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Like as been said before (at least for high school students like me) I do my work during lunch and during class, and what doesn't get done then ... well you know :p lets hope you got A's on those tests :rolleyes:

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I'm a high school student, frosh, taking 3 solids(4-block system)

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I just try to do as much homework as I can in class...and then try to squeeze some in at lunch and break. I guess when I still havnt finished it IS about staying up late. Oh, and no more studying for tests=) Just pay more attention in class...works pretty well. Robotics does take up a lot of time but if you can squeeze acedemics in here and there it all fits in as long as you don't go off and play computer games for like a few hours it's alrite.

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basically you cut sleep out of the equation and your good to go...lol :p
but seriously I don't sleep much during build season just because of the amount of homework i get that most the time does not get done at school. That and doing all the fun things there are to do during the build season. Robot design, animation, fabrication, programming....

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There is no such thing as managing homework for me. I never have time to do homework between, dedication to robotics, house cleaning, farmers insurance, travel softball practice, ohhh yeah and gymnastics! lol and my health. lol

-Court-

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Me monday morning at school:

:ahh: I suddenly realize i have a paper due! (on internet) Copy and paste! copy and paste!

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Try 18 credits of college (sophomore), two jobs, robotics, and then home work.

If it needs done, I either don't get much sleep or I hand it in partly finished/to the best of my ability.

Right now I have nearly every hour of the day booked.

Well, back to seeing what HW needs done or shall I do more robot stuff?

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It helps that our district has finals/midterms at the end of 1st semester instead of the beginning of 2nd semester, and that we have all new classes at the start of 2nd semester (block scheduling), so everything tends to be relatively easy at least the first week or two.

Mainly, work as much as possible during class (this work can be on homework or on robotics work that you will have to do anyway) and don't waste this time and talk like you might at other times. Try to balance out which homework you do for which classes (don't do all in one and fail another), but in the end sometimes you will have to sacrifice having the A in the class (at least for now) for robotics. Remember, there are still 3 months after build season to get your grade up, just don't let it drop too far (I know our school won't allow you to do any outside activities, including robotics, with a failing grade, and our mentors will force you to do homework once you approach failing until the grade is up higher). I don't know how much sleep you're used to, but expect to get less; I always get 6 hours or less a day anyway, so robotics dropping it to 5 or 4 doesn't affect me much.

So, the choice is up to you, just make sure you are okay with what happens from your decision.

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During the build season, I will admit that I usually cram in all my homework literally in the five minutes between classes. I also almost never study for tests, and I spend all of my study hall playing around in CAD or surfing ChiefDelphi instead of doing homework. I am one of those students who likes to sit on the back of the class. Half the time I never pay attention in class either. School bores me. But robotics, that is really interesting. :D

Last year, I only studied for ten minutes for one of my seven final exams. :ahh: I am taking all Honors-level classes, except for AP American History. And yet, I still recieved A's on every single one of my finals. I have a solid 4.4/4.5 GPA, and I have at least an A average in every class except English, where I have a B+ average. (If it was not for the fact that I have partial photographic memory, I wouldn't be able to do this.) :yikes:

I spend probably close to an hour a day on ChiefDelphi. I also am the only webmaster for my robotics team, and usually do about an hour or two into working on that every day. (Right now, I am working on begining to write a PHP-backend for it). I also attend up to and over thirty hours of robotics meetings per week, in addition to the time I spend at school 'learning'.

I also try to spend about at least a few hours per week toying with ideas in Inventor. Somehow (eg. lots of Mountain Dew and Mountain Dew MDX), I've trained myself to be able to stay awake to 2-3 AMish every night*, and still wake up at 6 AM feeling refreshed and readany minutes of work as possible out of it.

You probably cannot get much more productive than I am right now. :p

*Okay, so I sleep until noon on Sundays. But that may change soon when our team decides to start meeting on Sundays again. :p

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Like many of you have said, it really comes down to time management. I go from school to whatever E.C. (violin lessons, chamber strings, chess club, risk club, or tennis) I have that day to dinner and back to robotics. If I don't have anything after school on a certain day, I go straight home and work on homework from about 2:30 (we get out at 2:15 and I live very close to school) until 5p.m.

With finals coming up this week, many of the older students, including myself, have been only staying at robotics till 8 or 8:30 at the latest. Luckily, my block schedule is so messed up this semester that I have two separate 45-minute study periods and 25 minutes of lunch to work on either leftover homework or extension courses. Next semester, I go from 4 courses at school to 3 (I drop two honors classes for one more AP so I have just AP Physics, AP Chem, and Orchestra Honors) and pick up another extension course (I teach myself Calculus III and German IV-Honors) to get the necessary language credits. With this scheudule, I will have over 2 hours of "free time" in the morning to catch up on robotics, but the vast majority of that time will be spent completing my other 2 classes.

Another thing to watch out for is sports-related interference. We have had a few students drop sports to join robotics, and a few drop robotics to join sports...and I got cut from one of my sports for being in robotics...
Either way, make sure that the coaches know that you may be missing time in a spring season to travel and compete!

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Aw man! Managing? heh. No such thing for me...I know it's important but I TRY to do my during class/lunch, but if I can't finish during lunch or class, then I take a break while at the meetings, and do my homework (like 1/2 an hour 'ish). As for exams...well...I went home early for the past couple of nights and studied. In general, my marks tend to go down during the build season :S

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I'm a 4.0+ student and fortunately this year I'm not getting much homework yet. We have midterms around the time of our regional. It helps to be well liked by teachers (sometimes I'll miss an entire school day) but the work always builds up. Fortunately we're starting to get the hang of it so just try to stay on top of the work, it still gets hard to do when we get home around 7 pm every day.

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If you don't want to fail or build a horrible robot. You will just need to stay up late. I dont reccomend slacking during 1st block, especially with Tests.

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My grades get it bad during build season.
I have it worse than many on my team, with Lacrosse and Ultimate Frisbee along with robotics.
I eat whenever given the chance, and sleep sparingly.
I have now decided i need to finish my already late notes on Slaughterhouse-Five, and get off CD before i spend another night without doing any homework whatsoever.

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I just do homework whenever. I feel as long as i get it done the night before it is due, i am good. That way it is at least done. I'd prefer going to robotics over school. Especially since i am on the animation team. I spend more time on that than i do robotics.