(Part 3) Top products from r/teenagers

I recommend cooking! I was always kinda 'meh' in regards to it, but a few months ago my mother needed some help with making dinner and I was there, so I helped her. Since then I started picking up little things and parts of recipes before she decided to actually teach me. It's a pretty cool thing to do, and once you get the hang of it and begin making food for relatives/friends, you get to see their pleased faces. Always makes my day! There are people that say it's girly, but like /u/the_earl_of_grey said, it's a great life skill. Besides, you can make your favorite dishes instead of having to eat that horrible grub in your fridge.

If you're not interested in that, I also recommend reading a book or two. Maybe you can find some videogame-related books, like Ready Player One (I recommend it btw). If you're interested in history, I recommend A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren. Starts around 3000 BC, covers the revolutions, it's a great way to study History (especially in my grade) and teaches you interesting facts that your history teacher may have overlooked.

Other things you can do are:

• Learn a language in Duolingo (or at least start learning? :P);
  
• Read random articles in Cracked;
  
• Create pretty images in Silk.
  
  I was going to end this comment with 'We're in the internet, there's so much to do' but then I remembered I also get bored sometimes. Oh well.

That's awesome. You have skills that are super relevant in today's age and will prepare you to have a big impact in your career.

What will be most meaningful is if you can create something of value to people in a demonstrable way - in your arena the natural idea is an app. Just creating things by itself is impressive, but even more impressive is if people actually find it useful and you can point to something as proof (eg number of downloads, metrics on usage)

So I would encourage you to think: what can I create that will solve a real problem that people will care about? What do I wish I had that doesn't exist yet? Then you go from there.

One of the best books you can read on how to achieve this is [Lean Startup] (http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/), which will give you incredibly useful advice about how to test whether your idea is viable and push you to prototyping faster.

The most important advice I can give you is, don't be afraid of shipping. As a first time creator you will be so scared about getting a bad reception that you spin your wheels adding features or perfecting the app. Resist this temptation - the app will never be as good as you want it to be. Ship early (what Lean Startup says is the "minimum viable product") and get feedback on how you need to improve as fast as you can.

Favourite: Oh, so many, but the most recently read favourite/book I waited the whole summer for (School was closed-too lazy and unwilling to sign up for shitty local library) is Code Name Verity. Was worth the whole six week wait, I assure you. A simply stunning tale of friendship, Gestapo, WW2, the French Resistance and flying. Also other things, but I suck at describing books.

Currently reading: A book called Butterfly Summer. Halfway through, current rating: Okay, would maybe read once again if extremely bored. I don't regret starting to read it as such, but wouldn't recommend too heartily to anyone else as the fundemental plot idea is good but the writing itself needs improvement.

Would recommend: White Crow, the aforementioned Code Name Verity.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams and the sequel to that (Both excellent reads).

Finding Cassie Crazy is quite good if you want something more teen-fiction-y, plot can get a bit confusing at times due to about six main characters but it's set out in a novel (excuse the pun) way- in the form of letters/diary entries/other stuff/ noticeboard notices all put together.

Torn is excellent- At first glance, the plot looks like it might rather predictable and done before. I assure you, it's not. The only annoying bit is the ending. The book seems to cut off a good chapter or two before I'd like it to, if you know what I mean, but I'll look past that for now.

here are 4 i found online, all under $20:

Real Men Do Yoga: amazon

The Athlete's Guide to Yoga: amazon again

Power Yoga for Athletes: guess what it's amazon (This one looks especially good for healing injury type things)

Wear and Tear: Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back in Your Body: yknow (So I know this is kinda for an older age group but it looks really good for joint pain)

Hope these help :)

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It's not particularly about being less depressed and all that, but I guarantee it will make you feel better.

http://www.amazon.com/Bel-Canto-LP-A-Novel/dp/0061719862/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

the book lol

I took APUSH last year and got a 5. The year before, more than half the class didn't pass the AP exam and our teacher wasn't very good, so I think it's safe to say I come from a position of experience.

First off, let's make one thing clear. APUSH isn't a very hard class. It's a lot of work, but very little of it is difficult.

Second off, your whole slack off/procrastinate shtik? Say goodby to that. You don't need to go all out/ hardcore parkour studying for this thing, but you're going to have to put in a bit of effort. I studied for about half an hour a day a month before the exam, and two hours a day the week before.

Here's a couple tips:

• Do yo work son. It's amazing how many people refuse to take notes and then freak out when they don't know anything
  
  
• Get an AP study guide. I got Princeton Review's, found here
  
  
• The APUSH test is really easy. You need a grade of about 60% to get a 5, shown here. What does this mean for you? It means first and foremost that you don't need to fret about everything going in to the test. Don't know the top 3 women's right activists during the 1800s? Who gives a shit. Get 50% of the questions right and have decent essays and you'll pass with flying colors.
  
• Flying colors aint good enough? Good thing a 5 isn't very hard. If you study regularly for the month or so leading up to the test, you'll do great. That is, if you study the right way.
  *What's the right way? I'm so glad you asked. Work your way through the review book. Work your way through your notes and handouts and the ten tons of shit you'll accumulate during the school year. Study study study, even 10 minutes during lunch can be enough. For realz.
  
  
• The test is in a month? Panicking yet? You shouldn't be. You've got this down. But now it's time to get er done right. Google AP US History Practice Tests and look around. There's new ones up every year, and the last 200 years don't change, so old ones work just as well. I printed off 10 or so multiple choice tests and answers and worked my way through them over a few weeks. Seriously out of anything I'm telling you, this is the most important step. Get 60/80 on these tests, and you're golden.
  
  
• HAH JK. There's still the 2 essays and the DBQ. Here's the good part: Since you have an encylcopedic knowledge of US history, the facts should come easy. Good thing we studied so much. Here's the other good part: Writing the essays is a piece of cake. Your teacher will teach you, your study guide wii teach you, you're 16 years old you can write a damn 5 paragraph essay for fucks sake. Here's the bad part: Your hand is gonna cramp up like a Mofo afterwards. Bring ice.
  
  So long as you study regularly and do the work, you'll be fine. If you don't study, you'll be digging your own grave, son.

http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/0544272994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394474740&sr=1-1&keywords=what+if%3F%2C+munroe

Hello, I'm not Craig nice to meet you.

God.

http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Larry-Ullman/dp/032135656X

This could change your life.

AMSCO and this book

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Single-Variable-Early-Transcendentals/dp/0134766857/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1538021434&sr=8-10&keywords=single+variable+calculus+early+transcendentals(https://www.amazon.com/Single-Variable-Calculus-Transcendentals-Pearson/dp/0321965175/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538021297&sr=8-1&keywords=single+variable+calculus+early+transcendentals)


https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Algebra-Classics-Advanced-Mathematics/dp/013468947X/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Why is he so wise?

Try reading this book.

Nah, I read "Sit Truman"
https://www.amazon.com/Sit-Truman-Dan-Harper/dp/015205068X

Right now, The Crucible.

The most boring one I've been forced to read was Catcher in the Rye.