The first
step is “selecting a good study space.” This is a given, you can’t study
correctly if you are in a loud, distracting room. Make sure you have the
supplies, and make sure you are organized; it will make everything easier to
handle. Lastly for this step you have to mentally prepare. You can’t over
prepare OR under prepare for school or you’ll never make it.
The second
step will probably be one of the hardest; think positive thoughts about high
school and studying. This will pay off in the long run. This will be one of the
hardest because who wants to study
when there is so much more to do, staying positive will surely help. Not
studying will be the biggest regret of your life.
The third
step is about learning to accept you. Don’t be someone else and always be open
for advice. Everyone at one point wants to be someone they’re not; sometimes I
wish I was someone else, someone better. I think acting different makes us as
humans feel better, but in society’s eyes we’re “Fake”.
The fourth
step goes with the third step A LOT.
Believe in you and you can do anything. Even if you don’t believe in you, you
can still do anything. Believing doesn’t magically unlock that. Believing makes
it easier to reach your goals, no matter how high, far, or crazy it sounds. If
no one believed in themselves, we’d still be in the Stone Age, sleeping in a
cave. Now we can fly <3.
Awe, the big
question “wat bout my rep?” and for all you who don’t speak hood rat- “What
about my social life?” Well as crazy as this sounds, you can have straight A’s
and a social life! It’s how you spend time with friends and how long that can
be the difference between Yale and working at McDonald’s. Make sure to stay in
touch with old friends and drop the “shady” supposedly “cool” friends, you hang
out with. If you can do this you have step 5 down.
“Lunch is
the time to talk” is step six. Don’t be the one person to get detention or to
slack off and fall months behind. I guess I need to work on that. ;) Sometimes
it feels like you never have time to talk, but trust me you’ll have plenty of
time to talk in that mansion you’ll have.
Step number
seven is my favorite. Even straight “A” students need a break! (#Turntupnerd) Take
at least 2 days off every once in a while for a... Wait for it... SLEEPOVER!!!!
Or for guys “Overnight at my bro’s house” (*cough* Sleepover *cough*) you can
take a weekend off, don’t get grey hair before prom!
Okay, step
number eight is brutal. “Don’t try to climb the social pyramid.” “NO!” is
probably what you’re screaming trust me, I was screaming the SAME THING. No one wants to be a
loser, a loner, a geek, or a nerd but you don’t have to be someone you’re not.
Doesn’t it hurt? Feelings like you’re so low that you have to act like someone
else? Keeping that fake smile to impress who? That fake blonde who happens to
be the “coolest” but why? I still don’t know why, because sometimes I do the
same thing. By acting like someone else you add extra stress you don’t need.
Don’t beat yourself okay? You are beautiful, you are perfect, don’t listen to
the Barbie’s and Ken Dolls, you ARE
someone, they’re the nobodies.
Look, coming
from an awkward girl like me, this is going to sound flipping crazy... Rule
number nine is... “Try to make new friends”... *GASP* crazy right? I guess it’s
true :/ you can’t survive High School alone! Have you not seen Glee? High
School Musical? Lindsay Lohan? High school is brutal, (Without Friends)
otherwise these 4 years of your life will be the best, EVER! In addition to
making friends you have to keep old ones silly. Don’t leave your weirdo
friends, you know you love them! :P
Don’t sweat
it if your homies (LOL) stop acting weird, they’re going through high school
too and might be having a rough time. (Because they didn’t read this) Like I
said earlier no one wants grey hair, so no stressing! Just “Keep calm and ninja
on” like my shirt says. Then you and step ten will get along just fine.
The last and
most difficult step for high school students everywhere. Introducing ladies and
cooties, I mean gentlemen, rule eleven: Don’t get caught in any Boyfriend/ Girlfriend drama. I made
that seem hard, you’re probably sitting in your seat thinking ‘pshhhh I can do
that’ but did you really understand what I just told you? Don’t get caught in any boyfriend/ girlfriend drama it
didn’t say your bf/ gf drama, this said any drama. This means your friends drama, your friends friends
drama, NONE! NO! NEVER! Which makes this rule 1,000 times harder to follow.
Everyone wants a bit of excitement, a bit of juicy gossip, drama? Don’t act
like you don’t. If you want excitement, sit down, I got transformers, surround
sound, and popcorn. Want gossip? Here’s some ice cream, a magazine, and I put
on gossip girls, instant juicy gossip. Drama? I suggest a Korean drama.
(Because they’re flipping awesome) so when you follow this step
(*cough*rule*cough*) not IF, when, you’ll be a happy camper.
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Now maybe
you won’t believe this but I haven’t even started high school yet, I have a
little less than 2 months until I start at Hylton H.S. After reading an article
I wrote about the eleven steps of being a successful high school student and I
decided to translate it, from the boring, unimportant slur of an adult to the
LOL, Smh, and Brb of a teenager. After seeing these steps, I realize how easy
high school will be if I just buckle down and follow them. It can’t be that
hard right?
August
5, 2014
Isabel
Suarez (14 years of age)
