Mr. Gott looks out the window over the roof of the old cafeteria.
The senioritis is finally here, and at the most inconvenient time. I have my World Lit papers to write/revise for IB English and my research paper for AP Euro, both due in early March. Later, I have the lingering worry of AP exams in May. I think I am giving up on taking the AP Euro one, I just haven’t been studying and retaining the information well enough throughout the year, and I feel like it wouldn’t be worth the trouble and stress. So now it’s just AP Bio and IB English, which are in the go. But yeah. I am super stressed (with scholarships and college housing information as well) and I have been getting a habitual 6 hours of sleep every weeknight for the past few months. I am a wreck. I have no energy when I get home and I just go on my computer and veg out instead of doing productive things or my homework. Anyone who says senior year is the easiest clearly has a skewed conception.
Beavert0n History Month is in full throttle. We had Br1an G0tt come in, a janitor at Ra|eigh H1lls for 24 years and BHS janitor from ’81-’88, and he gave us a tour of the school in a historical context. It was absolutely mind-blowing what he said, like how the old business wing used to be a gym. No way! AND he is a Fir Grove, Highland Park, and BHS alumnus! How awesome is that. I am working on getting him a bank of questions to respond to so we can document his extensive knowledge of our town and schools’ history.
Other than that I don’t know what to say. It’s been a few months. I am just trying to survive high school at this point and think about what I want to do with my future.
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After I graduated from college I learned about a simple idea called the overload and confusion cycle. It is where you get overloaded with too much to do, and then you get confused about what to do next, which leads to getting more overload….
The upstream problem is too many activities, which is a struggle for just about everyone because there are so many good choices. The trick is to limit it down to the best choices, and it sounds like you already know that with the one AP course.
No one is going to teach you in college, or high school for that matter how to approach your studied and workload. If you want to learn it, reduce stress, get more done, and enjoy life the place to look is blogs. My friend at Cornell University swears by Cal Newport’s system. You can look him up on Google or Amazon.
On my blog I am working on finding and winning scholarships over the next week, so if you have any questions about the process let me know. My specialty is funding study abroad, which I did successfully in 2006 when I studied in Ecuador.
Good luck with everything and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the reassuring words! They really do mean a lot.