My advice: take it for what it is. Enjoy it! Embrace it all! From the highschool drama to the stupid dances and whatnot. It may all seem like hell, but it’s those are the things you’ll look back on later in life and you will say “at least I experienced that.”

Don’t be in such a hurry to grow up and get out of there. Take it slow. Since your already a Whiz Kid (and I know you know this) your future is pretty much set. Just keep up the good work and BY THE WAY: GROWING UP IS SOOOOOO OVERRATED!!! Just maintain your GPA and be all that you can be in school. Things will be so much easier for you later! Trust!

Again, I can’t stress this enough:

GROWING UP IS SO OVER RATED GIRLFRIEND!!!

BUT, I know. It’s hard to except that and to fully understand that at your age and state of mind. When I was in highschool my friends and I couldnt wait to get out too! Older friends of ours would always tell us to enjoy and to not take it for granted but we were like “WHAT-EVER!” Hahaha, but now I see where they were coming from and I wished I listened to them.

Oh! and if I had to do highschool over again these are the thing I would do:

1. DO GREAT IN ALL MY CLASSES AND AIM TO BE THE VALIDICTORIAN OR EVEN THE SUMA COM LAUDE!

2. Befriend all the people I want too and not be afriad of the social heirarchy in highschool. (Luckily I was a popular, but unfortunately, because of this I had to maintain an image and because of that I missed out on a lot of good and interesting people. Luckily, I got a second chance and the cool thing is those people I avoided in highschool because they didn’t fit in with my crowd are the people I hang out with now and we have so much in common and they are the best!)

3. Just know that your friends in highschool wont always be there afterward so enjoy the moments and don’t hesitate to show them how much you love being there friends. (It sounds corney but it’ll matter later in life when you get a phone call from your friend and find out that shes pregnant. Hehe.)

4. Don’t forget that theres a WORLD OUT THERE bigger and better than highschool. Don’t get sucked into all the stupid MTV crap. Enjoy it, but dont buy into it!!!

5. Have confidence. IT’S THE KEY TO HAPPINESS. Confidence and arrogance are two different things but theres a fine line in between them so dont go overboard!!!!

6. Don’t try to please everyone because its not going to happen!!!! Just love yourself and the rest will follow.

7. Work out and be healthy!!! It’s easier when your young and in highschool. Plus! an extra bonus: Come senior year you’ll be the hottest chick in schoo and at the proml! Hehehe…

8. Join the clubs and afterschool recreation programs your school has to offer… it’ll make you multi-faceted and interesting… plus you’ll meet a lot of people this way!!! NETWORKING IS IMPORTANT… START AT A YOUNG AGE!!

ummm… that’s about it. If anything, just enjoy life to the fullest! Don’t worry so much about the future that you miss out on the present!!! Oh! and don’t let your academics suffer, its just not worth it!!! good luck!!! and best wishes to you girlfriend!!!

Feel free to contact me… I got the 411 on highschool!!! hehe 🙂

It’s obvious that you are the smart “geeky” girl. To average out how long it takes everyone else to do their work v.s. you…you’d have to be that type. However, just remember…it is the people like you that truelly change the world. It may be a headache right now to put up with it….but eventually….once you are an adult and out of school….you’re gonna miss thoose days at some level.

Junior High was hell for me. I’d have had it easier if I had someone I could have talked too, but I had nobody in thoose days…not even family. (The school I attended had told everyone to just give up hope on me that I’d be anything other than in jail or dead by the time I was 18..and I’ve never been in jail..and obviously I’m not dead yet..and I’m 30 years old now and graduated high school with honors…including a special award from the Governor….because he heard about my turn around from Junior High to High School. All it was, was me needing someone, anyone to care enough about me to give me a fair chance and let me show what I could do, and challenge myself…and I got that in High School).

I’m wasn’t the smart kid…not by reputation…however, I was a lot smarter than people gave me credit for. It wasn’t easy for me either. It’s worth it though….the hell you go through in Junior High…is worth it to see the looks on the critics and doubters faces when you walk over and claim your diploma.

The day dreaming is normal….everyone does it, regardless of intelligence. We all especially at that age are doing it because we have our hopes, dreams…goals that we have for the future. If you have a friend…talk to him or her about it. Also, your guidance counsler is required to keep anything said between the two of you between the two of you, unless it is deemed harmful to you or someone else at the school. (harmful meaning a gun in school, drugs, the bad stuff). So if he tells your mom what you say in confidence to him or her…he’s in violation of most schools’ policies. He can get into trouble for telling people what you say. He can’t keep it a secret if you are doing drugs or want to kill a student at the school…..but because you want to figure out why you daydream alot…..there is no reason for him to go off and tell anyone else.

If you are truelly worried though…..talk to your mom. Trust me, she’s been there…she knows what it’s like to daydream even in class about things she wants, needs..is hopeful for. Everyone does it at some point. It’s ok to do that…as long as it isn’t effecting your school work. If it begins to effect your school work….(not speed…just quality)..then it might be a problem that you need to work on controlling.