<p>@samonuh, yeah i feel you man i feel like ive just lost the ability to connect with people
i used to be super outgoing freshman year
and ive just progressively lost it
@wrongbelief, do you feel that like just reading barrons without campbell should cover me for the ap exam or should i pick up a copy of campbells?
because like when i read barrons its kinda hard to comprehend the information
but i just wanna spend the minimal time to get a 5 cause ive got a lot of other exams as well
so any advice would be well appreciated!!</p>
<p>I didn’t use Campbell’s for studying. If you spend time on like 10 pages a day, and reread the pages, then you should understand it. People have told me that Campbell’s helps in understanding but I found Barron’s to be great in terms of explaining things. It has a lot of charts and diagrams also. Just intensively read piece by piece of the book and type/write notes along the way and you should be set. I’d say if you can find a cheap copy of Campbell’s then you can get it if you’re extremely confused on something, but I didn’t use it at all.</p>
<p>I didn’t lose my social life as much as i changed it. The people i use to hang out with weren’t as ambitious as i am so i progressively stopped seeing them as much. My life was so consumed with school and clubs that we grew apart and i grew closer to the people that were in the same classes and clubs as me. Those people happen to be less socially active for obvious reasons but it worked out for me. We were always there for each other and still had some great times. The stress really turned into a bonding factor. The bottom line is that i found a balance by spending less time “hanging out” and more time being productive together.</p>
<p>@radioheadbro but how many ec’s were you involved with?</p>
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<p>You guys should never be at a point where you feel sick or depressed or have to neglect seeing friends for an entire year. I took 7 AP classes (and self-studied an 8th exam) as a junior, did a bunch of extracurriculars, etc. and I still kept a good relationship and saw my friends pretty often. Even senior year, during which I took 9 AP classes and self-studied two more exams, I did the same thing - friends, girlfriend, parties, etc. I just never procrastinated, and I loved learning. I also tried not to spend more than 45 to 60 minutes on the same subject at once; you’ll go crazy. I switched off pretty often in studying and doing homework.</p>
<p>Really, it comes down to good time management and just enjoying yourself. To elaborate upon the first, I did all of my prom-weekend homework on Friday night (prom was a Saturday) so I could sleep off the hangover on Sunday without having to worry about schoolwork. Similarly, I distinctly remember going to a friend’s house in April of junior year, studying AP Gov hard for an hour, and then just hanging out for the rest of the night. In terms of reading, I’d always read 15 pages of whatever book for lang / lit I was assigned in the morning at the train station. It helped save time in the afternoon.</p>
<p>Basically, in closing, everyone can balance school and a social life. It’s not healthy to focus solely on school, and it’s definitely not so hard to find that balance. I’ll concede that I didn’t sleep much as a junior or senior (4-5 hours on Monday through Thursday), but that was probably due to the fact that I have the (inaccurate) belief that I can text message while studying without losing efficiency…</p>
<p>TheRealFake, who took 18 tests in Junior year, should really contribute to this discussion.</p>
<p>I’m not gonna lie you guys, but I used to believe I could do it all: social life and have a chance at getting into harvard. However, I’ve decided not to risk it junior year. I’m not planning on seeing many of high school friends despite the ones I have similar ambitious interests with after graduation anyway so the partying social life I’ve lived for the past two years is coming to an end. It’s not worth the chance of regret in the future.</p>
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<p>Yes to Keasbey Nights and the sleep on Sunday! 
Of course, my prom was post-AP and at that point of senior year I no longer had homework of substance, so I didn’t have to cram stuff in on Friday.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m coming in to put out the “work hard, play hard” philosophy. Yes, junior year for many is dificult, often the most difficult year of hs (as I said before on this thread). However, that is more reason to get more intense enjoyment alongside the work. Making yourself miserable due to workload and stress is a terrible idea. You need to release that stress by socializing and having fun. No, you don’t need to go to raves and get drunk every weekend (if your school is like mine, this is what most of the under-achieving AP kids, oxymoron aside, do), but you definitely want to hang-out with a solid group of friends and have fun. I wish I had better balance in my life between academics and social-time, and I want you guys to avoid my mistakes.</p>
<p>This one of the most sad things I’ve ever read. No offense to you bluedevil. Motivation (obsession?) can pay off massively. Personally, I work hard to do well. I’m not sure what I want to do, but I know that I’m not going to let myself do badly when I have all the ability to do well. Some of the posts in this just frighten me though. Someone said that they have lost the ability to be happy? You’re doing the wrong thing. Happiness is a priority. It is THE priority. Personally, learning and expanding the boundaries of my knowledge makes me happy. It just depresses me to see so many people doing something that makes them so unhappy.</p>
<p>I would say I sacrifaced a lot, but not everything. I studied so hard for my 1st SAT and ended up with a 1990 and then barely studied for my 2nd SAT and it jumed 110 points. Toward the end of junior year, I started getting a bit lazy ehh</p>
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<p>well…i mean i sacrificed sleep…
5APs, an SAT score i was really happy with, 3 sports, marching band and somewhat of a social life</p>
<p>does anyone else feel REALLY lazy after the AP exams are finished in may and everything else just seems to wind down around Mid May-Early June? especially with a lot of work during the year? after a long school year with work and studying for the AP (our teacher even made us go to school during spring break for a lesson, ■■■), doing outlines and essays and getting around 5-6 hours of sleep (3-4 at the worst, going to bed at 4 in the morning b/c of research papers and outlines which i STILL HAVEN’T GOTTEN BACK), i just had absolutely NO motivation to do any work at all. i still forced myself to do all my work, but i still missed a few assignments that weren’t very important.</p>
<p>so does it basically come down to
school
sleep
social life
choose 2?</p>
<p>^ Well… school automatically leads to no sleep.</p>
<p>ahaha touche.</p>
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<p>I like this thread! First week of school just started of my junior year, and boy, it’s already been different. Just had my first test of the year already in BC Calc, a really hard one which, of course, all the really smart kids thought was “easy”, which always aggravates me to no end. And Physics B is extremely challenging because it’s only one semester instead of two - already had a surprise AP problem that I failed miserably - top that off with a crazy LA teacher who gives at least an hour of useless homework everyday and more useless time wasting from AP Psych, and it’s gonna be one hell of a semester. And year. </p>
<p>On top of all that, taking the SAT in October. ■■■. I need a lot of motivation…</p>
<p>Ahahah i feel you bro, is it just me or is everyone on this thread a guy?
and yeah i have no idea how to keep motivated
im taking 6 aps in school and doing like 9 by myself cause i dont wanna go to my high school senior year
and yeah the sat, act, psat, 6 subject tests, loom near!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
■■■.</p>
<p>but how do you structure your time?</p>