<p>I don’t believe any of you.</p>
<p>"He’s a real pothead, actually. "</p>
<p>I’m not denying that. He’s lying one way or the other. He just said in one of his other posts that he doesn’t smoke.</p>
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<p>This thread is SO STUPID. Sorry to takes things seriously, but since when is doing well at school and going to parties mutually exclusive? Sorry, but the implications in this (joke) thread make me want to vomit.</p>
<p>^ I think they just want to seem cool on the internet.</p>
<p>There’s a reason that partying tends to dramatically decrease the second semester of every year in college. It’s because you get a rude awakening after the first semester of partying hard.</p>
<p>Partying’s cool (cool as in whatever). I go to a huge party school. Falling asleep in random places and forgetting where you parked your car is not.</p>
<p>^^^^You expect TJITM to tell the truth?</p>
<p>My identity is split between that of an educational professional and that of a student.</p>
<p>Obviously getting straight As and partying are not mutually exclusive - that is the stereotype. It’s a pretty strong one, at that. My question was how many people don’t fit into either stereotype of straight-A “nerd” or low-life partier, but who can manage both lifestyles.</p>
<p>Partying for me (right now) hasn’t become a problem because A) i’m smart about what I do (I don’t drink myself ■■■■■■■■, wake up in strange places or shoot up meth, for example) and B) I still get all of my work done, and I do it well. I understand that college is going to be a completely different experience, and will probably mean more motivation for me to study more than I do. (On the other hand, it will actually probably motivate me to party MORE just because it’s college…but anyway)</p>
<p>Either way, the question was just asking if anyone else feels this weird sense of not knowing themself because they are managing two different lifestyles. </p>
<p>& to everyone saying this is all BS - I promise it’s not. Why would I lie on the internet? I think it is more possible to party and get a 4.0 in my situation than in others’ because I don’t go to a top notch high school. I go to a very large public school where the administration is more focused on getting all of the delinquents into Ivy Tech instead of working on their high achieving college-bound students. Not saying it is right or wrong - but it is what it is.</p>
<p>College will be a rude awakening and nobody at my school understands my insecurities about this. Although I’m ranked first in my class, it’s not that big of a deal for me because as far as the real world is concerned…being first in a class of underachievers at a school with an EXTREMELY easy AP cirruculum (and I mean EASY - I have 7 APs and a study hall this semester and I go home some nights without homework or studying and still pull of As) is not that great of an accomplishment. It’s going to be an adjustment for me to get used to not being the best at everything.</p>
<p>But at least I’m able to enjoy myself along the way</p>
<p>And Dnerd - maybe TJITM meant he didn’t smoke marijuana. He could still smoke cigarettes or hookah or something.</p>
<p>You are still making a mistake. It is not “two different lifestyles.”</p>
<p>You aren’t as awesome as you believe.</p>
<p>Uh yeah…how do you get 80 absences and not have to stay back? -.- ^^^ And yes, although you may get good grades at AP courses, it could mean that your course was just really easy. Once you take the AP test and go to college, it could be like a bomb just dropped on you.
In my school, this kid who’s most likely to be val. is crazy. He goes to parties once in a while, he’s in the National Youth Orchestra (he went across the continent to Cali to play), does community service, in other ECs. But he still finds some AP courses, like calc, challenging 'cause our curriculum is pretty hard.</p>
<p>Why are you even posting this…to post how, like, totally, awesome you are for having brains and parties! OMG, you are the only one! YOU WIN AT LIFE! Good job! I AM SO JEALOUS! I WISH I WERE YOU.</p>
<p>Well, as long as you are happy :)</p>
<p>you’re completely missing the point, but go ahead and mock me.</p>
<p>I found that I do better in the more challenging APs at my school than the easier ones. The only challenging APs I’ve had were AP Bio and AP Calc. I think it’s just because there’s so much material that I HAVE to keep up on it, and when I do, I learn it really well. I’m a very independent learner. On the other hand, the easier courses bore me and I end up getting worse grades in those classes.</p>
<p>I say do whatever floats your boat. Responsibility doesn’t mean refraining from partying. As long as you aren’t the one throwing up while unconscious, you’re good to go.</p>
<p>^Are you more <em>interested</em> in the harder courses…? That COULD be another reason.</p>
<p>haha thanks Aero. </p>
<p>and ChocolateBanana - I wasn’t posting this to show how awesome I was - I was posting it to get some insights from students who don’t go to my school. Going to parties and getting good grades ARE two different lifestyles at my school, and I didn’t know if that was the usual case.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am really interested in Bio and Calc. On the other hand, I’m really into chemistry, too. But in my AP Chem class my teacher basically teaches the tests and it’s annoying. I don’t have to study even if I wanted to. Same deal with my AP gov class.</p>
<p>That’s weird…your school is weird, I mean.</p>
<p>There are plenty of great students who party.
And great students who don’t.
And poor students who party.
And poor students who don’t.
And everything in between.</p>
<p>At my school, at least…I thought that was pretty typical and to be expected…is your school small?</p>
<p>We have about 3500 students…freshman and sophomore class being ridiculously larger than the junior and senior class. Our senior class of 2010 started freshman year with about 800, and now we are at 533 due to drop outs, pregnancies, transfers, etc. Definitely a lower-rated school. I can see though how the academic/partying atmosphere would be different at other schools.</p>
<p>Interesting…it still would seem that in such a large school there would be a mix, but my view is probably skewed by my own area…but also, I just think it’s common sense that one can <em>party</em> and do well in school, assuming one isn’t missing school or hungover during like every test or something…</p>