<p>Before you got into Caltech, honestly tell me how you spent a typical day after comming home from school. Please don't exeggerate, I want the truth. If you really did sleep, please tell me. Don't substitute it for jazz band or something. </p>
<p>The reason I aks is that I feel Im spending too much time doing school work and not spending more of my time in ECs.</p>
<p>video games</p>
<p>Please don't sa things like that. Please answer honestly. There are like 44 views, but no one asnwered. Come one people. Help me here</p>
<p>Well, in high school I went to classes, came home, played video games, had dinner, played video games a bit more, then worked on homework for a few hours and then went to bed. At that time I didn't get into Caltech.</p>
<p>In undergrad, I woke up, went to classes, came home, played video games, cooked my own dinner, played games a little more, worked on homework all night, and slept. Then I got into Caltech for grad school.</p>
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Haha, that gives me so much hope.</p>
<p>I guess I should also say that I spent at least two hours a day in HS on EC activities since I really enjoyed all the ones I was part of back then. I wasn't involved in any regular activities in college other than two professional societies and the student advisory council for my major (vice president of that). I did volunteer work for engineering outreach programs to minorities and women throughout my years in undergrad, and spent each summer working or doing research.</p>
<p>I'm currently in the middle of trying to set up an outreach program for the Materials Science department here now, do any current Caltech students know of any ongoing programs here that do it? I did the high school tutoring for the Caltech Y's "Make a Difference Day," but that wasn't really quite what I was aiming for. I don't remember seeing any posters or junk up for National Engineering Week, but maybe I just missed it?</p>
<p>My son just finished up his sophomore year at Caltech. As for high school - what he did after he came home? video games and sleep and some math that didn't have anything to do with school. His EC's were mostly connected with school so he'd do that stuff before he came home and he did some things he listed as EC's during the summer. His homework was often done at school or during his commute - sometimes he had work to finish up at home. hope that helps.</p>
<p>i'd come home, play nethack for like five hours, start my homework at 10, then stay up all night trying to finish it</p>
<p>my last year in hs was kind of a slacker year :D
before that i worked a lot harder.</p>
<p>My son always had a school sport after school until dinner time at least. He would then eat, maybe go to another school activity or Scouts, but at least the last two years, would start his homework as soon as possible, amazingly without nagging. Towards then end, this usually would take him until very late into the night, but he also did it while sitting on the couch watching TV, so I'm not sure he spent his time too productively. His first two years of high school, however, required more nagging to do homework, I think in part because he simply did not have as much of it,</p>
<p>uh, Ashwin, I don't think DLo is lying. </p>
<p>Video games is about all I did too. Model UN meetings once a week, that was pretty much it.</p>
<p>wow, lol . . . ok
I thought all these Caltech people spent so much time on math right after they come home. Pretty stereotypical huh?
But in Caltech you won't have much time to play games. How did you break the habit?</p>
<p>You don't. You just stay up later doing homework.</p>
<p>I spent maybe 2-3 hours each day on my music/science-related extracurricular activities, a few hours for homework, and then a lot of playing video games (always with friends unless it's tetris or nethack,) wasting time on the internet, random projects that usually don't go anywhere, reading, D&D, hanging out with friends, and sleep. I probably spent roughly equal amounts of time doing math homework as I did playing D&D in high school. I do mostly the same things at Caltech except I don't allow myself to play single-player games and I don't have time to make it through really long fantasy and science fiction series anymore. It's also now a lot easier to find people that want to work on random coding/engineering projects and I work on most of my problem sets in groups, so I overall spend a lot more time around other people than I did in high school.</p>
<p>lol i stopped playing video games after freshman year in high school. I had cross country until 5 or 6, went home, and after that either had orchestra or just hung out with friends. I rarely did more than an hour of homework at home because i tried really hard to finish it all during the day.</p>
<p>u dont need to do homework for math... its math.. if u pay attention in class of teach urself during class ur set... lol...</p>
<p>Wow. I guess I'm actually abnormal for not playing video games. I went home, checked email obsessively, social networked, and read my feeds. I did play Sudoku and Minesweeper late into the night. I did homework too.</p>
<p>Went to school half asleep. Got home. Took a loooong nap. It was always dark when I woke up. Waste time until 3 am. or 4 am. Do homework. Sleep a little. Went to school half asleep. Got home. Took a loooong nap. It was always dark when I woke up. Waste time until 3 am. or 4 am. Do homework. Sleep a little. Went to school half asleep. Got home. Took a loooong nap. It was always dark when I woke up. Waste time until 3 am. or 4 am. Do homework. Sleep a little.</p>
<p>Gotta break that cycle!!!!</p>