So I graduated today. Finally. It was great. I’m happy and there are all kinds of bittersweet memories running through my head. I can’t wait for university to begin. For those of you who don’t know I’m going to the HKUST Business School. The term begins in the end of August and some of my close friends will also be attending the same university, one or two even the same program! Anyway, I don’t feel like writing much so instead I will as always leave you with pictures (hosted on Flickr and Facebook).
…is what I’ve been doing this past week. Here’s my list of where I’ve applied or have yet to apply:
University of Florida
University of Maryland – College Park
Purdue
Rutgers
University of Maine
Florida State University
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
I also took the SAT again on October 6th and my scores will be out on the 25th of this month and I really do hope that they are higher than my June scores (1940 cumulative).
Now it’s just time to sit and wait for the acceptance or (gasp!) rejection letters to come in. By the way, I can’t apply to the Hong Kong unis yet as their admission applications open in November.
So on Monday I’ll be starting my last year of High School. Is that a good thing or not, I dunno? But anyway, for those of you from my school or for those who are at all interested, here is my schedule for this year:
AP Statistics (Mr. Raybayud)
AP English Literature (Ms. Taylor)
Journalism (Mrs. Settle)
Global Studies (Mrs. Wing)
Honors PE (Mr. Sexton)
Art & Digital Design (Mrs. J. Chan)
Yeah, I’m taking it easy this year. Last year I was taking AP Calculus BC and World History and that was a load of work. Not that English Lit. won’t be but at least I’ve got less math this year. By the way, I got a 4 for the Calculus BC exam and a 5 (woot!) for World History. I just need at least one 3 in either Stats or English Lit. to get that AP Scholar award. Still gotta work on that GPA that I screwed over in grade 9 and 10. Wish me luck.
Today I took my AP World History exam. I am now officially done with AP examinations for this year. I actually thought I did quite well on the exam but you never really know with College Board. For those of you that don’t know, the AP World History exam encompasses 10000 years of history into a test format of 70 multiple choice questions and 3 essays. I finished my third essay with still about 15-20 minutes remaining. I spent this time writing in huge, bold letters: “Thanks to Jared Diamond, Howard Spodek and Mike Wing (my teacher)”. It’s an inside “joke” from our history class, but basically the first guy is a historian that made the National Geographic series “Guns, Germs and Steel” and the second guy wrote the textbook we used in class (a book with over 1000 pages of pure history). Hopefully, the graders at ETS will get it.
So I took my AP Calculus BC Exam today. It was the first AP exam I’ve ever taken and I’m taking the AP World History one next Thursday. It was hard but I felt I did better than any of my previous practice exams. College Board tells me I’m not allowed to talk about the content of the exam for 48 hours so yeah. I’ll get the results back sometime in late June, hoping for a 5 but at least a 3.
