Hello everyone,
Im sure many of you remember me as the guy who posted the interview questions late October. I am still working on the research paper and it is turning out great!
So this is my situation:
Before becoming a freshman at my university, I was in high school (duh
). I have a great reputation there, even now despite me having graduated. The most difficult class in high school for me and everyone was AP/IB Physics. This class was just outrageously awesome and extremely challenging. The Ib/AP senior students now taking that class have reached out to me on facebook asking for some deep advice. They always tell me how my AP Physics teacher boasts about my work ethic and how he has never met anyone as hardworking as me in his life. I told them I would attend the school on my thanksgiving break and talk to them personally rather than through facebook because I feel like it would be more "effective" I assume are the correct words.
My story is, me and my physics teacher hated each other so much at first. He is a Cold blooded, old Russian who never cracks a smile. But I was that one guy who made him crack it. I got off at a bad start with him, failed his first two tests too. He treated me like crap in a sense where he completely ignored me, until I was the only student who scored a perfect on his third exam. That is when he acknowledged me. I was one of 4 AP students out of about 20 IB students (he always saw ib students as somewhat better than AP). I proved him wrong. After he told me how he was honestly impressed, I just kept that drive to keep working no matter what. And in the end, it was him acknowledging me which kept me going and his non-direct support. That is where my part of my work ethic came from. I became his most recognized student.
These kids asking me for advice are Ib, so they don't have as much time as I did in high school because there classes are more intense. I had AP physics and AP calculus and other honors classes. So what I usually did was finish all my hw for my other classes and spend about 3-5 hours everyday on physics.
I want to try to say the right things to these seniors tomorrow, because they reached out to me more than once and I just don't want to go there and end up saying something that won't benefit them.
Any recommendations?
and thanks for reading the long post
Im sure many of you remember me as the guy who posted the interview questions late October. I am still working on the research paper and it is turning out great!
So this is my situation:
Before becoming a freshman at my university, I was in high school (duh
). I have a great reputation there, even now despite me having graduated. The most difficult class in high school for me and everyone was AP/IB Physics. This class was just outrageously awesome and extremely challenging. The Ib/AP senior students now taking that class have reached out to me on facebook asking for some deep advice. They always tell me how my AP Physics teacher boasts about my work ethic and how he has never met anyone as hardworking as me in his life. I told them I would attend the school on my thanksgiving break and talk to them personally rather than through facebook because I feel like it would be more "effective" I assume are the correct words.My story is, me and my physics teacher hated each other so much at first. He is a Cold blooded, old Russian who never cracks a smile. But I was that one guy who made him crack it. I got off at a bad start with him, failed his first two tests too. He treated me like crap in a sense where he completely ignored me, until I was the only student who scored a perfect on his third exam. That is when he acknowledged me. I was one of 4 AP students out of about 20 IB students (he always saw ib students as somewhat better than AP). I proved him wrong. After he told me how he was honestly impressed, I just kept that drive to keep working no matter what. And in the end, it was him acknowledging me which kept me going and his non-direct support. That is where my part of my work ethic came from. I became his most recognized student.
These kids asking me for advice are Ib, so they don't have as much time as I did in high school because there classes are more intense. I had AP physics and AP calculus and other honors classes. So what I usually did was finish all my hw for my other classes and spend about 3-5 hours everyday on physics.
I want to try to say the right things to these seniors tomorrow, because they reached out to me more than once and I just don't want to go there and end up saying something that won't benefit them.
Any recommendations?
and thanks for reading the long post
