The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part nine — Page 190

Yeah, that's what I mean. Teaching the way the textbook goes confuses me, a lot. I guess there are some periods with a lot of cultural crossover and diffusion going on where the other idea would work, and some where the rates are too different.

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I loved Euro, BUT if you've been advised against it on good grounds, you should probably take that advice. My high school happened to have a really, really wonderful Euro teacher; he told people the course was more work than it was in order to scare people and weed out those who didn't *really* want to be there. I just took the class, though, not the exam.

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Which is that, something other than Euro?

Bleh. Time for me to get to my last class of sophomore year....

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Yes, but it means the uncertainty of summer draws near... (and I'm just not really feeling like moving to actually get up and go, heh).

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yeah, and the real world sucks. Enjoy your last year of high school! I hated high school, and personally I wouldn't really go back to that time even if I could. But living on my own, trying to support myself... It's crazy. I miss not having any responsibilities! haha

I also regret not going to a 4 year school. I went to a community college and got an associate's degree. I'm still working the same job that I had when I started college. And I really had no intention of using my degree anyway, I just picked the major that I knew would come the most naturally to me. (therefore, the least work). My biggest regret about school is that I owed it to myself to aim higher.

So my advice (even though you didn't ask me!) is don't settle for the easy road. I admire all of you who are taking AP classes. I could have, and I should have. But I didn't. Good grades came easily to me, so I didn't want to challenge myself with the advanced classes.

Mandi! Not helpful!

It's too late now! *hyperventilates and goes to study*

So AP Euro's still offered? In my high school, my class was the last class that was given the option of choosing between Euro and World. I took Euro, but I had to take the World regents. After my year, my high school discontinued offering Euro so now in 10th grade you can only take AP World.

Euro was difficult at first. It was hard to get through the chapters, and I remember having difficulty almost deciphering it. My teacher was okay, someone you love, but not necessarily the greatest teacher. But anyway, between my own motivation and it getting a bit easier, and the Princeton Review book, I got a 4 on it, and am thrilled I got to take it instead of World.

But I took U.S. in 11th grade, and I found that *much* easier. The course, the material, the tests, and the AP itself.

AP lang scared me because I did *awful* on the multiple choice questions we practiced with. But I think an essay saved me that year to get me to a 4--we had to argue for or against entertainment. I wrote 6 pages on why it's good--then realized I had 20 minutes to write my argument analysis. If there wasn't a time limit, I could have easily made the argument 12 pages.

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I'm taking AP Euro next year as a sophomore.

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I took AP Euro in my sophomore year of high school and AP US in my junior year (my high school didn't offer World History - because we were located on a college campus and everyone had to take actual college courses senior year, the AP selection was pretty limited). I got a 5 on both exams, but found US to be easier as it covered a much smaller period of time.

I just got back from my last class of the year. Now all that's left are finals. No more papers or group projects or calculus homeworks to deal with - at least until September :-P

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School's still going strong for me. Finals are in mid-June, but until then, it's work, work, work.

I hate my brother for being done with everything May 12th.

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At my high school, you could take Euro as an elective senior year, but they strongly recommended taking it in lieu of the sophomore year of Global History if you had good enough grades to get into the class. AP US was only offered as an alternative to regular Regents-level US History - you couldn't take it as an elective senior year even if you wanted to.

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I took AP Euro as a sophomore. I signed up for AP US this year, but unfortunately, there weren't enough people who signed up to make even one full class. Collectively, my school is a bit dim.