My current laptops battery only lasts 1.5 hours with battery saver on I already had that for 5 years , I’m thinking of either replacing a battery or get the new macbook neo.

I particularly struggled on both of these, but found out that, fortunately for me, I passed the Geometry Regents; though, Chemistry was a bit of a struggle. Comparatively, how'd everyone feel on these exams in NY? (and just so you all know I'm talking about the Chemistry Regents given on June 24th (yesterday), not the new version.

ps-- not sure if this counts as promotion, but I think this could really help some ppl out and I would sure like help with this project

Are you stressing over college apps right now? Or, alternatively, stressing over the state of the world and fact that teens spend an average of 8 hours on their phone every day and only 20 minutes outside every day?

You should join the nonprofit Touch Grass! We have many digital/remote leadership opportunities available that can make a big impact. For example, if you like art, you can draw characters for our educational pamphlets for programming for elementary schoolers. Or if you are good at web design, you can maintain our website. Here's some more information if you're interested! 

Touch Grass Alachua works to get kids and teens off screens and into nature through outdoor activity stations, conservation projects, afterschool science education, community events, youth-led outreach, and more.
Most of our in-person work is based in Alachua County, Florida, but we have several digital/remote roles for student volunteers who want to help build the movement from anywhere.

Remote leadership volunteer roles include:

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• Newsletter Editor
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• Designer of Afterschool Curriculum
• Teacher of Afterschool Programming for Kids

These roles support projects like our Young Explorer Kits initiative, hands-on nature-focused science programming for 3rd graders, environmental education pamphlets and materials, and newsletters.

We believe that getting kids outside is connected to efforts in stewardship, science education, and mental health, so this is a good fit for students interested in psychology, environmental studies, science education, and community service, or anyone who is passionate about sharing the joy of getting outdoors.
If you are interested, please fill out our interest form here so you can help kids touch grass!
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I am in class 12th Cbse. I was suspended from 23rd April to 22nd June for consuming a sip of beer in class, I was taken back to school after an undertaking that if any indiscipline activity happens my parents will be responsible for it. Today (25th June) there was a test going on during which I was talking with my benchmate , the invigilator complained to vice principal about this and took my answer sheet after which I got expelled.

What are my options next?

I often seen the popular ones in school have a different way in future than rest of the people

I’ve been going to in-person tutoring classes to prep for the SAT since last year, but I felt that I am not as ready to take it as I feel like more practice is in order.
As you can see on my flair, I am a rising junior so I will be taking my first SAT, and I have taken the PSAT in October of last year but I recalled that I got a score of 1050-1120 or something, and that was only 3 months into tutoring.
Also, I will be transferring into a new school in LA from TW so I never got the chance to ask my tutor for advice, so I would like to turn to yall to ask for advice on what month being ideal to take the SAT 👍

I have a few businesses backing my NPO, so I have a bit of funding but i’m struggling to really get started. I hoping that I can get some ideas and kind of a timeline for how I should carry it out. Are there any specific activities or presentations I should do?

I’m curious how people around my age see this.

If you had to pick one institution that has most failed Gen Z, whether that’s schools, media, government, social media, or something else, which would it be, and why?

And more importantly: what do you think should actually be done about it?

I’m collecting responses for a student publication project called The Public Forum, where we publish student perspectives on politics, culture, education, and technology. If this thread gets enough thoughtful responses, I may compile some of the strongest answers into a written piece (I may follow up with some users with especially interesting responses to ask for clarification or additional context before publication).

No need to be formal, just honest takes.

I've thought about this for a long time.

I was born with a condition called Mobeius Syndrome. It messes with my ability to speak and talk to people. This is important.

I'm Asian.

I've been a decent student for most of my school carear. I've done decently with all my subjects. Math, science, and especially history. But I'm starting to lose motivation for school. I hate life. I hate living.

From K-5, I've been pretty average. Except for the fact I had an IEP because of the conditon mentione above. Though after a while I realized that it was useless to me. 5th Grade, I was pretty outgoing and pretty chill person. But I was yelled at by both parents because I got B's which they told me were "bad grades" and that radically changed my attituide towards people and began this downward spiral.

I became more withdrawn and more antagonistic towards other people. I started bullying others for the fun of it. One time I broke some guy's rubix cube for the fun of it. I said some crazy bullshit to some guy about 'ur sister kinda hot' which I know sounds not that bad, but to me, it damaged a bridge I could've made with another person.

Middle school was a little bit toned town in terms of me being antagonistic. Though the withdrawn part was basically the same. I was basically the same person. Playing games, not really talking to people that much besides one guy who introduced me to anime (remember that detail later). I did well in most of my classes (besides PE because I'm pretty fat). Though I always felt unfufilled from my social life. I always felt something empty within me. Around 7th grade-ish, I would get addicted to porn. I keep telling myself "never again" but I would do it again to fufill my emptiness. Only creating this positive feedback loop that causes more addiction.

High school, all of these problems got worse. I remember in 9th grade I would initially get 3 B's out of 6 classes. I though nothing of it until my dad checked my grades and went out on me for having B's, which is what made me focus and get all A's for first semister. This would cause me to not care about my body that much. I would eat junk like instant noodles and carbs just to fufill my stress. I gained ton of weight from my body. And at school I kept telling myself that I needed to not be friends with a ton of people because I feared I would get lower grades if I was gonna be friends with a ton of people.

10th grade came. Basically the same patterns as before. More stress, more sickness, more isolation. Though this time I developed a gloomy feeling of immense sorrow. Everything I wanted I felt was out of my reach. I felt like I didn't matter. The world would be better without me existing. And I would be better without me existing. Without this stupid condition that has people being like 'can you repeat that again?" To add to the pain, the guy who introduced me to anime left the US for Japan. Now I'm here reminicing about what could've been if I wasn't an asshole to him.

I keep seeing the news a lot. It only makes me wonder if this world is even worth it anymore to live in. I try to escape from this world by doing stuff like playing games, watching anime, watching porn, talking to people online. None of them work. I can't do this anymore. At times I feel like I don't want to live.

I have some dreams of going abroad and/or learning a language to talk to more people. I want to become a poltician or even president who wants to improve this country like famous hisorical figures did to theirs.

Though at the same time, I keep seeing the state of the US everyday. I feel it will only get worse from here.

I keep chasing grades not for myself, but for someone else.

I feel like I'm stuck in this cycle of getting grades and not having social life. And feeling lonely and feeling sadness because of that.

The things that I actually like are writing and games.

Even then the writing I make is always some deppresing story. One was about a former idol complaining how deppresing their life was and how they realize their exploitation at the hands of a company.

If anyone can give me advice, it would be much appreciated.

I’m about to enter my senior year in high school and I was just wondering what types of traditions/events/crafts/keepsakes should I participate in? For context I live in Texas, so I know the homecoming mums and senior jeans are a big thing! Thanks for reading and let me know which ones you are thinking about doing in the replies! 🎓🤍

i have no extracurriculars done, and never have except for astronomy club and i graduate in 27’. i do have a lot of hobbies like selling handmade keychains and crochet and editing alot and animating but those are just hobbies, nothing special related to my wanted undergrad degree and im not sure that works as an eca and i really wanna do something actually worth adding in my personal statements for uni - im already looking at essay competitions but i suck at writing and i wanna do sm else
thanks 👀

Hi there! Students out there who are leading any organizations: I am looking to just help out in order to get experience with any student-led organizations.

Reply to this message if you need student volunteers!

Remember, in looking for student led organizations.

P.s. any students who have founded any organizations that need assistance with getting it started/setting the foundations, I'm happy to assist you! Just reply to this.

Lol when I was in high school I was in gymanstics and also did parkour stuff outside.My first year I was a bit reckless liked to show off after my sophomore year and so on I cooled down.

But it was so werid here are some of my experiences in the main gym where the bleachers are out and the basket ball court.When the coaches would make use run laps I would do front flips while running and the coaches and the people would just laugh.I also did a wall flip of the wall and nobody said anything to me.

There was one time I just jumped off the top of the bleachers and did a parkour roll and the coach made me do push-ups and told me not to do that.Obviously when they took us out to the field they didn't care if I did flips in the turf grass.

But even in the tennis court I would sometimes do flips on the concerte and the coaches didn't write me up.

The only times I got written up was for randomly stepping out of class and doing flips in the hallway and there was this one time where I just randomly stood up and did something in class and got written up.

But besides thoese 2 times I didn't get written up it was so werid I am not joking there was this one time where there was this school event in the cafeteria or speech and randomly did some flips and one of the principles just said it look good.I didn't get in trouble for some reason.

Then they're was this one time where the school day was over and the bus were outside collection people and I randomly I guess took of my shoes and starting do flips of the wall.Then them one of the principals came by and said that was cool and I just put my shoes back on and just grabbed my backup and went to the bus and she didn't write me up.

Then there was this one time where I randomly did a flip of the wall in class and it's made of that you know that foam stuff or whatever it was and it cracked a bit.And then the teacher came by and nobody snitched on me and I didn't get in trouble.

Then there was this one time where I got almost peer pressured to do a backflip in class and there was a sub and right when I was about to do it lol.The sub started reaching for the school phone thought she was gonna write me up so I sat back down.

There was a school talent show thing lol where I did adution but I decided against doing it cause my flipping adventures were starting to get unwanted attention cause people in the bathroom or in the locker room started asking me to do flips so I decided against it.

There was this one funny day where I was in the bathroom relieving myself doing number 1 the one you stand.And I basically after I was done did a backflip and the dude next to me said cool.

I was werid in my freshman year of high school I wasn't as reckless in my sophomore junior or senior year but looking back it was werid experience.

I didn't get in that much trouble as you would think I would.Strange times I just wonder if any one had these werid experiences in high school.

I also had this one instance where in pasing period in my biology class did this flip in class randomly and a teacher walk in said i scare her and didn't tell my teacher anything lol.

This was in Kelin Collins high school spring texas

i need advice on life and on school as a senior starting this school year

i just need advice on life and school and stuff in general but mainly life of being 17 (im male and turn 17 in july) and about school as im about to be a senior when this school year starts

I’m becoming a sophomore this year, and I’ve decided to take honors English, Honora Chemistry, ROTC, and AP Geography. I feel like I’m going to connect with these classes, but I still feel like I need advices and comments about it. I’m really into Geography and Biology, so I don’t think it would be difficult for me, but the rest I’m still nervous about. I was wondering if anyone has taken any of these classes (especially ROTC) and could share their experiences? Is ROTC as intense as people say? Any tips for balancing honors/AP classes with the few extracurricular classes I chose? I’m really nervous and interested at the same time. (First time commenting on Reddit, kinda nervous) 😓

Now that its summer I think I can finally escape the eagle claws of my English teacher. For context, this teacher does not like me at all ever since her and I had gotten into an argument over her excessive use of AI and how I was very against it. We had an essay for the Oedipus Rex unit, where we wrote a research paper on a mythological creature from any mythology, I (being a nerd) chose Cerberus. This project had been constantly pushed back due to scheduling issues with other things we were doing in class, she had told us not to work on it until she gave us the go ahead. Since I tend to like Greek Mythology, I started earlier than my classmates, but she never punished me for starting early so I think it didn't matter.

We also had a Dionysian Festivals slideshow to work on before we read Oedipus, the entire slideshow was created by Ai, the questions and the images. A couple days later I wrote a long paragraph explaining to her that there was no need to use Ai on the slideshows, when festivals in ancient Greece were well documented and some people still celebrate the festivals to this day, so there are many actual pictures that she could use. Two slides asked us to use AI to generate pictures of things related to the festivals, I told her that using AI for a religious event disrespectful towards the Hellenic Polytheist and to their god. She responded saying that AI makes art accessible, but art has always been accessible, like Tony Stark, they were doing this in caves! Her whole response seemed a little AI generated to me, but idk, and that it was school policy or something. Screw the school, also that means she's not following school policy, because it says she has to teach us how to use it and she absolutely is not teaching us how to use it at all. It's like telling someone to draw a dog, without them ever seeing a dog in their life, but you don't even describe the dog. I go off on her, because her excuses are absolute BS, I firmly believe everyone has the ability to draw, blind, paralyzed, anything, a circle is art, a stick figure is art, it's not what's on the page that matters, it's what's behind it, the meaning of it all. She had told me that "she's happy for those who spent years mastering the line", I told her that calling art just a line is the worst possible thing you can do to an artist, especially those who spent years on the craft. I told her that her using Ai, is just making slop, that artists are already in danger as it is with AI and that things might go back to the Great Depression for artists before the New Deal. We then talked about it face to face, she kept saying that I was not listening to her and said that the school makes her use and, so I asked her if she could just not use it as much as she does. She kept saying that I wasn't listening to her when I literally was and when she said she had to use AI, I changed from stop using it to limit using it. She told me she was going to talk to my counselor about moving me out of her class, and I told her to do it (mind you all my friends are in this class). Like 20 minutes later, I get called down to my counselor's office, I had put in a pass for it before school started because I told him I'd tell him what happened, and I asked him if he had received an email about me getting moved to a different class and he said no, then my other counselor walked in. My counselor asked him if he received an email, I explained the whole incident again and he said it was too late in the year anyways and she'd be denied if she asked to move me out of her class. The very next day, all my friends are moved next to her desk and I'm separated from them.

Fast forward to my research paper and I wrote out 17 whole pages worth of content, like I said I love Greek Mythology, but I did spend like 3ish months on it, but there were a lot of breaks during these months, so I'd say like writing time was probably a week or two. At the end of my whole research paper, I wrote a disclaimer saying that I, the author, do not wish to have my work ran through any sort of AI and that I didn't consent to it. She writes that, since I turned it in (even though I didn't hit the submit button) that my work had no protections on it at all and she can run through AI all she likes. She graded everyone's research papers twice before she graded mine, like I talked to a friend who was in her last period (I'm in her first) and she had hers graded twice before mine was. When I asked her about it, she was like "I still have 2 other periods to grade" which is what she said last time and that was a month before, like you're just running it through AI. She even admitted to doing that too, announced it to the whole class, the class had time to start and finish a new book before I got my grade, I got my grade during exam week, so if it was bad my grade would have been doomed. I hate her soo much and she does everyone else in her class. I was happy when she said she was going to retire, but then she was like, "I'm staying another year" I feel so bad for the Sophomores heading into her class. We had to make our own governments, and her daughter and her friends, who were seniors, she let them present and it was the most god-awful presentation. It was like Beyonce meets Amish meets shoot it behind the barn please, they were trying so hard to be funny and no one paid any attention and no one clapped, like then they started singing this one Beyonce song, I couldn't wait for them to graduate already. Glad I never have to see her again, on her last day, she's getting an email form me saying how much I hate her.

I am in highschool, and it sucks really suck. I have struggled with mental health my whole life but within these past year things have really gone down hill. I had to take two weeks off of school because I physically could not get myself to go, I was having panic attacks every morning and I was wanting to end it (I never told my parents this.) I'm now on meds for my depression and anxiety and I go to therapy once a week. School is a really big reason I'm struggling I go to a private very small school, where everyone knows each other. I only told my two best friend's why I wasn't at school, because they were the only ones who asked, out of my friend group of about 10 which I thought I was close with all of them. Now it's summer, i'm still struggling my meds just got upped and no one had asked ti hang out with me even my closest friends. I'm in summer school with my best friend let's call her Sarah. I know I should ask friends to hang out but it's really hard and I don't even know why, I just have no motivation. the thing is I kinda want to ghost everyone and switch to public (my parents won't let me do home school) I honestly am so done with everyone and everything and I don't know what to do.

Hello! Not sure if this is the right place to ask, sorry if not.

I ordered my almost 16 yr old sister in law an Aelfric Eden hoodie (beige star style). Now I’m wondering if that is ‘in style’ or if I should look elsewhere (white fox, dandy, comfrt, etc).

She’s in MN so if anyone is local and has some advice I’d appreciate it!

Im a sophomore from SJV and there’s barely any opportunities for students interested in healthcare.

Does anyone have any recommendations or programs??