School is so stressful, man.

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thread starter dopeazn Oct 28 2010 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

I'm so envious of you little kids doing almost nothing in school and still getting good grades. It's not that easy for me, in 11th grade. I have too much homework. It was much easier last year. I didn't do any homework at home at all, I just copied it or did it during class and I had way better grades. I still did good on the tests. Everything was so easy before this year. Right now I'm getting 2 A's (yeah one is in p.e., nothing to brag about) 2 B's 1 C and 1 D. I have no idea why I'm working harder and getting much worse grades. When colleges see my grades, they will never accept me. I don't think it's fair that your life is determined by these stupid letters. They mean nothing to me. Doing homework pisses me off, doing projects pisses me off, writing essays pisses me off, taking notes pisses me off. I just want to read directly from the textbook and take the test. I wish they just straight up gave you a test to see if you're stupid or smart and if you're not dumb then you can have this job. They make life so complicated by making us learn these unnecessary things that we don't need and take classes to waste our life. A big chunk of our lives are wasted because of this. Some teachers just give us busy work and we don't learn anything from it. Some of them don't even teach. I have this one old man who just tells us stories from his past and complains about how the Giants are better than the Dodgers. Why do some high school teachers still make us draw and color things? Wtf. How am I learning from that? Thanks for wasting an hour of my time, teacher. I will never get that wasted time back. Anyway, I just wanted to complain because my life is so stressful and I had a bad day.

jonatan 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Coffee : i understand why it's hard for other people- what i don't understand is why they don't put enough effort into it. if a certain percentage of people can get passing grades, so can you. you're not stupid, you're just not trying. all school is is listening to things, remembering them, and copying answers out of books. if you can't do that, your priorities are obviously messed up and that's not anybody's fault but your own. [/quote] Seems like you can't understand that people are different, some peoples have a hard time remembering stuff from a book. Simple as that! Also, if the american school is just about remembering stuff from a book then I'd have to say that it's pretty easy. A big part of the school here is about understanding , like evaluating historical events from a personal view, see pros and cons etc. etc. Thoose are the things that give you the high grades here, being able to list alot of fact just means that you will get a pass and not the high grades. To the TS, I study at the university atm I'm starting to realize why I learned all thoose "idiotic" things in school. For example painting, your math will get soo much easier if you are good at drawing, for example; drawing 3 dimensional surfaces is pretty hard. :P

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sonikuboy 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Year 7 i was classified as a nerd. I cared about my grades and always did my homework on time and correct Year 11 i couldnt give a rats ass about school. Gossiped every lesson, regularly forgot to do homework and ended up copying a friends before the lesson. Left school with all C grades. Dont be like me kiddies.

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shaddow55 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Eeveepony : If you think that is bad, wait until university :D [/quote] University is easier than school. Mostly everyone says this. In school you juggle multiple subjects, in Uni you juggle maybe 1-2 or 3. Not as much, more time out of lectures. The work you are doing is to fish out the idiots from the people who are committed. [quote] sonikuboy : Year 7 i was classified as a nerd. I cared about my grades and always did my homework on time and correct [/quote] That's not what nerd means.

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xNekomarax 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

you think that is stressfull? try juggling a full time job, rent, bills, a family, moving, bereavment AND injury at the same time. you dont know how easy you have it.

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Eeveepony 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

shaddow55 Idk what university your friends are going to, but even in AP classes, I barely studied and finished high school with a 3.8 In university, I have to work for everything and some professors couldn't care less to help you or anything. I've had 40pg essays due the same day I have a major exam in the same class. On top of that, high school classes are a joke compared to upper level classes and most universities need you to take "division credits", classes to make you "well rounded" that have 0 to do with your major

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Coffee 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] jonatan : Seems like you can't understand that people are different, some peoples have a hard time remembering stuff from a book. Simple as that! Also, if the american school is just about remembering stuff from a book then I'd have to say that it's pretty easy. A big part of the school here is about understanding , like evaluating historical events from a personal view, see pros and cons etc. etc. Thoose are the things that give you the high grades here, being able to list alot of fact just means that you will get a pass and not the high grades. To the TS, I study at the university atm I'm starting to realize why I learned all thoose "idiotic" things in school. For example painting, your math will get soo much easier if you are good at drawing, for example; drawing 3 dimensional surfaces is pretty hard. :P [/quote] i do understand that people are different, and i understand that school CAN be hard for them, but it definitely CAN be less hard if they choose classes they can handle and study! school is only as hard as you make it out to be in the long run, really. it's all about your attitude too- if you think something is pointless, you're less likely to want to do it, and the less you want to do something the less effort you'll put into it- psychologically. america's school systems are horrible- i agree. and i understand that if the TS has bad teachers that school WILL be terribly impossible- but if he has good teachers and the only reason he's not doing well is because he's limiting himself, that's not anybody's fault but his own.

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BobR 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] xNekomarax : you think that is stressfull? try juggling a full time job, rent, bills, a family, moving, bereavment AND injury at the same time. you dont know how easy you have it. [/quote] Add to that a furnace that's trying to kill you and a water heater that wants to blow up the house. And don't even talk about the septic tank.

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Sirenheart 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

This is why I don't even go to school.

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OmNomBom 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Your attitude towards essays, homeworks, and projects are the reasons you're getting those grades. Accept them for what they are - the key to your future whether you like it or not. Once you get over that, you'll feel more motivated.

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kokdakjee92 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Oh man. You wanna trade with me? I'll gladly take high school life again. I was able to ditch almost everyday and still pass with a B+ average. The medical institute I go to... not so much =0=

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supernoob 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Try having 3 math classes and 2 science classes... OT: Just try harder? School is stressful for me, too. On an average day, I can't even sleep until 12. That one day where I only had 3 assignments was a godsend. Set aside some leisure time to review your notes each day? If you look at the same thing multiple times in different places, it becomes much easier for you to remember, rest assured.

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SkylarJ 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

might as well kill yourself over that D

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OmNomBom 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] dopeazn : i don't want to learn, man. i want good grades. [/quote] Okay, I just read this post on the first page. This is why you're failing. You can't have one without the other. Nothing on life is handed to you on a plate. People think I get really good grades because I'm smart, but to be honest, I find understanding work harder than most of my friends seem to. They grasp it in the lesson, I have to sit and re-read the notes for two hours until I understand it. I'm not smart, I'm just dedicated. A perfectionist, even. Because I try and put the effort in, I get top grades. Not because I magically understand everything. After every Physics lesson last year I would go up and ask the teacher about things I didn't grasp in the lesson, even though everyone else understood it there and then. I ended up getting 93% in the A-Level, only two other people in the class got that. Do that.

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coolio123 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

stop procrastinating. I know it's hard, but if you do the work, and actually APPRECIATE IT, you'll do better, trust me, works... though i still do procrastinate till like 1 in the morning. Always dead in class -.-, i gotta teach myself forces...

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iWalkAtNight 10/29/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

What grades do you have to get to go to a good college? I'm in 7th grade, so I don't have to worry about it for awhile.

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