First, if you don't like me and are just going to post some bitchy response, get the fuck out. :)

As of lately, my life has been sorta falling apart. My grades are dropping, and my work ethic is terrible. I've called into work multiple times sick just to loaf around at home, or go out and hang out with friends. I have a huge paper in English, but I'm blowing it off, and if I don't complete it I'm nearly sure to fail, and I'm not about to fail a class. It seems I'm constantly fighting with my mom, and my temper is a lot shorter as of lately.

I quit smoking weed, and I won't resume again to summer, hoping to get things back on track. But does anyone have any other suggestions, or has anyone been through similar things?

Do whatever you have to do immediately and catch up. If you care about school and grades, do it and don't fall behind again?

Sounds simple, but it is hard to get motivated. I am not advocating for this, but maybe, if you do everything and catch up, you can get high one final time. XP

Well, I'm pretty sure the fighting-with-mom thing is a typical family deal. You can't really change her, but maybe biting your tongue a few times could ease the fighting, or maybe even just discussing your situation with your mom. Probably not your first choice of solutions, but in my experience mothers just want to help.

I'm not commenting on the smoking thing, although I'm sort of happy that you, uh, quit.

Honestly, sometimes you just need to force yourself to participate. When you're used to being lazy, it only makes it harder to get started again. Trust me. Even if you just start a bit now... go into work a few more times, and start researching a bit for the English assignment. A little bit of work now can help alot later on.

I can relate to the lazy thing, somewhat to the fighting thing, but, uh, definitely not to smoking. You just need to force yourself out of this rut, because it's only a temporary thing. You'll be happy again soon. :)

*hugs*

Totally feel you. I'm a little different, I managed to stave it off and get through it junior year, but I did feel it. I did get a C one marking period, maybe not that bad but I'm also a nerd. One thing I can say is....senior year, second marking period on, it's totally different, alright? And there's also the summer! There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

You also need to be able to spot the right time to blow off school. The end of the marking period is the best time, for me there was usually a 1 or 2 day interim which came right before a weekend. Also, sometimes you should force yourself to go to school, even if it's the day before spring break and you know you're going to do nothing. Why? Because if you can make yourself sit in school for nothing, you can make yourself sit in school for something.

Essays...if the teacher's lenient, and doesn't hate you, you can beg. I've never needed to, my problems (mostly soph year) were really with day-to-day shit, not big assignments. But if this is a real drop for you, beg, and there's a chance the teacher will cut you some slack. In fact, even if the teacher hates you, beg, because sometimes people who are undeservingly jerky to particular people are ok all in all.

All I can say is, I'm hoping all the dumb shit I did in school is going to pay off in college. College had better be interesting all around, not just sometimes, and there had better be some time to slack as well. And I hope you have one or two good courses now that you actually go to school to be in. If not for those...well, I'd probably have given up.

If it helps, I think being able to pull through this bullshit actually does count for something. Not anything it's supposed to - my chem class was not taught by a teacher who could make me a better chemist - but if you can get through high school, you can get through anything no matter how boring. I hope.

Umm, you can always take comfort in the knowledge that people in Europe and other foreign land places have longer school days and way more work. Sure, they might be smarter, might be moving their countries forward just like american kids ain't, but they're also working more, so :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P at them.

Do you read? I'm not kidding. If you're in school and you're in a shitty class where the teacher expects you to learn yourself and doesn't care enough to actually teach you (chem was like this for me) sit in the back of class and read a book. When you talk with your neighbor or shit like that the teacher has grounds for complaint. Obviously, don't do this with a teacher who will get a grudge on you for this, esp not if they'd take it out with subjective grading. ("This conclusion isn't conclusive enough" even though it was completely untrue, I saw on a friend's paper, no joke).

If you hate all books, there's not much to cope with :( Pretty much everything else is arguably disturbing the class in some way, and the teacher can call you out for that.

Constantly fighting with my mom is a hallmark of any stress period for me.
EDIT-Only problem is...if she wouldn't start them, we wouldn't be fighting.

Oh, sorry for DP, but if the title is is slight nod to the book about the blackest motherfucka of the Ibo, Okonkwo....fuck yeah.

In my english class I honestly wanted to tell my teacher "Chinua Achebe uses the literary technique of a totally badass black dude character (copyright sign) to make larger points about the conflicts between civilizations, and the tendency for all groups of people to consider everyone else 'uncivilized.'" (it rly does go both ways in TFA).

Keep distance from Mom when your ticked off. If she yells at you, just nod your head and say yeah. Don't bother starting weed again. It'll screw you over even more. About school.... I can't help you there, buddy. I don't give a fuck about school.

Just do it. Seriously, best slogan ever.

I got one big project done. I have 2 left. They'll both be late. I'm hoping the teacher will accept them. |: Ionno, I feel kind of trapped, like I can't fix the fuck-ups any more. And it bugs me a lot. I realize now that if I plan to attend UNC, I'm going to have to haul serious ass for the last 2 years. I probably won't play football next year due to the amount of AP classes I'm going to be taking in an attempt to redeem my QPA back to a standard that a somewhat prestigious college like UNC would accept.

Yeah, if you take what you have, and stretch it back about 3-4 years, you've got me. 'Cept now I'm so in the hole, I can't pull meself out. Granted I wasn't ever planning on going to a "prestigious" university anyways, but now they wouldn't take me if I gave the dean of admissions head. Every night. For a year. Oh wells.

I got in two UNC with a 4.5 GPA. The only extra curricular work I did was a class at state and a class at a community college in which I got A's in both.

how can you have a 4.5 GPA? I thought 4.0 was the highest???? *not american*


everyone here needs to stop crying about how sucky ur life is. go to a third world country and then tell me how much your life sucks.

AP courses. A's are worth 5, B's 4, etc. They're like college courses. I'm taking three next year.

Isn't there also something funny with courses like Honors or High Honors getting half a GPA point?

I think H's get 1 pt and HH's are treated like APs as far as GPA goes. W/e tho. I don't even know my senior GPA.

Yeah, GPAs are weighted. Honors classes have a max of 4.4, and AP classes have a max of 4.8. That's what I understand, at least.

Not here. Honors gets you little at all except a harder class.