Simple: you don’t.
what @basedchem said. I managed until 10th grade to get about 7 hours of sleep a night. Then 11th grade hit and now I’m lucky if I get a full 6 hours… it’s usually around 5, on rough nights 4, on realllyyyy rough nights 3.
I am an upper classman, and frankly to be honest, you don’t. I was getting up to ten hours until sophomore year hit, then I went down to seven to eight hours, sometimes six if I was studying. Now I’m a junior taking 4 weighted, two advanced classes, and a 0 period, as well as five other clubs and am lucky to get six hours of sleep, most nights I average around four hours, nights I really have to pack it in I pull all-nighters, but it really depends on the rigor of your school. For my school, we’re top in the state, so four weighted classes’ sucks the life right out of a lot of kids, much less five or six.
Fact is, if you take the classes and want the grades you have to make the sacrifices and do the work, or you won’t get the grades’. If that means losing sleep, then you have to ask yourself if you’re willing to make that sacrifice? If not, then pull out of your weighted now.
You need good study habits, no procrastinating, and have to sacrifice sleep if necessary. How badly do you want the A’s? You took the class now make the sacrifices.
I’ve gotten lucky enough to have teachers who typically assign work for a few days ahead and a block schedule, which means that during the weekends, I can do homework pretty much non-stop for a day or a day and a half with the result that during the school week I’m either asleep by 10:30 or am doing something fun (eg dancing or going to a show) at that time. I use an app called Forest on my phone to keep me from checking my Facebook or responding to texts when I am working, and I try to make good use of the breaks I give myself, like taking a walk or calling a friend rather than surfing the Internet. I’m a lot happier now than I was before I started making those little piece of time count.
Procrastination always made it difficult for me to sleep. Doing a little each night seems to help balance the coursework.
I don’t get why they make high school so brutal when I’m chilling in uni :o
7 AP classes (well, 8 scheduled but 2 are semester classes), officer of 2 clubs, member of 4, a tutor, am a babysitter for 10 hours/week, and I am active in community and elsewhere, so NO SLEEP (well, 3/4 hours a night). But, I’ve learned to deal with it. I don’t even need coffee or anything. I’ll regret it later, but for now I’m fine.
I have mostly the same classes as you, except for Physics, I have AP Stats. I lose sleep too (well, did I ever have sleep to begin with?) 4-5 hours of sleep every night. Sometimes I wake up even earlier to finish up school work.
@XoXdreamerXoX That’s very bad for your health. You can look up all the negative effects of sleep deprivation. Is it really worth it?
@dsi411 I’m well aware of the effects of sleep deprivation. I kind of do feel it’s worth it though. I like being challenged.