<p>I’m entering my sophomore year and I’m planning to do a lot of activities, but I’m not sure if I’ll have the time.</p>
<p>I’m planning on doing Model United Nations, National History Day, Robotics, Colorguard (and maybe Winterguard; it depends on whether the competitions for my other activities conflict), Bollywood dance (outside of school, competitive; I’ll only do it if I don’t do Winterguard, because otherwise I won’t have the time), and maybe Odyssey of the Mind. I’m taking Honors English, Honors Precalculus, Honors Chemistry, World History, Intro to Design (an engineering course), Spanish 3, and Colorguard (it counts as a school course; 3 hours after school on Tuesdays, Thursdays and some Fridays first semester).</p>
<p>Will I have enough time to do all the activities? They’re basically listed in the order of my priorities; I am doing Colorguard for sure, however. Model United Nations didn’t take much time out of my schedule last year, and National History Day didn’t take too much time when I did it in eighth grade, either.</p>
<p>Oh, by the way, I did both robotics and National History Day in eighth grade. Robotics was the main time-guzzler, although I did have class time to work on my National History Day project, so that may have lessened the workload.</p>
<p>It will be busy, but I think you can do it! However, it really boils down to your school. I know Model United Nations at my school takes up a lot of time, but at other schools it is merely a club to attend at lunch- same for colorguard and robotics. You might want to talk to upperclassmen at your school and see what they have to say about the time commitment to each activity.</p>
<p>@TheFellowMello Yeah, at our school MUN doesn’t take that much time up. We have meetings and occasional workshops, but that’s about it. And of course, the deadlines for position papers.</p>
<p>Our school’s most popular programs are DECA (there are literally over a hundred people doing it) and Speech/Debate (I would do it, but workshops for the type of debate I do are on the same day as Colorguard). Those tend to take up a lot of time.</p>
<p>Robotics also tends to take up a lot of time, especially if you do the smaller, team-based ones (such as First Tech Challenge). It takes up less time if you do the ones with ~40 people on a team (such as First Robotics Challenge). My robotics team in eighth grade met every Friday and Saturday for three hours, and that was for Lego League (which takes up much less time comparatively).</p>
<p>Robotics is extremely time-consuming if plan on being a prominent member on the team(regardless of the size). Assuming you’re a natural at STEM subjects, I don’t think your classes will be much of a problem. I’d say limit the activities you want to do to 3 (though I’d recommend just two).</p>
<p>The only class of mine that should really be a problem for me is Honors English; World History is a joke (since it’s a mandatory course that everybody’s mixed together in), I’m good at math, and I’m studying the Chemistry textbook beforehand. English as a general thing is difficult at our school, and I tend to miss points on easy assignments (whoops).</p>
<p>MUN isn’t very time-consuming, and neither is NHD (and I really want to do both). I have to do Colorguard now, since I’m signed up for the class, and I really do want to do robotics.</p>
<p>This is problematic.</p>
<p>humble brag. if you didn’t think you had time you wouldn’t have signed up.</p>
<p>I actually wasn’t sure about the time commitment, and I’m still not sure. But I did decide to try it out, and I have to go through with it now.</p>
<p>Alone, I probably do have enough time to do Colorguard, but I’m not sure about how much time it will take with other activities. But one of the girls on Colorguard is a club officer for our MUN team, and there are others who are part of a bunch of different activities. </p>