School's back in Kingwood

[Fritz]

Tomorrow I start my sophomore year in high school. So, you can probably expect to see me post a lot less for a while.

[Dr. Doog]

hm...I hadn't calculated my starting Highschool next year into a decrease of forum activity. O_O what if it decreases?

^__^ we'll desperately await your every post.

[Caoimhin]

I will be going into my Sophmore year as well, not until September however. I never realized schools started so early in Texas, good luck.

[Dr. Doog]

I'm going freshman on the 25th (wtf friday)

[Tabris_The_17th]

Ah, I remember being a Sophmore in high school..........I also remember being a Sophmore in college........AH! I'm growing up too fast!!

Best of luck to you Fekeal! Sophmore year is usually much better than Freshman year. Though personally I wasn't fond of any high school grade until senior year. Funny though, now that I'm a senior in college, the opposite seems to be true: earlier years were more enjoyable, and now it sucks.

[Caoimhin]

I'm going freshman

I thought you were in the same grade as me, Doog. I've heard that college is much more freeform and a bit less regimented than highschool. If you do the assignments and know the material, and do well on tests, I think you can get a few breaks on attendance in classes. Of course you would have to read ALL the material covered in the class, and there are many hands on things that I bet you cannot do without being in the classroom. I could be wrong, its just seems to be the perception I'm getting from college. But I do see the Senior year of college being quite more difficult than earlier years. I never understand whats so great about being a Senior, maybe its just the highschool I go to. Besides having a sort of "status" in the school hierachy there doesn't seem to be much else. There is the difficult choosing of colleges, and I say the choosing. Each college you may be accepted too has a different feel, an atmosphere, not to mention what the classes are like and how well they are taught. For ones in the Ivy League you tend to have three groups of people: the ones who are rich but DO deserve to go to such a good college, the ones on scholarship who may not otherwise be able to afford attending, and the rich snobs who are not intellegent at all but get there through basically bribery and status of family. Of course Ivy League colleges are good, but that does not mean that other colleges are not as good. I remember seeing a picture of the eating hall of the college Lewis Caroll taught at, and I was positively stunned. I can't recall the name of it but I know it is FAR older than any college in the US.

[Arloest]

I'm basically starting my senior year of college on Wednesday.

College is, indeed, different than high school. As far as attendance goes, yes, there's a lot more freedom than in high school. But the classes? Yeesh. In high school, sometimes you can get away with not studying and still ace tests. You absolutely _have_ to read your textbooks in college. AND make notes over what you read. Otherwise, you'll hardly ever ace a test. And of course, all homework, even assigments that aren't for a grade, are necessary to complete. Otherwise, again, it'll be really hard to pass. That's basically the difference between high school and college. You can't slack nearly as much as you could in high school, but at least you have more time to do your necessary work, but once you really get into things, that doesn't seem like much of a consolation.

Well, it depends on what college you attend, too. I go to Rice University.

And by the way, being a senior rocks, in both high school and college. It's not just because of the status, either. You may get more work, but by that point, you'll be studying material more towards your preference then you did when you were a, say, freshman or sophomore. It makes it a little more tolerable.

[Fritz]

I go to Rice University.

That's where I want to go to!

[Dr. Doog]

nope, I definitely have not gone to highschool. Do most fourteen year olds that you know start school a year earlier than they do where I live? (highly implausible, I know)

[Holyman83]

Have fun at school Fekeal! Dont make the teachers hate you the first day! Save that for next week!

[Caoimhin]

nope, I definitely have not gone to highschool. Do most fourteen year olds that you know start school a year earlier than they do where I live? (highly implausible, I know)

Well I went to Kindergarden when I was six rather than five. My birthday is in October, and I missed the "cut-off date", what ever that is. I was always a year older, the only other person was a girl, who I think has a birthday just a day after mine. Then there was the people who were in T-1. I think I know someone who may be turning seventeen, and is a Sophmore. It all confuses me.

[Muninn]

I go to Rice University.

As in Condoleeza?

Have fun Fekeal, and remember school lunches were meant to be used for food fights.