<p>All I do is study. My entire life revolves around studying.
I have this huge stack of AP/SAT/ACT study guides next to my bed that I read and annotate whenever I have free time.
I take some with me when I'm doing volunteer work so I can read them if I have a chance.
When I go out for a jog, I listen to AP course-related podcasts so I'm not wasting any time I could be using for studying.
Even when I practice piano, whenever I practice technical exercises, I'll prop up a study guide on the piano and read it while I'm playing. </p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with being a devoted student. As for whether you have a life, trust me when I tell you it could be much worse. </p>
<p>In high school, my existence was almost pointless. I didn’t bother to study or do homework, I had no extracurricular activities, I didn’t have any friends to spend time with and I wasn’t even close with my family. I was basically that weird quiet kid who sat in the corner staring at the floor. I disctinctly recall days when I would, from the moment I woke up to the moment I fell asleep that night, go the entire day without even opening my mouth to talk to anyone.</p>
<p>It was seriously as if I existed to do nothing more than occupy space. So don’t go around thinking there’s something wrong with you. There was something wrong with ME; you, on the other hand, are bettering yourself by studying. It’s a perfectly good way to spend your time.</p>
<p>are you content? are you happy? are you lonely? or do you want something different? You are certainly investing in yourself, which is a good thing. I hope you have enough social contact with friends, because the smartest people in the world need some friends and a break from their routine to refresh their spirits. If you are happy, I see no problem with the dedication to your studies while your brain is still developing! :)</p>
<p>I almost wish I was more like you. I’m busy with ECs and I try to be doing something with friends when I’m not because I just don’t like being alone. I seriously can’t force myself to study, and I wish I could. Even last year when I wasn’t as social and as involved, I still made bad use of my time.</p>
<p>Personally if ur happy that’s all that matters. I wouldn’t be content with only studying, but I know people that are. Just make sure your Hs career is something you’ll look back on happily as an adult.</p>
<p>Moroccan Proverb: “Those who laugh when they’re young, cry when they’re old.” All of this hard work and sacrifice will pay off soon enough. Sometimes, when I see myself reading about colleges or working on AP homework while kids in my school are at some party on a Friday night, I imagine that one day, perhaps five or so years from now, I’ll be the one partying, after I have my degree and the other kids are working dead end jobs. (Lame, right? But it’s comforting)</p>
<p>On a serious side, I do agree with preamble1776. Most of us at CC are spending our Friday nights developing excellent study habits while the majority of high schools are spending their Friday nights getting drunk and wasted. So in the future, we will likely be accepted and succeed at top schools while the others will likely go to small and no-name institutions and flunk out. So it will all pay up in the end.</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with you if you’re enjoying what you do. Nobody can tell you otherwise but there is nothing wrong with relaxing and winding down now and then. And I agree with the post above me, there is always a healthy balance between partying and studying, though I personally would prefer studying more.</p>
<p>I prefer studying over partying as well. But I do party sometimes (every other or every 3rd week). As people have said, it’s a balance. The OP has no balance at all. Studying dominates his/her life. That’s not really healthy.</p>
<p>I’ve never been able to make friends, which is the main reason I’ve been able to focus so much on academics all my life. People always assume everybody would have some awesome social life if only they didn’t study so much and learned to balance their lives or whatever, but I wouldn’t have friends even if I never studied at all.</p>
<p>In high school you can excel if you keep to yourself and focus on academics. In college you can usually also disregard your social life and focus on academics. However, when you enter the real world, social skills become as if not more important than book smarts. You should probably start working on yours sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>Very true. Though I’m a natural introvert, you have to come out of your shell eventually and realize that we live an extroverted world. You can’t avoid people your entire life. If you go in with the attitude that you can’t make any friends I bet my life on it that you won’t but if you go in with a better outlook, things will more than likely turn out fine.</p>
<p>I’m well aware of that. People have been telling me I’ll fail in the job market since I was in elementary school. But it’s not really the kind of thing you can work on - you can’t make friends unless you already have friends. No one wants to be friends with someone who has no friends.</p>
<p>That is so so soso false. For the first two years of high school I was totally socially inept. I had friends, but I sucked socially. Since about the start of my junior year I forced myself to be more social and now my social skills are far better than they were when I was a freshman. You can improve socially, you just gotta try.</p>
<p>Repped. So true. In Middle School I didn’t have many friends; this year as a junior in HS I have a lot more. True, appearance does play a role, but you have to look decent to have a lot more friends…</p>
<p>I disagree with everyone saying “as long as you like what you’re doing, it’s fine”. It’s good to look at studying as a valid use of your time, but it’s sad for it to be the main focus of your life- it doesn’t sound like studying is your favorite thing to actually do because it seems like you’ve got nothing to compare it to. I recommend you start having fun by bungie jumping.</p>
<p>Work isn’t most adults’ favorite thing to do but they do it most of the time because they have to. You have to study a lot to go to a good college. It’s not sad, it’s reality.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather- you don’t think it’s sad at all that now kids are forced to think of how to look good to college admissions from day one of freshman year? Kids have to get good grades, a good SAT/ACT, the best ECs, etc, etc, and don’t have time to, you know, be kids.</p>