Inspirational Quote of the Week

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. 


-Ralph Waldo Emerson





I'm happy to announce that I'm practically finished with my Common Application, so I will be able to resume posting on the blog. Hope you all had a great Christmas, and Happy New Year!

Lakers Schedule: December

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18	19  vs LAC PRE L 95-114	20	21  @ LAC PRE L 103-108	22	23	24
25  vs CHI L 87-88	26  @ SAC L 91-100	27  vs UTA W 96-71	28	29  vs NYK W 99-82	30	31  vs DEN 12:30pm

Common Application

First off, sorry I haven't been able to post in a while-- I've been working very hard on my college applications lately.

Many private colleges are member colleges/universities of the Common Application-- Common App for short. It's a handy website that allows you to have one app and send it to many of these schools. For each school, the only thing you have to do differently is fill out each respective school's "Supplement," which varies from school to school.

Some schools you may be familiar with on the Common App include USC, Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Northwestern, and many other schools.

https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/default.aspx

Khan Academy

 I urge you all to check out this website. It's very helpful and has clear, instructional videos on many subjects (for example, physics, calculus, and biology). 


"A free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge."


- Khan Academy.


http://www.khanacademy.org/

IMPORTANT: UC and CSU Applications Due

IMPORTANT Reminder:


UC and CSU Applications are due November 30th (this upcoming Wednesday)

Inspirational Quote of the Week

"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."

- Andrew Carnegie

College Confidential

If you don't already have an account, I suggest you take a look at College Confidential (CC for short). It has a wealth of information and a very active forum for college-bound students AND parents.

"Here you'll find hundreds of pages of articles about choosing a college, getting into the college you want, how to pay for it, and much more. You'll also find the Web's busiest discussion community related to college admissions, and our CampusVibe section!"

http://www.collegeconfidential.com/

Inspirational Quote of the Week

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. 


- Thomas Paine

SAT

Just a quick message:

To all the seniors taking the SAT or SAT subject tests tomorrow, good luck!

Remember to get lots of relaxation and to go to bed early tonight. Cramming a lot won't help tonight-- I advise that you only do some light vocab review, if anything at all.

SAT Vocabulary

(Good luck this Saturday!)

Belittle	to demean
Conspicuous	easily seen; prominent
Elucidate	make clear
Gravity	seriousness
Jargon	specialized language used by experts
Neologism	newly coined word
Petulant	sulky; peevish
Recluse	someone who cuts himself off from life
Supercilious	proud and haughty
Whelp	young dog

Source: http://www.majortests.com/sat