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Sep 5 2007, 12:36 AM |
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Skulltula
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I was never really to nervous except about being able to find classes. A lot of the stresses with courses subsided when I learned I can go to university as a mature student if I have troubles in high school (basically, you go to school a few years later, you can't get scholarships (doesn't matter to me though, lack the dedication to get scholarship marks) from the school, but the advantage is you don't need the normal requirements, in theory all you need to be able to do is read and write well enough to communicate in a college/university environment). I think my parents are more stressed, still, than I am. My tips though, don't worry. High school is not worth a lot of stress. Skip classes, chances are if you have friends in the class who attend, and you have a text book, that's all you need to pass a course. Well, depends on the course. At my school science courses tend to require doing some homework. It all depends on the teachers, some get the marks through homework, most do it through tests. So, skip. Sound like a bad idea? Hey, you're talking to the person who missed more social classes than anyone else in his class, a lot of the time managed to forget to check what he missed, and still managed to get the highest marks in my class come test time without doing homework. I wasn't in some dumbass class either, we're talking the highest stream with some pretty smart people who do really study and take their work seriously. You'll be a lot happier if you learn to slack off. My favourite classes so far have been the ones where I slacked off. I never talk about the time I did my homework in class, me and my friends always talk about the time we stapled each other in the middle of class. Perhaps how they would get their friend in trouble. Ever spend an entire class staring at a wall or out the window? Get used to it, it's a good time to get introspective. I plan to be a teacher, thoughts been in my head for a while. I really kind of decided it on class while I was staring out the window. Without that window in my English room I'd still be juggling the options in my head. One of my friends lives by this. In grade 10 you could have sworn he was destined to be a burn out type person, due to his slackerness. However in grade 11 he managed to do more than me, he completed more courses through Outreach (think home schooling meets actual schooling, you still meet with teachers, only one certain days and only for a short amount of time, just to get a little help if you need, otherwise you're at home doing module work) than I did by attending school, and he managed to do this while having a very active social life and while working at a job about an hour and a half out of the city (do not even know how he got rides there). He'll be done this year, even though he's taking less courses than me, will probably skip more. He's already well on his way to being an electrician, which is something he decided on, not settled for. My advice for slacking off? First, there are courses you can skip, and courses you can't. You'll learn which these are in the first two weeks or so. Don't skip classes with uptight teachers or with a lot of homework you have to do. Skipping classes with a lot of notes is a lot easier, you can just read someone else and ask if the teacher said anything not on the notes. If you have friends in classes, don't shut up. Talk, and use them as a resource. If you can get a friend to do the work and you can copy off them, do it. Even better, alternate that task between you and your friends. Walls aren't just there to keep the ceiling up, and windows aren't just there so they can be opened if the room gets hot. Look out or at them. Zoning out is a better way to spend a class than doing notes, especially since someone else is writing those notes. If a wall or window won't do you, bring a water bottle. Not only does it keep you unthirsty, it also can keep you unbored. If you can turn off your brain for a bit, you'll be able to entertain yourself with the water bottle. People tend to think I'm high because I have the underrated ability to just tune the world out and focus on one mundane thing with complete interest. People who know me know I'm not high, just bored. In essence, if you can find a way not to do the work, don't do it. If you can find a way to zone out, do it. Sounds like shit advice, however it works. Another person on another forum, in his last year of university, skipped more classes than he attended and still passed all his courses and graduated. He spent more time playing Battlefield 2 than doing work, it seems. That being said, you need to find a balance of slack and stress. You don't want to be so slack that you fail. You don't want to be so stressed that you just can't take it. I find that I can do well while being very slack. Always been that way. Never needed to study for a test. Never put much effort in my homework. Never put much thought in my projects. Somehow I'm doing good. The beauty of high school is though, it's the perfect forum to learn what a good balance for you is. It may sound like I advocate no work or the bare minimum, but in truth I just advocate the perfect balance for you. For me, this is what's worked for me. I'm an all or nothing person, and I couldn't handle being constantly just focused on schooling. Also, be nice to your teachers. They may try to be unbiased, but they aren't. Always be nice to the people marking your work. I joke around with a fair amount of my teachers. I've told jokes that I shouldn't have to teachers. If you're getting in trouble, still be in good humour about it, don't get all offensive. Teachers are nicer to students that are nice to them, but don't brown nose, no one likes that (not even the teachers). If you can joke around with a teacher, do it. When my math teacher would walk up when I was doodling instead of working, he tended to be nicer with me than with other students because I would act all proud of my crappy drawings and show them to him all proud, and he got a chuckle out of that act. My English teacher was nice to me, despite my lack of work ethic when it comes to school, because I would contribute in class discussion and I would joke with him when he handed back work or if I had a question for him, and I'd also talk to him after class about stuff none work related. My social teacher, again, because I showed humour in my work (my first essay for her was entirely filled with monkey stuff, I compared everything to monkeys) and would ask her questions, which shows I had some interest. Basically, your teachers are people. Treat them as people. Say hi to them in the halls, joke with them if you have a similar sense of humour, ask them a question, even if it's a small one so it looks like you're interested in the class. These are the people that mark your work, they have biases, get on their good side by being a good person, not a suck up. You can suck up while slacking off. How else would my math teacher like me despite the fact I drew some things in my book that should have, in all rights, gotten me a good talking to (a few drawings with pedo jokes riddle my math work book). Even if he caught me lying about whether I had done my work or not, I would crack a little joke. It doesn't take a lot to get teachers to like you. If you treat them like you would anyone else, they'll put up with your shit and they will perhaps be nicer when it comes to marking. |
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