<p>Alright guys! Anyone out there who is class of 2016, you know what I am talking about... Junior years MADNESS has started. Anyone have tips? Advice? good coffee recipes fr overruled night study sessions? Post It1 And hopefully we will do well and survive this year!! I am a junior and it has ben 7 weeks since school started. This year is insane! I go to boarding arts school majoring in dance, so I don't end school until 5 30. Sometimes the stress wants to eat me up! So please post any hopeful, useful, tips guidelines, stories, anything! Thanks!! (and all juniors out there.... GOOD LUCK!) </p>
<p>I am a senior now and here’s one big advice: DON’T PROCRASTINATE. A majority of people think junior year is torture because they are easily distracted by other things and put important things (study for tests, essays due the next day) till the end, resulting in all-nighters and bad grades. Junior year won’t be that bad if you can manage your time wisely.</p>
<p>Bunmp!</p>
<p>I’m a Junior too. I know I don’t really have the experience where I can give advice to anyone else about Junior year, but hey; it wouldn’t hurt. And if we could get others to contribute to this thread as well, that’d be pretty great. What I’m saying comes from my first two years in high school, my first eight weeks of Junior year, and what I’ve seen/heard from friends in the upper classes, and my sister in college. It’s mostly just a compilation of personal stories though, and some emotional ■■■■ about motivation, which is pretty darn important in high school.</p>
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<li><p>Don’t know if you were serious about asking about coffee, but the best kind of coffee is black, straight out of the coffee machine (in my opinion). If you really like cream and sugar I’d suggest almond milk or a hazelnut creamer, but I don’t know any actual recipes. Although, I did hear that mixing coffee with monster is pretty great. I’d imagine that that’d have a pretty nice kick which would help with lack of sleep and late night studying. Oh! But don’t drink too much coffee. Turns out it just makes you really jittery and in constant need to empty your bladder. Long story short, National Coffee Day was a great but terrible day. </p></li>
<li><p>Things won’t always go according to plan, but maybe it’s best to go with it and make it work without stressing too much. I was originally going to have this one teacher for three of my classes (AP Computer Science, AP Calculus AB, and Dual Enrollment Networking) but because of “personal issues,” she isn’t currently at school. Well that totally sucked, bro. And it got pretty stressful because my school wasn’t able to properly replace her. I was freaking out about it for the longest time, because that’s literally half of my schedule. I ended up being put in online AP Computer Science and getting a replacement teacher for Networking from the college nearby. As for math I’m taking Calculus Honors and self-studying for the AP test. -sob- We’ll see how that goes. Anyhow, needless stress isn’t worth it. </p></li>
<li><p>You’re going to have teachers that you don’t like. I heard that last year, the AP English Language and Composition teacher literally assigned a couple of things that she didn’t grade. She also gave a huge project in fourth quarter around the time of the AP exams. My friend got so frustrated that he punched a wall. Ouch. I have her this year (I had her for English 2 Honors as well) so we’ll see how that goes. Also, my Networking teacher is a college professor. She totally doesn’t understand how to teach or deal with high school teenagers. I have an “A” in the class, but the vast majority is /not/ doing well right now. </p></li>
<li><p>Manage time well. I’m not going to go into this too much because I’m a hypocrite. Right now I should be studying for a quiz that I have in AP Chemistry, but I’m probably going to do that the class period before. Don’t be like me. It’s unhealthy. I feel like I waste so much time and I don’t even know what I do with it.</p></li>
<li><p>I want to say that it’s a bad idea to “take more than you can chew” or “overload yourself,” but first of all, that would be hypocritical of me to say, and secondly, I don’t believe that. Honestly, I would prefer to regret messing up than have to regret not trying hard enough. I get stressed really easily. It’s not a great feeling, and sometimes I feel like it’s too much for me. I’m taking four AP classes, self-studying one, taking one Dual Enrollment, Latin 2 (how is it considered standard?) and I’m in several clubs, two of which I’m the president of. But honestly, I’ve surprised myself by passing boundaries I thought were unreachable. Last year I managed to get all "A"s for semester grades, and that may not seem significant, but it meant a lot knowing the struggle I went through for it. I mean bro - we’re young. If there’s a time for us to give our all, whether it means messing up or achieving something in the process, it’s now. That’s the best kind of freedom. I don’t know what the advice here is, but it’s nice to keep this in mind. </p></li>
<li><p>Remember what motivates you. There are a lot of times that I feel deflated of motivation, and it’s really hard to try when that happens. And the great thing about goals is that they can be outrageous. You aren’t binding yourself to them, or saying that you’re a failure if you can’t achieve them. The quote “Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky” used to depress the heck out of me. But you know, it’s kind of true. I like to dream outrageously because it makes me feel like what I’m doing matters. And I don’t think I’m going to get accepted to Stanford, or get a Nobel Prize in Physiology, but I can imagine that those dreams could take me far. I could end up going to the university five minutes away for undergraduate school, majoring in biomedical science and minoring in chemistry (-shiver- it sounds like such a nice life), and maybe getting accepted to a nice graduate school to get a PhD and growing up to research and teach at a university. Thinking about these goals actually makes studying for my chemistry quiz a lot more attractive.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s nice to have friends that care about school as much as you do. It’s a different form of motivation, because it’s peer motivation. It’s nice. I have a group of friends that I can study with on weekends and practice for the PSAT. We talk about school a lot. It really brings out the importance. </p></li>
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<p>I have no idea what else to say. If you actually read through this entire post, I applaud you. That was way too long, and I am incredibly sorry about my needless babbling. </p>
<p>Get your standardized tests out of the way this year. That way you don’t have to deal with the stress of them next year </p>