Jared+M’s+OpEd+Article

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 I’m seeing a lot of posts describing how hard junior year is for everyone, and I am getting fed up with it because this year really hasn’t been that hard. They say that it is impossible to balance school, sports, family, and friends all at the same time, but it’s really not that difficult. We really don’t even get that much homework. I do just about all of my homework for the week on Sundays, and I only spend about four hours doing it. It’s just when you wait until a Thursday night before something is due that you will be staying up late. Teachers understand that we are busy, so we really don’t have much homework during the week. Almost all physiology assignments are due on a Monday or a Tuesday, math homework is pretty much do it whenever you want, minimal homework in English, and very reasonable amount in History. People that say they don’t have any free time are either not very inefficient, liars, or cannot manage time very well. Even if you have a lot of homework on a weekday, you don’t really have to get a huge amount of sleep to function. On average in the week I get about five to six hours of sleep (only half of those nights being my own fault) and I’m doing fine. It is true that there isn’t a class that I attend that I don’t fall asleep in on a regular basis, but I get by. People need to stop freaking out about things like impossible calculus exams or an essay we had thirty minutes to write, and just chillax. If one were to take a chill pill and do all of their homework, everything would take care of itself. The most important aspect of doing well in school is remaining composed and ready. People who study all night riddled with anxiety are not preparing for success. So what I’m really trying to say is to stop freaking out and just go with the flow. As Bob Marley put it: “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing is gonna be alright.” =====