School Life Tips

It is important to make sure that you get some human contact and don’t stay bunkered up in your room all of the time. Talking to people other than when you are forced to will help with your social skills. Social skills are in fact important for your everyday life and for your future. You don’t have to be able to talk to everyone you run into, but being able to talk to those you need to is important. Even just holding a regular conversation with your best friend will help. It will at least help you improve your conversational skills.

Humans are, as a species, very social and typically need other humans to stay sane. You may not even realize just how important human contact is. Talking about something you love or ranting about something that happened can help your mental state. Sometimes you just need someone to talk to and let out all of your pent up feelings or express to just how amazing something is.

It’s important to keep all of your things organized so that you can find them when you need them. Put your work for classes into folders and binders so that you don’t get your science homework lost in your history notes. If you don’t get enough work from a class to constitute getting a whole binder for it then get a folder for that class. You can label and color-code your folders and binders to make it easier to sort through everything.

If you still get homework on paper, then get a folder specifically for homework, forms and whatever you might need to bring home or to school. If you need to bring a subject’s binder or folder home, still put the homework in your homework folder. This will allow you to have easy access to your homework and make it easier to see since your homework folder should be relatively empty since it gets emptied every day.

It is also important to keep what you do organized. If your school doesn’t already provide one, get an agenda or planner and record homework in it. Don’t forget to add when each assignment is due. If you want, you can try color coding and use a different color pen or pencil for each subject. After you complete a homework assignment, cross it off in your agenda.

On a calendar, especially one on a device you use often, record important events. If you have any appointments, the due dates for projects or anything else along those lines, put them in your calendar. Create notifications for appointments so that you don’t forget them. Make sure that they are far enough in advance that you have time to get ready and leave for them.

Everyone has gotten one at least once in their lifetime. After a test, for no apparent reason or when just the right circumstance come up, you’ve all had a headache before. As someone who gets small headaches or worse almost every day, I can tell you, they are not fun. Here are a few things which may help you with headaches.

1. Tylenol: This is probably the most obvious. It is the whole purpose of Tylenol. Other headache medicines will also work, but Tylenol is the only one that I know of off the top of my head. And no, I don’t mean Advil. Advil does not help with headaches as much as Tylenol. Advil is for fevers and pain, not headaches.

2. Caffeine: If you experience a lot of headaches, especially in the morning or when you are tired, try having some caffeine in the morning. You may just be tired or something along those lines. Caffeine could be coffee or Coke or tea, anything that has caffeine that you like. It won’t help if you get a headache trying to prevent a headache.

3. Chocolate: Right, this may seem a bit obscure, but chocolate helps me with my headaches. Hot chocolate also works. Obviously, if you are allergic to chocolate, don’t try to use it to relieve your headache.

4. Dim the Lights: If you are getting a headache and the area you’re in is bright, try moving to somewhere darker or dim the lights. This is easier if you’re at home. You can turn off the room light or dim it. When you’re outside, you can put sunglasses on, shade you’re eyes from the sun and any reflections or move into the shade.Try closing your eyes for a minute or so if you’re in a classroom or have no way to dim or shade the lights.

5. Turn Down the Noise: I mean this in the nicest way, but sometimes your music can be too loud. Try turning down your music and take off your headphones if you have headphones on. Headphones can put pressure on your head and after a while, that can turn into a headache. Loud noises and overlapping voices can add up and cause a headache. Try removing yourself or the noise from the area you're in.

Not all of these will work for everyone. If you are particularly vulnerable to headaches, then try to avoid situations that can cause headaches. Avoid strobe lights, areas with very loud noises, such as music, and looking at the sun. That last one should be kinda evident, but you never know.

When it comes to studying, there are typically three types of people: the people who study ahead of time at reasonable hours, the people who stay up late cramming the night before the test and the people who don’t study at all.

In case it wasn’t clear, the best of these options is probably option one: the people who study ahead of time at reasonable hours. These people will probably know the topic, but they don’t necessarily have to know it 100%.

Then there are the people who don’t study at all. Unless they already know the topic really well or got it right away, they probably won’t do so well on a test. Studying can help you remember the information better and can increase your understanding of a topic. If you remember and understand the information, you’re more likely to pass your tests.

While studying is important for preparing for tests and quizzes, studying too much late at night won’t help you. If you stay up late trying to cram all of the information into your brain, then you aren’t likely to remember all of the information. Not to mention the fact that you will be tired and sleepy when it comes time to take your test. Overall, you probably won’t do so well on your test.

I know you want to stay up late playing a video game, watching a video or reading the latest updates. You can manage ‘just fine’ going to bed near or after midnight and waking up at o' dark thirty. But you really can’t. No offense, but it isn’t healthy for you. In order to stay healthy, you need to get at least eight hours of sleep in order to stay healthy, maybe even ten hours if you can get it. Getting too few hours of sleep is called sleep deprivation.

Sleep deprivation can damage your brain and is really bad for you. Getting too few hours of sleep will leave you grumpy when you wake up in the morning. You won’t be running at your highest potential and your grades will suffer.You’ll be sluggish and have a slowed reaction time.

Not to mention that it will be harder to remember everything you did really late at night. A better way to enjoy them would be to wait until the next day. That way, not only will your experience of what you do be better, but also your time in school. Well, you won’t be as tired or grumpy in school. Getting more sleep won’t change the school itself, just your experience with it, slightly.

So, you’re sick, and not just a small cold sick, but throwing up or high fever sick. You may think, “Oh, I’m not that sick. I’m fine, I can make it through school.” Let me tell you, if you are really sick then, no, you can’t make it through school. If on the off chance you do make it through school, then it will be a miserable experience, worse than usual, and you most likely crash afterward and get little of your homework done. So do your self a favor and don’t go to school.

Not going to school doesn’t mean you don’t have to do any work, though. While you are sick, if you are up to it, contact your teachers that you were supposed to have and say “Hey teacher, I’m sick, what did I miss? Is there anything I can do to make some stuff up?” You can also contact your friends, presuming that you have some, or people that you share classes with and ask what happened or if there was any homework.

If you have been out sick for a few days and are just starting to feel better, give yourself one more day to rest up a bit more and work on anything you can that your teachers or your friend sent you. Try to do as much of the work you missed without pushing yourself too much.

Doing a group project before you got sick? Contact your fellow group members and inform them that you are sick. Try to do a bit of the work you were supposed to do

In a previous post, I mentioned that relaxing was important when trying to survive school. It may seem like a bit of a stretch to say that in order to survive school you need to relax, but it is true. School can build up a lot of pressure on a person. All of this pressure can make matters worse for a student. How you ask? Well, it can cause depression, anxiety, and stress, which, by the way, can negatively impact a student’s mental health and grades.

Setting aside a few minutes, half an hour or more, of time to read, watch Netflix or YouTube, or anything else you like, can help you de-stress. Set aside the work and take a few minutes to enjoy what you love and take school off your mind.

Check out all of these tips on Wattpad in the book School Life Tips.

Here are just a few general tips on how to survive better in school.

1. Stay Organized: This may seem really basic, but it is really important that you do stay organized. If you are organized, you can find all of your work and supplies without digging through your bag for ten minutes.

2. Do the Work: That includes homework. Doing the work can help you understand the topic better and solidify it in your brain. It will also help to improve your grade. A bunch of zeros in the grade book will decrease your grade a lot.

3. Relax: You may be wondering why “Relax” is on this list. Relaxing and de-stressing from a hard day of work or school is really important. Relaxing can allow you to get rid of all the stress of the day and can help prevent anxiety and depression.

4. Pay Attention: Paying attention to the class and what is going on will help you to understand the topics better since you will actually know what the teacher said. Paying attention will also help you not miss as many assignments or instructions.