<p>I am currently trying to do APUSH homework but I’ve been out all day and I’m so tired but I have to get this done because I don’t have time to do it tomorrow. </p>
<p>I find that taking short naps right when I get home from school helps exponentially. Come home, close your blinds, get in bed, and set your timer for 30 min-1 hour. When you wake up, you will feel refreshed and energized to get your work done.
I’ve also heard of a method called the “caffeine nap” which is when you drink a cup of coffee before taking a short nap. Allegedly, it makes you feel like you’ve gotten a night’s worth of sleep. I’ve never used it though!</p>
<p>Junior year as a whole was basically a sleepless year for me. First semester I had basically zero sleep and a pretty active social life. Second semester, I got better (not great) sleep and basically zero social life. Both semesters I managed to slide by with decent grades/standardized testing/mediocre ECs.</p>
<p>I really think that what they say is true. Out of grades, social life, and sleep, one can only have at most two of them. </p>
<p>I would definitely say that it gets better senior year, especially second semester. The only stress I had first semester was college applications. I had a better hold on my studies, so grades weren’t an issue. I just had to study at the right time and in the right way. I probably averaged 6-7 hours a night. Now, I have the luxury of getting 8-9 hours of sleep most days. College apps are over, and senioritis is kicking in. I’m not saying that I’m completely letting my academics slip. I’m just not as OCD about everything. In the three previous semesters, 90% of the grades I received were 97+ (a 100 and a 90 are no different at my school, so…). Now, I’m much more relaxed about everything. In the past 3 weeks, I had to stay up late studying probably once, at most twice.</p>
<p>It gets better! The only problem for me right now is the occasional insomnia (really, really irritating, but I’m in the process of fixing it).</p>
<p>Junior, 5-6 hours of sleep. Idk, sleep deprivation just doesn’t bother me and it has no noticeable effects on my academic performance :P</p>
<p>Senior here. I usually get 6-7 hpurs of sleep, though I am currently getting around 4-5. I wouldn’t say I have a huge course load. I just slack off during the day and study at night. These days, I go to sleep at 1 am or 2, and get up at 6 or 6:30.</p>
<p>Hey! </p>
<p>I’m a junior in high school as well! Lol. Fortunately I only enrolled in one AP class this year, that class being AP Eng. 11, and my EC’s don’t allow me to be home until around 6pm. When I get home, if necessary, I will set my alarm for 30 minutes into the future and TAKE A NAP. Power naps give you much more energy to finish work. It also helps to snack on a some food (although avoiding carbs would be smart). That’s besides the point. I usually prioritize my work load by due dates, then length & difficulty. It helps to list them down in a small notebook, or even just a piece of paper. To have a visual organization of what you’re supposed to do, relieves me partially of some stress caused by the overwhelming pile of work and studying I must do.</p>
<p>Sometimes when my homework is just too much, I will go to sleep by 9:00pm, and wake up at 4:00am grab a small breakfast I can fit on my desk, then continue on. My AP teacher has recently told me that sleeping after reading through an assignment can benefit you. What goes on in your mind while you sleep, is that your brain processes things that you were trying to resolve earlier, and resolves them as you sleep. So in extremely desperate times, this is what I will do.</p>
<p>Sorry for the digressions, but I truly hope this helps!</p>
<p>I have a friend who plays soccer and had practice like 3 days a week and games every weekend in neighboring states. Somehow she can do all her homework, get perfect grades (she has never gone below an A-), and she sometimes goes to the movies with friends on weekends or something fun and social. She’s taking 3 APs like me, and I’m not doing as well as her. </p>
<p>I’m on the full IBDP schedule in my senior year, and sleep is a distant memory. Usually when I do sleep, I get to bet around 1 in the morning, and wake up at 6 or 6:15 and start my day. If I was too exhausted to finish the homework the night before, I wake up at 5 or so to finish that. So anywhere from 4-5 hours of sleep per night. I’m usually good during the day, though I start it with coffee and sometimes have a soda during school, but I’m dying in 4th block math. I mean, it’s literally all I can do not to fall asleep (though I attest this to a mixture of a boring teacher, a long day, and sleep deprivation).</p>
<p>I mean, at the end of the day, the homework has to be done, the test have to be reviewed for, whatever. I spread my homework out as much as possible. The trick that has really helped me (at first kind of sounds counterintuitive, but trust me, it works) is to just do whatever’s distracting you before you ever start homework. For me, it’s YouTube. I have to check my subscriptions and catch up. Once I’ve completely caught up, then I don’t have the start-and-stop distractions along the way with my homework, I can just work and keep going. Do I start a little later? Yeah, usually I sit down and start at about 6:30-7:00. But when I sit, I can power through it all at once. And this is, might I mention, after not getting home until ~5:00.</p>
<p>4 hours of sleep usually. coffee gets me through the day and then i crash</p>
<p>Junior with a full IB Diploma schedule: 5-6 hours a night. I go to bed between midnight and 1 am, and don’t wake u until ~6 am. If there’s a large assignment due the next day, I’ll sometimes stay up until 2-2:30, but that’s pretty much my limit. Admittedly, this is mostly due to procrastinating on my homework - usually I don’t start until 6 or 7 pm, but sometimes I don’t even start until after 9. I know that if I managed my time better, I could easily get 8-9 hours of sleep a night, but alas. </p>
<p>Sometimes, immediately after I come home from school, I go to my room and take a 1-2 hour power nap. On the weekends, to make up for my lack of sleep during the week, I usually get 11-12 hours of sleep. </p>
<p>I’m a junior taking three APs and the rest are honors classes. This wasn’t hugely unmanageable the first marking period, but my second and third marking periods (end of first semester beginning of second semester) are completely consumed by my ECs. I’m a competitive fencer and have practice three hours every week day and 4-12 hours on Saturdays. </p>
<p>I’ve been managing my workload similarly to others on this thread. I squeeze stuff in between class periods and go to the library for lunch. Because I’m taking AP Physics I get a mandatory study hall, I can get some work done for other classes during the school day. Other than that, I drink a lot of tea and crash on Sundays. Snow days have been a godsend for me recently haha</p>
<p>I could use a Starbucks DoubleShot right now. Those things really keep you awake.</p>
<p>It sucks. My school starts outrageously early (7:25), so to be ready in time for the bus, I have to be awake at 5:15, which I sometimes sleep past my alarm, but those are long stories.</p>
<p>School should start later.</p>
<p>@TexanCowboy I totally agree. My classes start at 7:45 for me, which is an absolute pain.</p>
<p>I’m a senior now and I’m still not getting as much rest as I would like, but that is subject to change now that robotics is over. As a junior, it was a miracle if I managed to sleep more than 5 hrs. =/</p>
<p>My sleep cycle is a vicious cycle. I try my best to sleep on time but, procrastination gets the better of me and when that happens I usually sleep around 1 or 3. The next day I crash after school and the cycle starts yet again.
What I have found to be effective is to carry a pocket diary and write your schedule on it event though you may not follow it, you gradually will.</p>
<p>I’m a commuter so I generally wake up around 5:30 to catch the train at 6:40, which gets me to school around 8. I get home usually around 17:30-19:00, depending on the day, so I understand how it can be tough to manage everything (especially because I’m essentially useless on the train as I’m usually exhausted lol). Being in IB and having to commute means I get around 5-6 hours max - usually I get 3-5 (sometimes less, depending on the work load). Procrastinating doesn’t help. </p>
<p>I typically get about 6.5-7.5 hrs of sleep a night, but I’m the type of person who needs a lot of sleep lol. Even though everyone hates Mondays, I find that I am least tired on that day. As the week goes on, my sleep debt continues to accumulate so by Friday, I’m like: ಠ_ಠ A;SKDJF;KASJD;FLKAJSD;KFLAJ;DLKFJASKJ. BLANKET IS SO WARM <3</p>
<p>I also find that the more tired I get, the slower I do things. This just makes me sleep later and later. It’s not that I have lots of HW (5 APs, but they are the ones with less work at my school: AP French, AP econ, AP lit, AP studio art, AP stats) but my sleep debt makes me lazy and more prone to procrastinating by exploring the internet. Youtube is my weakness…</p>
<p>i’m about the same, with 4 AP classes, and the rest are GT (which is like honors) with EC’s and two jobs and an immense amount of homework, but i tend to get about 2-3 hours, 5 at most.
but what has helped me a fair amount is allotting about an hour to each assignment, and if i don’t finish it, come back to it after i’m done everything else. also, i deactivate my twitter during the week and i exercise before i even think about starting my homework, even if i’m exhausted. and give yourself breaks, don’t just go all night or else you will have a few break downs before the semester is over. and the way that i plan out my assignments is left brain-right brain-left brain-right brain (eg. math then apush then ap spanish then ap music theory) and do what you enjoy the most last, because it motivates you more to get through that awful precis reading about the reconstruction era. </p>
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and stick to your deadlines and make your teachers like you!!! i can not stress this enough!!! *- </p>
<p>and if there’s a problem you can’t figure out, coffee is always the answer. always. (but if it’s 3:27 am, maybe try decaf)</p>
<p>I take a pretty hard schedule but I can’t function without at least 7 hours… so I’m usually in bed by 10 and up at 5:45. My strategy is to do a lot on the weekends, during the school day, and as soon as I get home. If I manage my time, I should have 3-4 hours of hw at most. Many of my friends have way more intense ECs but get like 3 hours of sleep which I just can’t imagine being able to handle!</p>
<p>Junior here! </p>
<p>I usually sleep around 1-2 am every night, and 3 am when I’m studying for AP Bio tests. I think the reason for this is that the workload is huge (probably 2-3+ hrs of HW per AP class with the exception of French); in addition to the workload, there’s also the problem of tests. There are too many exams to study for. I don’t really think there’s a way to alleviate our sleep deprivation and workload except to work on our assignments early, and to plan everything out so we don’t have to cram.</p>
<p>I know it’s hard juggling all these extracurriculars and workload at the same time, believe me. But just know that we have one semester left and then it’s the summer! (unfortunately that means every day in the science lab for me). Good luck!!</p>
<p>Also I wake up at 6 AM for school because my school bus arrives at 6:30 and it takes an hour to get to school by car. </p>