who work their asses off, and still do not do very well. Same goes for English. Some classes just require you to be more 'inclined' towards a subject. That's why we see some people who breeze through calc, but others barely manage to pass.

 

[CrimsonWolf]

First, the school's environment plays a large impact on the student's 'smartness'. I know this personally. At my old school (not very challenging) my best friend and I easily would have valedictorians. On the other hand, at my new school (which offers more challenging classes and one is of the richest schools in the state), I'm only in the top 8%. As Jerboy said, if one goes to a ghetto school, coming out with high grades is considerably easier.

Second, a person's natural inclinations has a great impact on their sucesses at school. It goes to the left brain/right brain thing. Those with a dominant right brain will find subjects such as math, science, history, and analytical writing to be very easy. However, one with left brain tendencies will find art, music, creative writing very easy. Hard work can only get someone so far in situations such as these. I envy those who equally excel at both. Bastards.

 

[Jerboy]

<< First, the school's environment plays a large impact on the student's 'smartness'. I know this personally. At my old school (not very challenging) my best friend and I easily would have valedictorians. On the other hand, at my new school (which offers more challenging classes and one is of the richest schools in the state), I'm only in the top 8%. As Jerboy said, if one goes to a ghetto school, coming out with high grades is considerably easier.

Second, a person's natural inclinations has a great impact on their sucesses at school. It goes to the left brain/right brain thing. Those with a dominant right brain will find subjects such as math, science, history, and analytical writing to be very easy. However, one with left brain tendencies will find art, music, creative writing very easy. Hard work can only get someone so far in situations such as these. I envy those who equally excel at both. Bastards. >>



The ghetto school here:

Student behavior, unacceptable; student performance, unacceptable; and school character unacceptable...

Over there, I bet you can pull A's as long as you come into class, don't say the F word to the teacher and not disrupt others..