<p>It seems like everyone spends at least 15 hours per week on ECs. Mine don't even reach 10. How does everyone spend so much time and still get high grades?</p>
<p>Well I Pre plan in the summer. And in my school EC last for 1 hour some 4 like speech and debate. Also since am like in 100 clubs I have to do my homework at lunch :/.</p>
<p>Good time management I guess. I am in 9 (maybe 10) clubs, Leadership groups, Junior olympic and varsity sports and that all takes a lot.
With just JO Volleyball alone that is 18 hours a week. I do my homework to and from games and practices and before school on the bus. I like being busy, so I’m not ever really stressed.</p>
<p>I’m like Nike man, I just do it.</p>
<p>Is your homework just like busy work then? It’s hard to do homework in small free times between other activities when you have to analyze things and actually think hard about the questions.</p>
<p>if you’re counting sports hours as ec’s then golf is great. during my season I’d say I spend about 24 hours/week playing matches/practicing. If you include weekends then it’s more like 30 hours.</p>
<p>I honestly do homework in other classes that are easy (health, English sometimes), before school starts (I get to school 30 minutes before it starts), sometimes during lunch (if I have a big essay) and of course after school (though that means I get very little sleep). Yeah I am one of those people is probably over 15 (NAHS 1-3 hours depending on what we work on, 5 hours of Hebrew and Judaic classes, 4 hours of volunteering a week, 1 hour of Model UN, if you count planning close to 3-4, plus a bunch of other things that are not every week but I tend to have one of those things each week which is another 2-5 hours). Basically I am too busy.</p>
<p>in college i suggest doing your work earleir in the day if you can. many push it off till later saying or thinking theyll do it then, but thats when other things happen and then it is so easy not to end up doing your work.</p>
<p>I usually saved most of my ecs for the weekend, and didn’t do 30 different ecs. Also, I didn’t spend a lot of time goofing around. Granted, I was still up until 3 am every day of my junior year and got about 3 hrs. of sleep per night (so I was screwed anyways).</p>
<p>I’m a part of 12 clubs, play varsity golf, and volunteer with 3 different organizations, and this will be my first year working too. Basically it just comes down to time management (and getting accustomed to 4-5 hours of sleep per week night).</p>
<p>I guess that would explain it. I can sacrifice some sleep, but not that much.</p>
<p>the reality of this stuff is really sad. people shouldn’t have to stay up into the AMs to be competitive</p>
<p>Ah, high school. </p>
<p>The short answer is that I completely overloaded myself, did too many ECs, and basically burnt out in high school.</p>
<p>So, the short answer is that the people filling their days with ECs are quite possibly overloading themselves, which, in hindsight, was a bad idea. I would fall asleep in the morning classes, that I remember.</p>
<p>I would work on time management to see if you can reduce stress that way.</p>
<p>I guess it’s time management. I’m in varsity golf and marching band (which should be super fun to manage when school starts). Golf matches can last for five hours and three hours for band practice. I’ll also join a few clubs once school starts. I do alot of homework on the bus to golf matches, or when we’re waiting for the bus.</p>
<p>^Wow!! You’re a rising freshman, but you’re on the Varsity golf team?</p>
<p>You guys all try so hard, just enjoy life and high school…</p>
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<p>I don’t really, but the few activities I’m in are generally very time consuming. Marching band and jazz band are each like 20+ hours a week, granted at different times of the year.</p>
<p>I wrote before about all the things that I’m a part of…Well okay I do enjoy high school. My ECs are the only things that get me through the day…And I don’t need a lot of sleep to function perfectly fine at all either. I’m not saying that what I’ve done can be done by other people, and I don’t really think anyone else is saying that. The OP asked for what we do, so we answered. I wouldn’t take back what I’ve done throughout high school at all.</p>
<p>Its just about dedication. Just making yourself do it and not putting it in the back burner (although occasionally during finals week or AP exams I will put it off) but just telling yourself that this is important and I need to treat this like having good attendance at school. Usually you can handle a lot more difficulty in your schedule than you think you can.</p>
<p>I took an extra morning class for jazz band from 7:15-8:30, Mon-Fri. I also was doing track and field from 3-5 Mon-Fri and practice always started with a 2k run. Piano practice is about 1.5-2 hrs daily to get my grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certificate. I did badminton an hour a week and tutored people for five hours a week. Maybe I’m just physically weak but I was exhausted to the point of falling asleep in class. I still made 95%+ in all my classes and did various volunteering. I wish I had ditched jazz since I already have piano as a fine arts activity. This year, I want to try taekwondo and swimming. I also want to try for leadership positions in Earth Club and Model UN</p>