Ugh, how do you do it?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My classmate doesn't do anything. She's the person you all know who furiously tries to do homework 5 minutes before class starts, and the one who actually prioritizes sleeping and video games over grades. She never studies for anything (because from what I hear she's always seen at the movies or in the city), and she doesn't try, at all! </p>

<p>Yet someone like me, who studies constantly, making sure every detail in homework is flawless, is getting a lower grade/SAT. By no means am I in the upper end of the intelligence spectrum, but it's frustrating. Seriously. How do you all do it?! (Asking only because there might be some of you in the same situation.) </p>

<p>Haha. I guess there's some in every school. </p>

<p>I just want to tell them how incredibly smart (and fortunate) they are that they don't have to try so hard to be the best.</p>

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<p>umm... take a chill pill.</p>

<p>Seriously, some people will just be naturally smarter than you. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. Just work harder than them and you'll be able to reep the good results as well. Anyway, people who don't work AT ALL will eventually realize that there will ALWAYS be something in life to work towards.</p>

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<p>What? </p>

<p>LOL. No, I don't care as much as I sound like I do, I think it's great. Don't think I'm seriously being uptight and insecure about this, it's just a bit frustrating.</p>

<p>This is all in good fun, but come on: 4.5 GPA, 1540 SATs, 800/750/750 for not doing very much? I'd take it. LOL.</p>

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<p>I've said it before and I will say it again:</p>

<p>In the long run, drive and work ethic beats out "natural talent."</p>

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<p>Thats was basically me. But I've changed that though.
My grades gradually declined like how hers will.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm the one who is always struggling, whereas all my guy friends drink/smoke pot and get 33 ACTs/1570 SATs, with their 2.8 GPAs (one actually has a 1.9). So yeah, it gets frustrating, especially when they ask half an hour before a class to borrow homework, and they find some sap willing to give it to them... I know what you mean. haha. one of those it will all even out in the end, karma things.</p>

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<p>(referring to everything above the previous post)</p>

<p>Well, that's cynical. She's already a senior, and she said she's going to start working furiously after graduating high school (when it actually counts for something). I was just commenting on how amusingly ironic it was, I wasn't trying to incite negativity or anything. </p>

<p>Haha, sorry.</p>

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<p>Holy crap lykos8, r u serious about how they get those super high SAT's and super low GPAS?!??!</p>

<p>usually if those arne't correlated to a certain degree, than the student is being lazy on one end.</p>

<p>about the lazy person, don't worry, they'll get what's coming to them.</p>