<p>Yeaaaah, anyone else feeling that junior year (supposedly the MOST IMPORTANT YEAR OF ALL) is just being majorly awful? I wish it was over already! I mean, even having senioritis is better then this monotone of crazy studying, worrying about AP tests, SATs, SATIIS, college apps NEXT YEAR and feeling depressed about all the work you have ahead of you! Only thing I'm looking foward to atm is xmas break in about a week :) (of course, I do have three tests on the day RIGHT BEFORE, but eh. that's life.)</p>
<p>Anyone have any good books or movies or anything to distract me from my state of depressssion? ._. </p>
<p>And also study techniques for subjects like chem, physics... do you just sit down and do it? Make flashcards? I've been studying my butt off for AP Chemistry, but my grade just remains the same...</p>
<p>yeah, junior year is pretty rough so far, although i hear first semester of senior year at my school is absolutely horrible. i have 9 study halls a week though so that helps a lot haha. </p>
<p>hm... good books- im reading memoirs of a geisha, thats an easy fun read. movies- most of my favorites are really sad, but A League of Their Own is really funny i love it. </p>
<p>studying for physics.. idk if this would work for your particular class, but mine is pretty easy so i just redo the different type of problems with the equations for the chapter(s) the night before the test because usually there are only a few different types of problems that come up on the tests.. if that makes any sense.</p>
<p>I could've written that myself!
This is by far the hardest year so far. On top of all the college prep stuff, the material itself is just so much more difficult than that of the previous years, it's unbelievable. My courseload isn't the most difficult at my school, but out of the difficult classes offered, I seem to have picked out ones with the most amount of work and the most intense teachers. Everyday there is at least 4 hours of homework - crazy.
Studying techniques that have worked in the past (but no longer do due to crazy hard tests):
- Read over your notes as well as the section in the book on the topic pertaining to the test and make a kind of outline of everything you know. Don't write anything down before understanding/memorizing it. Review the notes you have made
- For English vocabulary as well as History events/dates/people I always made flashcards</p>
<p>OP: Be careful because if this continues to happen, talk to your parents or an adult you know. I thought I had 'junioritis', but I was diagnosed with mild depression. I'm feeling so much better (and happy :p). Keep talking to your family about your problems or stress, hang out with your friends, have a balance of work and fun, and understand there's so much more to life. </p>
<p>Fun books: Da Vinci Code & 5 people you meet in heaven </p>
<p>Study techniques: Talk to your teacher about the material you're struggling, get the prep books, get a tutor, ask someone or a genius friend for help</p>
<p>You shouldn't be sad that you have so much work. Just think that after this year you will be like so free. Sophmore year is the worst. My only like hard class is AP World history because my teacher is like crazy hard and only like 5 people have A's.</p>
<p>Hanae, this is also about the time last year when I felt like everything was starting to fall apart and nothing was going my way. This best advice I can tell you is to hang in there! Because once you get to February vacation, junior year gets a whole hell of a lot better in my opinion. I remember April, May, and June of junior year having the most fun I ever did in my life.</p>
<p>I found my junior year to be challenging, but I never worried about college stuff. I think it was helpful to just not think about anything college related until March or so of your junior year when you take the SAT. However, junior year is by far the hardest and most stressful year in high school I thought. I am a senior now, I am taking harder classes than I was last year and I find that I am doing a lot better in my classes.</p>
<p>Aww, thanks you guys! These replies made me smile! And I feel somewhat better, lol. At least it's not just me? ;) I'll try to hang out with my friends more (except that most of them are serious dorks and spend all day at the library...) and have fun while I can! Then after break... back to work. New semester also, new classes always make me feel better :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the book/movie suggestions! I'll check 'em out at the library prontooo. Everyone here is the best!</p>
<p>I'm a junior, and this is one stinking hard year. And I had three AP's last year. Junior year is just tough.</p>
<p>I like to take days off. I'll fix my homework so I can have one guilt-free day of Law & Order, On-Demand movies and staring at the ceiling. Nothing is nicer. </p>
<p>Also, my mom lets me skip school one day a quarter, as long as I know I'm not missing anything important. Sometimes, it's just so hard, you need a day to realize that there is life outside of GPA, SAT, AP, etc. I can miss 12 days without any school people caring, so 4 a year isn't bad at all.</p>
<p>I'm a junior and I love it. This is the best year ever. Well, aside from freshman year.</p>
<p>If you take classes (except for US history ahh but it's required), SAT IIs, and AP exams in subjects that you love (bio, chem, math for me), you would naturally not hate studying for them. I'm getting involved in a ton of competitions (olympiads, a science fair, state-wide competitions, etc) in my areas of interest from January through May, and so far I've enjoyed studying for them.</p>
<p>That's a good idea, theoneo, but I don't know what earthly being convinced me to take ap euro history, history being my worst subject and all! (APUSH is required at your school? that must be awful!) But I don't know, the subjects I enjoy (humanities, french, lit) are in next semester so it's coming up :]</p>
<p>All in all, I wish everyone happy holidays! :)</p>
<p>And I've been dreading junior year for awhile now...now that you guys are around halfway through the year, is there any sort of advice you guys can offer?</p>
<p>I'm taking a total of 4 AP/Honors classes at the moment...and I'm expecting 6 next year. I have no idea how I'm going to maintain that workload while keeping up with my ECs. =/</p>
<p>Oh man, lol. APs in sophmore year! We're not allowed to take AP classes here until you've taken the honor class (so usually only juniors and seniors take AP classes at our school!) </p>
<p>Don't dread junior year, it's not that bad. I'm probably just complaining because I'm somewhat of a slacker (which you don't seem to be, considering your courseload and EC mention!) and thinking of all that work makes me feel stressed, lol. It can be quite fun at times, because you're no longer considered as the sorta-new-but-not-quite class and the teachers know it's tough on you, so they're all awesome and treat you like adults ;]</p>
<p>But seriously, if you're taking a lot of APs/hard courses next year - you've gotta pace yourself. And be verrrry organized, on task all the time, and make sure that your work doesn't catch up with you! (Especially if you're a total scatterbrain like me!) If you have very time-consuming ECs, I'd be self-efficient as possible, getting my homework done a few days early, and no cramming for last minute tests. I'm sure you'll be fine, if you're already worrying sophmore year! ;)</p>
<p>ugh I'm a junior and I hate IT!
I went from straight As to 3 As, 1 low B, 2 high Bs and 1 C on my progress report.
I have no motivation to get my hw done and to study for tests... I think it's because I spent my whole summer doing SAT prep so I didn't really have a rest time and now I can't get back into the work mode. I don't know, but it's really worrying me. Maybe I have mild depression? My social life isn't so great at the moment because last year I went out with my friends almost everyweekend, but now I rarely do... except last year there was so much drama between me and my friends that I ended up getting depressed a lot of the times so maybe it's better for me this year.
I hate history, and our history teacher is new and doesn't know what he's doing, but I'm taking AP US history because a US history credit is required, and I took AP Euro last year.
French is becoming increasingly hard, and there's really nothing I can do to step up in that class especially for the listening and speaking sections... you're either good at speaking and comprehending french or you're not.
and AP bio is getting harder
As well as Precalculus - trig basically killed my grades, but hopefully it'll get better from here.
I'm slacking in English cause the SCarlet LETTER SUCKS MAJOR!!!!!!!
and I'm not doing Acting journals cause I unweighted the class.. but a C still looks bad though even if it doesn't count for GPA
and I didn't change twice for gym cause I had to do HW, and now I'm getting a B......</p>
<p>ugh... I don't know how I can redeem myself when I have no driving force inside me to do so</p>
<p>I KNOW what you mean! All my classes this year seem so much more difficult then before, and even though I promised myself I'd do better... I'm still maintaining my OLD gpa. ew. and you live in mass? what hs do you go to? :O</p>
<p>And thisyearsgirl - my thoughts exactly. So close... yet so far. All the seniors in my school look blissful (well... to some degree) this time of year, all getting into their EA/ED schools and now they can slack for half a year :]</p>
<p>I'm actually doing better this year academically. I don't have first trimester grades yet, but I'm expecting my GPA to be ~6.4 UW (out of 7, at a crazy competitive school where anything over 6 is great), up from a 6.0 first trimester last year. My math grade has gone from a 5+ (B/B+) to a 7- (A/A+) because my new teacher actually explains things. Also, I was having a hard time emotionally last year (friend drama, parents fighting, grandmother [with whom I was very close] died), and spent a lot of time sick in bed... so anything is better, really.</p>
<p>That said, I'm sick to death of high school in general. And the workload in my chemistry class (my favorite class, AND the bane of my existence) is K-I-L-L-I-N-G M-E.</p>