[cadandcookies]

Communication is your best friend for academic problems (or potential problems). The majority of teachers are willing to work with students who approach them in a reasonable manner with sufficient notice (IE, not telling them the day before you leave).

As for just general stress/mental burnout, sleep is the main thing, and, after that, making sure you spend time doing something recreational that isn't robotics. Gaming, reading, playing some sort of sport. Mental health is a balancing act. As someone who has been utterly and entirely FIRST obsessed for the last four years in addition to taking way too many AP classes, making sure that I spend time not just on homework, sleep, and robotics, but also spending an hour or two just relaxing my brain is what keeps me (mostly) functional (although I'm pretty confident that my team would not agree that it has kept me sane).