<p>and i'm in NINTH GRADE.</p>
<p>god</p>
<p>i probably put in about 25-30 hrs a week in activities, then maybe like 10 hrs in school homework. that's probably less than a lot of you, but i'm not used to it, and i'm not in a really competitive environment so i'm not really motivated. i'm motivated enough to keep going but just barely...</p>
<p>do you have any advice for re-motivating myself?</p>
<p>i am like barely maintaining a 3.95 and procrastinating on everything</p>
<p>Maybe you're not actually interested in what you're doing? I actually quit all of my activities freshman year (Student Council, school literary magazine) and started all new ones because I hated the other ones. I like what I do now, so extracurriculars don't feel like work.</p>
<p>Or, you might just be doing too much. Drop a few activities, and take classes with an easier workload next year.</p>
<p>If I were you, I wouldn't do any activities I am not passionate about. Think about it- why would you spend your precious time on something you don't actually love or deeply care about? What for? To put in a college application? You're going to dedicate for years of your life, four summers, four years that will never come back to your college application?</p>
<p>If you're too busy, drop whatever you don't like. Keep the things you really love. That way, you will have time for yourself and you will have something to look forward to. Something that triggers your enthusiasm and adds some shine to your days. :)</p>
<p>Just my two cents. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>just know that as long as you take the hardest courseload possible the difference between a 3.7 and a 4.0 is pretty much insignificant. the only other reason to maintain such a near perfect GPA is if your school ranks but even then as long as you're in the top 10% of your class you'll have a pretty good shot at any college.</p>
<p>it's good though that you have been exploring possible interests but now is the time to decide what to continue and what to quit; you don't need to do everything. my advice for you is to find one or two activities to stick to all four years of high school and then join more stuff junior/senior year.</p>
<p>EDIT:
also, i'm guessing you're doing this because you're already obsessed with getting into a prestigious university? if that's the case that is horrible motivation to do well in school and it will also make the transition into college much more difficult. i know a lot of kids who pretty much quit working once they got into their dream school because they felt as though they had already made it. also, a majority of my friends who said they wanted to go to a top school like Harvard/Notre Dame/etc. failed to make there dreams a reality. a lot of them burnt out freshmen/sophomore year all because they were so stressed all the time about making it into their dream school.</p>
<p>ha i decided this year (my junior year with 5 ap's) to not work. Dang i am always playing video games or surfing the internet. HEck i spend less time for school now than i did in 8th and 9th grade. Somehow i got all A's this semester, but no way i can get all A's this semester.</p>
<p>you know, i think its really impressive that you have so many posts and your only a freshman.</p>
<p>2000 posts on college confdential is a big indicator of that.</p>
<p>Why are you here so much when you're a freshman? o_O</p>
<p>Use that time to get some sleep, and use the search button effectively.</p>
<p>avoid/get out of anything you have to commit yourself to.
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<p>getting burnt out is not worth anything. the psychological consequences can cause you to totally lose interest in maintaining good grades. totally.</p>
<p>btw i hit my 10,000 post mark on another set of forums when i was in 9th grade. CC is just another forum.</p>
<p>Think of it this way. You're in grad school, and you have to take your qualifying exams in two weeks. Don't you wish you'd learned what sin2A was in high school so you wouldn't be screwed right now?</p>
<p>(Put effort into learning the material for your classes, because usually the reason they're teaching it at such an early level is because it's actually useful. Good fundamentals will pay off tenfold later. Watching people do badly in their physics classes because they don't know what a vector is is really depressing.)</p>
<p>25-30 hrs as a freshman!? Either they're not valuing your efforts or you're not putting your efforts into the right things. Figure out what you like and stick to it.</p>
<p>well i am at least moderately interested in my ECs, of which there are only 3... college hebrew (3 hrs in class/wk + maybe 2-4hrs weekly hw), speech and debate (15hrs/wk), and volunteering in library and at hospital (8hrs/wk)</p>
<p>this workload shouldn't be overwhelming, it's just i waste tons of time at home and procrastinate a lot. so how do i stop procrastinating? blah.</p>
<p>btw, most of the 2000 posts came from 8th grade and last summer, haha</p>
<p>note... ok so at this point i really want to dual enroll at the U of MN--Twin Cities in 11th and 12th grade, then just be auto-accepted after 12th grade into the U of MN as a junior. so would ECs even be important if i took this route?</p>
<p><em>cough</em>Overachiever</p>
<p>yup, unlike the rest of you, haha</p>
<p>I dunno how many of us are overachievers, and how many like wasting time worrying about college. I think i'm on the worrying side.</p>
<p>And to answer your question: if you are at all feeling burned out in 9th grade you are doomed. Especially if you were ever thinking about ibanking or medicine.</p>
<p>change your value system.</p>
<p>research shows that the happiest people aren't the socially successful people. really. why DO people care so much about societal success? </p>
<p>i procrastinate so massively that i think i'm just going to accept this fact. and not go into academia. I think I've lost several hours/day on numerous days just by talking to TWO people. I'd rather be talking to them than doing math problems 5-8 hours a day. maybe. it's far more rewarding.</p>
<p>maybe finding friends helps. i'm willing to fail all of my classes if i find someone else to do it with :D if chaostheory gets into academia, i'll be so proud of him that i'll feel that my dreams wrt that are fulfilled so i don't need to go that route anymore (since i made a lot of the mistakes for him)</p>