Do you think I'll be able to finish all of my work in time? Please help me! I'm so screwed I hate high school!

Question

I'm in 11th grade and I have three classes that take 36 weeks each to do in 1 MONTH. I have to finish all 3 of them in a month!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what I'm going to do. I haven't even started them yet. It takes too long to explain why I have to do them, but I HAVE to get them done. They're online classes. I am so bad at disciplining myself and I always wander onto websites like Y!A or Facebook and I get ZERO work done whenever I try to accomplish something. I'm homeschooled and these classes need to be finished. I am so screwed. Does anyone have any advice or tips they can give me on concentrating? What do you do when you really have to get work done?

Answer 1

When I really have to get work done, I figure out my deadline, figure out how many days I have to work, then figure out how much to get done each day to meet the deadline. This is something that would work for you in your situation. But there's more--that's just the logistics. How about actually GETTING the work done?

To make myself get the work done, I plan it first thing in the morning and I stop myself from doing things that distract me. Yes, I might think about them or I might not feel like doing what I have to do, but just because I don't feel like it doesn't mean I should just walk away. Everybody can do what they don't feel like doing; it's just a matter of deciding to do it. It becomes a sort of rule: I have to do this first. I do whatever I can to not let myself slide.

For breaks, I would use a timer. That way my break is contained instead of running on and on. Of course, I do have to set a rule for myself that I MUST stop whatever fun thing I'm doing when the timer goes off. For school work, it's typically recommended to not take longer than 10-15-minute breaks, except for lunch--not more than an hour.

For your particular case, you're going to have to work your butt off, but also probably skimp a little--this will mean lower marks, but it will mean getting it done. Set up a schedule for yourself that goes 8-12, 1-5, then another couple hours after supper. Do this 6 days a week if you can. At least 5. (I wouldn't recommend 7--you will burn out.)

Good luck! (Btw, it's not high school you hate so much but this particular way of doing it.)

Answer 2

I was diagnosed with ADHD and was on Concerta for a couple months. I've been off it for quite some time now, but I'm still the same as I was before I was on the meds. You want to know what I do when I really have to get work done?

I sit down and do it, even though it sucks and it's boring and I'd rather be doing anything else. You choose to go to Facebook or Yahoo instead of doing your work.

There are things you can do to help stay on track, but you still have to do the staying on track.

Here's what's helped me:

Staying to a consistent schedule. It actually doesn't really matter when you go to sleep, as long as you wake up at the same time every day. I wake up at 7 and work from 8-12. I get home around 10, finish up anything I left undone, and hit the sack between 11:30 and 1:30.

If you put in a solid four hours of work per day, you'd make astonishing progress.

The only other thing that I can be sure will help you is getting your priorities straight with these classes. Would it be better to have them all partly done, or have one or two completed? I know I said you'd make a lot of progress, but I doubt you'd be able to condense almost a whole school year in to a month.

For the longest time, I thought I hated chemistry and biology. I was vaguely interested but I'd work hard, and then not understand or remember anything. Turns out I need to hear my lessons and move around, so now I have lectures. Also, even the old way was a lot easier when I scheduled in plenty of time and had a clean desk every day.

You don't hate high school. You hate stressing because you have to cram everything in at the last minute.

Answer 3

You are allowing yourself to be sidetracked by Y!A & Facebook , that's the problem causing you to procrastinate, the solution is obvious, isn't it?