Feeling like crap, rant/serious question.

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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Sorry in advance for rant, I know it’s all over the place, I just had to get it off my chest.

I don’t know if I’m just used to being lazy all summer or what, but I’m a week into school and already depressed. The same thing kind of happened last year, but I had an epiphany shortly after receiving my not-so-impressive first semester report card, and ended up changing my attitude. Now I’m a week into my sophomore year and on top of two sports, I’m in almost all honors classes. And, one of my coaches just asked me if I would be interested in being team captain. I have to give him my answer tomorrow, but I already feel like I’m stretching myself too thin. My homework took me six and a half hours, and I still have studying to do. There’s a new principal who has taken it upon himself to instate a series of BS rules that do literally nothing but make it more difficult to get things done. I’ve been really irritable these past few days as well. The teachers here have a very interesting way of teaching. We sit in class and copy from our textbook while they ramble on about how things were when they were growing up and hold us after class to assign a project that has literally nothing to do with the subject they’re supposed to be teaching. I’m not joking-this has happened in two classes already.

I’m just not feeling motivated. Is there really any downside to taking all regular classes, getting into a decent school, majoring in something you enjoy and excel at, then transferring to a better school and changing your major? It sounds kind of sketchy, but idk.

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If you don’t think you can take on the captainship, don’t take on the captainship. YOU come first. You know your limits.

Downsides:

  1. Taking all regular classes may not be enough to get you into a decent school, depending on your definition of “decent.”
  2. “Better” schools often have minuscule transfer rates and don’t offer as much financial aid to transfers.
  3. Uprooting yourself after settling in at your first school.
  4. Leaving a major you excel at. Why would you even do this???
  5. Possible grade drop from increase in class difficulty, difficulty adjusting to new school, and new major.
  6. Spending more than four years in school thanks to your major switch.
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I agree with above. I feel you though. Just got a not so great grade on a test that I though I did well on that really brought my average down.

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For starters, I’ll disagree.

Hundreds of thousands of kids every single year are " taking all regular classes, getting into a decent school, majoring in something (they) enjoy and excel at, then transferring to a better school and changing (their) major." Hundreds and thousands of kids are busy their living their lives without the “COLLEGE” beacon shining into their faces every living moment. Most have never heard of this website-- or if they do, it’s not until the summer before Senior year.

Yesterday my Senior homeroom had a session on our upcoming college night, and about how our guidance office processes applications. I heard more than one kid mutter “I guess I had better start thinking about where to apply.”

Obviously those particular kids aren’t thinking Ivy. But they’re taking a good courseload, have good grades and great ECs and they’ll get into good colleges. Many people would be surprised at the number of “good” schools they’ve never heard of.

And there IS a middle ground. You could take a mix of regular and honors courses, and give yourself a little wiggle room.

But I do question whether that would really solve your issues. Could you possibly end up with the same teachers, but in a different period? Your principal’s new policies would obviously go unchanged, as would your general lethargy.