School doesn't have to be a dungeon. Whether you find school difficult, boring, or just plain stressful, you can learn to make school easier and a lot more fun. Learn some concrete strategies for making school easier, making friends, and keeping it fun.
Steps
Making Friends
- Find your group. If you've got a group of friends who like what you like, and who you like to be around, going to school can be a lot of fun. Whether you're into music, pro wrestling, or horses, finding some other kids that you can talk to and be friends with is very important.
- Recess can be a great way to make friends. If you're a basketball player, find the other basketball players. Talk about your favorite ballers and play epic games of horse together. You'll be friends before long.
- Don't worry about being popular, or hanging out with the popular kids. Worry about hanging out with who you like, and avoid the people you don't.
- Join an after school club. Another great way to make friends is joining a formal club or group at your school. Music club, chess club, dancing club: check out the options offered at your school and consider joining one that lines up with your hobbies.
- If none of the clubs sound appealing, consider starting one at your school. After school video game club? Magic: The Gathering group? Find a teacher to sponsor it, or start it yourself with some friends.
- Try joining a club that you have no interest in to meet some people you might not meet normally. Even if you're not a great singer, try making the school choir work for you. Use it as a chance to socialize and make friends.
- Try a team sport. Some schools offer team sports that allow you to compete against other schools and make friends with your fellow students. Most of the students have never played before, so it's a more or less even playing field at most schools. Soccer, track and field, basketball, and football, can all make school a little more fun.
- If you don't want to play sports, consider attending the games and cheering on your team with your friends. Most of the time, you can get in for free, and it can be a great way of making new buddies.
- Sports aren't for everyone, and students sometimes overemphasize the need for playing sports. It can be a great way to learn skills, make friends, and have fun, or it can be a needless source of stress. Only play games you enjoy.
- Loosen up. You could take a practical joke personally and get your feelings hurt, or you could laugh it off and start planning your response joke, and make it an epic one. Make friends by being less serious at school and learning to cut loose every now and then. School shouldn’t be your dungeon. It can be a great place to have fun too. Expect that you'll have fun and you'll start having fun and making friends.
- Kids like to be friends with kids who seem fun and funny, not kids who seem serious or angry. If you want to make friends, loose and comfortable is the way to be.
Keeping it Fun
- Psych yourself up each day. You could wake up each morning with a bad attitude and each morning will turn into a bad day. Or, you could crank up some energetic tunes, eat a breakfast of champions, and make your school day epic. Decide your day will be fun, and it will be.
- Pick a "get up" song to listen to each morning before school. You can even sometimes set an alarm on your phone or clock radio to play a particular song, so the first thing you hear in the morning can be the tune that gives you energy and makes you happy. Forget that annoying buzzer.
- Try to eat a good breakfast each day, to make sure you have the energy to get through the day. Focus on healthy fruits and whole grains, avoiding overly processed and sugary items like Pop Tarts or sugar-bomb cereal. Have an apple.
- Personalize your school stuff. If it makes you happier and more comfortable with your environment then try decorating your backpack, binder, notebook, locker, and other school stuff. Use stickers, glitter pens, your favorite band's emblem, or other stuff to make your school things a little more fun to carry around with you.
- Wear clothes that make you feel good. Trends go in and out, so it's hard to say what the coolest clothes will be at any given time. But enjoying school doesn't necessarily mean wearing the latest and the greatest in mall wear. Wear the clothes that you feel comfortable wearing and that let you cut loose and have fun at school.
- If it helps, plan out your school clothes the night before, so you can make sure you have everything that you'll need, clean and ready to go, for the morning. Learn to do laundry yourself so that you won't have to worry about whether or not your favorite shirt is clean.
- Let yourself daydream, every now and then. It's a fact: sometimes school is going to be boring. You'll have to sit through a few lectures and while away a few dull hours of waiting. But use your imagination to make it more fun. Imagine school as an RPG with you at the helm, or a story being written with you as both writer and protagonist. Cast yourself as a secret agent, sent to school to report back on the activities of these local youth. Find some way to add a little spice to the dullness.
Making School Easier
- Stay organized. One of the most stressful and frustrating parts of school can be making sure you have everything that you're supposed to have. Where's your English homework? Where's that math assignment? Is your pencil sharp? The less you have to worry about these little things, the more you'll be able to focus and enjoy school. Be prepared for class and everything will be easier.
- Get a good binder to organize your notes and homework assignments. Put each important document into it when you receive it, and regularly clean it out so junk doesn't build up. If you've got a bunch of old assignments in there, throw them out.
- Keep a homework journal, or a daily planner up to date, so you'll never be caught off guard with a homework assignment you forgot about. Keep close track of due dates so you'll stay ahead of the game.
- Take it easy on your teachers. Teachers are like students: some are great, some are less than great. But teachers are in charge of the classroom, and even if you're feeling frustrated or bored in class, if you choose to be nice to your teachers, chances are they'll be nice back to you. And that makes everyone's day a whole lot easier.
- It may seem like talking in class and cutting up with your friends while the teacher is talking will make class more fun, but in the long run, it might make it a whole lot more stressful and boring with a bad grade and a detention.
- If you've got a "reputation" at your school for being a class clown, or a trouble-maker, you might have an uphill battle, but you can still make a change. Wait after class and tell your teacher you're trying, and you want to do better. Ask your teacher to tell you how you can do better in class, to avoid getting into trouble. They'll be impressed at your effort.
- Budget your time more effectively. Homework will be a lot less of a burden if you save enough time to get it finished completely. Eliminate the worry and stress of homework by starting it early and getting it done quickly instead of waiting until the last minute. Wouldn't the morning before school be a lot less stressful if you weren't scrambling to finish your work? Wouldn't the school day be more fun without worrying that you'll get a bad grade?
- Say you have one month before you need to turn in a big project. You could put it all off until the last night, or you could spend 30 minutes on your project each night. Not much time, but a lot less stressful than doing six hours straight at the last minute.[1]
- Ask for help if you are having trouble on homework. If you're struggling in school, don't Try to take it all on by yourself. Make it easy. Ask for help at school by joining an after-school study group, or going to the tutoring center, if your school has one.
- Ask your parents or older siblings. Since they have most likely gone through the same subjects at school as you did, they will be a great help. Use your family as a resource.
- Ask your teacher if you can stay 10-15 minutes after school to ask a few questions about your homework, if you're embarrassed to ask during class. It's always better to ask.
- Decide if you need more challenges. If you're feeling bored and uninspired at school, or are getting bad grades and acting out, it might be because you're not being challenged by the material. School might be more fun if it was challenging your mind more with engaging material that's closer to your interests. Explore the options in your area and consider switching to an alternative school, or finding out whether or not you might qualify for skipping a grade.
- Private schools can be expensive, but you may also qualify for scholarships or financial aid. You'll never know until you find out what options are available in your area.
- If your parents are unwilling to explore the option with you, talk to your guidance counselor, or a teacher that you get along with. Tell them how you're feeling and ask for help.
- Avoid distractions. It might seem like sneaking an iPod into your sweatshirt would be a great way of having fun at school, but it also risks getting you into trouble, and forcing you to fall behind when you're not paying attention. It may not seem like it, but the best way to enjoy the lessons you're learning in school is to listen more closely, not find ways to distract yourself.[2]
- It may sound corny, but pretend like there's going to be some really critical bit of information in your math teacher's problem. Pretend it's not multiplication that you're learning, but complicated formulas to build robots. Use your imagination to find some way to stay focused.
Tips
- Life is a roller coaster ride, and try as we might we'll never be able to control it; we'll only end up stressing ourselves more and more. It's best to take life as it is. You shouldn't rush things, nor should you give yourself the illusion of control. To live, to cry, and to laugh it's all a part of life! Cherish every second and live it to its fullest and be happy for what you have and always do your best.
- Find your balance or routine and go with it, whatever you're comfortable with.
- Stay Responsible...it will help a lot in all kinds of schools.
- Whenever you're in a mess, or your just experiencing a lot of pressure lately. Just stay calm, analyze things first then try to solve it.
- Remember to always be active and join your school activities, keep yourself occupied.
- Remember to not study last minute before any kind of test (big or small.). Be prepared at least 2 weeks before your test.
- When trying to figure out which after school club you should pick, try to think which one you can stick your commitment with. Also, ask how long the clubs are and talk to your parents if you can stay after school.
- It helps to be a bit competitive.
- Make new friends by talking to them about something you both like, or try giving them a simple compliment. For example you could say, "I like your shirt. It's nice."
- Always do your homework the day you get it. I do this and it helps much more than doing it at the last moment.
- School is not that bad,it is great if you put your mind into it, it will get easier and funner.
Warnings
- Always watch out for people who might be aiming to hurt you or manipulate you for their own purposes.
- Stay out of trouble.
- When you are decorating your backpack, messenger bags, etc. without your parent's permission, you can get into big trouble, so ask. Those bags cost a lot of money.
- Do not use any terms that may offend someone or make them dislike you. This can get you in trouble and can possibly lead to suspension or worse.
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Sources and Citations
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