Nick's Declassified School Survival Guide

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School is a wilderness to beware.

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Students in agony over school need to give their best efforts into their grades and rest easy once they have perservered against adversity. (139 characters)

Students all over the country are beset by their teachers and almost all feel the pressure of work and expectations forced upon them. To relieve this pressure, we have to manage our time and make school a top priority.

                We have to be generous towards school because if we neglect it, the consequences can be dire. As Ron Kurtus states in his website, School For Champions, students need to manage time each day to complete assignments. As it turns out, students can actually spend too much time on assignments, taking more time than what is actually needed. So the best way to tackle that pesky homework is to have specific intervals free from distractions and with celerity. For example, every day when school lets out, set the interval from about 4:15 pm to 5:15, giving that hour of cushion to unwind from the day. Also, staying organized can help retain the grade point average. Moreover, keep every graded assignment that gets handed back. This will show what mistakes were made and so that next time the same mistakes will not be made twice.

                In order to make school more of a priority, schedules might need to be rearranged. In the online article, 10 Tips for Getting Good Grades, Randall Hansen advises us to, “use a planner or organization system.” Using a planner will definitely help those with bizarre and changing schedules to help plan out when and where school work needs to be done. In spite of the organizer, sometime in order to fully make school a priority, sacrifices have to be made. No one is able to do everything that they want so when it comes to this, decide what is most dear to keep and what is going to have to be given up. Although, a lot of extracurricular activities like clubs or maybe a job may take up most free time and obdurate people might never give these up. But the wanton truth is students have an obligation to do well in school and if that is hindered by anything, something has to change or school survival is slim. Similarly, in the book Call of the Wild, a dog named Buck is taken from his home and forced to live in the harsh Yukon. Buck has to change his ways and habits in order to adapt and survive in the Yukon.

                All have felt the pressure of school, threatening to make us crack. So if the pressure gets to be too much, help is offered to those who need it. Everyone everywhere has at one time struggled in a class. So if classes get too hard sometimes, most schools do offer tutoring to help students understand material.

                Too many students out there are struggling with grades and too many times it has been from lack of effort. Most would be obdurate as to consider the suggestions that have been stated. But this is promised to work. Make the sacrifice. Make the effort. Make the grade.

Works Cited

S Hansen, Randall S. "10 Tips For Getting Good (or Better) Grades." n.d. Quintessential Careers. May 2012.

S Kurtus, Ron. Get Your Homework Done. 26 September 2011. May 2012. <http://school-for-champions.com/default.htm>.

S London, Jack. Call of the Wild. Tom Doherty Associates, 1986.