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CuzWeYooniqueLikeDat
Posted: Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:56:35 PM

Rank: Starting Next Stepper

Joined: 5/5/2008
Posts: 10
Location: Bayside, New York
well, my junior year started this september... and... i remember last year, i was all "oh im gonna come home and study every night"

but lately it seems like studying is the only thing i never do.


im not doing anything different than last year.
i still study and try to get good grades.
i usually look over my notes and "cram" before a test because that's what im really used to and its the only thing that works for me.
but lately i've started to look over my notes everyday for every class just to make sure i understand things.

but still, it's just that this year i'm doing way more extra things and it seems like im always hanging out..when it's not rly hanging out, it's just kind of a work.

im involved in...
- softball team
- school jazz band
- school paper
- key club [[a community service club]]
- dance crew [[to perform for school events]]

this year, i have a really nice schedule that i fell in love with in the beginning of the year because i get out around 2 o'clock so i told myself that i'd go home and study. but instead, all i've been doing was stay at school and help my fav. teacher until about...3:30ish and get home by 4.

i know that i should be studying. especially including SATs.

but the way i look at it, there's nothing for me to study.
i dont study unless there's a test and that's how it's been for the last....5 or 6 years and it always seemed to work for me.

but now, things have changed.
i dont get why but i'm getting dangerously low grades except for my French and English class.

im worried that i'll get kicked out of my math class because my math class is a specially challenged class that i worked really hard for to get in, and it's not that i dont understand anything we do, it's just that everytime the test time comes around, i get 70s.

i have to get my grades up by January because that's one of the final grades of the year that's going to be put into my transcript.

idk what to do.

my mom's always telling me why i'm online instead of studying and that i hang out too much and i tell her to be quiet because i KNOW she's right, but, there's nothing for me to really...do. well, nothing that i would WANT to do.

so im in need of a really nice advice.

"i took my life and i made it an album" - Young Jeezy

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Cherrii_Delight
Posted: Friday, December 26, 2008 12:38:35 PM

Rank: Starting Next Stepper

Joined: 12/25/2008
Posts: 10
Location: Fresh Meadows, New York

Mhmm...
I know where you're coming from. I'm essentially a great student, but I can understand the extreme pressure and stress coming from a sudden nose dive in academic success.

The first thing I tried to figure out what was up was make a couple lists. I know, it sounds strange, but it works, trust me!

Like a list of stuff I WANT to get done. A list of stuff I HAVE to get done. A list of stuff that NEEDS to get done.

Going out, being online, etc can go under want.

If you put down everything like that, maybe you can decide the order of things to be done and mix up the three categories in a way that you have a balance of everything. Even if you get frustrated force yourself to study fifteen minutes at first afterschool, then slowly increase the time. Two sittings of fifteen minutes a day. Start with just h.w then start looking ahead.

Don't push it all on yourself at once, start with the little things and move up.    

Good Luck ^.^

racinggeek
Posted: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:26:49 PM

Rank: New Next Stepper

Joined: 1/3/2009
Posts: 3
Location: Oak Creek, Wisconsin
I used to be an A math student, but now it seems that Calculus is kicking my butt. My mom is also saying I spend too much time on the computer, nut with all these scholarships to look for and fill out, I kind of have to be on the computer all the time. Why can't I find the win-win option?
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