Anyone else having trouble keeping up with work?

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

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.

Indeed.

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

[sanddrag]

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.

[Nate Edwards]

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

[Vincent Chan]

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.

[Yan Wang]

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

[Ryan M.]

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.

[Drawman]

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! >_<

[northendchopper]

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

[jjdebner]

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 . 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

[BlueOrion]

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!

[OneAngryDaisy]

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.

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[Lisa Rodriguez]

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!!

[mtaman02]

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.

[Heretic121]

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

[KTBSPASonya858]

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.