I’m going to be a junior in high school. My schedule is:
AP English
AP United States History
Global History
Geometry
Chemistry
Spanish II (might be Art I or Publications I)
Computer Applications II (might be Publications I or Art I)
Human Physiological Systems
Biomechanics
Commercializing Biotechnology
Biomedical Engineering Lab
Intro. to Finite Systems
Think you can guess my major?
(Of course, all this is in addition to my undergraduate research in a lab, my editorship in a school publication, Vice President of my fraternity, acting in the theatre group…oh man, what a packed semester this will be.)
Spanish 1B
Fantasy and Sci Fi in Literature
Ethnic Literature
Literature for young adults
Literature and self-reflection
Much of the classes I’ve took for the past year have been Literature survey classes. Its kind of nice, school is more of a continuous ‘book club’ type arrangement than conventional lectures, labs, notes, etc.
I’ve been going easy on myself and let myself slack off in school. Last years grades were very disappointing for me and it is the reason I want to repeat Spanish. Can I get straight A’s? Hell yes, but I have to think about my goal and work toward it every minute of every day this semester.
However, I don’t have my schedule yet–we get them on the first day. If all goes well, they won’t have screwed it up, but as it is, I will probably have to have a fight with the counsellors to fix it.
Gonna be a senior in HS. Was just up at the school today bitching them out, because they screwed my schedule up big-time. It should be:
Theory of Knowledge (actually before school. Grrrr.)
Guidance aide
Math SL IB
English HL IB
PE/Health
Spanish SL IB (this was down on my schedule as 11th grade HL French. Uh…good try, I guess…)
History HL IB
Bio SL IB (2 periods! Every day! Aack!)
When do you all start classes again? We start Sept. 4. I’m definitely ready for school to start again (summer’s boring by now), but I’m so not looking forward to a 7 AM class every morning. Gonna be a rough change, going from getting up at 10 AM to at about 5 AM…
TeenSthrnAccent is a Junior in high school. His schedule is
Swimming
US Hist AP
PreCalc H
Swimming
Desktop Publ
English III
Market Yourself
Physics H
Spanish III
He’s quite irritated over the class called Market Yourself because it wasn’t something he picked. I read the course description and really it sounds like a useful course for fall semester of junior year. It’s about filling out applications, making a resume, interviewing, giving oral presentations, how you choose to be who you are and making that something you do aware rather than letting it happen, also it sounds like they spend time working on college essay writing skills. I think it looks like a helpful class to take since he’ll start selecting and applying to colleges after winter break. He’s decided he wants out though.
He’s kinda iffy about the Desktop publishing, but it fulfills his last technology credits and he did list it among his selections for the year.
AP English Literature & Composition
AP Spanish
AP Statistics
Philosophy/American Government (I wanted AP US History, but it wouldn’t fit in my schedule)
AP Physics
Gym/physics lab/study hall
Wind Ensemble (aka band)
It’s okay… I wish I got the history I wanted, though. I’m going to be so bad at Philosophy.
College Junior, just transferred to English from Journalism.
British Romantic Judaism
Advanced Exposition
The Romantic Period
Shakespeare
Though I’ll probably be dropping that first course for something different. It’s my first semester as an English major and I don’t want to overload myself.
Mechanics
Management of Experimental Data
Differential Equations and Computer Methods
Materials Science and Engineering
Engineering Physics Laboratory
Philosophy: Fundamental Questions
2nd Semester:
Complex Analysis
Engineering Electricity and Magnetism
Thermodynamics
Applied Physics
Fluid Mechanics II
Engineering Physics Laboratory
Philosophy: Fundamental Questions
Fall
Elementary University Physics I
Exploring Planet Earth
Basic Marketing
Object-Oriented Software Engineering
Programming Paradigms
Winter
Elementary University Physics II
The Dynamic Earth: Plate Tectonics
Telecommunications: A Management Perspective
Design and Analysis of Algorithms I
Advanced Topics in Computer Science
The high school junior in our house started school today. Her schedule looks like this:
College Algebra/Trig
Spanish IV
Physics H
History and Thought of Western Man
(two year combined English and History, Honors)
Psychology
AP American Studies (two hour class, English and History)
She wanted to wait and take Physics next year, so this year wouldn’t be so overwhelming, but there wasn’t anything else she could fit in there that would really be worth the time. Add three varsity sports to that and it could be a long year.