My friends and I started strategizing how to have a "shared" meal during quarantine, and I think we're going to all order from one of the Burma Love/Superstar restaurants sometime soon. Now I'm craving the catfish noodles!!!
My brother’s girlfriend has been sheltering-in-place with us for a couple weeks. She’s a preschool director, so she’s doing some video classes. I’m currently listening to one of them, and one child is talking about the dog they’re getting for Christmas. Another child is talking about eating oyster crackers. It’s adorable!
I went to a smallish Catholic high school and we did not have AP classes -- we had an honors track, but it was not designed to get you to pass the tests. I took the AP test for English literature and scored 6.7 beautiful beautiful credits without which I would not have graduated from Cal on time (and I never had to take English 1A-1B, which too many folks in my day were not getting into until senior year).
The magnet school (in South Florida) that I went to for the first two years of high school really encouraged taking AP courses. Then to stay legally in the US, I went to a private school (in Southern California) and kind of slowed down the number of AP classes that I took.
I ended up doing something like Chemistry, Calculus BC, European History in sophomore year. Physics, Stats, Microecon, American History in junior year. Bio, Art History, US government in my senior year. I may have left an additional one or two.
We didn't have AP classes for freshmen and sophomores. I took every single one at our school (and wasn't unusual for doing so - I think there were about 50 kids in the 4 year college track in my high school so about 30 of us took every single AP class)
It was a bit unusual for me to be taking that many AP courses as a sophomore, but the magnet program really pushes the top students in every class to overload on AP courses partly due to the non-AP courses being not run by the program. The AP courses also helped greatly with the weighted GPA. In fact, my friend (who ended up being the valedictorian of the class after I left, but did have a better GPA than me) was telling me that it was a mistake for me to take the required PE class my freshman year (and I also did concert band as an elective). I didn't care much for GPA manipulation like that.
With all the coronavirus stuff and schools allowing P/NP, No 2 said there are students taking a class P/NP if they have a change to get lower than an A-.
Junior year: US history, French language, chemistry, whatever English one, psychology
Senior year: civics, econ (that was a mistake; my competitive civics class obviously delved deeply into civics but didn't do any econ), French lit, physics (that was ROUGH because I was taking calc at the same time--if i had taken calc the year before, physics would have made more sense), calc BC, the other English one
There was no such thing. There were college track prep advanced courses, both electives (math [took 4 years instead of the 1 required] and science [chemistry & physics]) and required (English), which the college used to establish an entry point into subject curriculums, but no actual applyable credit as there is now. Advanced drafting and architectural drafting were similarly used for placement into entry points in college if applicable to your area of study, which it wasn't for me. Some trades classes also made it easier for those going into a trade apprenticeship, but didn't shorten the route as I recall.
The fact that it proved to help to know something about what you were doing seemed to lead to the realization that the incentive of credit made for a better prepared entrant, hence AP credit. It seems obvious now, but the academic world has always been slow to progress, and institutions were and somewhat still are hesitant to accept that someone else could have actually taught the same thing they were teaching, especially when it means they can't charge to reteach the same material.
i think i took Calc AB and BC, Spanish, and Chem. maybe English but i cant remember what it would have been about.
i also was "enrolled at Cal" my senior year in HS since we were nearby and i was an extra year ahead in math. i took Math 50a and 50b (linear algebra and vector calc), which dont seem to be courses anymore. plus i took some fun seminar courses.
i only had periods 1-4 in HS my senior year and mostly just goofed around in the afternoons when i didnt drive to Berkeley.
No 3 did the same thing at University of Louisville. I think he took 2, maybe 3 classes a week. One or two MWF and one or two TT classes each semester senior year. Ended up taking 2-3 morning classes in HS and then left to UofL sometime before lunch.
AP tests are being taken from home by kids next week. they are just going to have free response and only 45 min. my daughter doesnt see how there wont be rampant cheating
Good luck to all the young people. I don't know how I would have handled a PANDEMIC while I was in school, and I'm impressed at everyone who is managing (and sympathetic toward those who are struggling).
no 3 is doing the same thing. He told me that AP said that they have measures in place to detect cheating. They made a big deal that they're working with some security company to detect it. I think it's all just intimidation. They can look for plagiarism in the free response questions though. One of his teachers said to not use the definitions they memorized on the test. She suggested rewriting in their own words.
I think he's taking AP Lang, Psych, and US History.
No 1 said he should take AP Art History. No 3 was thinking about it but it turns out the teacher isn't very good. I wonder how No 1 would actually do on the test. I can't remember if he took it in HS or not.
No 1 said he should take AP Art History. No 3 was thinking about it but it turns out the teacher isn't very good. I wonder how No 1 would actually do on the test. I can't remember if he took it in HS or not.
Maybe the rationale is that there's only so much stuff you can look up in books/notes in 45 minutes, whereas if all the information is readily available in your mind you should be able to get through it in 45 min. In any case, that's a huge departure from the 3-4 hour marathon tests of the past. My brain was always a puddle after those tests.
The tests have been condensed. I can't remember which one, maybe US History, but they removed all the multiple choice questions and lots of the free response. It used to be they would ask questions across multiple time periods so even if you weren't strong in one of them you could still do well. Now I think it's just one free response and he thinks it will only be one time period. Hopefully they ask a few and you have your choice which one to answer.
Calculus AB and BC. Spanish 4. and maybe that's it? I certainly didn't take as many as my kids do now. It doesn't seem like there was as much a focus on them. Though Terence and SBGear seem to prove that statement wrong.
Probably wouldn't have helped me. I'm terrible in the non-sciences and wasn't ever interested enough in Chem and Bio to take the honors classes. I took Honors Physics but it wasn't AP worthy. The only other one I might have done was AP CS but I don't think I did take it.
Physics, US History, Calculus AB & BC, Chemistry, English, Spanish, Lunch.
I ended up revoking all my credits in order to demote myself from an academic junior to a sophomore because you needed to be an underclassman to get into Haas undergrad.
https://www.facebook.com/QuickTurtles/posts/716805822472580?__xts__[0]=68.ARAMh-iuTxXOu4KKu1sKniUYe1uPICmV2LrjxF11QjuQxs7fidi-js5ROXaJ7Njbeq3CoL8L-vFYBrmtrpIDI91qBHRzjSAa-LWMoV0I1lZTNt03D5kwQCB8_L0Ot3ZP7VS4c5yBgt7CIfCYy5zTJ5ZzlaH9d-9o1Kj5oLIZbnHGL7GntnayfjMmUVlaWy5pl-DgjmE9eIyy_m9K5Vu06ci_lUzwFHaJmR-ks82SefkSq1LB1HKiq3_sknqNvNEIuTzAA8I4gHJ08fjv4RvSsUaxQrpNKKjvJUvM4_fOUYtWnM3XOGkk5FxyMoSOXoJqEkLGXge01VMzVlg_NnEFhNOeNz9uh1q_VSNqepFAE7xt9NI1IS1CT9uj1HdiMl2e0oc5zuxZCK7gQlk-eR7Rb4l9SuzOEqo6ZdctXjvoeVxjuq9Cl6JBFkrJcjx8_PLGHhzKfxIWyKLK7jw4bO4JeCLUGP2ARPzWSu0hLEj0yGXPvfiPpynG-F_MPrp9pnDSJNb1WqnKMgGdL_EF6Dc&__tn__=H-R
Animals puns!
https://youtu.be/ZIcniZzK9gY
hehe...yes!
My friends and I started strategizing how to have a "shared" meal during quarantine, and I think we're going to all order from one of the Burma Love/Superstar restaurants sometime soon. Now I'm craving the catfish noodles!!!
My brother’s girlfriend has been sheltering-in-place with us for a couple weeks. She’s a preschool director, so she’s doing some video classes. I’m currently listening to one of them, and one child is talking about the dog they’re getting for Christmas. Another child is talking about eating oyster crackers. It’s adorable!
Someone in my other internet community linked to this https://twitter.com/elenacleaves/status/1256674018704400392?s=20
@elenacleaves: do you think people would choose to fuck, kill, or marry you? discuss
I would be killed for sure
so are you saying that Fire Starkey Junior should move on? Cause I am still holding out hope for some TBB daughter in lawness
You already wrote me off. I think it's cause I dislike raisins or something.
Did I? I've cut my kids out of my will like 30 times each, you've got to be diligent and have some sticktuitiveness
No comment
pretty sure most would kill me. Maybe a few marriage proposals since I have a nice house
and a pool that we can pee in.
Mrs FS wants to extend the deck, presumably for easier pee access
Probably not. Maybe a fuck or a marry here and there if the options were sufficiently constrained.
Nasdaq recoups all 2020 losses, moves into positive territory for the year...
https://www.marketwatch.com/
I looked at the market and checked out my Schwab balance a few minutes ago -- I am currently richer than I've ever been. It's completely nuts.
I had a lot more money in February
You can never be too rich or too thin.
I looked in my Morgan Stanley app and couldn’t tell what was going on tbh
I'm still down about 12% on the year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/cc/42/eecc42c92afa81900f655d4328d790c1.gif
fucking insane
https://i.redd.it/khov3b5xaeq31.jpg
Anyone would think it’s not really a reflection of the broader economy at this point
indeed
Hot air is holding up the markets. When the zeppelin bursts...
shorturl.at/afNU8
Interestingly, the anniversary of that was yesterday.
Physics, Biology, Calculus
Our crumbling democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/justice-dept-moves-to-void-michael-flynns-conviction-in-muellers-russia-probe/2020/05/07/9bd7885e-679d-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html
[CV19]: "B7"
[WH]: "Miss"
https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1258412996625403909
AP Classes
AP US History and AP Calc AB I think were the only two I took.
I went to a smallish Catholic high school and we did not have AP classes -- we had an honors track, but it was not designed to get you to pass the tests. I took the AP test for English literature and scored 6.7 beautiful beautiful credits without which I would not have graduated from Cal on time (and I never had to take English 1A-1B, which too many folks in my day were not getting into until senior year).
When you have to line up in Harmon to get your class
Give me that sweet punch card, please.
510-64B-EARS
Sounds like that was a great tactical move!
The magnet school (in South Florida) that I went to for the first two years of high school really encouraged taking AP courses. Then to stay legally in the US, I went to a private school (in Southern California) and kind of slowed down the number of AP classes that I took.
I ended up doing something like Chemistry, Calculus BC, European History in sophomore year. Physics, Stats, Microecon, American History in junior year. Bio, Art History, US government in my senior year. I may have left an additional one or two.
We didn't have AP classes for freshmen and sophomores. I took every single one at our school (and wasn't unusual for doing so - I think there were about 50 kids in the 4 year college track in my high school so about 30 of us took every single AP class)
It was a bit unusual for me to be taking that many AP courses as a sophomore, but the magnet program really pushes the top students in every class to overload on AP courses partly due to the non-AP courses being not run by the program. The AP courses also helped greatly with the weighted GPA. In fact, my friend (who ended up being the valedictorian of the class after I left, but did have a better GPA than me) was telling me that it was a mistake for me to take the required PE class my freshman year (and I also did concert band as an elective). I didn't care much for GPA manipulation like that.
With all the coronavirus stuff and schools allowing P/NP, No 2 said there are students taking a class P/NP if they have a change to get lower than an A-.
Let's see...
Sophomore year: biology
Junior year: US history, French language, chemistry, whatever English one, psychology
Senior year: civics, econ (that was a mistake; my competitive civics class obviously delved deeply into civics but didn't do any econ), French lit, physics (that was ROUGH because I was taking calc at the same time--if i had taken calc the year before, physics would have made more sense), calc BC, the other English one
Did not exist, but the tests did, I had to take 3 to get into Berkeley.
My high school didn’t offer very many AP classes, so I did AP bio on my own time, plus English and Latin. I think that’s it.
There was no such thing. There were college track prep advanced courses, both electives (math [took 4 years instead of the 1 required] and science [chemistry & physics]) and required (English), which the college used to establish an entry point into subject curriculums, but no actual applyable credit as there is now. Advanced drafting and architectural drafting were similarly used for placement into entry points in college if applicable to your area of study, which it wasn't for me. Some trades classes also made it easier for those going into a trade apprenticeship, but didn't shorten the route as I recall.
The fact that it proved to help to know something about what you were doing seemed to lead to the realization that the incentive of credit made for a better prepared entrant, hence AP credit. It seems obvious now, but the academic world has always been slow to progress, and institutions were and somewhat still are hesitant to accept that someone else could have actually taught the same thing they were teaching, especially when it means they can't charge to reteach the same material.
Bio, Chem, Physics C, Environmental Science, Art History, World History, US History, Government, Psychology, English Language, English Lit, Stats
Had on-campus community college classes for Calculus, Linear/Discrete, and Political Science so I never took AP tests for those.
I took: US History, European History, English Lit/Lang, English Comp, Physics, Biology, French, Calculus (I forget whether it was AB or BC).
Wish we had AP Government or Human Geography or Econ at my school.
At No 3's school APHG was brutal.
Well, considering one of my majors was Geography at Cal, I'd like to think I probably could have managed ;-)
i think i took Calc AB and BC, Spanish, and Chem. maybe English but i cant remember what it would have been about.
i also was "enrolled at Cal" my senior year in HS since we were nearby and i was an extra year ahead in math. i took Math 50a and 50b (linear algebra and vector calc), which dont seem to be courses anymore. plus i took some fun seminar courses.
i only had periods 1-4 in HS my senior year and mostly just goofed around in the afternoons when i didnt drive to Berkeley.
No 3 did the same thing at University of Louisville. I think he took 2, maybe 3 classes a week. One or two MWF and one or two TT classes each semester senior year. Ended up taking 2-3 morning classes in HS and then left to UofL sometime before lunch.
AP tests are being taken from home by kids next week. they are just going to have free response and only 45 min. my daughter doesnt see how there wont be rampant cheating
she is taking Global History and Physics
Good luck to all the young people. I don't know how I would have handled a PANDEMIC while I was in school, and I'm impressed at everyone who is managing (and sympathetic toward those who are struggling).
I think my 17 year old is taking stats, Spanish, and 2 others so she’s in a bit of a tizzy. The 15 year old is taking NSL
no 3 is doing the same thing. He told me that AP said that they have measures in place to detect cheating. They made a big deal that they're working with some security company to detect it. I think it's all just intimidation. They can look for plagiarism in the free response questions though. One of his teachers said to not use the definitions they memorized on the test. She suggested rewriting in their own words.
I think he's taking AP Lang, Psych, and US History.
i offered to take the physics test for her!
No 1 said he should take AP Art History. No 3 was thinking about it but it turns out the teacher isn't very good. I wonder how No 1 would actually do on the test. I can't remember if he took it in HS or not.
No 1 said he should take AP Art History. No 3 was thinking about it but it turns out the teacher isn't very good. I wonder how No 1 would actually do on the test. I can't remember if he took it in HS or not.
Maybe the rationale is that there's only so much stuff you can look up in books/notes in 45 minutes, whereas if all the information is readily available in your mind you should be able to get through it in 45 min. In any case, that's a huge departure from the 3-4 hour marathon tests of the past. My brain was always a puddle after those tests.
The tests have been condensed. I can't remember which one, maybe US History, but they removed all the multiple choice questions and lots of the free response. It used to be they would ask questions across multiple time periods so even if you weren't strong in one of them you could still do well. Now I think it's just one free response and he thinks it will only be one time period. Hopefully they ask a few and you have your choice which one to answer.
Euro history, US history, US government/politics, microeconomics, English composition, English literature, calculus AB, physics, biology, chemistry
Calculus AB and BC. Spanish 4. and maybe that's it? I certainly didn't take as many as my kids do now. It doesn't seem like there was as much a focus on them. Though Terence and SBGear seem to prove that statement wrong.
i think Campo didnt have as many APs as some others. my mom always wished we went to Miramonte becaue academics was supposedly "better"
Meh, you turned out fine and... MUCK THE FATS.
Mats are for wiping your feet
Probably wouldn't have helped me. I'm terrible in the non-sciences and wasn't ever interested enough in Chem and Bio to take the honors classes. I took Honors Physics but it wasn't AP worthy. The only other one I might have done was AP CS but I don't think I did take it.
Physics, US Government, US History, Calculus - both classes and tests.
Physics, US History, Calculus AB & BC, Chemistry, English, Spanish, Lunch.
I ended up revoking all my credits in order to demote myself from an academic junior to a sophomore because you needed to be an underclassman to get into Haas undergrad.
Oh yeah, English! And my calculus was AB.
Pro
Dr. Buddha Baker?
https://twitter.com/buddabaker32/status/1258403944490921989
smh
https://twitter.com/OTBaseballPhoto/status/1258130817685086209
Cal
Go Bears!
Rivals: Cal skews toward being more focused in its recruiting. Appears to be a good strategy.
https://twitter.com/BlairRIVALS/status/1257392610106359808
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/cal-football-efficient-with-scholarhip-offers
Seems like a good idea not to waste time with kids who can't get in despite their skill level.
Heaven forbid schools teach kids whatever they need to be taught to progress.
Good point. Kids should get all the help they need to succeed at Cal. Just don't want a repeat of the Tedford days in the classroom.
https://www.instagram.com/p/8qMpVTABLS/?utm_source=ig_embed
Marshawn was a nerd in high school, with short hair and glasses.
Ha! Not true, my son ran track with him.