<p>Between all of the APs, clubs, sports, leadership and volunteering how do you stay sane?
How do you organize yourself, time manage, keep it put-together, and maintain friendships?</p>
<p>Mostly what I do when I feel like I want to get away from the world is play a video game, draw, or read a book. I also have to have my room organized and vacuumed at all times as well, not because I’m a neat freak but because I spend most of my time there and couldn’t sit in an environment that wasn’t to my liking.</p>
<p>I blast music throughout my house and work, dance and sing at the same time.</p>
<p>Sanity is over-rated.</p>
<p>I just realize that there’ll always be somebody better than you and that the only way to close that gap is to step it up one step at a time.</p>
<p>For me (I’m sort of a slacker by CC standards, only 8 APs and 3 college classes), I played a sport or ran after school, every day, which got rid of a lot of stress. I would just run out into a forest or something and take my time, maybe stop and look around or explore something new. If you can, just stopping everything and looking at nature for a while helps me out. Nice and refreshing from the hustle and bustle.</p>
<p>I don’t play sports or take any APs (school doesn’t offer most of them), so that helps me stay a lot saner.</p>
<p>I’m naturally really organized by nature, so no problems there. I like organization.</p>
<p>For anything else, I sob my eyes out to my history teacher. Not really, but if I ever need serious life advice, general advice, have a problem that I feel comfortable talking to only her about, or I just need a break from class and want to shoot the breeze, that’s where I go.</p>
<p>As for balancing a social life and friendships…going to be honest, I don’t have much of a social life, but I don’t actively crave one. It’s a pretty small town and a small school here, so there’s not much to do anyways. A lot of socializing I do with my friends happens in-school and at school events, otherwise I occasionally hang out with them on the weekends, maybe go see a movie and that’s about it. Otherwise, I spend time doing schoolwork (so much of it, how could you have time to do anything else?!), reading, playing video games, and doing things with my family. And there’s JROTC, which is a whole other can of worms as far as social things go. You learn a lot about other people when you have to spend 2 hours in a small van with them (one-way) at 6AM on a Saturday morning in the dead of the New England winter on your way to a drill competition.</p>
<p>So TL;DR; innate organization skills and strong outside support.</p>
<p>Organization and time management? Yeah, never done it. I’m chronically disorganized, my alarm clock and the clock in my car are both set ahead so that I’ll show up to things on time, because otherwise I never will. </p>
<p>Sanity? What’s that? Honestly though, sometimes the stuff I do keeps me sane. Like I was going through a bad time in my family in the middle of rehearsing for a musical and those awesome people made me feel so much better. I actually hate my home/family and actively avoid staying cooped up in it for very long. </p>
<p>Friends? Most of them were first made through my ECs anyways (theatre, debate, etc.) and usually remains how we hang out most often, but I always make sure to talk to them and such.</p>
<p>I’m (in)sane.</p>
<p>Easy, I don’t.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t take any APs, nor do I play sports, so that’s probably a large part of it.</p>
<p>But anyway. Not procrastinating & focusing on one task at a time is probably the biggest thing. Not letting the mind wander… which is insanely difficult for me personally. Like it says on the Study Hacks website, “work accomplished = time spent x intensity of focus.”</p>
<p>I try to take time to relax. Mostly on the computer, really.</p>
<p>Considering I only have two difficult classes - APUSH and Journalism, and when I say difficult I mean easy to understand but just tons of work, it’s all fine. Now that the year is winding down I only have a club on Thursdays and Chem Lab on Fridays (Tuesdays was after school AP, Mondays College Now).</p>
<p>Draw. Listen to the radio. Go hiking. As for friends, I have a small group of close friends who are also busy, so we mostly talk at school and throw a massive party together once a year. I love them lol.
Organization? What organization?</p>
<p>well, my GPA got screwed. that’s probably why I’m sane.</p>
<p>sleep deprivation, though, is another story…</p>
<p>Now that I think about it, I was never sane in the first place so nothing was lost.</p>
<p>I don’t play sports, but I do take aerobics classes and they’re more relaxing, in my opinion.</p>
<p>My main problem is staying focused. Like right now, I’m supposed to be studying for a final but I’m on CC.</p>
<p>But I don’t know. In my opinion, it shouldn’t be a question. School should never control anyone’s life.</p>
<p>I don’t.</p>
<p>Lol, just kidding, though sometimes I do feel like I’ve lost it-and I’m only a sophomore!! Eep! Honestly…I just learned to function without sleep. Like, ever. Between working all night and coffee, my life retains some sort of order and I can manage <3
Though seriously, what I’ve found is that the only way you can do it all and still succeed is to do what you love, and nothing more. I forced myself to take AP environmental this year on top of calc and world, despite promising myself 2 years ago I’d never deal with a BS science course again, and boy did I pay for that. My first B+ ever and possibly my second B+ later, I’ve found that pushing yourself to do something you really hate because you want to look good for college never works out in the end-and its never worth your time.</p>
<p>I don’t</p>
<p>Rawrrawrrawr</p>
<p>I don’t. Every once in a while, I “explode” and all I do is sleep, read dumb books, listen to bad songs, and procrastinate on homework.</p>