<p>Hey just wondering...
how do you spend your time?? I mean if you are looking at really good colleges, and plan to study very hard.. but at the same time you do a lot of afterschool stuff, ECs and go out with friends a lot.. is it still possible?</p>
<p>HOw long/often is good to go out with friends??</p>
<p>Thanks!
futureiceskater</p>
<p>Honestly, it's going to be hard to have a good lifw without cash. See your friends alot, and yes it is possible</p>
<p>Yeah, it's definitely possible, to have a life and work and go to school and EC's and everything else attached, you just have to put out the effort and deal with being tired every now and then. As to how often you should see your friends, really whenever time allows it, because if you're going to be this busy there's no way you can hang out with them to the point that they're starting to get annoyed so really whenever time is allowed.</p>
<p>i'm a rising senior who is looking at "top" colleges. i have straight As and lots of APs, blah blah blah all that boring deal. It IS very possible to have fun with friends while doing well in your classes and participating in ECs. You probably would have more fun and more time for yourself if you worked less hard...but there is a balance. You don't have to be a machine to get into a good school. i go out with my friends every weekend (unless I'm away for a school event) and chat online almost every day with them. I wish I could chat for longer than I do now, and I wish I could go out with them more than once a week, and I wish I could party more, etc etc. But what I do now is sufficient, and anyway after I get into college early (which i PLAN ON DOING, DO YOU HEAR ME GOD??) I'm going to loosen up a whole lot :)</p>
<p>I think it is, though I am only goingg to be a junior next year... but my friends are really nice and they are like me, I mean my close ones, are just as crazy as me about school.</p>
<p>Yup, it's possible. </p>
<p>I spend approx 2 hours a weekday just hanging out, and usually more on weekends.</p>
<p>It's all about the time management, my friend...I am also a straight-A, AP student who is looking to apply to top colleges this year. I play a varsity sport, I play an instrument, and I work (not that much, though- like 10-15 hrs. a week). I always go out Friday and Saturday nights, and my friends and I often get together afterschool or during the day on Sunday. The key (for me, at least) is planning out my schedule for the week beforehand. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices, like staying home and studying instead of going to the movies so you can get an A instead of a B on an AP Bio test the next day. Then there's the times when you really need to let loose, and you decide that going to a party on Saturday will be worth pulling an all-nighter to finish a project on Sunday night, or something like that. It all balances out after awhile, and in the end- voila! You get the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>It isn't worth working during the school year. I have no prior experience to apply here, but I'm thinking about it on a general note.</p>
<p>So you're working for like 10-15 hours...that's not enough money to really do anything. </p>
<p>Don't put yourself in misery.</p>
<p>It's definitely possible, but sometimes you're going to need to sacrifice a little sleep. I get by on about 5 hours a night, but it's well worth it. Its also good to be friends with lots of people in your extracurriculars. That way when you go to practice or something, its like you're killing too birds with one stone. Not only do you get to play a sport you enjoy, but you also get to hang out with friends. As were<em>going</em>down_swinging mentioned earlier, time management is also crucial. If you spend all your time procastinating, there's no way you'll be able to do it all. You need to know when to work, but also when to have fun.</p>
<p>It's definitely possible, but like most said you need to sacrifice sleep, some reading time, some things you take for granted. Still I manage a 25 hour job, nearly 20 hours devoted to ECs, maintain stellar grades, and still find time to talk and go to the movies with friends. Sometimes you have to sacrifice your weekend though, for a Friday night but it all comes down to time managment and about 5-6 hours of sleep a night. By the way, all I dream about is Yale.</p>
<p>just study yor heart out and you will do ok</p>
<p>I wasn't saying it wasn't possible...but as everyone mentioned...you might need to "sacrifice sleep, some reading time, some things you take for granted."</p>
<p>I get like 5 hours as it is when school actually is in session. For me it wouldn't be worth it. At the home high school I should be going to, I would agree with you.</p>
<p>glucose calm down, its not college and everyone that complains and says i study at school are liars, honestly i like studying at home, where i can concentrate</p>
<p>You guys... I don't think the OP is talking about a job when he says work. He just means work associated with being a student.</p>
<p>Anyway, it's definitely possible. A part of it has to do with having fun no matter where you are - in the classroom, at a job, at club meetings. My friends and I do all kinds of stuff together, so nothing is ever boring. I'm on AIM all day, I go out almost daily (during the school year, at least... right now I'm sharing my car with my sisters and some of my best friends are in Germany, Arizona, Indiana, Italy, and Massachusetts anyway). You just have to know how to balance your time and make the best out of what you have. Personally, junior year helped me figure out that I need to go and hang out to relax before doing a ton of work. I can't follow the work hard, play hard routine. I'd rather play hard, work hard, fall asleep.</p>
<p>Most of my friends and I are in the same classes, so we kill two birds with one stone and do our work together at someone's house or at a coffee place. Sunday (and some early Saturday afternoons) are ideal for getting the rest of your work done because nobody is around anyway.</p>
<p>This year I managed a pretty heavy workload plus plenty of ECs and loads of time spent hanging out with friends, while still getting to sleep by 10:30 on weekdays. You need to figure out what is busy work and fake it-- that gives you a few extra hours each day.</p>
<p>I think that going out once a week with friends is enough</p>
<p>For about the first two months of junior year I had soccer 4x a week with games on some weekends, physical therapy 3x/week, worked whenever I didn't have soccer (usually about 4-9:30, earlier on weekends), had a decently tough course load (two non-AP/honors classes and history correspondence on my own), and went out with my friends A LOT. </p>
<p>In retrospect, I'm not really sure how I hung out with my friends as much as I did, especially because only a couple that I go out with even had a class with me. I remember many weekend mornings at work with my boss saying "Alanna, you look tired, late night?" and him just smiling as I bumbled around. </p>
<p>So yea, if you really want both, teen life and work are definitely compatible.</p>
<p>Chicken soup is absolutely WRONG!!!
WORK IS TO BE DONE ALONE
I must learn the material not my friends
LET ME TELL you one POINT of highSCHOOl
and THAT is to teach you how to become independant.!!!!!!</p>
<p>It teaches you to capitalize properly.
Sean, please don't tell us about high school as you're not there yet.</p>
<p>Haha, good one. ;)</p>