<p>What is your daily schedule? What do you do after school? How long do you do these these things (Homework, AP Study, extracurriculars, volunteering, research, etc.)</p>
<p>My schedule goes like this:</p>
<p>7:30-3:00 - School
3:00-4:30 - Club Meeting (Key Club, Debate Team, Science Olympiad, Quiz Bowl)
4:30-5:00 - Eat/Relax
5:00-8:00 - Research Work/Volunteer/Tutor
8:00-9:00 - AP Study (Calc BC, Physics B, Stats, Psych, Chem, World History, Human Geo)
9:00-10:00 - Break
10:00-3:00 - Homework.</p>
<p>My parents have been bugging me about how I don't get my Homework done early. I don't have a choice. This thread is to show my parents that I am hopefully not the only one doing something like this. Please Post!</p>
<p>This will not help your case with your parents, but my two kids, one of whom is at Harvard, the other at Yale, never stayed up past midnight in high school doing their homework. Both had roughy the same schedule as you:</p>
<p>School: 8:00am to 3:30pm
Afterschool Activities: 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Homework: 7:30pm to 11:00pm</p>
<p>As a parent, I found that my kids did their homework better (and much faster) when I unplugged the wireless internet, took away their cell phone, and made them sit at the dining room table until all their homework was done.</p>
<p>…And had my parents done that to me, I would have just stopped doing my homework entirely and probably have ended up at not the best state school in my state. It sounds like I’m joking, but I’m not. Yes, my self-motivation was sometimes less efficient than that sort of parental pressure, but I valued my work more because all of the motivation to do it came from me, and none from my parents. Obviously, that works for some people, like gibby’s kids, but that would have driven other kids, even stereotypical “good kids” (like myself), to have a Major Teen Rebellion of the sort I never actually had.</p>
<p>My schedule did look something like that, though, and it was really bad. Sleeping that little is terrible for you, and if you can possibly cut down on any inefficient time, you should do so as much as possible. Yes, going on Facebook right now for twenty minutes will make homework easier to do (maybe) when you get back to it, but plowing straight through–even if you only end up with fifteen minutes of extra sleep to show for it–is something for which your physical and mental health will thank you in the long run.</p>