This means I have to change to adapt to the change in an appropriate way, or else I'll be screwed.
School lets out every day at 3:57 in the afternoon, except for Wednesdays, when all sophomores, juniors and seniors leave at 12:30, while the freshman have to stay for an extra grueling hour. Between 7:57 and 3:57 are seven grueling periods of schoolwork, with a lunch break from 12 to 1 (but the freshman have lunch an hour earlier).
Since I started high school, I have remained in the same school, which is a first for me. I've never remained in the same elementary or middle school EVER before. Previously, we spent an hour in homeroom, and we had to report to class at 9. Out at 4. On Wednesdays, classes started at 8:15 and we left at 1:45. On Wednesdays, I skate with some kids under the BQE underpass two blocks away from my school with some kids until 1:00. It takes me an hour to get home, whether on Wednesdays or any other weekday. I take the L at Lorimer to Eighth Avenue, and I transfer to the A and take that train back into Brooklyn to Ralph Avenue (I do this for the heck of it, but the time is still quicker).
I don't even feel like doing homework the minute I walk into my house, or not at all. I get home at 5 (2 on Wednesdays) and I will immediately turn the TV on in my room. I TRY to do my homework, and I'm successful if I even manage to finish at 6:30. I shower at 7:30, and I will crash at 10 (but on Monday nights, when I watch wrestling, I fall asleep at 11). The good news is that I have a DVR so I can record every single show or movie and I can watch it on the weekends when I have ALL the time in the world.
I'm up at 5, now what?
People ask me why do I get up so early. I don't have to be in school until 8:00, and I leave my house at 6:09 precisely to catch the 6:12 A train (that's if I skate to the train station, which is three blocks away from my house; if I walk, I catch the 6:18 C) at Utica Avenue. I get to the corner store located two blocks away from my school before 7:00, and I walk in at 7:20 and sit in the cafeteria with my friends until 7:50 when school starts 10 minutes later. My response to them: I hate being in my house so much that I leave before anyone is even up. I can't get anything done in my house, not even simple chores because of the toll my schoolwork is taking on me. The most I'll do is read certain passages in my AP textbooks for school, and that's it. Unless I have a paper for English, Government or Senior Seminar (which is a class that's supposed to help prepare me for the real world, by creating resumes, looking into careers, and we even had an assignment where we had to create blogs, which is why I'm here), I'll do my Government, Senior Seminar, English and Math homework during breakfast, and my Bio and Latin homework during lunch.
The fact that I'm in three AP classes is even worse for me, and because of the extracurricular classes I have (Senior Seminar, Latin and AP Studio Art), I don't even have a free period. Normally students have six classes and a free period, but because i signed up for AP Art, that's sort of my "free" period, supposedly. Even art class is no joke, and the AP Government and AP Bio classes I take were recommended by my U.S. History teacher and my Chemistry teacher respectively because of my performance in their classes and on the Regents.
The advantage of having seven periods a day instead of six (lunch is excluded here) is because of lunch. Previously, I had seven classes. The AP Art class I signed up for last year took place during lunch, and I had to scramble to get my Chemistry homework done during the last ten minutes of class. Not the case today. I only have two classes before I leave for the day and I can get more done during that time. But I still need to find out how can I make homework less difficult of a challenge when I'm home since I'd rather be doing otherwise.
I know that in the long run it'll all help when I'm in NYU, the college of my dreams, but I really need to think of a plan before it's too late.
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