How Should I Be Spending My Christmas Break?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Alright, a freshman in high school here, with previous midterm horror stories, little free time this year, expecting a little bit too much homework this marking period, having a little bit hard time with my ECs, etc.</p>

<p>So if you were me, you would…</p>

<p>A. Study for midterms that start on January 21. You literally get just a little bit too much homework every night. Your teachers warn that they will not give you time to study for the midterms in class or losen the homework right before midterms. Plus, you are no midterm genius. You, at least, fail, or at least, fail one each year, just because you never ever started early.</p>

<p>B. Do the homework that you know will be due next week. Your teachers are predictable: read chapter or section, do section questions and/or definitions, make section outline, quiz.
You know you have this mini project due by the week of next week. So why not get it over with?</p>

<p>C. Have fun and relax!! You never ever have time to have fun and relax on school nights and even weekends, so this is your time to!!! Everyone else in your class is having uber fun, besides you.</p>

<p>D. Build on your ECs. Do some volunteering. Learn Latin or something. Write an essay for some essay contest. Get more info about MUN or FBLA or any club you want to start after Christmas Break. Etc. Etc. Etc.</p>

<p>Which one would you choose? Christmas Break for me ends January 4!!!</p>

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<p>A and B. You probably don’t have enough time for most of the things you suggested in D. Like learning Latin… :slight_smile: Not that one would want to learn latin. :P</p>

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<p>I would suggest that you do option C. Enjoy it while it lasts.</p>

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<p>I’ve been doing pretty well with B and C so far lol. I tell myself that I’m resting so I don’t burn myself out when AP exams come.</p>

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<p>Please, don’t even complain about not having fun on weekends. We don’t even have weekends. We’ve got Sunday, mostly spent sleeping, doing laundry, or homework… Besides, if you’re failing at least one midterm a year, that’s probably not something colleges want to see… especially if you KNOW it’s because you didn’t study enough and you had the time to study, but didn’t.</p>

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<p>@thingslost:</p>

<p>That was 8th and 7th Grade. I hope I don’t do it 9th Grade.</p>

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<p>I hope so too. I’m not saying you can’t have fun, just that you should probably think of starting to study. Who says you can’t do both??</p>

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<p>I choose you. But *** how do you not have time to have fun and relax during Freshman year?</p>

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<p>Well, I don’t have a lot of time to have fun and relax during Freshman year for a lot of reasons.</p>

<p>-My school is a college prep school and they give a lot of homework, even if you are in only regents or nearly regents courses.
-I have a lot of ECs, too. I am in French Club. I self-study German, Italian, and other languages. I do some volunteering.</p>

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<p>no offense or anything, but i’m a junior in a college prep school that gives a TON of homework, i am the leader of a bunch of ECs which require a fair amount of work (mock trial, yearbook, GSA, school newspaper, other ****) and i always have fun on the weekends. </p>

<p>you have your college years to learn all these other languages; unless you are doing it cause you truly enjoy it (a sort of hobby) i would stop with that. i feel like part of you might be doing that to impress colleges, and while i suppose its interesting, it won’t make or break your admissions so i would honestly not burden myself with that unless you are really, really into it.</p>

<p>chill. your mid-terms will probably be fine.</p>

<p>jesus christ, you are a freshman, and you are a kid. have some fun while it lasts</p>

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<p>C, you’re a freshman. Be a kid and have fun.</p>

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<p>@wagsthedog:</p>

<p>Yeah, I am into it. I am only down to self-studying two languages now, because I hated the others ones and it was just too much.</p>

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<p>Personally I’ve been doing C and D. However, if you have trouble with school, you should probably do A and B. Colleges generally don’t overlook failing grades, even in freshman year.</p>

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<p>Oh my god, you’re a freshman. PLEASE don’t stress yourself out right now.</p>

<p>C.</p>

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<p>Wait. Why should I be doing math debating?</p>

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<p>My freshman year, I played video games the entire break. That’s what you should be doing.</p>

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<p>i second the motion.</p>

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<p>C. C. C. maybe a bit of B. </p>

<p>and a lol @ getbusyliving</p>

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You’re a little too young for that ;)</p>

<p>I went skiing and played Wii games the whole break my freshman year. Don’t worry about finals, you’ll have time to study (if you even need to).</p>