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.
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.
*Originally posted by Jeff_Rice *
**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!
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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.
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.
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)
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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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.
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 