<p>When it come to the last year of high school to look back at what had been accomplish, you cant help but remembering what effort had been put into, and scarify that had been made for those accomplishment. Could the results been better if I havent made the choices that I made? Are all of the sacrifice resolves in the betterment of myself? Or did it take away something bigger?</p>
<p>Since freshmen year I thought that if I block out social distractions it could benefit my educational life. The idea was that a social life will have bad effect on the educational life, so I have to give it up. And its not easy to get it back when theres nothing else but math equations in your head; youre kind of a boring person. Because of this effect on education, my life is pretty limited at times. I am one of whom felt the annoyances when it came to group work. However, it is best to get along with the idea of group work if you want to make your life easier in college. Im now reconsidering the idea of the social life if it could coexist and help me along with my educational life. It is worst enough there is no time in the world to build constant platforms for thing, hesitation to the probabilities of some triumph will make you fall out of the equation; falling behind.</p>
<p>They can definitely coexist, but I think a lot of people overestimate the importance of their high school friends. You won’t stay friends with most of them after graduation.</p>
<p>It’s hard to balance both, but it’s definitely more than possible. My friends are very important to me (granted, about ten of my closest friends were made between the ages 4 and 12, so they clearly aren’t going anywhere), and I feel like I wasted a good portion of my first semester because I killed off my social life to theoretically concentrate on school. Didn’t happen. All I did was increase my procrastination and boredom levels.</p>
<p>One of my favorite quotes is: “you can only choose two of the three in school: sleep, social life, or good grades”. They can exist when done correctly.</p>
<p>I think it’s completely possible. And yes Heather, you wont see most of them after, which is why it’s so important to make memories with them now. </p>
<p>Personally I’d rather go to a good college and look back with fondness at your HS memories as the best time of your life than go to Harvard and look back remembering yourself as miserable, stressed, and anti social. (Two extremes aha)</p>
<p>In the end, u will only keep in contact with 1 or 2 of them after high school. Facebook help but most people move away. And yes it is possible. It’s not like you have hw every weekend. If you do either you got too much AP or stupid teachers.</p>
<p>If you manage your time well you can have enough sleep, get good grades, and have a social life. I’m an IB student and I’m doing all three right now (le gasp!). :p</p>
<p>Not at all! I keep most of my social time for the weekends, but I spend most of my time on weekends socializing. For me, the week is when I work, the weekend is when I play.
Granted, I get very little sleep, but it works out for me!</p>
Doing what? Partying with your friends every night till 11pm. I can’t imagine how people not get enough sleep doing all three. Like HW is at least 1-3 hours, and then if you hang with your friends that another 1-4 hours. So 3-6 pm hw and 6-9 pm friends… excluding EC. How can you possibly not be getting enough sleep? Stay off your phone during bedtime :)</p>
<p>If you have a few very good friends, you absolutely can, and probably will with the social media of today, stay friends with them. But you have to make the effort.</p>
<p>My kids are 24 and 27. Both of them are very close to their best friends in high school. Dd was in a sport, and two of the girls she hangs out with the most now, even after four years away at college and four years of grad school on the opposite coast, are girls from her HS team as well as a few other HS people that have stayed in the area.
My son has moved up north, but he comes down to LA often enough to see several of his HS friends a few times a year. He also makes an effort to stay in touch with his college buddies, and now has a whole new group of work friends. </p>
<p>It’s very possible, and very important, to have people in your life that you care about and spend time with if you want to stay sane in this crazy world. I’d say it’s equally important as the work you’re doing for school. You can do both, but you do have to manage your time. (Both kids were excellent students, so that is no excuse.)</p>
<p>When I was in high school, I found that I actually did better academically if I made sure to schedule fun things to do with my friends. I knew that I had to get my work done if I wanted to go out. It motivated me not to goof off.</p>
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<p>You don’t see them everyday outside of school. Work hard during the week, and plan Friday night, Saturday for fun. Sunday for family, and start again.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s possible.
Some people need to juggle even more than that:
social life, athletics, academics, volunteering/community service and extracurriculars.</p>
<p>According to me both are important but it is all up to you how do you manage. I agree that it is hard to balance both again it is up to you that how do you manage them. I had a group of fellows in high schools but very few of them are available and only on Facebook now.</p>
<p>I’ll be graduating this year. I was voted class clown, prom king, known as the partier, and whatever else. I will also be graduating with a 4.0 gpa and attending UW-Madison for engineering. You have to know when to work and when to play. Friday and Saturday nights I party hard, and all the rest of the days are spent studying or playing sports. There will be some weekenda sacrificed all together</p>