School Workload-Need Some Advice

[xXDeltaXx]

Well i usually dont make these kind of threads but i was wondering how do you guys cope with a heavy workload. Starting the new year im already starting to stress out taking All honors and 2 AP courses my Junior year. Any advice on how to relieve this stress?

[rqm]

bro i had a similar schedule junior year and 4 APs senior year. all you have to do is do most of the assignments, pay at least sorta close attention during class and know how to take tests. sure its easy to say but it really isnt hard to do. just dont think about your course load as some insurmountable mountain of ****, just work through it. you dont have to spend 3 hours a day doing work, i worked 30 hours a week my junior and senior years and did almost nothing at home and still had a solid b average.

youll be fine. also - strong black coffee. i suggest cafe bustelo

[xXDeltaXx]

Originally Posted by rqm

bro i had a similar schedule junior year and 4 APs senior year. all you have to do is do most of the assignments, pay at least sorta close attention during class and know how to take tests. sure its easy to say but it really isnt hard to do. just dont think about your course load as some insurmountable mountain of ****, just work through it. you dont have to spend 3 hours a day doing work, i worked 30 hours a week my junior and senior years and did almost nothing at home and still had a solid b average.

youll be fine. also - strong black coffee. i suggest cafe bustelo

haha thanks a lot. ill be getting a job soon too. I guess a b average will do fine for me. I rather not be an over-achiever like I was the previous 2 years

[dore]

just chill and don't worry about small assignments and stuff because they'll be cake. do the big **** in advance and take time to chill and you'll do fine

[wickedawesomeful]

pop a few adderal and you'll have that work done in no time

[leonid]

Drink a lot of this

[xXDeltaXx]

Very good suggestion

[Izzy]

IMO don't take so many classes in highschool that throw pointless busy work at you.

[samurai7694]

Originally Posted by leonid

Red Bull gives me stomach aches

[OneHandNow]

Originally Posted by xXDeltaXx

Well i usually dont make these kind of threads but i was wondering how do you guys cope with a heavy workload. Starting the new year im already starting to stress out taking All honors and 2 AP courses my Junior year. Any advice on how to relieve this stress?

You think that's stressful?
ROFL

Try taking AP Chem, AP Biology, APUSH, APLAC, AP Calc BC, Physics Honors, Spanish 4 Honors at your school while taking AP Psychology and AP Comparative Government at your local college..

Couple with speech/debate club, math club, FBLA, varsity tennis, and Robotics Club..

yeah anyways

1) Either be playing something, or working on something. NOTHING IN BETWEEN.
2) If you're gonna play games, play it all at once (1-2 hrs) then focus on homework/school stuff til 11~12PM ish.
3) Don't waste time lurking forums 24/7
4) Quit MMORPGs
5) Quit WoW if you play it

[MrGiggles]

teehee I did 30 hours of work a year and still got into college suckerzzz

but sssshhhhh don't tell delta or onehandnow ; )

ps If I were you I'd drop honors courses and just take regular courses unless you're keen on Yale or something, but I'm a lazy twit so take that into account.

[xXDeltaXx]

Originally Posted by MrGiggles

teehee I did 30 hours of work a year and still got into college suckerzzz

but sssshhhhh don't tell delta or onehandnow ; )

ps If I were you I'd drop honors courses and just take regular courses unless you're keen on Yale or something, but I'm a lazy twit so take that into account.

well i want to keep my GPA high its 4.16 atm,I can drop a little lower without too much worry. Im not even close to rich so scholarships would really help. and OneHandNow, thanks for the advice, and i dont play wow but i do play 1 mmorpg =P I really need to seperate school time with Spare time

[Nyokou]

I wouldn't take useless classes imo.

I dropped AP Art History before school started (I'm a senior) cause I'm not even applying to any art schools. Colleges don't just look at your grades either. You can work hard on your grades all four years and be the best but most likely, a college you want to go to will pick that other dude in your class that had average grades but was active in extracurricular activities at school like clubs or organizations.

Times are tough man.

[fido123]

Yeah...I honestly did **** in highschool and bull****ted like 3.5GPA in IB classes (Same as your AP I guess). As long as you do the work you're fine. College is a lot more work but at least it's interesting unless you're taking some bull**** course like General Arts. Really, just as soon as you get home (Or set aside half hour for a quick break) burn through your work and make sure you do it well, with that a 4.0 should be pretty easy. It doesn't matter what you do in your spare time, as long as your work is done you're fine. I think One Hand Now is going overboard like...yeah I would just kill myself.

[Izzy]

I did **** in highschool because it was just so much pointless busy work. College is a breeze though. They only assign homework you need and you don't have 8 hours of school everyday.

Highschool is a waste of time. They could have been forcing feeding me information relative to computer science over those 4 years.

[Kibblre]

Stop playing FFR/posting on the forums. That helps a lot =D

[Relambrien]

My advice is to just work out a schedule to get everything done so that when you get to college you're already used to working the obscene amounts you're going to be working. One of my classes assigns roughly 15 hours of homework a week, in addition to all the other classes and work I've got. Because of that, I end up with about a 55-60 hour workweek.

There's a class that's recommended we take later on but isn't explicitly required that's a full 40 hour workweek by itself.

So yeah, get used to working a lot so you're better off in college.

[Nyokou]

Originally Posted by KgZ

attn people who suggest dropping classes: colleges don't necessarily care about the class, but that it looks bad if you drop classes because it shows poor work ethics.

That makese sense if you've been taking the class already and drop it somewhere in between 2-3 months after starting. But what I did and what I suggest he does is drop any unnecessary classes before school even starts.

[MrRubix]

Jesus.

Take the hardest fukken schedule that you can possibly handle and then dominate it. To do this, try not to suck with time management, since that is 90% of the equation. Plan out a schedule and stick to it. It really is that simple.


Don't go dropping **** or pussying out.


College is MUCH harder than high school unless you either

1. Go to a ****ty school
2. Are majoring in something useless and/or ****ty
3. Are doing ****ty in your classes when you should be working harder

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by MrRubix

Take the hardest fukken schedule that you can possibly handle and then dominate it.

why

what could that possibly do for you that would be worth the suffering

EDIT: A scholarship, I suppose. If you need the money.