<p>Just as the thread title says: Do you guys think its possible to have Straight A's,take the hardest classes,do ECs ANDD be able to have a normal social life? When i say social life i mean going out on friday,saturday nights.And having time to talk to friends on weekdays.
So do you think its possible? If you've achieved this explain what you do. Im having a hard time balancing both. =D</p>
<p>Of course. I mean, I guess it depends on the people you hang out with. My group of friends were all fairly intelligent people (at least top 50%), and we would hang out all the time on weekends. The thing is, that you need to do lots of work on weekdays, but even then, you still have lots of time to socialize. Your weekends should be fine if you use this strategy.</p>
<p>Just make sure that your friends understand what you're trying to do. I don't know how hard it would be to try to consistently hang out with unmotivated students.</p>
<p>Its fairly difficult. My grades aren't great but I have made many many friends and have had an awesome time in high school and I have no regrets. Its different for different people.</p>
<p>Yeah right...atleast for me. One junior came to our class and said, '' I am taking 3 APs, don't do it unless you want to sacrifice your social life.'' He was being serious.</p>
<p>I'm going to one of the best residential schools in the country, and we r sorta "REQUIRED" to participate in social life...so, since it's part of our schedule as well as curriculum we don't really have much problem w/ it.</p>
<p>Any more thoughts towards this subject?</p>
<p>b u m p yoooo</p>
<p>it's hard but possible</p>
<p>a common quote at my school is "choose one: good grades; sleep; or a social life"
but these are extremes.
I find, if you really want to, you can have 2.
:P</p>
<p>I've forgone sleep, haha.
I manage have fun on weekends; though weekdays are pretty much out of the question.
we have a fourday weekend this week, and I'm packed--wed night/thursday morning is finishing schoolwork; thursday night is a party; friday I'm hosting an all-day movie marathon with the girls; saturday is shopping and a sweet sixteen; and sunday I have volunteering, art classes, and have to study for a few tests next week and finish up any leftover work.</p>
<p>My kids are high achievers academically and athletically, who all also work at jobs in our community and play instruments daily. They still do have time for a social life, but there are some limitations. For instance, they don't go out on Friday/Sat nights and drink. Never. Ever. They couldn't afford the down time the next day (and it's really bad at their athletic level). But they go bowling, youth group, volunteer, and hang out their friends' homes and at ours.</p>
<p>The key to having it all appears to be a really great system of time management. Also, they do their homework IMMEDIATELY. They never put it off until 10 pm, etc. They just do it.</p>
<p>They do it better than their mother ever did!</p>
<p>any more thoughts?</p>
<p>It's not hard when your school doesn't even have APs. I ran out of hard classes for my senior year so I don't usually have homework now, but even junior year it wasn't that hard I had plenty of homework free weekdays.</p>
<p>I half agree with the: Sleep, social life, or grades. I pick two though always.
I don't go to the best High School by any means but I still always apply myself and I'm a straigh A Student. I have my little bit of ECs (which hopefully is going to pick up more :D) and then on the weekends or w/e I still go to Football Games/Basketball games to hang out with my friends, or we go Bowling, or something..
If it's been a really stressful week (Research papers due, finals, etc) sometimes I won't do anything and I'll just try to catch up on sleep. This is very rare though.
My friends also aren't the brightest, they aren't dumb by any means but they're usually C or B students, some of them are A students though. I always make time to hang with them, whether I just go to their house, or we go to a party, or whatever. Cause I feel like if I can't at least enjoy myself a little bit I'm going to stop trying to do well...</p>
<p>Granted, we don't have many APs, but we still get a lot of homework for non AP classes. I don't know how different AP classes are, but I know Seniors who are taking them still hang out too..</p>
<p>I don't think that it's really hard at all, as long as you have decent time management skills. Some people struggle with AP classes and have to do terrifying amounts of work just to scrape by, but if you actually belong in the class, you should find the work difficult but doable.
On school nights, I don't really have time to socialize (outside of school) because I have XC, then other ECs, and then HOMEWORK, but if I can, I do go over and hang out at my friends' houses. On the weekends, though, I always do SOMETHING.
Honestly... I'm taking 6 APs, and even I can balance a social life and getting A's. Just crack down and get to work sometimes (but do as I say, not as I do, because I'm actually a huge procrastinator. Whoops. I've been up early in the morning secretly doing my homework because I went out that night more than once...)</p>
<p>All the top students at my school party and drink...a lot...on the weekends...with a few exceptions.</p>
<p>(They also all do sports, lots of ECs, and get mostly straight As in 4-7 AP classes)</p>
<p>The key is responsible time management (which becomes even mroe key in college). Just get your work done ASAP, while also doing your ECs, and you should have ample time to socialize. The one exception to this is doing all your weekend homework on Sunday. At least at my school, it was generally agreed that Sunday afternoon/evening (like from 4 onward) would be home work time for everyone, so we'd all socialize before that.</p>
<p>i do it. but all my friends are in the same classes as me and we all go through the same balancing our schedules problem. i think it would be harder to be make time for people who arent dealing with the same stuff you are</p>
<p>I think I pretty much manage it...I have a 4.0 and usually go to a party on either Friday or Saturday nights, and spend the most of the weekend with friends. I'm kind of a slacker straight-A student, though, I get most of my work done in the hour before it's due. But hey, it works.</p>
<p>I have a friend who went to one of the hardest school in the area and spent 5 hours a day just drawing. He had somehow managed an active social life. And, he's going to Princeton this fall...</p>
<p>I still don't see how it's plausible...</p>
<p>it's all about managing your time. If you can efficiently study for all of your classes, you will have sufficient time to pursue various other activities.</p>
<p>I game, go out on none test-weeks and do weightlifting training and I still get As in all my senior subjects except for English (my teacher has a grudge against me haha). I also play rugby and cricket during their respective seasons.</p>
<p>Oh and I currently attend the most god damn academically rigorous school in the state. Go me. :D</p>