Make at least 3 trips to your locker DAILY (I recommend before school, during lunch, and after school). Put the folders/binders for your afternoon classes in your locker before school, and return the stuff that you needed for homework the night before as well. During lunch, swap your morning supplies for your afternoon stuff. After school, go back, return all binders/folders, and then get the supplies you'll need to do your homework for that night. Doing this will earn you a lighter backpack and less to carry! Follow a general system to stay organized. Here's what I recommend: 1) Have either a folder or binder, both with dividers, for each class, and store notes, classwork, graded work, etc.
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Inside in chronological order. 2) Color code your stuff, right down to the color of your textbook covers. Assign each class a different color, and have all the supplies for each class match (ex. If your English class's color is red, then make sure that class's folder and spiral are red). This makes for easy spotting when quickly grabbing stuff from your locker to take home or to your next class.
Believe it or not, school actually IS important, and you don't have to be a straight-A kid to take it seriously. School prepares you for that college workload and gives you knowledge that will help you in both college and in your career.
Stubbs the zombie in rebel without a pulse xbox. Even if you aren't going to college, having a good GPA (grade point average) and extra-curricular activities looks good on a resume. These days, having a high school diploma is required for getting almost any job, much less getting a job with decent pay, so take it seriously. Don't bomb test after test just because you aren't in the mood. School's important, but so is a social life and relaxation.
High school is really just a balancing act. You can make straight A's in all AP classes, but absolutely no extra-curricular (aka, after-school) activities doesn't look good on a college application. High school's also about making friends (maybe even life-long ones), so reserve a weekend on your calendar every now and again to have a movie night or pool party with a group of friends. You'll be around almost the same people for 4 years, so the faster y'all get comfortable being around each other as friends, the better. Don't forget to have a day once a month or so saved as a 'me' day. Do a couple of your favorite things with family or just hang around the house, be a slug, and not do anything. Relaxation is as important as school and a social life.
Learning how to balance now will definitely prepare you for college, when you have to balance even more stuff. No one wants to look back on high school as a bad experience! If academics isn't your thing, there are plenty of clubs, sports, and organizations out there! Getting involved is a great way to find new people with similar interests as you, and club members and teammates make great friends. All you have to do is look around!
A sport keeps you in shape during the year and promotes a healthy lifestyle. If you're not into that kind of thing, choir, band, or orchestra is awesome for making great music and friends. Being a committed member of a club or organization looks great on college applications and who knows? You may find yourself wanting to do something like that again in college.
Start looking for potential colleges early, sophomore year at the latest. You don't have to make any major decisions on your first college visit, but going on college visits early on will help you decide the basics: Do I want a small, medium, or large school? Do I want to go to a college in the city, suburbs, or a rural area? Things like this. Once you know the basics, it will make the real hunt easier. I recommend going on websites like College Board or College Xpress and looking for colleges that seem interesting. You can request info from colleges that you like from these sites.
Sites like these often give you useful basic information like the size, area, student to teacher ratio, etc. The more info you have, the better informed your final decisions will be.
'Your GPA is as important to you as your parents' credit score is to them. It's your lifeline!' (wikiHow) A high GPA opens a lot of doors that a low one does not. More colleges will want you, and more scholarships will be available, if you're planning on going to college. Future employers will want those with high GPA's too. A low GPA means that options for college, scholarships, and future jobs will be extremely limited. Your GPA is directly affected by the grades you make in class, so good grades and a high GPA should be your goal!
With cliques, gossip about who's with who, etc, who has time to worry about that? It doesn't matter anyway!
The best thing to do is to just be friendly to everybody you meet. Meet lots of new people! Don't stay in your little circle of friends you made in middle school. Get into good habits like asking the person who sits next to you how their weekend was. Being friendly will put you on the track of making friends with lots of different people, and will help making friends with your coworkers a lot easier in the future. Just have confidence in yourself, and things will go fine. In actuality and contrary to teenage belief, skipping meals actually makes you gain weight, not lose it.
Scientifically, when you skip meals, your stomach shrinks. Whenever you do eat, the nutrients in the food will be digested and stored long-term as fat. The more fat is created, the more weight you gain. After long periods of time with no food, your heart also shrinks, making it work harder to provide the same rate of blood flow. Still eating 3 meals a day, but making smarter choices about what you eat will help you lose weight.
An empty stomach is a major distraction and causes poor focus. Being healthy actually helps you think a lot more clearly, lose weight easier, and just makes you feel good. You don't have to give up on that cheeseburger in the lunch line, but include fruits, veggies, and fruit juices or milk.
Ice cream is a wonderful thing as a special treat for acing that HUGE geography exam, but not as an everyday thing. Vitamin Water doesn't count. The sugar content is astronomical. If you get the munchies after school, stash a Ziploc baggie filled with nuts or healthy chips, or a piece of fruit in your backpack to tide you over until dinner. If you don't play a sport that burns a lot of calories, when you come home, relax for 5 mins., go for a run or a bike ride around the neighborhood, come home and cool down for 10 min., then start on your homework.
It's okay to miss a run or bike ride due to a concert or club meeting, but just don't fall out of your good habit! Yes, this is easier said than done, especially if you have classes that give a lot of homework.
However, doing something like I suggested in the last step (starting on your homework early) will certainly help. Getting the 7-10 hours of sleep that teens need is no easy task if you have all advanced classes and clubs/sports, but if you are up 'til 1 or 2 AM one night doing homework, then if possible, see if you can skip your club meeting the next day, go home, go run, come home, do homework, and then GO TO BED EARLY. Physical activity increases blood flow to the brain, helping you think better when doing your homework. Do that reading assignment or read a book for fun later in the evening when things are quieter to relax before bed. Enough sleep lets you pay better attention in class, especially boring ones, and actually helps your figure and complexion.
Sleep is a very good thing. This is extremely cliche, but high school is all about making mistakes, but picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and then going at it again and making friends along the way. Don't think that your life is over because of an occasional 75 or 70. Just make sure you study harder to make up for it.
Remember to put your money where your mouth is though, and keep the promise you made to yourself about studying. Making mistakes is what makes us human, and nobody's perfect.
Learn from your mistakes, and you'll go far. This applies both in school and in the real world.