Freaking out!!! I am trying to stuff as many AP courses as I can into my schedule. I can handle it but I can't take everything I want!! I also have to make some great projects so that I can put it on my github and feel like a Real Dev, and I have to study for my SATs. And then I have to apply to college. In 2.5 years.
Yay!! Which means I have to go to sleep at 12 wake up at 4(Which for dev standards is a lot of sleep). Which means I have to zombie through school. Going to be a great 3 years folks.

Or, and hear me out here, you could not devote every waking moment to developing and instead live a little.

@jmclemo6 Obviously. People need lives

AP courses aren't worth it fam. I took 4 and none of the material I learned has actually been used in class.

@jhh2450 Yah but colleges want to see them. Plus i have nothing else to take.

@ThaOneDude Can you just not take classes? Or dual enroll at a community college? At least then the course material won't be unnecessarily difficult.

I had a friend who took AP calculus and failed the exam. Took a normal calculus class the next semester in college, and it was much much easier than AP he said.

Plus you're taking AP Calculus but receiving credit for an algebra class (more than likely. AP credit usually covers your first required class, which is algebra for most.)

@jhh2450 Schools like MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard want to see that there was something truly exceptional you were doing instead if you don't take all the AP courses offered to you.

@jhh2450 @rjedlin Yeah which is why I am taking them and AP calc is just a math course so math credits. If i take it then it is the last of my 4 credits needed for graduation. I can graduate pretty early.

I'd say do what you're driven to do, but don't kill yourself over it. Unless you just naturally need less sleep than most, you probably can't succeed in class with only 4 hours of sleep a night, so choose clear priorities and make room for yourself to succeed. Do you mind my asking why you're electing to take on so much?

@rjedlin Oh I do not need much sleep at all. It is because I can and I want to plus I want to be challenged.

@rjedlin I'd say it's a bit more impressive to stroll in there with 4 college classes taken at a college vs "Hey I took this class in high school but it's unnecessarily difficult, so I failed the exam. (Let me throw in that the AP courses I took are actually harder than the same course taught at that university.)"

And who said Stanford and MIT have to be what sets the standards? A computer science degree is a computer science degree, no matter where it comes from. Sure it looks nice to have a degree from those universities, but that doesn't guarantee the person actually knows what they're doing or can apply their education to real world situations.

@jhh2450 Point 1 I know everything they are covering in class. Point 2 I wanna go into research. Also taking college courses is only possible at a community college and they wont like that. They appreciate AP more because it is harder. The material is quite easy in math i've known it for w years. Physics and chem as well.

@jhh2450 There's a pretty significant difference between a Stanford or MIT education and a community college education. Even just being on the campus of one of these schools puts you in a different mindset.

@rjedlin College != Community college.

@jhh2450 But still the atmosphere is different. They are not party schools.

@ThaOneDude Bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit.

Parties take place at every single university. I've seen religious based universities throw down some of the worst parties I've seen. "Party schools" is a term that shouldn't exist. It's a stereotype.

@jhh2450 Lol k consideri g youre older than me and have been to college i assume know better.

@ThaOneDude Don't get me wrong, the schools often labeled as party schools do have lower standards than most, but that has nothing to do with them being a party school.

I go to what most consider to be a "party school," yet we have one of the best (and most competitive) nursing programs, marine biology programs, and business programs.

@jhh2450 Which is?

@ThaOneDude Also, just because someone parties frequently or is frequently out with friends, it really doesn't have to mean their education is shit.

I've got a friend who's older than me. She partied a good bit throughout college, yet she's fixing to graduate with a PhD and is already receiving job offers.

And what do you mean? Which is what? Lol

@jhh2450 what college? Yeah i understand that
amount of parties != smarts