Bad Habits at school

[PooingCavy]

Ok.. everyone has these, even the "perfect" students. Lets start a topic about our bad school habbits, and how we can solve them!

Ok... so, i got 2 As, 3 Bs, and my first C :(.

Reasons why (for the Bs too)

Kept procrastinating... trid to do it near the due date, but ended up turning it in late

Not keeping a log: Ive never been able to keep logs of any kind ever... journals, food diaries, observation logs, ven agendas.... and now we have evil agenda quizzes and in english we have to keep a journal erg

i need big help on how to solve this, or else my scholarship dreams are shattered!

[Mistwraith]

Hmmm, well, if you have to keep a journel. Try just setting a time every morning, and write in it for 5 minutes. Make it the first thing you do in the mornings.

Well, my bad habits are tapping a pencil on my desk, so I'm constantly being told to be quiet. Another one is I wait until the very last minute to study, or to turn in my papers, so I'm always stressed about failing a test or something. Any advice?

[Firewolf]

Sorry mistwrath. I can't help. I'm like you in that one for the studying.

I never get a's
reason for c's I try my best but it gives no information.
Reason for b's I don't get b's

I'm quiet though. I got a vice though when the teacher is not looking to pass notes to my friend.

[ylrebmik]

I'm getting 2 As and 2 Bs

Its actually a miracle.

Maybe the classses just aren't your kind of material. Don't worry about it. You can get scholarships for ANYTHING...literally. If you are looking for a scholarship just on grades...hate to tell you this but unless you have a perfect record... the odds are very slim. Just try your best.... thats what counts. My brother got into 5 different colleges w/ a 2.8... you'll be fine. && go to your guidance counsiler and have him scout out some scholarships for you. Or go to fastwebs.com

[Firewolf]

Okay thanks I try my best and I don't get good marks. I get in trouble from my parents because I try my best and don't get good marks.

[Mistwraith]

I pass notes alot. I'm also really quiet. In fact, when people ask my opinion on things, or if they wanna know what I want to do, I never say anything. People always get mad if I do answer questions like that.

[Pippin]

I just graduated from high school last year, LOL. So I'm free of all the trouble and deadlines. I was a TERRBILE procrastinator. As much as I tried not to, things were almost always left to the last minute. But I was given some sort of an amazing gift to pull it together and, in most cases, still do a pretty darn good job. I did well, missed the honor roll only once.

I never would have believed it, but I DO miss school. It feels so strange to not be a part of that community any longer. And I'm not going to be attending real college in the future. I'm preparing to go to dog grooming school in a few months which will only last 2-4 months. Can't wait!!!

[ylrebmik]

I think I'll miss school but i absolutely hate my school. I'm hoping college will be a lot better. OO a dog groomer.

haha the dog i'm going to be babysitting in 2 weeks is a bichon and she is a huge fluffball (like all bichons) and she just got a haircut and she is SO TINY underneath all that fur... there's nothing to her lol. sorry- just a laugh w/ dog grooming.

You should come to WI so i can get discounts lol

[RooBear]

Lol, I am the same way- leaving things for the last minute. Mostly showing up for school and just completing the work will get you a good passing grade. I have never been good with test. I could study weeks ahead and know all the information, then once the test is laid across me my mind goes blank:P. But since I do good on almost everything else and manage to hand my work in on time- at the last minute (surprisingly :eek:) I manage to do ok xD.

[Firewolf]

I fail on most of my tests. I failed every french test this year.

[sumsolusfleo]

I've been out of highschool for a few years, but I was a horrid student. If I wasn't asleep in class I most likely wasn't in school. Work never got turned in, but I always passed my tests...if I was in class. I was always bored with what they were teaching and believe it or not my fav channels on the tv are the discovery, animal planet and history channels. Now if history was taught like that I might have showed up more often.

I've always studied animals on my own though. I was offered a job as a vet tech when I took my rat in and I have written for a free lance magazine here in town.

[ylrebmik]

Thatss awesome. Yeah, some teachers just don't know how to teach... there should be a screening process. I always thought that the older ones were just "out" but two of my favorite teachers are old. my 4th grade teacher and my U.S. Law teacher. lol. I wish I could sleep / ditch Spanish 3... that teacher is awful...she's so tense and so uptight.

[sumsolusfleo]

I had a teacher who was the worst possible teacher who taught English 1 - 4 and my dad told me not to go to his class, that is how bad of a teacher he was. I agree there needs to be a screening of teachers. There was an article in our paper about a month ago about how they are uping the amount of credits needed to graduate highschool because we are so behind other countries and my dad and I agree, its not that we need more credits, we need better teachers. But now we will just have a higher dropout rate.

[ylrebmik]

I think our country is a little hypocritical in a way... slighly in this sense. We hate communism and having everyone equal but we make laws and standards that schools HAVE to have kids at certain levels and they focus so much on the lower standard that they don't focus on the kids that excel. Thats my opinion anyways. I read that we have the highest amount of people that graduate or go to school but we aren't the highest educated people.

[rabbitdogcatluv]

I find that middle aged teachers are the worst, haha. All the old ones and young ones seem to teach a lot better!

[m0usey]

PooingCavy, I don't know if this will work for you, but it works for me. I have an assignment book for school and I can't go to bed until everything for that day is crossed out and finished...it makes me stressed and ?I just can't fall asleep. So you could start putting 'journal' in your assignment book.
For the projects. As soon as it is assigned, go home and determine everything you'll need to do and how much time you'll need to do each thing, then start writing the steps in your assignment book. I don't know if this will work for you, but it works for me.

Mistwraith- I have some bad habits like your pencil tapping one. It's not that I need to tap something on my desk, it's that my hand needs something to do. What you should do is start wearing an odd shaped necklace to school. My necklace of choice is glass, shaped like a hummingbird. I find that in class, my hand, instead of tapping pens or twirling my hair, instead drifts to my necklace. I start feeling all around the odd shape of it, or start pulling it around on my chain. It's noiseless, I can still pay attention in class, and my hand isn't distracting anyone.
For the studying thing, I can suggest what I suggested to PooingCavy. If you don't have enough time to study for a test the night before, put it in your assignment book for 3 nights before. Also, it always helps me to put any vocbaulary, or even important questions on flashcards (questions on one side, answers on another). This way I can review what I already know, and by reading the questions/vocab + answers/definitions I can learn the stuff I don't quite know yet. Then, on the day of the test, if the class is after lunch yoiu can easily pull out your flash cards to study during lunch.

Firewolf- What, for you, constitutes trying your best? If you don't understand something you need to go tell the teacher, whether it be during class, after school, during lunch/recess, etc, so they can help you. You need to do all your homework. You need to study for all tests/quizzes. Don't know if that's what you're doing already, but if you want better grades that's what you should do.

Roobear- That sort of stinks, although it's good you do good anyway. You should see a guidance counselor or something and see if they have any ideas.

Some teachers aren't very good, but I think in a way they help you. Sure they're useless with their subject but I think having a variation of teachers helps you get used to obeying people you don't like for various reasons, later in life.

[Bilbo12]

I have plent of bad habits. I always talk to people in class, I pass notes occasionally, I constantly do things at the last minute, and I DAYDREAM ALL THE TIME!! Oh yeah, I also click my fingernails on the desk alot, and I never get all of my work done in time, so I have TONS of homework every day! Surprisingly though, I get good grades. My average last year was 98.2. This year so far it's excactly 98 but that's just for the 1st quarter.