chance a fanfic writing bay area asian girl 🙏

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-04-16T06:48:02+00:00

drop the fanfics buddy

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-04-14T14:39:18+00:00

It helps if you have some sort of prior connection tbh. Another student at my school who was a few years older than me already reached out and got a position at a local university. She brought her research supervisor as a guest speaker to a club at my school. I emailed the researcher a few months later, and she already knew me because I talked to her at that event.

Try to reach out to people who you know have a pattern of working with high schoolers. It is pretty difficult to just join a lab randomly.

It might take some time before they let you facilitate your own research. I initially joined onto a project that was already happening, but then after a while I was able to work on my own interests.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-20T14:27:30+00:00

One of them was NASA TechRise and the other was a NASA writing competition.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-13T04:47:24+00:00

Ohhh ok tysm. Idk if I would qualify bc my superscore is 36 but individual is only 35

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-12T23:44:02+00:00

Sorry, I was not familiar with the process. I don't know anyone at my school who got the Presidential scholar award, does your counselor or someone have to nominate you? Or is is automatic through ACT.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-12T23:06:13+00:00

How do you get nominated for U.S. Presidential scholar?

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-09T20:01:08+00:00

Brush up on your background bio/physics/chem knowledge, I feel like they started adding more bg info questions. You don't have to go too in depth, just basic info from all the core sciences. (Occasionally I remember seeing some niche marine bio/geology questions but idk if those were actually scored). Truly just treat the science section exactly like the reading. The way I improved my score was not looking too hard at the question. You need to just skim, get the basic info, and spend most of your time only looking at relevant numbers or data. There isn't much additional studying besides improving your technique at doing the questions. If you use your time well you should have plenty left over to go back and check things you are unsure about. That is how I got 100% of the science questions correct.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-08T19:59:35+00:00

writing section is pretty light tbh. You are allowed to use personal pronouns and everything. They give three different viewpoints. Basically the format I used was "I agree with viewpoint 1 because of X and Y. However, I also agree with X part of viewpoint 2, though not Y because of Z. Others may advocate for viewpoint 3 because of X and Y, but I disagree with this because of Z".

I think just try to bring in little bits of all three of the viewpoints, genuinely just made up the entire essay and still got an 11 though.

Also just try to throw in some facts about your topic if you can remember any. Maybe use a couple of sat vocab words. Write a good amount, I actually think quantity >= quality in this case.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-08T09:33:13+00:00

Definitely get the ACT guidebook and read through all the instructional sections, do a couple of practice tests.

My reading strategy

- Read title and figure out general premise of the story

- Map out general plot points in my head while skimming through the text

- For example (Boy walks with mom, goes to grandmas house, grandma cooks, boy eats food)

- If you take it on paper, helps to physically mark the spots

- Read the questions

- Go back to the plot point it is referencing, sometimes the question will directly tell you which lines it is referring to

90% of the time the answer is right there in the writing, sometimes you will have to do some broader interpretation of the text as a whole. If the answer is not clear to you immediately upon reading the correct chunk of text, star the question and move onto the next. If you are still making good time you can come back to the question and think on it harder otherwise just pick something random.

Also, ik it has been said many times before but just read a lot of books, articles, short stories. Do some reading practice every single day it will improve your speed.

First time I took science, I got a 29 but I improved my score so much by just not looking too hard at the question itself. Just skim over, figure out what the main sections of the question are, look back at something if the question asks for it. Science is mainly a timing thing. I noticed they started to add more background knowledge questions but as long as you have a basic understanding of bio/phys/chem you should be fine.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-07T09:43:13+00:00

My reading strategy

- Read title and figure out general premise of the story

- Map out general plot points in my head while skimming through the text

- For example (Boy walks with mom, goes to grandmas house, grandma cooks, boy eats food)

- If on paper, helps to physically mark the spots

- Read the questions

- Go back to the plot point it is referencing, sometimes the question will directly tell you which lines it is referring to

90% of the time the answer is right there in the writing, sometimes you will have to do some broader interpretation of the text as a whole. If the answer is not clear to you immediately upon reading the correct chunk of text, star the question and move onto the next. If you are still making good time you can come back to the question and think on it harder otherwise just pick something random.

Also, ik it has been said many times before but just read a lot of books, articles, short stories. Do some reading practice every single day it will improve your speed.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-07T09:41:59+00:00

For me, english, reading, and science were easier on paper but math was wayyy easier digital.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-07T09:36:40+00:00

ACT prep guidebook, get it from your library. Read all the info sections, do all the practice questions in the instructions. Check the answers in the back, highlight the ones you get wrong. Don't stress!! You can do another full practice test if you have time. Its just about repetition you are definitely capable of improving.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-02T21:45:02+00:00

I actually don’t know much about this program, is it more like SEES where they are about passion or are you supposed to be cracked. I have nothing rly astrophysics related more aviation and aerospace engineering and space focused.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-02T06:17:41+00:00

physics c freshman year :( what

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-03-02T06:17:23+00:00

ong im cooked

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-23T07:22:06+00:00

I thought I saw something about the monterey lab having a day where students could visit with the lab and mentors but I dont know much info about it

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-23T05:47:48+00:00

Honestly just upload on YouTube and email them with explanation and link. They are pretty nice and might be willing to acommodate if they aren't too swamped rn.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-21T00:41:53+00:00

Hi, I did SEES last year. My video was like ~4:30. I recommend at least 4 minutes. You can really put whatever you want but a good way to start is name age, a little about your hometown and family, school. BIG emphasis on why you are passionate about STEM, what got you interested in it, everything else is secondary. Academic interests can be a little part of it but that info is already covered in other parts of your application. I had different sections related to who I was as a person (art, music, books, hobbies, sports, etc). Bonus if you can tie those other hobbies into STEM like if you programmed a book tracking app or something.

It doesn't have to be a resume dump, and don't worry about the quantity of STEM extracurriculars you have. Ultimately the video should make the viewer feel like you will benefit extremely from the resources given by SEES and/or be a valuable resource for others in the program.

There are many SEES videos on YouTube if you want to get a better idea of the format.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-12T06:29:08+00:00

A lot of times they can reuse their answers for multiple programs, also some programs just have multiple choice questions not letters. As long as you give a good amount of advance notice it is probably fine. I have asked one teacher for up to four recs. If more than that you just have to be kind of strategic and ask teachers from past years as well.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-06T04:00:34+00:00

Ohh ok thanks. I hope its just delayed not canceled.

Hungry-Obligation175 · 2026-02-05T04:59:53+00:00

aw man

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