School Workload-Need Some Advice

[Kibblre]

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Stop playing FFR/posting on the forums. That helps a lot =D

[Relambrien]

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My advice is to just work out a schedule to get everything done so that when you get to college you're already used to working the obscene amounts you're going to be working. One of my classes assigns roughly 15 hours of homework a week, in addition to all the other classes and work I've got. Because of that, I end up with about a 55-60 hour workweek.

There's a class that's recommended we take later on but isn't explicitly required that's a full 40 hour workweek by itself.

So yeah, get used to working a lot so you're better off in college.

[Nyokou]

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attn people who suggest dropping classes: colleges don't necessarily care about the class, but that it looks bad if you drop classes because it shows poor work ethics.

That makese sense if you've been taking the class already and drop it somewhere in between 2-3 months after starting. But what I did and what I suggest he does is drop any unnecessary classes before school even starts.

[MrRubix]

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Jesus.

Take the hardest fukken schedule that you can possibly handle and then dominate it. To do this, try not to suck with time management, since that is 90% of the equation. Plan out a schedule and stick to it. It really is that simple.


Don't go dropping **** or pussying out.


College is MUCH harder than high school unless you either

1. Go to a ****ty school
2. Are majoring in something useless and/or ****ty
3. Are doing ****ty in your classes when you should be working harder

[MrGiggles]

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Take the hardest fukken schedule that you can possibly handle and then dominate it.

why

what could that possibly do for you that would be worth the suffering

EDIT: A scholarship, I suppose. If you need the money.

[DAD1]

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I did **** in highschool because it was just so much pointless busy work. College is a breeze though. They only assign homework you need and you don't have 8 hours of school everyday.

Highschool is a waste of time. They could have been forcing feeding me information relative to computer science over those 4 years.

i'm pretty sure the goal of high school is to provide a well-rounded education both academically AND socially

at least for normal people

i'm assuming you failed at the latter part if you hated it so much (just speculating bro)

[MrRubix]

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why

what could that possibly do for you that would be worth the suffering

EDIT: A scholarship, I suppose. If you need the money.

College admissions. Colleges like to see rigor.

[leonid]

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I wasn't that busy in highschool and I still got into ok college :P

[Izzy]

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Jesus.
College is MUCH harder than high school unless you either

1. Go to a ****ty school
2. Are majoring in something useless and/or ****ty
3. Are doing ****ty in your classes when you should be working harder

I have found this to not be true. The actual work itself is more difficult, but that isn't what I'm talking about. Maybe if you went to a highschool that didn't assign an excessive amount of busy work.

[MrRubix]

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I took the hardest **** available at all times and had maybe 6-7 EC's going on throughout the years, but there was still a fair amount of free time. Again, most of it is time management. You could have ****ty time management, and an easy schedule would seem like hell. Spending your time wisely and efficiently will make short work of an otherwise difficult courseload/EC load.

[MrRubix]

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I have found this to not be true. The actual work itself is more difficult, but that isn't what I'm talking about. Maybe if you went to a highschool that didn't assign an excessive amount of busy work.

There's tons of busywork in high school, but I don't consider busywork harder. Really hard assignments/projects in college are much harder than the "difficulty" of shelling through busywork in high school.

[Izzy]

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I guess that is your opinion. I find the amount of homework to be more difficult then doing less but more difficult assignments.

[MrRubix]

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Would you say you have good time management skills?

[Izzy]

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No, I wouldn't

[MrGiggles]

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College admissions. Colleges like to see rigor.

Harvard does. Nobody else requires you to do all that for admissions. You honestly don't need to take ANY honors or AP courses unless they interest you or are relevant to your major. EDIT: Or you need a scholarship.

Besides, colleges like A's in normal classes more than they like B's/C's in AP and honors courses.