<p>Well I mite of slept for a while but I was kind of busy cause the cool people to hang out with are on the other side of the world. I like people from England and Turkey and Australia. Who are the coolest people in the world do you think?</p>
<p>lol wat? I stayed up all night finishing Gov homework. I only got to sleep for about 45 minutes last night from like 4:30 to 5:00ish.</p>
<p>^So early in the year? That’s awful. I’ve gotten to go to bed at normal hours so far, but then again, I’ve only had one week of school.</p>
<p>Yeah. You shouldn’t have to do any homework til next month</p>
<p>Its only the first week and I had to test grades today and two essays. I only three hours of sleep yesterday. 
but I am catching up alot tonight!!</p>
<p>I just finished my second week of school and the earliest I’ve gotten to bed is 1:00.
And to answer OP’s question, Southeast Asians are the coolest people in the world imo.</p>
<p>At my school, they throw a ton of homework at you in the very beginning to scare you (ooh, AP classes, so scuuuury) but then by mid-October, its all fluff 10 minute assignments.</p>
<p>CCers are the least efficient people on the planet. I run XC and have the hardest schedule in my class and I still get 7 hours.</p>
<p>CCers are really missing out on youth. In the end, is all this work really worth it?</p>
<p>@Ractogon - My Dad basically instilled in me this Moroccan proverb from a very young age - “those who laugh when they’re young cry when they’re old.” It doesn’t really excuse the insurmountable stress I put myself through on a near constant basis… but c’est la vie.</p>
<p>Yes! I know that phrase too! And I agree with it. However, there is a point when the massive work will produce relatively diminishing returns. Do you feel like you are really advancing yourself with this work?</p>
<p>I feel like the advancement is momentary in that all this work isn’t going to guarantee a corner office in a white shoe law firm, but rather just ensure an A+ for the quarter, but the way I look at it is that these small accomplishments amass to something much greater.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Wasting time on hw is not cool. And Asians are ok. Some of them. Halogen you didn’t really answer what I asked but that’s what I was thinking!</p>
<p>The problem with a lot of my homework this year is that you can’t stay up all night doing it…you can’t think your way through it when you’re tired. Luckily, it’s not usually due the next day. </p>
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<p>The sense of accomplishment I get when I finish a difficult assignment is worth it a lot of the time. My purpose isn’t really career advancement.
I think I’ve said this before, but I still wouldn’t have much of a life even if I didn’t do my homework…I’d just be a loser with bad grades.</p>
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<p>It would be harder for you to get seven hours if you were in Decathlon. I do that, write novels (I’m working on getting one published) and play in an out-of-school band and have the hardest schedule in my class. Not to mention regular ECs. That’s why I don’t get sleep. Not that I’m inefficient. </p>
<p>But I enjoy doing it. I love the sense of accomplishment when I finish an assignment (usually in half the time the teacher told us it would take) or when I write a song or when I finish a chapter of a novel that I know people won’t want to put down. I think it’s all worth it. It’s better than having a baby at this age, and that’s all that seems to happen if you aren’t drowning in work around here. The fact that it’ll help me later on is just a little bonus.</p>
<p>Or we could list everything we do. That’s cool too.</p>
<p>How long does Decathlon take per week?</p>
<p>About 40 hours outside of school</p>