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to be clear, this is not a dunk on the later seasons, since i love the entire show. however, it is a common complaint to say that sheldon gradually steps away from the spotlight in his own show. the easiest reason to point to is georgie and mandy's relationship, but i think i found a bigger reason. even though sheldon has always had his quirks with some extraordinary things happening to him as a young child, he was always interacting with his family. in the later seasons, he spends time away from family in germany, as well as work on projects with dr sturgis and dr linkletter. by the seventh season, he barely lives in his own home and is usually at east texas tech to avoid the aftermath of the tornado. in the beggining seasons, even if sheldon is doing something extraordinary, his family is by his side, like when he goes to the nasa space center. additionally, everything he did still affected everyone in his family. the later episodes that focus on sheldon dont have this spark because it is about sheldons life outside of his family. this is just an insight i had, and i want to know your thoughts on it.

honorable mentions:

ap psych (12th grade): i didnt take the exam since i found the class excruciatingly boring. it was a pretty easy A but i was NOT memorizing 500 terms for an exam does doesnt help me in college (im an engineering major btw). it was originally supposed to be a filler class for my senior year, but i did spent too much time trying to memorize the terms and definitions.

ap comp gov (12th grade): i took this class because all my friends were taking it. was never too interested but i did learn some pretty cool things about other countries.

ap phsyics c: e&m (12th grade): my school doesnt offer this class, so i self studied and took the exam. this is by far the hardest exam i took, but that can easily be attributed to me self studying what is considered one of the hardest aps. honestly, i dont think i did too bad aside from one frq.

9. ap precalc (10th grade): i got a 5 and took the exam my sophomore year in 2024. it was so easy, and i honestly wish i didnt waste 100 bucks taking the exam that wont even transfer into college credit.

10. ap us gov (12th grade): its pretty tame memorization, and i also paid a decent bit of attention in apush and earlier civics classes to do well. i took this exam this year, so i dont have a score, but i messed up the frq, even though i shouldnt have. also, if you spend any time on the internet looking at politics, your workload decreases a decent amount.

11. ap comp sci a (10th grade): my class was very easy, and i ended with a pretty high grade. however, i was sick during the ap exam, which led to me not checking my answers. luckily, i did well enough to get a 5.

12. ap physics 1 (11th grade): i took this exam last year, and college board definitely meganerfed the exam. the 7% 5 rate scared the shit out of me, so i was nervous going into the exam. turned out to be my easiest exam in my junior year. the class was pretty hard, but mostly because i didn't have a good understanding of the topics until right before the exam. easiest 5 of my junior year.

13. ap stat (11th grade): not too sure why i found this class to be kind of hard, but it was probably just the harsh grading by my teacher. i kid you not a bunch of people (including me) who also took calc bc that year said it was harder since missing a few words costed several points on the tests. the exam, however, was easier than expected, but i think i was mainly nervous because my school made the class really hard for no reason. i still ended up getting a 5.

14. ap us history (11th grade): this was one of my favorite classes i took in high school, even though im going into engineering next year. it was honestly kind of fun to learn about the quirky and sometimes messed up things that america has done throughout its history. a lot of the exam was about mexico for some reason. i got a 5, and i thought the exam was slightly challenging at parts.

15. ap world history (10th grade): not much to add really. only reason i found this harder than apush is because i took this class before apush. i got a 5, which surprised me since i was expecting a 4.

16. ap calc bc (11th grade): thank god for the generous curve on this exam. the class was pretty challenging, but managable, and the exam went worse than i expected. i screwed up on some of the easier mcqs and messed up the polar question (college board was a bitch for giving me a polar question after several years of giving a parametric question instead). i got 2 series frqs somehow, but they were pretty easy. i got a 5 for this exam yay

17. ap physics c: mechanics (12th grade): i loved my teacher for this class, but it did not make the class or exam any easier. the mcqs gave me such false hope considering that the first frq was spawned from the ninth circle from hell (iykyk). think i did okay, but we will see in july when scores come out.

thank you for reading my yap fest. just wanted to share my experience after taking many ap courses and exams.

question is pretty vague, so ill detail a bit more. im from northern va and va and nc are commonly considered southern states. however, the big cities in these regions, (notably charlotte, raleigh/research triangle, richmond, and hampton roads) do not feel southern at all despite their surrounding rural areas being very culturally southern. there are so many other big cities, like jacksonville, atlanta, and cities in the texas triangle that still feel uniquely southern.