<p>How do i deal with Junior year stress? How have you handled it?</p>
<p>I didn't go to school for fifty days, then came back the last week of the trimester, did all the work, took finals, and am now on my way to a 4.0!</p>
<p>I don't know if that was the answer you were looking for, but it's pretty unstressful.</p>
<p>In order to deal with my junior year stress, I have a large calendar on my bedroom wall and every day when I wake up I make a gigantic x through the previous days box. There's like 67 days left in the year...and it's nice to see those boxes all crossed up! But, if anyone has other ideas I would also LOVE to hear them...</p>
<p>I just don't see it as stress. I'm having a lot of fun this year.</p>
<p>I'm a senior. I say, just take it one day at a time. Also sleep.</p>
<p>Smoke weed?</p>
<p>^^ LMFAO nice advice</p>
<p>i think senior year was more stressful, although the best way to handle it was to work hard during the week and have fun on the weekends, and try not to think about school when its not necessary...</p>
<p>IMHO, senior year involves the most <em>work</em>, but it's not necessarily the most stressful. I think junior year is the most stressful, as it starts the transition to college pace.</p>
<p>I agree w/ Fsu-Ru. I know a LOT of people who dealt w/ the stress by smoking pot. They still do, too. Unfortunately, it has had a majorly negative effect on their school work, but at least they never worried about it. lol</p>
<p>But, that's probably not the solution you're looking for. Just take it one day at a time. Don't stress about things that are happening more than two days from now. Worrying about that paper that is due in 4 weeks is just stupid. Do a little work everyday, and then you won't have any stress at the end. </p>
<p>I should have taken my own advice though. I procrastinate like no other. I haven't done any homework in a month and a half. Good thing I'm a senior.</p>
<p>Ugh... I probably wouldn't start that "paper that is due in 4 weeks" until the night before.</p>
<p>ditto....I procrastinate a ton and don't smoke pot yet I still don't feel that stressed. I'm generally a very laid back person though and nothing really gets to me, so that might be why.</p>
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ditto....I procrastinate a ton and don't smoke pot yet I still don't feel that stressed. I'm generally a very laid back person though and nothing really gets to me, so that might be why.
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<p>Ditto x 2. I don't let stress get to me. It isn't worth it.....life moves on. </p>
<p>I guess I'm mentally strong, probably because of the way I was raised.</p>
<p>Trust me... I have never taken my own advice. I always write the paper the night before it's due, and I don't smoke.</p>
<p>I definitely felt the stress last year, but it never really got to me. I just plowed through all the work, and here I am. Slacker extraordinaire! Haven't done any homework in a month and a half. Go me!</p>
<p>Work now, play later. lol</p>
<p>Yes, it is stressful. What I do it take it one day at a time.</p>
<p>I cried a lot. My best friend was just as crazy stressed as me so we'd have cry fests over AP chem. I journaled too, and did Tae-Bo. :) I also did some horribly stupid things and was an awful girlfriend to my then boyfriend of 3 years. Try to not do that. :)</p>
<p>doing the <em>opposite</em> of multitasking seems to keep me reasonably unstressed...when you're at school, DO SCHOOL and listen and everything. don't try to do facebook and cc when you're doing hw-- just get the work done. etc, etc.
and every now and then plan something totally random and fun on a school night if you don't have overwhelmingly much work that day- i'll just call up my friend and jump in the car and we'll go out for an hour and get ice cream. it's such a good destressing thing.</p>
<p>Junior year sucks, but you're rounding the home stretch.</p>
<p>Just think about that and tough it out.
(although, I thought senior year would be easier, and it is workload-wise, but instead I spend all of that time organizing things for ECs I'm now in charge of and applying to colleges/scholarships)</p>
<p>Junior and Senior years were not bad; this year has been far more exciting than the last, mainly because we are now at the top of the school food chain, and have a dynamic and kind underclass to boot (minus the sophomores) who have turned the school into a nearly stress-free environment because they actually shoulder their respective portions in extracurricular activities.</p>
<p>Actually, the actual school work isn't too overwhelming for me right now (Junior year). But I sure do put more work into it than last year. But it's just the COLLEGE part that's stressing me out quite a bit. Every time when I look at my scores and the standards of some colleges, I get so discouraged. But my way of trying to cope with it is to stop thinking and worrying so much...</p>