High school students: How much homework do you have?

[Isidour]

Eating fish wouldn´t be better?

EATMOREFISH!
eat your chick just after the promp

[Robin Hood]

I have like 4 hours of homework a night.

Well, I eat CHICKEN when I'm studying (Betya like that Eatmorchicken). Chicken helps me concentrate.

You must eat alot of chicken.

[Alan]

I have like 4 hours of homework a night.

Well, I eat CHICKEN when I'm studying (Betya like that Eatmorchicken). Chicken helps me concentrate.

You must eat alot of chicken.

Nope. Bite Sized pieces.

[brownie]

Eat more tofu..?

[Isidour]

Come más Tacos!!!

[Eatmorchiken]

Well I'm glad everyone has fun switching around my username!! hahaha.

I prefer Isidour's version... come mas tacos!!!!!! I love tacos. they're great.

anyway. it's the weekend. so don't expect me back in this thread till monday. I hate thinking about school during the weekend, haha.

[Isidour]

Yay!!!

Tacos are the best thing ever made in world!

[Roger Rabbit]

Tacos make me sick. I used to be able to eat them back in grade school but I can't eat them anymore. They were good though.

[Alan]

Well, IMO yes. We spend 7 hours at school, half of the time learning things we'll never use again in life. Then we have to come home from school, where we should be able to relax, but then we have to do homework.

Now I konw other people have more than an hour a night, but I just think homework in general is a bad idea.

wow! Be prepared for a lot more than one hour of homework every night in college.

[yankees]

Well I have Study as My Last Period Of The Day and That is 45min.... So I Probb Only Have about An Hour 1 when I come home cause I get about 2hrs of homework.... Im in all academic classes
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[memnv]

When I was in School I tried to get it done at Lunch and Study HAll, When I was in College you did not get that much homework and some classes where once or twice a week, Instead of homework I remember get assignments where you had weeks to do them. I also went to school in New York in a very good school district

[Eatmorchiken]

That's really strange, because I'm in all Honors classes, and it seems that I don't get very much homework. Sometimes I can even not do any at home and just somehow manage to get it done during school of the day its due. Maybe because I've been practicing that skill my whole life...

[Escapay]

Well, IMO yes. We spend 7 hours at school, half of the time learning things we'll never use again in life. Then we have to come home from school, where we should be able to relax, but then we have to do homework.

Now I konw other people have more than an hour a night, but I just think homework in general is a bad idea.

wow! Be prepared for a lot more than one hour of homework every night in college.

Alan, you're 14. You're not in college yet, so you have no idea what the workload is. And I for one don't believe that you enjoy homework, nor do you really have like 4 hours of homework a night. That's exaggeration on your part, perhaps to brag a bit, perhaps to impress.

Not every college will be a pre-conceived hell where you have 100 pages read by the next class and a 10 page essay as well. Many classes give homework that isn't due for another week, or even several at that. If you schedule yourself wisely and do it all in moderation, you don't need to have 4 hours of homework a night.

Escapay

[Alan]

wow! Be prepared for a lot more than one hour of homework every night in college.

Alan, you're 14. You're not in college yet, so you have no idea what the workload is. And I for one don't believe that you enjoy homework, nor do you really have like 4 hours of homework a night. That's exaggeration on your part, perhaps to brag a bit, perhaps to impress.

Not every college will be a pre-conceived hell where you have 100 pages read by the next class and a 10 page essay as well. Many classes give homework that isn't due for another week, or even several at that. If you schedule yourself wisely and do it all in moderation, you don't need to have 4 hours of homework a night.

Escapay

Please don't make assumptions about other people, thank you. Just because some people actually ENJOYS learning and education doesn't mean you can be condescending.

BTW, I am in the best and most competitive school district in massachusetts. I take mostly honors/AP, and I am smart. I DO have 4 hours of homework every night on average. You don't even know me in real life and you don't know my study habits, and but you claim that I'm lying and have under 4 hours of homework per night. Well, YOU'RE WRONG!

[Escapay]

Alan, you're 14. You're not in college yet, so you have no idea what the workload is. And I for one don't believe that you enjoy homework, nor do you really have like 4 hours of homework a night. That's exaggeration on your part, perhaps to brag a bit, perhaps to impress.

Not every college will be a pre-conceived hell where you have 100 pages read by the next class and a 10 page essay as well. Many classes give homework that isn't due for another week, or even several at that. If you schedule yourself wisely and do it all in moderation, you don't need to have 4 hours of homework a night.

Escapay

Please don't make assumptions about other people, thank you.

BTW, I am in the best and most competitive school district in massachusetts. I take mostly honors/AP, and I am smart. I DO have 4 hours of homework every night on average. You don't even know me in real life and you don't know my study habits, and you claim that I'm lying and have under 4 hours of homework per night. Well, YOU'RE WRONG!

Alan, don't take this personal, but here's what I think:

1. I wasn't making an assumption. I was saying you haven't experienced college yet, so you have no way of knowing the workload to be able to warn ANYONE of the horrors of how it'd be more than 1 hour a night.

2. I don't care what school you're in, nor that you're in honors/AP classes, nor that you think you're smart. A school is a school.

3. I personally don't believe anyone could possibly have four hours of homework a night unless they are writing like one letter a minute or taking 10 minutes to read a sentence or reading and checking everything four times and hoping it'll jump out of the page and say "Enough already, you know it!". But you're you, and if you insist that you take 4 hours to do homework, more power to you. I just find the whole idea ridiculous. Four hours, meh...

4. You're right. I don't know your real life or your study habits. But my real life and study habits must differ, if I was in possibly the New Jersey counterpart of this "best and most competitive school district of Massachusetts". I took honors classes as well (though I could've, I didn't do AP because I knew I'd be taking more than I could handle), and according to the school's grading policy, I was smart if I had A's and B's. And all I did was read things once, do it, and have everything done in an hour. I'm not saying my school's teaching policy and grading policy and my study habits were better. I'm just saying that it's different for everyone.

4. I didn't claim you were lying. I said exaggerating. That's different, and someone as smart as you think you are should know that.

5. The was completely unnecessary, IMO.

6. In nearly all your posts, Alan, you seem to enjoy posting things you think may impress people. You know people that make $1000 a day, you have four hours of homework, you're in AP classes, you know such-and-such great deals on DVDs and point out to everyone that they should have done your deal instead of another, you're this and you're that and you lost me at hello. You have this attitude in your post, as if you expect people to be impressed by your young life and what you do. All honors and AP classes, oh my! Four hours of homework, inconceivable! But for Alan the SuperSmartWonderKid? It's nothing at all because homework is FUN. It's good to be proud of your intellect, it's another to flaunt it as if it were nothing. I think in one post, you were asking how someone could possibly take Calculus in their freshman year of college yet you're taking it your sophomore year of high school. Not everyone is as smart or as dumb as you perceive them to be. Not all of us are as rich or as poor as you perceive us to be. $1000 a day or $500 a month doesn't make one person better than another. Slipcovers are useless but decorative pieces of cardboard. Alan, you're just like everyone here: someone sitting in front of their computer. We're all equals. No one's more equal than the other. You don't need to impress people to be liked. Just lay off the slipcover and Ben-Hur obsession, and perhaps tone down your bragging a bit. I'm sure many others are/were in AP classes and many others come from a high-income family, but we don't need to brag about it. Who'll we impress anyway? Just people sitting at their computers. That's all we are, people in front of computers. No need to impress.

Just my IMO, not to be taken personal or anything.

ETA:

I was remembering an earlier threadyou created, and my advice here is more sage and...well, speaks better. About how your essay, which was by you and checked and edited by someone at MIT got a "B", and someone you thought didn't deserve an "A", got one:

A "B" is neither the end of the world nor is it a reason for people to jump at someone who's complaining that he got one. Alan, if you normally get nothing but A's and this is your first B in like...ever, I can understand where you're coming from.

But you gotta realize, like everyone said, that a B is not all that bad, nor is it a sign that you're not doing well. There are people in your school who may be struggling and studying their damndest and only getting by on a C. Be proud that you can complain that a B is too low, but don't take it as a sign that what you're doing isn't good enough for this teacher.

Bias or not, he had a reason to give you a B. You say it was corrected/edited by someone at MIT. Well, good for you. Does your teacher know this? Does he know how much work you put into it? If he doesn't, perhaps he could reread your essay and give you another grade. If he does, perhaps even MIT couldn't improve upon it. It doesn't make you any less of an essay writer if it was edited by MIT and still got a B. You gotta learn to just roll with the punches, kiddo. A B is still a B no matter what you do to it, and just be glad it's not anything lower than a D.

The kid next to you who got an A- must be on Cloud Nine. If it's his first A, be glad for him. And be glad for yourself, since you know now to work better on your essays and to challenge yourself into earning your A's. Don't take high grades for granted, otherwise you become careless and don't put as much effort into them as you did before.

ETAA:

Decided to bold the last part, because that's another thing I wanted to touch on. Grades. Right now, you're in AP classes and smart and everything that you can complain about a B. So maybe, just maybe, this crazy four-hour homework thing is working. But never ever take it for granted. It will get harder. In your case, it will get longer too. Maybe next year you'll complain that you get four hours. But that's what you asked for with AP. So essentially, don't brag about it yet, until you've fully immersed yourself into it. Until you poured your blood sweat and tears into homework and academic life. Don't EVER take intellect for granted. And don't think it will always come easy at four hours. Even the smartest people struggle at something, that's what makes us human. It's okay to mistakes once in awhile. You learn from them.

Escapay

[memnv]

Nicely said Escapay

[Wonderlicious]

I'm sorry to say this, Alan, that like memnv, I have to agree with that rant of Escapay. Some (yet not all) of your posts could have a little more substance (aka less huge quote chunks with a small reply at the end), not to mention a nicer, less snobby attitude. It almost seems as though you're an online Dr Faustus; intelligent and wealthy to the point where you are starting to use your gifts in immoral ways.

And I think that one should remember Luke's words on the subject that were personally written to you, Alan...

I think a warning is in order and has been for a while. If you want to be a member of this community, you're going to have to put a bit more thought into your posts. All I see from you is short, often off-topic and often inane little rants. If you're not ignorantly putting down others for how much they earn, you're putting them down for liking a bonafide Disney classic. Or you're talking (apparently with no sarcasm whatsoever) about how important a piece of cardboard is.

It's not funny and it's not adding anything to this forum. In fact, it's hurting this forum. Whether intentionally or not, you are dumbing conversation down to levels where it should not be on a 13-and-up community. Either start trying to add something of worth to discussion or do not bother posting. The antagonism, ignorance, and inanity of most of the things you have written is just not very appealing to other members of the community and rarely conducive to discussion, which is what this is a place for.

Thanks for understanding and please, for your sake, do not reply with a one-liner that misses the entire point of this post.

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[mila&breeze]

I currently am a sophomore in high school, and I HAVE A LOT OF WORK. I'm taking honors bio, honors precalc, AP WORLD, english, and spanish. AP world is really hard. On average, I have like 4 hours of homework a night
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So how much homework do you fellow high schoolers have, and whats your grade?

won't be getting much cause i work 3 days a week (soon 4) this is last full year of high school so might be a senior!! i will be in high school intil i am 22 years old school program i am 20 1/2 years old

[Roger Rabbit]

Very well said Escapay.

I'd just like to add that college is extremely different from high school, and it's not just schoolwork and grades that'll get you through it. Its a transition into adulthood and living on your own. That's something that AP courses will not teach you.

[Alan]

Very well said Escapay.

I'd just like to add that college is extremely different from high school, and it's not just schoolwork and grades that'll get you through it. Its a transition into adulthood and living on your own. That's something that AP courses will not teach you.

No, but my cousin is in an ivy league college, and I goes to bed at 2 AM studying!