by Joshua Sun

Created on: April 09, 2011

School is a huge part of most of our lives, it does not just provide us education, but also a reputation made from grades. Many students believe their lives depend on their grades, and others simply may not even care about how well they do. Students comes in many form – Shy and nerdy, too cool for school, the “Perfect” grade achiever and social being, the ladies’ man, hot attractive girls, perverted, and jocky. Many of the shy students tend to look up to a certain figure, imaginary or real. Some may want to be a “Perfect” student; others may want to be the ladies’ man. This makes them try too hard either socially or academically, which in most of time results in more negative than positive outcomes. Instead they should want to walk their own path, find time to relax and time to study. This guide will help you find the perfect balance between grades and your social life.

Many students are affected greatly by unkind comments from others, causing them to focus on unimportant problems instead of class. These comments may be hurtful on purpose, or just an overblown joke. Anyhow the victims of these words need to either let themselves be unaffected, or take care of it. The shy or the hardcore grade extremist in this case need to take traits from the “too cool for school” kids, letting themselves to not care too much about others opinion and even their grades. This allows them to acquire consciousness, free their mind and concentrate on their work. If you are the type who cannot “let the words fly past”, make sure you do not react towards the person immediately. People in anger are less mindful of their actions; many times they will regret what they did earlier. Bullies wants you to fight them, therefore they want to take you down with their useless lives. Make sure that you do not act violently, talk it out or tell them to just get a life (if talking it out did not go so well). If you do fight however, make sure you win, do not get in trouble and publicly embarrass the bully. If he or she is a friend, then you can be sure it is either a joke, a serious statement for you to know, or something said in anger. If they are smirking, do not take them seriously, if they look like they want to kill someone or cry, let it go, and if it is serious, listen carefully and say you will keep it in mind.

For students with crap grades who want to improve, start by keeping up with good habits. Instead of sleeping or

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