<p>How do you handle it all?</p>
<p>The homework, the classes, the extracurricular activities, the job, the volunteer work, etc.</p>
<p>I'm currently a senior with stressful senioritis, 4 AP classes, extracurricular activities and various positions in them, sports (although that was in the fall), difficult and annoying teachers, weekly volunteering, and I'm just about to get a job at Coldstone hopefully next month. For the most part, my grades have kept up with A's. Although I have a D+ in my AP Stats class right now, which should be wrong....</p>
<p>What do you do? What's your strategy?</p>
<p>I personally,</p>
<p>a) go home after school and work on homework immediately. My term is "beasting" it until I get it all done. I try not to take breaks or naps because I usually overdo them or it just makes me more tired.
b) Eating food always helps. And I actually don't drink coffee. I try to eat some type of breakfast, whether it be cereal, a granola bar, or a banana.
c) I use my planner extensively.
d) I try to watch the least amount of TV as possible (although that's starting to be a problem with this senioritis of not wanting to do any homework).
e) I sleep when I can. Having a 0 period doesn't really help though.
f) When I need to de-stress I'll take a run or play the piano.
g) I attempt not to procrastinate. And if I know I will have to, I make sure I have enough time for it and that I'm "prepared" for it. i.e. food, music, all my supplies for whatever project I'm doing, and a plan to know what exactly I have to do.</p>
<p>So yeah. I was just wondering, because seeing as how I might get that job soon, I wanted some ideas. Since I've never really had employment for the most part in high school, so I don't really know how that's going to effect me time-wise.</p>
<p>For me there is always two kinds of work: "real" work and relaxing work, things that need to be done, but which actually de-stress me.
For example, writing the students' paper is one of this kind. Music, of course. Art projects. Essay writing (I so love writing them..) </p>
<p>TV is also something I try to avoid. It's better to surf the internet :-)
No, it's a waste of time. I watch the news, I watch selected documentations (we have a DSAT-receiver which records them and I watch them later) and sometimes something for fun.
But never brainless stuff.
Takes too much time.</p>
<p>(Sorry for my grammar. Not native)</p>
<p>I've basically stopped volunteering. Otherwise, I go home and watch TV. I have a notebook where I write down my hw but, I always remember it so it's not exactly too bad. And, for me, I procrastinate pretty bad. I have two jobs... For me, destressing is a good book. I normally start hw around 8/9?</p>
<p>im like a TV junkie. but i'm also somewhat involved and have a part time job. However, at my school it's nearly impossible to take four APs at once. Unless you want to slit your wrists. We have a block schedule so you have four classes a day 80 minutes each (except 3rd pd b/c of lunch- 90 min) plus a 40minute Academic Prep. If you were to have all four APs it would be similar to having 8 APs at once. But APs aren't too popular at my school so some are during the same period, so it's hard to fit it all in.</p>
<p>So, to the point. I'm in two Aps (English Lit and Physics B). Physics has been all year while English started like 4-5 weeks ago. I find that my courseload hasn't been to bad. I also take a Honors Humanities class (think history/english), Yearbook I (*eyeroll. you'd think this would be an easy class, but it's so hard b/c my teacher is an idiot), and a Math class. On the plus side Humanities and Yearbook are Wrap, and I switch those two classes during my 3rd period everyday. But what d to deal is actually watch TV and do my homework unless it's something I need the computer for. IDK I just deal. Most of my activities happen either during the school day or on the weekend.</p>
<p>Now everything's pretty chill with me, but last semester I had 2 AP classes, 1 college class, a job (2 jobs in december), 2 clubs (volunteering mostly) and an internship (along with college apps etc.). How I handled it; I avoided watching too much tv or spending too much time on the computer; whenever I did watch some, I'd do hw at the same time. Don't spend time sitting down doing essentially nothing, because once you get used to it, you'll never want to go back to actually doing stuff. I listened to a lot of music while doing homework to keep me focused. I did my hw during lunch and packed myself food instead of going out to McDonalds at lunch everyday. I went to bed by 11pm/midnight at the latest. I ate lots and lots of food (but no coffee/energy drinks). Then I went to dances and friends stuff once in a while to vent and release all my stress. </p>
<p>Now, I'm greatly infected with senioritis. Now I do not follow any of the above things I did last semester. But if you still have the willpower to do some of the above, I'm sure you'll be fine!</p>