So... the SAT's went pretty much just as badly as the AP history test. I am beginning to accept the fact that my school just might not be capable of preparing me well enough to get into the colleges I want to go to. Or, to take complete accountability, maybe it's me.
Anyway, music festival went very well, I did very well on all three of my solos and my ensamble. That's the only thing I'll do well this weekend, I believe, and sadly the least important now and to my future.
I went to a coffee shop with my friends tonight and we studied AP bio for five hours, eating the forbidden, glucose-riddled chocolate-covered coffee beans (which I maybe am not supposed to eat because of my religion? I wasn't sure, I probably should stop) and gummy bears (which annoyed me, as I like white, but I kept accidentally grabbing yellow because it was hard to differentiate cololrs in the paper bag), and drinking italian sodas (sugar-free). We spent a lot of time going over reproduction and the menstrual cycle, as we haven't talked much about that, and it was quite entertaining, arguing loudly about estrogen, progesterone, androgyns, and the positive feedback where estrogen acts on something (I've already forgotten) to create more LH and FSH I think which creates more estrogen. I've forgotten it all already. Sad... But it was fun watching all the people in the coffee shop stare at us as we screamed about oogenesis, sperm production, menstruation, fertilization and the like. It's a good thing it's a high school class. In middle school we would have been too embarrassed to discuss it. Now, we don't mind broadcasting it to coffee shops.
So quick review of feedback mechanisms: positive= lactating, estrogen, childbirth. Negative= regulation of the medulla of carbonic acid levels in the blood, action of the pons to increase/decrease breathing accordingly; glycogon acting on glycogen to convert it back into glucose; ADH production when not enough water is being absorbed in the distal tubule area of the nephron.
It's hilarious that I know more about biology right now than everyone in my school but four other people, more than I thought it was possible to know or cram into my brain, and it's still not enough, I am (we are) still grossly underprepared, and time is running out.
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i'm sure you didn't do poorly on either the ap history test or your sat's. if you did, it really doesn't matter. you can cancel your ap scores and you can retake the sat's. but seriously, your psat scores were good, and they do do a fairly good job of predicting final score ranges. so don't worry about it.
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