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Because I am working till just past 11 every day, I am having trouble keeping up with schoolwork. Anyone else having trouble?

of course :-) it's part of the experience: time management

I don't have to keep up with it. I just don't do any.:D No, seriously. There was a thread over the summer about what the benifit of homework really is and it turned out it wasn't really much. A lot of the really successful people in the world dropped out of school and set their own path for learning. Come to think of it, in History class today we were talking about how California outlawed homework in 1901. Supposedly it didn't work and here we are today.

Doh, I have a Physics AP test tomorrow. See ya...

It's nice when you have sympathetic teachers. One of my teachers is involved with the team and I have two extremely easy classes, so I'm not too worried.

O gosh, yes!

I slacked off a little and got a B in Civics, Government, and Economics (one class) on the progress report. Thankfully only end of trimester grades count. I wasn't allowed to do FIRST stuff for a week! Terrible!

And I have no sympathetic teachers. Oh well.

Is that a team rule or a parents' rule? If that's your teams rule, it's one of the strictest I've ever heard of.

Anyway, my policy for this year has become "no homework at home". Instead, I do it all during class since there's nothing better to do. Not only does this decrease my boredome during school, it also gives me more time to waster... err... spend on RoboEmu/robotics.

I tend to be a bit of a slacker. I'm lucky though...I have a study hall (sometimes two consecutivly) before Calculus. I never have homework in Sociology...rarely in English (can be done in homeroom...including some reports ;P) Physics has no homework. My only working class is Calculus.

Yeah my schoolwork is really suffering. I went from a A+ to a A- in ap physics and I went from a A to a A- in gym. Oddly enough slacking off is nothing new for me. I never really do my physics homework (don't understand it until my teacher explains it), never really study for social studies(doing well in that), math I struggle a little bit in(who wouldn't struggle converting rectangular to polar graphs), and English is pretty easy. All in all it is a pretty fun school year escpecially with all the extra activities I do.

I wish i had a teacher that understands.:(

A to C in political/ecenomic systems (that might have been because i switched into a different teacher, but my parents blame it on robotics. :(

That is my parents rule. I would be really scared if it was a team rule *shudders at the thought*

Here's a hint. Math and science teachers tend to like FIRST, others usually don't. Invite your teachers to come look at your project, take robot problems to your physics teacher (stack stability anyone?). Let them know your applying what they teach you and they will like it and understand :)


Greg

At my school robotics runs straight through finals week. A blessing and a curse. It didn't give me much time to study for the tests and thus i do badly but i only have to take the tests and not go to class so i have more time to work at robotics(well theoretically my team should have, we didn't). Other than that... my work didn't suffer, just my sleeping. Oh my health did... They should quarantine my team. We all have red noses because we've been blowing our noses too much. (maybe we could be clowns)

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I guess I'm one of the fortunates this year. I have block scheduling ( 4-80 min calsses a day) and two of my teachers are some of my team's advisors, i have one study hall, and Ap Physics. So the only class i have any homework in during a First Compition Is my Ap Physics class.

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Grades definatly dropped, however, I can get back on my feet. I learned a lot last year about how to manage schoolwork/robotics. This year, I planned ahead and got most of my grades to the point where I could slack off for the first few weeks for first semester, and I need to make it up second semester. The only real problem was that finals week was during build season, and therefore we got a lot less done (we don't work too much during finals week).

Social life and sleep on the other hand took a dive...

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My grades always go down during build/competition season, it's just the way it is and I've come to accept it. They tend to go back to where they were before Robotics started in the last 9 weeks of our grading period.

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Indeed.

Lets just say that out of necessity, i have been finding myself turning most of my homework into during-lecture-in-class-work.

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I like juggling literally but not juggling projects and school. Right now I have school, robotics (LA regional coming), another robot for a special project (due in 2 weeks), and a senior (machining) project due May 12 (actually before then because my friend needs at least a week to program it). Also, in the end of last January one of my classes got switched from TA to Economics. Last, I have on and off been working on a shifting transmission for next year.

So, I have a pretty full schedule. After some of this stuff is over, I then move on to preparing detailed plans and instructions for everything with robotics so my team can carry on after I graduate.

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I just got the highest GPA I have got and this was the most involved with Robotics I have been. I got a 4.0 GPA for the first time in High School and put an average of 52 hours a week into Robotics. So it seems to not have an effect on me.. I'm sorry to say that alot of our team it has an effect on as I was looking at GPAs and it was really bad but oh well. At least this year we can take people that have over a 2.0 it was going to be a 2.5 but for some reason its a 2.0... I don't know how people get that low... its talent..
Nate

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My grades have dropped significantly in two classes. Before, I wasn't interested, but I'd do the work. Robotics started and then I decided that the work wasn't worth the time. Failing is bad. :[

However, given that I can't stay at this school unless I pass all my classes, they will rocket upwards now that we've done our regional. :D

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During robotics, the quality of my homework/etc and the time I spend on it drastically decreases. Nonetheless, I make myself do all of it and make sure I keep up... otherwise my parents wouldn't let me stay in robotics. My GPA dropped 0.003 during robotics - Why we go to the thousandths place, I DON'T KNOW :P

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I manage to get everything done, but there isn't much time for anything else. I also didn't get my usual As on a few tests. Fortunately, it doesn't last long enough to hurt my grades much. ;)

P.S. I'm second out of 445 people in the freshman class at my school. :)

--EDIT--
Oh yeah, reading the last post. Our GPAs go to the thousandths place also. :)

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Oh man....yeah trouble could be a good way to explain it.

I have a C++ class and because over 80% of the work in there is class-room related material, I have a C (oh noes) in there. Good thing I have As in the rest of my classes to make up for that! >_<

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strangly enough i seem to do better during the build season. i dont know why but it has happened 2 years in a row

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This is a definate in my school. We have 0 teachers who are simpathetic. We can't even find a school advisor. (ours this year is not doing it next year..guess he didn't like his first year {which was this year}) A bunch of kids I know are having trouble making up work and the teachers are "frustrated" (sp) with the feild trips. I myself found out i was first in my class for the first half of the semester. (freshman class) I KNOW for a fact my grades have gone down too much to stay that high for the second semester. The things i give up for robotics. It isn't as much lack of work. More like lack of effort, lack of sleep (fallen asleep much during class), lack of payng attention. But I have learned soooo much from first that it balances my grades out 1000000 times over. I wouldn't give up my first experiences for an entire grade drop in every class. First DEFINATLY Roxs my Soxs. I can't wait till another exciting year. Now the the regional is over time to get working again.. maybe i should bring those grades up again :D . Thanks for posting thing. Some people must feel that it is only them who have this problem. I am sure it effects someone somehow everywhere

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Definitely. It is the worst this week, right after Chesapeake and right before Drexel, even though this week I have three days that start 3 hrs late due to state testing and two days off for Drexel. I'm just not doing my work anymore. I wish school would just end or go away so I could worry about nothing but FIRST. FIRST is definitely the coolest thing out there and although I have two years left on the team, I am already dreading the day I leave and going to college. Even if it does mean leaving high school. The only reason why I'm not switching out of high school in my junior year and going to a local community college (it's a cool program where you complete high school with credits in college) if robotics. If I wasn't in it, then I would be SOO gone next year. But I'll come back every year and hopefully go to a college that mentors teams or does robotics in some way. Doing homework is no more for me. That's why I'm on Delphi right now!

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Seriously. With a nice load of hard classes, robotics, senior graduation project, and much more I'm pretty much dying. My calc teacher is the most serious guy in the entire school, and when I told him I was going to miss this thursday and friday he got all dejected and started scolding me. *sigh*. And i really don't want to graduate either, I'll never be on a team as awesomely awesome as mine, everything is perfect here.

[/end rant]

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Yea, at my school, we run right over 3rd quarter, talk about 3rd quarter slump. Plus 3rd quarter ends RIGHT after we get back from compeitions, so it's like "student missing work" and it looks kinda bad. Gonna have to explain that one to the colleges.......
As for sympathetic teachers, I myself usually sucker myself lots of time and some lack of assignments, i talk to a lot of my teachers about the program and we leave our trophies (if we get them, which we have this year) in the offices for everyone to see, so we kinda of get a break, because they know it takes up a LOT of time, last year some of my teachers often even went "oo you actually DO ACADEMIC stuff at this, forget about that homework, you're good" and then i jump up and down that profusly thank them :)
Plus we invite them all the the local regional, we try and get the word out, doesn't always work, but it helps......
And if they come, when they see what we do, they are amazed and love it, and never stop talking about it!!

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And here I thought you were talking about a Job. Well in any case. From January 10, 2004 till the end of the season you will always have a problem with school work. I know I did. Like many others have posted it's all about multi tasking and time management. Espicially if your a senior and on the road to graduating. Priortize and you'll have no problem. Do the easy stuff during your school day (maybe during lunch) that way the hard stuff is left till the end of the day.

I did whatever HW I could during my classes or did it in bulk when the teacher gave me the opportunity to that way I could concentrate on robotics w/o having to worry about missing any CW or HW.

As for tests well the only advice is put the Game Manual down and Pick up the text book. See if you can take the test early and that way you'll have some time left to work on robotics issues.

Mid-Terms / Finals there is no way to re-schedule or take them earlier then state regulations so just take them and get it out of the way. Remember it could be worse.

Like I said it's all about time management and the ability to multi task. If you learn these 2 now you'll be able to continue to work for a FIRST team forever.

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well im definatley slipping... BUT today my trig honors teacher was out, so i got to make up all 5 assignments i was missing so im good in that... i still have a physics lab, and a 3 page History Papper on "Flags Of Our Fathers" due tommrow and friday respectively... if i dont get both of these done all i have to say is...

Goodbye Golf, Goodbye Robotics =X

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I haven't gotten behind in my work because our coaches have us get our homework before we leave, and in 3 of my class we just sit there and listen to the teacher. But when we go out of town we have to take our work with us. So we won't be behind when we get back.

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I hope you get them done in time.

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My grades haven't really slipped that much. I did homework during down time at meetings during build season, and I also sacrificed sleep to keep my grades up. Luckily, I didn't miss much work when I was away at regionals, and since nationals are during our spring break, I won't really miss anything.

You better get that work done. It'd be a shame for 121 to lose its human player :(

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I have an idea! Let's get Miles to be the backup HP! ;)

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Yes, and maybe I could be driver during the Newton Divison Finals in Atlanta :cool: don't worry, I'd be gentle :D......... having trouble keeping up with work? of course not, even though I am procrastinator #1.

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No.

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I'm having trouble with keeping up with my schoolwork and the teachers aren't given me any breaks and they don't seem to understand that I can get a huge scholarship from being involved with robotics. Another thing is that I learn more when I'm working with my team because since I have ADD and dyslexia, I learn more when I'm doing a hands on activity and working on the robot is all hands on. So I actually learn more when I'm working with my team compared to when I'm in school.

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This is going to sound so horrible but...

My grades actually get better during competition season! I guess it's cause I'm a born procrastionator and if I think I have more time to do something, I wont do it. Because MOE has such a busy and demanding schedule...I know I have to do my homework right after school or I wont be able to do it later. This forces me to do my homework and it's also helpful because my brain is still in school mode. Thus, I remember much more then I would normally.

On average, however, I do decently and I haven't had any real problems with keeping my grades up. However, I have been slipping increasingly in math due to lack of effort. I am a senior this year and in less then 29 days (maybe one or two more) I am done for the year. In other words, I have gotten senioritis.