Hey Pandas, Any Tips For Starting High School? (Closed)

Buy pencils at dollar and DO NOT use them!! Wait til that time of the year people are out and losing pencils, then sell them for a quarter each. Kid at my school did this and made BANK

DO NOT take a briefcase 💼

Don’t.

for an academic-based student (but also good advice for others):

MAINTAIN YOUR GPA (AT LEAST ABOVE 3.75)

it is key to academic success. ask teachers how to improve. there is only one thing you should avoid at all costs to get a better GPA: do not fill your schedule with easy classes. admissions officers will see right through this. challenge yourself and work hard to achieve high grades. 9/10 times colleges will accept a student with 3.5 and harder classes than an 4.0 with the easiest.

if your GPA dips below 3.0, focus on school work. pay less attention to extracurriculars. school should be first on your list of academic priorities. leave a few unnecessary clubs and get more time for studying.

always remind yourself: hard work pays off, no matter how long it takes.

wishing you nothing but the best. o7

High school is a few quick years but hopefully you have many years left. Look around every day and find some folks who are really nice or interesting or lonely. Reach out and MAKE AT LEAST A FEW GOOD FRIENDS BECAUSE THAT IS LIKE PUTTING MONEY IN THE BANK. You won't necessarily see it pay off right away but down the line these are the folks who will be there for you and when you are old these are the folks with whom you can share memories. You can rectify grades in college or whatever comes next, but you can't go back and scoop up friendships. Work hard, play hard but making a few goid friends and being on goid terms with a larger group of people is your biggest pay off.

Time management and organization in general is essential for success. You will have a lot to do at any given time. Calendars are helpful.

Beware of overly kind for ne reason at all people. from my experience they have ulterior motiv

Don't show up with high expectations.

Don't try too hard to look, act cool.

Try to learn people's names before calling out to them.

Bring your backpack to all your classes.

Learn your schedule and take everything you need for every class you have back to back. You will not have time to go to your locker between classes.

The library is not the sanctuary from nasty people as you'd think it is. Find your safe place to spend free slots.

Leave any previous drama back in Junior High. High Schoolers are a bit more mature than JHs. It's no longer "cool" to pick on the different kid.

Take advantage of extracurriculars. Now is the time to pack as much credits as possible. Just don't burn yourself out. But definitely get those elective classes in.

Try a new class you never thought of taking. Electronics might be something you'll find you like. Or not. You won't know unless you get out of your comfort zone.

Never leave valuables in your locker. EVER. In fact, anything you don't want stolen or lost just leave it at home. I had my locker broken into. It's not fun.

Practice washing your face in a flushing toilet so that when it happens you are used to it.

If you are in a Claes that is making you miserable or teacher hates you, change your schedule

You are an amazing human being. And so is every other person in the school.

This, from advice columnist Dan Savage to a teenage boy of 15:
"Worry less about getting your 15-year-old self laid and start thinking about getting your 18- or 20-year-old self laid. Join a gym and get yourself a body that girls will find irresistible; read so that you’ll have something to say to girls (the best way to make girls think you’re interesting is to actually be interesting); and get out of the house and do s**t — political s**t, sporty s**t, arty s**t — so that you’ll meet different kinds of girls in different kinds of settings and become comfortable talking with them."

My advice to any american child, frankly, is "just keep swimming. One. Day. At a time."

It could turn out to be wonderful, but let's face it, most of us had a definitely-not-wonderful time enduring the american educational system. You may get one inspirational teacher, but statistically you're more likely to get a handful of dead-eyed lifers that give you exercises and work packets, crushing any potential for you to love learning under the weight of dogma, bureaucracy, disillusionment, and apathy. The american educational system literally erodes the humanity out of them, so spare some empathy for the bright-eyed idealist they used to be when they decided to go into teaching.

It may pass like a kidneystone, but this too, will pass. Life begins after university, and for pity's sake do not confuse university outside the US, with american college. One teaches you how to reason, to explore, to debate, and operate in a mature democracy with personal responsibility and duty of care. The other only teaches you what to think, while saddling you with a level of debt you will be chained to for the rest of your life in that country. I'd hate to reduce your situation to a Matrix meme, but debt in america is just endentured servitude holding you down until your brainwashing is complete.

Get out of that country, sooner than later. Your older self will thank you for saving their life in doing so.

On the first day, at lunch make sure to be near the front of the line to secure a seat!

I ended up eating in the toilets for all of year 7 and 8, till someone left and an amazing person switched to my school. We are still in touch.😊

Home school - these days it's safer...

Beware of overly kind for ne reason at all people. from my experience they have ulterior motiv