<p>Don’t gain too much weight thinking it doesn’t matter, because when you actually decide you want to go to college and look fashionable you won’t be able to fit into anything. Even after losing 20 pounds :(</p>
<p>not to slack off freshman year knowing that frosh year didn’t count for my two favorite colleges…
now my gpa and class rank are ruined.</p>
<p>-Work freshman year
-Study for the PSAT and AP tests
-Make good friends and laugh together</p>
<p>join every sport you enjoy + take as many ap/honors classes you can</p>
<p>Hang out with friends, go on dates, and experiment with pot and alcohol in moderation. Seriously. I’ve studied for the last three and a half years, and in consequence i’m supremely unhappy despite being accepted to Yale, and in all likelihood cornell and harvard in april.</p>
<p>Don’t take language, art, or humanities courses after fulfilling the requirements.</p>
<p>Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
Get a religion before you go on some trippy existential crisis and end upcontemplating what life means and get all depressed about it. The sleepier you are the more likely you are to do this.
Suck up ot your teachers
Local awards rae overrated and not worth filling out mounds of paperwork for.
Everything you write online should be made anonyamous.
Just because a class sounds hard doesn’t mean it actually is.
Don’t put off labsuntil the lat minute like I’m doing right now
Keep an agenda. It’s especailly nice if they gie them out to you free
Dont ask a ton of questions in class, especially stupid ones. it will annoy theteacher, not impress her.
The first two clubs you help start are going to be crap, then the next one you’ll hve some experimence and it’ll be better.
did I meniton sleep? for more thanthree hours a night</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and if you’re going to write things at 11:46 PM while half-asleep and lying on your back, be sure to proofread them.</p>
<p>^ hahahaha, agreed! except it was more like a 1:46 AM deal. </p>
<ul>
<li>Learn how to live on very very very few hours of sleep</li>
<li>Start drinking coffee, if you don’t already</li>
<li>Ask questions in class</li>
<li>Find out more about the teacher before the class starts/first few weeks. IE, their grading criteria, do they like outspoken students?, etc. In HS, you have to realize, effort =/= excellent grades. effort + knowing your teacher, on the otherhand, will improve your chances dramatically</li>
<li>Really get to know/build solid relationships with your junior year teachers (for senior year recs, a lot of my friends are struggling to get their senior year teachers writing recs, and a few even declined, saying they didn’t know the student well enough)</li>
<li>Find a few things you’re REALLY passionate about, be it music, art, sports, or even paper-crane folding</li>
<li>If you hate it, don’t go to school everyday dreading it. Just see it as a step onto greater things :)</li>
</ul>
<p>date a lot of women.</p>
<p>Just because 9th grade is in the Juniior High School building, doesn’t mean it should be taken as a Junior High School year (my district does K-6th (elementary), 7th-9th (junior hs), 10th-12th (high school)).</p>
<p>Teachers offer Extra Help periods for a reason – TAKE ADVANTAGE!</p>
<p>Don’t be a GPA-whore. Take the electives that interest you. Who cares if you’re rank 11 instead of rank 5 all because Ceramics wasn’t weighted? You’ll have a more fulfilling experience. I shouldn’t have taken AP Computer Science as my practical arts elective when I could have taken newspaper, woods, International Cuisine, fashion design or something similarly more hands-on. I am regretting my decision every moment I sit in that class. Don’t be like me!</p>
<p>Also, take 4 years of English, Math, Science, History, and Foreign Language at as high a level you can handle. I really feel like I’ve grown as a person by struggling through AP Physics and AP Calculus. Sure, I’m never gonna do anything in my career with those subjects, but they are challenging me and expanding my mind. It might be hard, but you’ll get a better education for it.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Agreed. Same thing. </p>
<p>I also like the advice about joining clubs early…as a freshman. Stick with the ones you like…drop the ones you don’t.</p>
<ul>
<li>join clubs early</li>
<li>try harder sophomore/junior years</li>
<li>stop procrastinating</li>
</ul>
<p>darn too late</p>
<p>^^ haha</p>
<p>Procrastinate now! Don’t put it off. </p>
<p>Ellen DeGeneres anyone?</p>
<p>1.) Study for your ACTs/SATs early!! I had taken the ACTs late because I didn’t feel prepared and took a Kaplan course the summer before I was a senior. I took the ACTs in October of my senior year, which may have caused me to not get into my dream school. (I was waitlisted). Also, do not feel bummed out about your score. It doesn’t make you any less smarter. (My instructor made me realize this).</p>
<p>2.) Enjoy your years in high school. I wish I had spent more time with my friends instead of studying so much to get into one college that I didn’t end up going to. </p>
<p>3.) Know everyone you trust, but don’t trust everyone you know. I had a “friend” and I had trusted her because she was nice. That was until my senior year when she started getting all nosy wanting to know my ACT scores and turning every little thing into a competition. She also was trying to find out everyone’s ranks and GPA’s. </p>
<p>There’s more, but I can’t think right now!</p>
<p>If you take distance-learning courses, don’t put them off until a month before the course deadline.</p>
<p>start college stuff end of junior year, and dont skip, it turns into a habitat, and dont smoke before school, the entire day turns into a waste, take online classes too, there alot easier and you can do it like two days a week</p>
<p>I would have chilled out so much more during my first two years…b/c you DO NOT have to be “perfect” or an overachiever to get into a great college. Now I’m relaxing (and I did last year too) but I feel like I missed out on two years.</p>
<p>Haha…this thread reminds me of a file that used to be on the alt.nethack.org IRC channel – “Lessons Learned The Hard Way.”
I’ll add more to the list:</p>
<p>Often stuff learned in high school is more important than stuff learned in college.</p>