I feel really depressed these few days for some reason. School is making me so stressed out and tired already 
I haven’t even started school yet and it’s already making me feel super stressed. Between the job I just got, cross country, SAT studying, and schoolwork; I can just imagine I’ll be getting very little sleep this year. I also want to try to raise my GPA this year, which I can imagine will be very hard.
That feeling when it’s late at night and your eyes blankly stare at the computer screen even though you have a crap load of work to do…STRUGGLE
why are these chem problems so hard?? Like, I actually want to get some sleep tonight but I don’t think I will because I have so much work and these chem problems are too hard >:(
@imbep49 I know, right? I’ve been feeling stressed and a bit depressed lately. I’ve never been this stressed so quickly before, hopefully it’s just me adjusting to junior year, since it’s probably going to affect my grades a lot of it continues…
Also, club rush was today! I don’t remember all the clubs I joined, but I do remember joining MESA, Key Club, Mathletes (kill me, I only joined this because a friend wanted me to), and Junior Statesmen of America. I also wanted to join a few “fun” clubs, so I joined Nintendo Club, Gamers’ Club, and Live Poets Society.
School hasn’t been too bad for me…just a lack of time to do homework. Only an hour or so of AP Bio a night plus 20 minutes of AP Lang and 30 of Calc…but I don’t get home until 4:45 because of sports. Ugh. Also TONS of work for the SAT class I’m taking. Like an hour a night.
Anyway, last night I went to this dinner thing to speak about being an Eagle Scout. I know have several lunch meetings with alumni to discuss schools (like Duke, UNC, Virginia and Vanderbilt). Hopefully I can use them as a resource later down the road.
My school assigns way too much homework. I have 2 hours of history homework each night, around 2 hours of English, 30 minutes of Bio, 30 minutes of calc, 30 minutes of french, and 2 hours of physics. My school does a block schedule so the homework is due every other day but pile that on with my leadership positions, and I guess I will be pulling all-nighters (I only have 4 leadership positions: FCCLA VP of Service, VP of French National Honor Society, officer of UNESCO, HOSA founder/president and it takes me 1-3 hours of dedication (either by meetings or planning) each night). Guess this is the year to perfect all-nighters.
@athenanv13 ikr my public high school is decent but not even that competitive or anything, but it gives tonsss of homework. All my friends from other schools have way less.
Anyone else get mailed the USC RHP thing? Never heard of it before.
2 weeks until school, yuck.
@Frigidcold It sounds interesting, but I don’t plan on applying for the program
Also, you start school in two weeks? Lucky. I’m already on my third week of school…
Don’t plan on applying either, but I thought such a thing would have more takers. From what I can gather, not that many people seem interested.
To be fair, my school also ends later than most people on this thread. Part of me is actually excited to get back into it. The whole 9-5 at the lab thing was fun for a couple of weeks, but I think I’ve had enough for now.
Jeez, you guys have a lot of homework! My school is pretty highly ranked but I rarely have more than an hour of homework a night, also block scheduling. Although I do a lot of it in class when I’m supposed to be paying attention. Also, leadership position responsibilites are basically, a couple hours of planning every month for some event and tell people to prep for competitions. Props.
that’s crazyyyy… 1 hour?! I have around 4-6 every night. I have some friends in the West Coast who go to good schools but they get like 1-2 hours of homework and go to bed at 10 pm everyday.
I’m East, but like I said, I just do a lot of it during class time (because I’m a terrible student :P). Still stay busy though, sleep is so unproductive. Usually sleep at around 12.
I’m East Coast. I’d say this school year I’ve been getting 2-3 hours. I, too, find ways to get a lot of my HW done in school, which makes it closer to 1-2 hours. Last year, a lot of the time I had no HW or maybe 30 min-1 hour. Rarely I received 2 or 3 hours.
So you’re saying you’d rather stay awake doing homework than go to sleep? Wow, I wish I could sleep more on the weekdays, how can you not like sleeping?
Sorry to double post but I have a question.
How long are your lunches and are you allowed to go off campus?
Here, we have a 35 minute lunch, which is ridiculous if you want to go off campus. That barely gives you enough time to eat. Maybe 10-15 minutes if you’re lucky (by the time you drive there, order, get your food and subtracting the time required to get back). Also, it’s like they want us to get into wrecks. Most kids rush back and break all sorts of laws so they won’t be late to class. It’s ridiculous. We used to have an hour lunch, and most of the schools in our area do, but because we’ve had such an influx of students, we’ve had to make 3 separate lunches, making an hour lunch difficult to do.
I’m on the west coast and I don’t think the amount of homework you get doesn’t depend on what coast you are on. But just for reference I usually have 3-5 hours this school year (including studying). It’s supposed to get harder, though.
@MissSuzyQ We have a 30 minute lunch and as far as I know people aren’t allowed to leave (but some people probably do). All 3500+ students eat lunch at the same time. We don’t have a single indoor cafeteria, you just sit wherever you want in the school. And there are several places to buy lunch set up around the school. But I think most people bring lunch or don’t eat lunch.
At my school, I was unable to take all of the ap classes I wanted due to schedule conflicts, is my schedule still challenging enough & competitive?
AP Calc AB
AP Human Geo
AP Chem
Physics Honors
Spanish 4 Honors
English 11 Honors
Gym
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