<p>I dont feel bad about slacking off anymore. I still turn my work in on time anyway. I do feel bad for those people that spend so much time studying for a test and still get a lower grade than me when I just cram in one night</p>
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Well 5 Ninth Grade Honors Classes= 100% Rigorous for a Freshman
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LOL. Where did you get that number? How in the world can you calculate rigour of freshman year? I know a guy that took AP Calculuses his freshman year, is that 300%?</p>
<p>Now that the year is over, I find it kind of amusing that in September 2005 I was freaking out because supposedly junior year is the hardest. Maybe I'm just a fast worker, but it feels as if I did nothing all year. On most days I would come home, watch a movie, take a bubble bath or exercise or whatever, then end up going to sleep at or before 10. Occasionally I had work to finish at home, but it was rare. I don't know if I qualify as a slacker per se, it might just be that I'm really good a bulls***ing my work. Most assignments that teachers give that take up so much time are busy work anyway. </p>
<p>The best time to do whatever work needs to be done (so I have more time to lounge around at home and do nothing) is in another class.</p>
<p>It's so strange... I work super hard half the time and do nothing the other half. It gets me through but I can't seem to keep up the motivated thing constantly.</p>
<p>APUSH: Studying consisted of looking over notes very quickly. I never study. I would get very good grades, probably average of 95.</p>
<p>AP Calc AB: I didn't study. Well, that's a lie...I did study, some. My studying for Calc consisted of me looking at my notes and saying "I can do that." Turns out I was usually wrong and I couldn't do it. So therefore I ended up with quarter grades of a 3 C's and a D. Really didn't matter much to my GPA, which is still a 98%.</p>
<p>Last year, AP Bio was the easiest class of the year, which included two art classes. This year, AP Calc was the easiest class of the year, which included a programming class using True Basic. >.<</p>
<p>I never do my work at home, so I feel bad when my friends start talking about how long they spent on an assignment that I did inbetween classes and did better than them on. I never study either (except for AP USH...nightmare class) and my grades haven't suffered at all, why study if you don't have to.</p>
<p>But the rumors about how I spend all my time studying are so much fun to destroy when everyone finds out I did my term paper backstage at a dance competition x_X</p>
<p>I went to a HS where my peers never slept and studied until 3 am just to avoid the wrath of their parents. I on the other hand found my self doing less and less work every semester, and yet my GPA has risen steadily.</p>
<p>Reason? Work is inversely proportional to GPA in my opinion. Its true, I read it in FACT magazine.</p>
<p>Sleep is probably what helps the most. I didn't stay up til 3 am studying for physics (I didn't even bother to do the homework-- the teacher checked it, but it didn't count in our grade), rather, I went to bed at 10. I got a good nights sleep, just as I did every night, so I was able to pay attention during class and be alert during the test. I had a very good teacher, and in cases like that it is more beneficial to just pay attention in class, rather than kill yourself studying.</p>
<p>School is too easy in freshman year, so I decided I needed to drop lunch to keep me from being so bored.
Soph year, extra math class (AP Stat)
Jr. year, extra social studies (AP micro/macro)
Sr. year extra lab science oh yeah (AP Biology)</p>
<p>yeah i feel like it all came too easy. my parents have been really nice to me the past few days, congratulating me for my 5's on all 5 of my APs, etc etc, my slacking seems to be a comfortable thing but it's sham. and I feel like in the end, slackers are NOT rewarded. i have a 3.8 GPA and only a few of my teachers like me. i'll slip by for now, but i'll have a tough time getting into yale, which is where i wanna go. if i make it there, i'm sure i'll do terrible if i keep slacking, because it's much tougher in college (i mean, i go to bed at 12 every night after basically coming home, doing 1 assignment out of the 5 i have, then IMing for the rest of the time)</p>
<p>i totally agree that junior year is waaay overrated. i had very little work this year with 5 APs and no year-end grades below 90%. i guess i'm "smart" but that doesn't make it any less stupid. school is such a sham.</p>
<p>Every school year, I tell myself that I will set up a good study schedule, that I will do everything ahead of time, that I won't procrastinate. I've done this ever since 6th grade. Every school year, it never happens. However, my grades this year were better than ever, and I wasted FAR MORE time than before. </p>
<p>So as a rising junior, I'm like "MOST IMPORTANT YEAR OMG MUST STUDY AND DO WELL" but I know that I'll slip out of that and just do what I've always done...procrastinate. D: It makes me feel so awful.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, well even if you procrastinate, most likely all will end well =D. I pulled through last yr pretty much like any other year.</p>
<p>I know people who do the bare minimum and end up doing okay most of the time. For me, the consistancy of hard work pays off when you have 50 pg papers due or other major essays/projects. Like most things, working hard is a habit and once you get into the right pattern it actually becomes easy to work hard. I must admit though that I tend to procrastinate, but even so I make sure that my work is quality work- even if that means a few all-nighters.</p>
<p>yes im pretty much like that but the last semester my grades have suffered cuz of it</p>
<p>i had 87 in english and 87 in us history
if only id done some more extra credit i wouldve gotten A's</p>
<p>yeah i hate that. usually ill look back and be like wow, if i hadnt taken that 5 hour nap before the test that decides my grade, i might have just gotten that A. its annoying. i dont care if people slack off or not, but i HATE the people that say they dont study and get straight As, when in fact, they rarely sleep because they're re-reading the book.</p>
<p>thats not always true, cabarcamo. there are people that can not study and still get As, or study very little compared to everyone else and outperform. but these ppl always have one or two subjects in which they do need to study a bit more.</p>
<p>I never liked to do homework. I had straight-A test averages in every class, so my grades for each course were more or less directly proportional to the amount of weight given to homework: the more homework-oriented the class, the lower my grade. I'm just not good at bringing myself to do assignments and turn them in. I especially disliked writing papers; I would do Calculus homework to relieve the stress of / procrastinate writing stuff for English.</p>
<p>Thank god for SAT scores.</p>
<p>jimbob:</p>
<p>that can definetly be true, but in my experience, all the kids who are incredible students feel compelled to say that they dont study when they actually do, something that i dislike because i just dont think it matters whether you study for 5 hours or 5 minutes.</p>
<p>one of my good friends is very smart but says that she doesnt get any hw and that she barely studies. interestingly enough, when i talked ran into her mother at the grocery store she asked me, "how do you do it?" and i said, "what?" she went on and said "its just that ____ gets homee from crew and all she does is work, work and work. your teachers should really be better with working with one another and reducing the workload."</p>
<p>that might just be an isolated case though.</p>
<p>to the OP ... I would recommend going to the academically most challenging college to which you are accepted ... some people do their best work in challenging situations and have trouble doing their best work when it is not really needed. </p>
<p>I certainly fell into that pattern and got my butt whipped when I went to Cornell ... which is exactly what I needed; after 3 poor semesters I figured out what I needed to do and really turned around my study/work habits. I'm convinced if I had gone to an easier school where I could have cruised like I did in HS that is exactly what I would have done.</p>