First day of high school tomorrow, any advice?

Question

First of all, I just wanna say I am smart. I've been doing great in school all my life. My brother says I am going to do very bad. He says his stepson did well in middle school too but when he came to high school he started gettin D's and F's. I know that guy. I know his stepson. I used to hang out with him. All he does is play games. No sports. I play basketball and am very athletic. How dare he compare that guy to me? That really gets me pumped up. Anyway, I know there's not much advice you guys can give me except for "Relax" "Dont' get nervous" and all that. The thing is I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Which means when I get scared or nervous, I get these feelings in my stomach and I have to f**t and sometimes even take a dump. So that really sucks. But mainly, I am just scared about not finding my classes and getting lost. The first day of middle school, I am not sure how I found my classes AT ALL. I just forgot but I did find them. But this is high school. We did have orientation and they showed us the school but doesn't help that much. First day you gotta go to the office and get your schedule. Each class has a number. For example my math class might have a number of 400 and then you just find that number on the map they gave you and you go there. Thing is, you gotta do it fast. There's going to be a million people there. I know they allow you to be late, well for freshmens but still I'm scared. Any advice?

Answer 1

Ignore it all and just go to your class. Forget time. Just get to your class. Can't find it? Ask someone for directions. Forget getting there fast, just go, if you're late, oh well, not your fault.

Answer 2

Calm down.

Seriously.

I'm a junior in HS now and being a freshman does suck. There's no getting around that. You'll find that out, but you can still make the best of it.

The teachers will give you a break about being late the first few days, they know you need time to find everything.  That's not that big a deal.

Also, there is nothing called Freshman Friday.... upperclassmen don't dump the Freshman in garbage cans or lockers or anything. In real life, the upperclassmen could care less about your frosh-biz.

Don't try to make friends with them to make yourself look cool, they're laughing at you.

Don't brag about how many upperclassmen you know.

Don't call yourself a "freshie" or "froshie" or whatever you guys say, you'll look like a q***r. It's pronounced F-R-E-S-H-M-A-N... get used to it.

You won't have as many priviledges as the upperclassmen, get used to that too.

Teachers don't hate you they're not allowed to, so don't complain.

BE PREPARED FOR HOMEWORK! you get waaaaaaaaay more than you did in Middle School.  

Get your priorities straight, if you want to be seen as mature, be mature. Don't join too many clubs, you'll be overwhelmed.

Mostly, really, just calm down. High School is not a cake-walk, but you'll do fine, I'm sure.

:D