How to Survive High school
1.Know your way around
Everything is in the same boat at the very start of school however soon after you are expected to know your way around. It can be difficult being one of those people who learn slower than others. I remember one of my teachers getting mad at this girl countless times for being late to class the second week of school. It is better to figure out your way sooner than later if you are in this situation. Whenever I think about not knowing your way around I think about one of my friends. It is the second month of school and he always walks right past our advisory class. I don 't understand how he doesn 't know where it is by now and that he keeps making the same mistake. Luckily he always realizes before he goes into another classroom which would be awkward. One of my friends went on to tell me how he has walked into the wrong classroom countless times. To make it worse he has walked in late to the wrong classroom while the teacher was talking. If this was me I would have died of embarrassment and I would forever be haunted by that memory. Whether you want to admit it or not everyone 's always judging off of your actions. You don 't want to have a reputation of being the kid who doesn 't know his way around school.
2. Learn what type of teachers you have.
In order to survive high school ones need to figure out what type of teachers you have as quickly as you can. There are many different categories that teachers can fall into. The first teacher to be aware of is the overly strict foreign language teacher. No matter what you say they want it said in their language even if they haven 't taught you it yet. One example of this would be a French teacher who you ...
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5. Balance Yourself
Some of my friends complain constantly because they did not balance themselves. They stress how they have no time to do all of their AP homework because after school they go to newspaper club, then soccer practice, and then eat dinner before they can do their homework. I asked them why they took so many AP classes if they didn 't have the the time for it. Their response was that they wanted to take AP classes because it will look good on their college transcript. When I try to tell them nicely that it is sort of their fault for taking 4 AP classes and doing extracurricular activities they respond, by saying that it is the teacher 's fault for assigning so much homework. I decided to stop asking them why they decided to try to do everything. The reason being that they were not going to admit that it was their fault.
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