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Catching up with school
Hakkekage
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I've been out of school a lot lately. Last week was the week of my Cooper Union Hometest, so I took four days off to work feverishly on finishing it and getting it in. I hadn't slept in maybe 5 days by that point; maybe I'd drowsed for an hour or two, i don't know. Either way I was exhausted. On Friday I went back to school, was completely lost in the shuffle, then tried to take the weekend to regroup.
It didn't work. On Sunday I started feeling a little weird and entirely drawn, so I didn't get much work done. I went to school on Monday and got an assload of missed Calculus work dumped on me, which I did not understand at all. I also got a bunch of other missed work.
Now, since the next three days--Tues, Wedns, Thurs--was standardized test week for the other grades, I promised myself I would try to get the notes and at least get an idea of the work. Then I sort of passed out. I got a really, really bad cold, apparently, that was just dragging me through the gutter. At first I was really scared and thought it might be mono or bronchitis or something because I'd only gotten ill this badly a few times in my life; either way, it left my muscles nothing more then noodles. It was in full force for three days before I went to the doctor, and she told me my immunity was way down and that I needed to prioritize my health over schoolwork. I took off yesterday and today to get rid of this cold, and it's working. Only now I have more work, because my body took a shit on me when I needed it most.
I don't know how to catch up on Calculus. We're going Integration by Parts the last time I was there and I was utterly lost then, too. I have so many tests and quizzes to make up in all my classes and I don't know where to start. I would ask my friends to tutor me, but since I like in Ambitiousville USA everyone always lacks the time to help other people out. I don't know how to explain to my teachers how I could possibly justify being out again the week after I was out for four days, and I especially don't know how to parse to the administration that they shouldn't make me do credit completion in the summertime because I missed so many classes (Credit completion isn't even making up the work or learning what you missed; it's just doing paperwork for teachers. And for every class you miss, you have to take 120 hours in the summer.)
The worst part is I can't even muster up the motivation. I'm going to MICA, a bloody art school. I don't need Calculus or physics anymore, so I feel no need to work at those subjects anymore. They're my hardest, too. Still, I'm afraid that the inevitable sudden drop in grades may cause MICA to rescind their acceptance of me, since I suspect they only accepted me largely because of my academic record rather than my art. Plus, my mother, who never supported my decision to pursue art (wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer), started yelling at me when I told her that my grades were probably going to drop soon, but she practically forces me to stay home and worried excessively about my health.
I feel like I'm in a Catch-22...if I work hard to catch up, this cold is going to relapse (I was feeling better yesterday having slept all day, then tried to stay up all night to finish some of the work due today, and my fever came back...), but I can't catch up without sacrificing sleep.
How do I focus? How do I even start to understand this integration stuff? How do I convince my school not to wax pedantic about absentee rules? How can I not pass out from this bloody cold?
Sorry if this seems like whining...I know a cold sounds silly. I thought so too. It's just the worst cold I've ever had.
It didn't work. On Sunday I started feeling a little weird and entirely drawn, so I didn't get much work done. I went to school on Monday and got an assload of missed Calculus work dumped on me, which I did not understand at all. I also got a bunch of other missed work.
Now, since the next three days--Tues, Wedns, Thurs--was standardized test week for the other grades, I promised myself I would try to get the notes and at least get an idea of the work. Then I sort of passed out. I got a really, really bad cold, apparently, that was just dragging me through the gutter. At first I was really scared and thought it might be mono or bronchitis or something because I'd only gotten ill this badly a few times in my life; either way, it left my muscles nothing more then noodles. It was in full force for three days before I went to the doctor, and she told me my immunity was way down and that I needed to prioritize my health over schoolwork. I took off yesterday and today to get rid of this cold, and it's working. Only now I have more work, because my body took a shit on me when I needed it most.
I don't know how to catch up on Calculus. We're going Integration by Parts the last time I was there and I was utterly lost then, too. I have so many tests and quizzes to make up in all my classes and I don't know where to start. I would ask my friends to tutor me, but since I like in Ambitiousville USA everyone always lacks the time to help other people out. I don't know how to explain to my teachers how I could possibly justify being out again the week after I was out for four days, and I especially don't know how to parse to the administration that they shouldn't make me do credit completion in the summertime because I missed so many classes (Credit completion isn't even making up the work or learning what you missed; it's just doing paperwork for teachers. And for every class you miss, you have to take 120 hours in the summer.)
The worst part is I can't even muster up the motivation. I'm going to MICA, a bloody art school. I don't need Calculus or physics anymore, so I feel no need to work at those subjects anymore. They're my hardest, too. Still, I'm afraid that the inevitable sudden drop in grades may cause MICA to rescind their acceptance of me, since I suspect they only accepted me largely because of my academic record rather than my art. Plus, my mother, who never supported my decision to pursue art (wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer), started yelling at me when I told her that my grades were probably going to drop soon, but she practically forces me to stay home and worried excessively about my health.
I feel like I'm in a Catch-22...if I work hard to catch up, this cold is going to relapse (I was feeling better yesterday having slept all day, then tried to stay up all night to finish some of the work due today, and my fever came back...), but I can't catch up without sacrificing sleep.
How do I focus? How do I even start to understand this integration stuff? How do I convince my school not to wax pedantic about absentee rules? How can I not pass out from this bloody cold?
Sorry if this seems like whining...I know a cold sounds silly. I thought so too. It's just the worst cold I've ever had.
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Stop lazing about on forums and go and do some work. High school level stuff is never that hard, you can do it quickly if you need to (in hindsight anyway, seems hard when you're there!).
Yeap. Trying to catch up on your own is exponentially more difficult. 1-on-1 teaching/learning is extremely accelerated and it also shows ambition and effort on your part, which teachers love.
I failed Probability and Statistics II twice before I learned this. Then I got a B.
Start right now. Go to tutoring at your school. Talk to your teachers and get in some office hours. Talk to your fellow students (ideally ones that know a great deal more then you do) and set up some study times. Don't wait because the longer you wait the further behind you're going to get. And then you're going to get more frustrated, which will cause you to work slower and therefore will be even further behind. It's that slippery slope thing.
You can do this Hakk
Meanwhile I found Physics to not be as daunting as it first seemed, so thanks for the bit by bit help.
I guess the problem is that I'm getting frustrated with not understanding the material, which would make the work go by faster. I'll try to talk to my teacher but she's got 30 kids crammed in this class (public high school and all that jazz) and the Calc class moves really fast, so I'm not sure if she'd set aside extra time to help just me. The test is on Tuesday
Thanks for the advice, I was just in the dumps and panicking before, I guess...
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