High school paraphrasing worksheet

Demographics: Chinese Male (yikes), Socal, Small magnet high school,
Intended Major(s): ChemE or Biomedical Engineering (it's gonna be rough :l )
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 35 ACT (35/35/34/34)
UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0 UW (no ranks)
Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes, AP/IB scores, etc
10th: AP Psych, Stats, APES - 5s
11th: AP Chem, APUSH, Lang, Bio (hopefully 5s, might've tossed on Bio)
12: AP Calc BC, Chinese, Physics C (Mech)
Awards:
Scioly Coach's Award (1 of 2 chosen)
Scioly Medals (state/local, team is not too competitive for trophies and stuff)
President Service Award: Gold (120+ hours; got this in 9th grade when hour requirements were light)
Piano Certificate of Merit state honors (completion/memorization in piano; not rlly that good)
Extracurriculars:
Scioly Team Captain: 4+ years; Run finances, write grants, compete and win :), run tryouts, (hopefully) plan team bonding, planning to run STEM camp (raise couple thousand) to fund season, met some of my fav ppl doing scioly
STEM Club Prez: 4 years; Organized sci-nights at elem schools in district, lead cabinet, run competitions (USABO/USNCO), basically sci-bowl team manager atp, even though we get first rounded like the lakers :(
Cancer bio Internship: 1 year; basically like a lab assistant type gig, ran some dissections, processed images/scans and tumor samples, made a table on a protocol
Mandarin Camp volunteer: 3 years (ish), taught some classes, want to start a STEM or engineering class this summer, roughly 150+ hours in total
Summer Math program director: 2 years so far; teach math/CS/chess to 60+ kids in district over Zoom; leadership kinda getting wierd tho (school ends way earlier too so idek what's gonna happen this summer)
Essays/LORs/Other:
Essays: (7/10) I don't know how they'll turn out because I'm not the greatest writer, but I'll probably start early this summer
I've started a little on PIQs, but they're not the best based on some feedback.
LOR: Counselor (7/10): I don't really talk to her too much, but I'm taking hard classes and have decent ECs, so hopefully she writes well.
APUSH teacher (8/10?): Participated a ton in her class, but she doesn't really know me outside of class, joined a club she hosts and started NHD (kinda)
Chem Teacher or Scioly/STEM Club advisor (9 OR 10/10): love both of these reccomenders so so much. Known the Scioly advisor since 7th grade and she's seen me grow a ton. Chem teacher I know a bit and he's selected me for a couple cool labs in AP chem. I've worked with him a bit because of organizing USNCO and taught a little organic chem
Schools:
CA: UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCSB, UCI, UCD, USC (nice campus too)
Midwest: Northwestern (campus is so so pretty), UChicago, Georgia Tech, UmIch
Privates: Williams College, Swarthmore, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, Harvard (Chinese parents love Ivys)

I have had this same sucky ass feeling for 2 years now and I don't really have anyone to talk to about this so I guess I am posting this here. My (f21) have been with my boyfriend (m21) for 5 years now. For the last two years I cannot stop thinking about having a baby. I have never craved or wanted anything so badly in my life and unfortunately it has gotten SO much worse lately since we are at the stage of life where our older siblings/cousins/friends are having kids so we (mostly me) are constantly seeing and hearing about them which just keeps reminding me. It hurts so badly (both physically and mentally) that I have noticed that I've started avoiding social media/engaging in conversation with family/friends and have been on "autopilot" the last month. Having a baby with him is the only thing I think about and it's the only thing I want in life. Growing up I never really had any drive to do well in school or pursue anything after high school since all my life I have wanted to be a mother. I have struggled off and on with depression in my teens (like most girls in America I think) and I think my obsession with being childless is starting to pull me back down into that "funk" again. I hate myself. I hate the way I feel. I hate everything about myself at the moment down to the way I breathe. We have talked about this and my feelings but each time I express how it makes me feel I get hit with the same two responses. It's either "We're too young at the moment and we should be married first" which is very valid and I understand where he is coming from with this. I would NEVER think of forcing anything onto him which makes me feel crazy typing that out but I have read some WILD stories. The second response I receive is "It'll be your time soon" which after that he just similes at me like that fucking emoji. Him saying that makes me feel like I've just received a swift punch to the gut and I am trying to regain my breath. I am not sure how to stop this feeling or how to stop thinking about babies. For context purposes my boyfriend and I meet in high school and have been together since and we are not intimate (sex obvi) due to his religion and more conservative views. We have had the marriage discussion multiple times, but recently he has given me the timeline of him proposing within the next year so we can potentially be married within two but he also stated that ideally he would like for us to be 26/27 when we start trying. I am not sure if my heart can handle waiting that long. How do I stop this feeling? I feel so hurt, ashamed, resentful, and embarrassed all at the same time. I prolly sound like bitchy typing all of this out since he is the most amazing man and partner. I could not see myself with anyone else but I am hurting so much and I am afraid since it is taking such a toll on me mentally I may ruin this. PLEASE HELP!?!?!?!?

I currently do a trade apprenticeship which lasts 3 years (I will be 30 by then ) and Ill be making decent money, but I still have the itch to join the Navy and try to get into Bud/s. I am 27 years old. It's been on my mind since high school.

Im 17 in highschool and want to make some money. Is going D2D a good option? How much should I price without experience or llc.
What are some things I should know or invest in before I start? Trying to start by the end of this week!

I(20F) and my best friend (21F) have been friends for a long time, since high school. Her bf(20F) is a complete JERK to her. He has cheated on her, gaslighted and manipulated her and so much more. They have been together on and off for about 3-4 years. What’s funny is, I went to middle school with her bf and he was a huge asshole to everyone then as well. When my friend first showed me that she matched with him on tinder, I immediately told her that he’s an asshole and he’s toxic and that she shouldn’t get with him. She did it anyways.
Once they started seriously dating, her bf started being an asshole to me and being racist so I told my friend that I wasn’t willing to hang out with her, if he was around and of course she didn’t want to do anything without him so I unfortunately felt like I had to cut ties with her and I did. Fast forward a year or two, I realized I was missing my best friend and she missed me too so we became friends again. As soon as we started talking again she started telling me all about the shit he’d done to her while we weren’t friends. He cheated on her, she would go through his phone and see him getting at multiple girls(and getting no responses), he would be asking multiple girls to hang out with him and would ask if he could take them on dates. She also told me about all the very rude and disrespectful things he’s said to her! I immediately started telling her that she needs to leave him! She would always tell me she was going to leave but it never happened. There were a few times where she actually did leave him, but they got right back together the next day. Whenever she brings up his name, I tell her ALL THE TIME that she needs to leave him because he’s literally cheated on her several times but for some reason she believes that, just because he’s only texting girls and not meeting up with them, he’s not actually cheating.
Anyways, fast forward a year, she’s still with him and still dealing with the same sht with him, him cheating, texting other girls, and just being a btch overall. She messaged me one day, crying saying she went through his phone and he was cheating… again but this time, he was actually meeting up with the girl and basically having a whole relationship with her on the side. She also told me that she was breaking up with him for good. I comforted her as usual and told her she’d be okay and that she deserves better and the next day she was posting pictures of them together, captioning the post “I love you” again…
This made me very upset because 1. I’m tired of hearing about the drama. Everyday it’s something new with their relationship, always him cheating with someone new, saying something else very disrespectful to her, her going through his phone and finding crazy sht(he also has a prn addiction) and I always comfort her but I’m just tired of it. At this point it’s almost like she’s doing it to herself. 2. I am always the one that has to be there for her and tell her the same stuff I always do, “you can do better” “you don’t deserve this” “just leave him already he obviously doesn’t love you” i’ve told her everything. I’ve been hard on her, i’ve been nice, i’ve been mean. She just never gets it I guess and it’s very exhausting for me! Everyday I hear about this, it’s all we talk about now and it’s annoying
I just want to know if I’d be the asshole, for cutting her off again but for good this time. All of this is exhausting for me and it’s growing old. It’s been 4 years now and she’s been dealing with this for the ENTIRETY of their relationship. Literally 3 months into their relationship, he was texting other girls. She’s basically allowing this to happen to her and i’ve stood by her side this whole time but I don’t think I can anymore. She’s just making herself look stupid. She’s already lost her two other best friends over the same thing and I don’t want to be the bad guy for leaving also but I’m just so tired.

Hello!
I am looking for novels featuring characters who have dyslexia.
One book I have read on the topic is 'Fish in a Tree' by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, which is geared towards middle school.
There are lots of books about dyslexia written for kids and for middle school, but at the moment I'm looking for something more oriented towards adults.
In particular, I am curious about how dyslexia impacts students at the high school and university level, and also what it's like being an adult with dyslexia.
Mostly looking for fiction, but non-fiction that reads like fiction would be great too (like a memoir). YA is also acceptable.
Any recommendations would be amazing!
Thank you!

Looking for some critics of my upcoming med school application. Ill do the numbers first and then the explanation. IP in Ontario + BC.
cGPA OMSAS: 3.44 cGPA School: 3.47
Western: 3.72 Dal: 3.78 uOttawa: 3.40
uSask: 87.55 uManitoba: 3.96 UBC OGPA: 80.22
Hooks: Black, Northern and Rural (for NOSM), Disabled
Education: BA from an Ivy (not that Canada cares :/). Currently doing a course based MSc, completion by June 30th.
MCAT: unwritten but I expect to perform well. Purely on vibes but also I have scored 99% at every standardized test I have taken (ACT, SAT IIs, APs etc.)
Explanation: Basically had the onset of a serious illness (that caused physical disability) at the first part of undergrad. Took a medical leave, got myself sorted and then returned. My pre-LOA GPA is: 3.24 (OMSAS 3.24). post-LOA GPA is 4.01 (OMSAS 3.91). I also technically wasn’t a full-time student for some of this time due to that, so I do have to appeal to a bunch of schools for exceptions to the Sep-June FT rules. post-LOA I completed full-time. I plan on appealing to every school for GPA adjustments/considerations regardless of whether or not they have official mechanisms.
ECs: 1000s of hours of research: panel presenter at major conference, multiple pubs, multiple posters (every year of undergrad + summers + 1 year FT)
1000s of hours of clinical care: tech @ doctor’s office for 2 years FT
almost 500 hours at health tech startups
1000s of other misc. stuff that spans: local policy, school stuff (MUN, campus leadership etc.), DEI stuff
LoRs: 3 strong (1 academic, 1 research, 1 work)
A lot of this depends on what my MCAT score breaks down on being, but just wanted some feedback going into the summer. Also, if anyone has done any of the GPA appeals for disability (or other reasons) at any Ontario school, UBC, uManitoba, uSask, or Dal let me know.
I’m applying widely because cost isn’t a big factor unless my MCAT (once I write)+ GPA are out of the accepted range for previously admitted students.
I know that some schools are a reach, but I’ve a friend with a low GPA (3.5ish) + high MCAT (520+) with a MSc with great ECs (but in a different way) that got into all schools she applied to (5 including uoft). So I know it’s doable.
any tips? advice? constructive feedback?
thanks!

Whoop!

Hi Raven. I recently discovered your podcast and I have been enjoying listening to all of the stories. I’ve always believed in the paranormal but after my mom passed away 10 years ago I felt frustrated that I never “saw” her in a ghostly presence. Instead of visiting me this way I’d often have encounters with her moving things for me, specifically things that I thought that I had misplaced. It wasn’t until 2 years ago when I had my most vivid dream of her and I later realized that she came to me to warn me of a betrayal. My mom and I had a great relationship and I was devastated when she passed away when I was only 21 years old. My dad had not handled her illness and passing well and he was cheating on her while she was sick and continued to make poor decisions as soon as she was gone. This resulted in me having a very strained relationship with him.
At this point my mom had been passed for 8 years and at the time my relationship with my dad was great, he had remarried a few years ago and had 2 step daughters that just finished high school. I remember thinking that my dad was being so nice to me at the time and that he wanted to spend a lot of time with me and even finally gave me my mom’s jewelry after I had asked for years. Everything was peachy, right? So I was extremely disturbed when I had a dream on a Tuesday night that left me waking up in tears. In my dream my mom was angry with me, like very angry with me, but she wasn’t saying anything. I could just tell by looking at her. She then began stabbing me in the back repeatedly while staying silent.
I was so upset when I woke up, had I upset her? Was she mad at me?
A week later, exactly, my dad FaceTimed me (despite living 5 minutes from me) to tell me he was expecting a baby with his new wife. My dad is 63 years old and just had his first grand child. I was extremely distraught, angry, and disturbed.
That’s when I connected the dots with the dream and I reached out to my friend who was well versed in assessing dreams. She directed me to a book and told me that Wednesday is a common day for the dead visiting us, and that my dream was probably into the early hours of Wednesday.
I 100% believe that my mom was warning me of this serious betrayal - there’s more to the story of my dad’s lies, but he just wasn’t a good dad in many ways. The anger, the back stabbing, the silence, it was all a warning of the big bomb that he would soon drop on me.
Thanks for listening.

I have two 70s Honda CBs that are fun for around town but now want something that I can commute on (reliable, modern, and handles well).
Want: - lightweight and lower CC (250 to 400ish) - good handling and peppy for traffic but not necessarily interstate highways (top speed or high cruising speed not important) - old-school look reminiscent of 70’s British or Japanese cafe racer - reliable and modern components
Don’t want: - BMW - Grom or Monkeybike - Chinese (unless the brand has a well-established rep for reliability) - modern looking sharp angles and lots of plastic (eg ninja)
If I had to choose on looks and size alone, I’d go with a Cleveland Cyclewerks Ace, but reliability is important.
Thanks your your insight!

So, long story short, there's this girl I have been attracted to for years. Since the start of secondary (English) / high school, and I have now been out of school for two years. I am genuinely in love, but I guess this is the only subreddit where I don't need to explain it, we all get it.
I confessed on a fairly long paragraph on Instagram about 6 months ago, and she told me she had a boyfriend, although she did thank me. I never had the impression in school that she liked me as a friend or potential lover, but she also wasn't the MOST confident girl, although enough for me to absolutely fall in love with her without ever having a proper conversation even once.
Now we're in the present day. I have started working out more and trying to better my confidence in public, and I'm kinda using her as motivation. I'm telling myself "once I get to where I want to be, I'll try again", am I fucked for thinking this? Should I just take no for no or try one more time?
I just cannot stop thinking about her, and this is after a rejection. I don't see how it will change unless the final nail is placed in the coffin, but is it creepy to try again when she, to me, made herself explicitly clear?

I’m stepmom, and husband and I have SD7 about 85/15 during the school year. Summer break just started and it’s 50/50 during this time, aka SD will be at BM’s house a lot more than usual. When we explained this upcoming schedule change to her (week on week off), her reaction was “Yay! A whole week of TV and iPad!” ……😐
While at our house, SD has a lot of structure. She has a set routine, a bedtime, and screen time limits (1 hr on school days, 2 hrs on weekends). At BM’s house, well…as far as I can tell there are no limits. I’m not going to lie, it bothers me. I hate to think of SD sitting at her mom’s for a week staring at the iPad for 8 hours a day when she should be out doing fun summer activities or at the very least reading and playing.
BM is also pretty high conflict and absolutely will get into an argument if she sees an opening. It’s draining, but sometimes we do open that door if the issue is big enough. The question is…is this issue big enough? Is it worth bringing up to her? I know screen time isn’t a big deal in some families, but I struggle with the idea of SD’s structure that we work so hard to maintain being thrown out the window for a week.
There probably isn’t a satisfying solution, but any encouragement or advice welcome.

Can anyone share their experience with switching from elementary to secondary? I’ve been applying to secondary jobs since we moved and I thought it would be a great time to switch since I’m looking for work, but I’m not having any luck getting a call back for any of the middle school or high school jobs I’ve applied for!

He did not deserve any redemption arc. 😭 he didn’t at all seem remorseful for being apart of dumping whatever it was on Rick, and then blaming Jimmy for it?? At least spinner hated himself for what he did and did everything he could to make it up(even though there is no making up for it) to Jimmy. He was EXTREMELY homophobic and that didn’t change even when he played poker with idk his name. He was like “or right, you’re gay very uncomfortable”. He didn’t apologize for SH!T and yet manny and him get a happily ever after?? Absolutely not. Besides, he looked old as hell to be in high school.

Hi all. As many TI/High School/Education posts I’ve seen, they are centered around the TI-74, 83, 84, 89/89Titanium.
Do the TI-86 and 85 have any relevance or necessity in the educational/school markets?

Heyo
I am a current junior, I go to a public Atlanta suburb high school (450 kids in my senior class)

• uva is my dream school and I’d love to go here

Demographics - high income 350k + per year
Major - finance/mechanical or biomedical engineering
Stats:
Current act - 27 (aiming for a 32+ in coming tests)(should get it up)
SAT - didn’t take
GPA - UW 3.81, W 4.1 (school does a weird weight system) W gpa shld be like 4.35
Class rank - school doesn’t rank, but I’d be top 15% of class.
Course work - AP us history, AP stats, AP pre calc, AP psych, AP human geography, AP lang, AP macro, AP environmental science, 3 dual enrollment classes online (all A’s)
Extracurriculars

1. Vice President of Foster care support club, raising around $1,500 per year for local foster cares around metro Atlanta area
2. Founder and co President of financial literacy club - teach students at our school the benefits of learning how to do taxes, and real life knowledge to help them in the future
3. JDRF Youth ambassador (I’m a type 1 diabetic) - raise and campaign money for diabetes research, and I did a hospital shadow with an endocrinologist.
4. Children’s hospital volunteering - I was diagnosed with T1D in January of 2024, so I’m doing some volunteering with new found diabetes patients in the hospital to give them a sense of calmness.
5. Held a job throughout senior year - working 20+ hours a week from fall semester, (really good recommendation from my manager)
6. Varsity lacrosse captain - 3 years varsity lacrosse player, promoted to captain this year
7. Student government involvement
8. National honor society 2 year member - bunch of volunteer hours and stuff from that

Essays - I used to live in Charlottesville, so I think I’m gonna write my why uva essay about how much I miss living there and display all my memories about living in Charlottesville as a child and how it’s made me who I am today as a person.

• I also am gonna write about my recent diabetes diagnosis and how hard it was to cope back into school and sports, but how the diagnosis was a blessing in disguise and help my build my character as a person.

Please lmk what you think my chances are for some of these other schools that are on my list!
Reaches - 1. UVA (dream school) 2. Tulane 3. Umich 4. UNC Chapel hill 5. Boston college (Super good rec for here)
Targets 1. Maryland college park 2. Wisconsin 3. Georgia (in state) 4. Georgia tech (in state) - should be a reach
Safety’s 1. Auburn 2. Virginia tech
Thank you!

Traveling for work and everything wrapped up by about 2:15p. Naturally, I went to the hotel, got changed, and drove to one of the nearby golf courses. Walked in and talked to the guy in the pro shop “hey I’m a single, don’t have a tee time, when/where can I get on to walk 18?” He sets me up for a solo tee time in 20 minutes—great!
Spent about 15 minutes on the practice green struggling to figure out the green speed. I don’t have a stimpmeter, but I’m hammering putts and they’re only going 20-25 feet. I begin to pray for my wedge game to help me out around the green.
About 5 minutes before my tee time, I walk over to the first tee and there’s a group of 4 younger guys (late high school/early college) hanging around doing some practice swings on the tee box. They ask if I want to go ahead of them since I’m by myself. I say sure and take about 2 practice swings before teeing up.
I hit a pretty straight drive, not a ton of distance, and it rolls off the left side of the fairway—slight dog leg right. Walking up, it takes me a few minutes to find my ball, and when I finally found it, I look back and the guys on the box are hands on hips staring at me (probably wondering how I couldn’t find my ball).
I quickly estimate about 115y to the hole and quickly grab my A wedge (49°). Take one half swing and then line up. I hit it, it takes a clean bounce off the fringe, rolls towards the hole, and disappears.
I throw my club at my bag and start running to the hole with my hands in the air. As I get up to the green, I don’t see my ball, so I run up to the hole. MY FIRST EVER EAGLE!!
I look back at the tee box and all the dudes all have their hands in the air and are jumping around. They high-fived each other and I shouted out a THANK YEWWW and a ric flair WOOOO before running grabbing my club and bag to head to the next tee box.
The rest of the round? Carded a 10 on an easy par 5, two triple bogeys, and a few bogeys to finish at +15. The Golf Gods aren’t ready to let me have a sub-80 round just yet, but they let me have a 1h20m front 9 until I caught up with a league.
Thanks for reading!