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My high school is an easy public with severe grade inflation and an atmosphere that promotes, or "enables" procrastination, Sparknotes, and superficial learning.

I don't feel like I've done anything meaningful in high school.

Okay okay, I admit there's another side to my problem.

I'm mostly to blame because I stubbornly slipped into a habit of laziness so that I didn't even derive the few useful skills that I'm sure slipped by in the curriculum sometime in the past 4 years.

I feel like I'm going to be way out of my league. I won't talk about my horrid concentration, time management, and organization here because I know that's a universal feeling.
Yet I have deficiencies in more tangible areas like: constructing a research paper, dissecting literature without outside help, possessing a reservoir of background historical knowledge, comprehending beyond the formulas in calculus, writing a stellar lab report without spoonfeeding, delivering an oral presentation, and, yikes, actually taking non-multiple-choice tests.

I've technically "done" all these things in my high school career, but I feel like I've skipped too many steps along the way.

I know that it's far more important to fix my study habits, but what do you think are the best SPECIFIC THINGS for me to do between now and college to prepare myself?

I plan on attending Swarthmore this fall, unless I get off the UChicago waitlist.