<p>I've somehow managed to create a schedule of hell next year. Is there anyone here whose gone through a ridiculous senior schedule and made it out alive... if so, have you any advice? </p>
<p>This is it:</p>
<p>Classes-
AP Government
AP English
AP Euro
AP Statistics
AP Calculus BC
Spanish 4</p>
<p>Clubs-
Model UN (President)
- I have a lot of refurbishing to do, as well as taking the club to the school's first out of state conference and trying to partner it with a national UN funded program called Cry America </p>
<p>Speech & Debate (Vice President)
- Original Oratory; competes every Saturday for 4 months. Includes out of district tournaments and a hell of a lot of commitment. </p>
<p>Mock Trial (Historian)
- I'm considering giving up my position on the "top team" and in stead keeping my officer title but dedicating myself to a lower, newcomer team so I can help them get in the swing of things without committing myself to putting an extreme amount of effort </p>
<p>NHS
- Volunteering. Lots of it. </p>
<p>Jobs:
Holding a job at a local coffee shop, as well as interning with Organizing for America... Obama's support crew throughout the nation. </p>
<p>I used to be in Drama Club and Amnesty International, but I just don't think I can handle any extra stuff this year. </p>
<p>I'm doing my best with time management and whatnot, but I could use any help with how to allocate roles among club officers to reduce the pressure on me and effective time management. </p>
<p>I don't want to look like an overachieving grubber with all this, I sincerely want to do every single one of the aforementioned activities. Not so much calc and spanish, but that's not a choice I have :/ </p>
<p>How'd you handle it, on top of college apps?</p>
<p>If you’re applying to top colleges, I’d drop the innternship if there’s any question about keeping grades up. The first semester grades are much more important than what you could accomplish in a new internship.</p>
<p>some late nights. That is when my college stuff generally got done. And with the realization that college apps are done by New Years (if not earlier) and school is virtually done sometime in January. I kept having to tell myself, “just a couple more months. a couple weeks. days…” and that is what kept me working hard. Like if you’re running and you’re like “one more lap” it’s mentally and physically easier to step it up into another gear for that final push.</p>
<p>And yeah, like hmom said, consider dropping the job or the internship. I don’t even see why Obama needs much more support if he was just elected president.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m trying to get a head start on college apps. Finished off my essay the other night, working on my speech and debate speech right now, and I’m trying to get the year laid out for all my clubs before school starts. </p>
<p>As for the internship, it’s not technically new I guess. I’m interning with the Cleveland Democratic Party and a couple of lawyers simultaneously this summer, and they kind of recruited me from the Democratic Party because of all the stuff going on with healthcare reform. They said they’d let me work from home and I’m meeting with them tomorrow to make sure they know how busy my schedule really is, and I guess I’ll see if they’re willing to accept that I can’t do a lot of traveling for them and that my school work comes first.</p>
<p>yeah, I’ve heard that Stats is a lot of timetaking gruntwork, but not tough. and Gov isn’t hard at all/I love politics. Euro, on the other hand, is one of the toughest, most work-intenseive classes offered at our high school. I’m sorta just taking it because my MUN and Mock Trial adviser teaches it and he’s amazing. </p>
<p>I’m actually most worried about Spanish. Never got the hang of it. </p>
<p>It’s not so much the “toughness” as it is the sheer amount of work to get done, even if it is just busy work. I just wondered if anyone had time management tips.</p>
<p>I don’t particularly think it’s tough. I mean, when you get to a university and take challenging courses, you’ll have it harder (though perhaps not on the busy work, but definitely on studying for exams). Now, it could be that your school is unusually tough, but I don’t think that the APs are anything to fret over.</p>
<p>Oh no, I’m not too worried about my class schedule’s rigor as much as I am scheduling out time for the rest of the stuff that take out hours like crazy. My school is number one in ohio, so the subjects definitely have more difficult tinge to them, but nothing I wouldn’t be able to handle if it weren’t for the other stuff.</p>
<p>like I said, Messiah, it’s not about comparing whose school schedule is tougher. Mine is tough, but in no way the toughest in all of CC. It’s about handling school along with everything else. (Also, do not slack off in Chem. It’s not too much memorization but paying attention throughout the year is pretty important for doing well on the AP test. Just a word of advice from a very, very frantic last minute chem studier)</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for those of you who helped. I’m considering dropping the internship.</p>