Hello! My (17M) friend (16M) recently asked me for assistance on what seems like a pretty monumental essay for his grade. He sent me his finished piece, and .. well. I was shocked.

He’s a junior in high school (11th grade), and I’m a senior (12th grade). This writing isn’t gibberish, but it’s.. It looks incredibly barren for what someone his grade should be writing.

I was beginning to markup his paper when he told me to stop, because he turned it in and got a perfect mark. Am I crazy?! I wasn’t even finished editing the first paper when he messaged me that he’d gotten an A.

I really feel like the school system just wants to push him out and isn’t taking any time to build his essay-writing or general english skills. Apparently, he told me it’s the same with mathematics (he expressed that he knows he’s delayed when it comes to mathematics).

Am I being hypercritical, or is this essay just not up to par? A few of our other friends told me I’m just being an asshole, but I’m genuinely concerned that they’re just passing kids because they don’t want to spend the time honing their academic skills.

I’ve offered to tutor him and he accepted, but our other friends say I’m dragging it out and that it isn’t this serious.

What about when a college asks for a 10-pager? What about any college work, actually??

Help!!! 😭 This is kind of an AITA post, I just really need a second opinion.

Last year I had everything, I was in band, I had friends, and I felt super smart. But now I legit have nothing. I left band after being sexually harassed and bullied while my band director did nothing. Actually he told me that walking out of rehearsal was not the appropriate action after getting sexually harassed and implied that it was my fault for the way things went down. All my friends bullied me. I had gained weight and did not want to stand up for myself. So now I’m in junior year, no friends. I sit alone at lunch and do homework for one of my 12 classes and lock in. I always wanted to be valedictorian but recently I found out since I got a B in algebra one and geometry(which I took in middle school) taht may not be possible. So now I’m overcompensating by taking all these online AP courses. I feel pathetic trying to be something I’m not because I don’t plan on going to college after high school, since I do not need it. Additionally, I will be graduating with my AA degree so I thought that would be good enough. Anyways things recently got super overwhelming when I applied for this “tomorrow leaders” program. This program basically selects 40 students taht are juniors and has them work with current leaders to fix community issues. Six people applied from my school including me. I was the only one who did not get it. So now I feel this wave of emotions like what I’m doing is not good enough and that im stupid. I though I would have this Elle Woods moment with my old band director if I got in where I could kind of rub it in his face that I am a good person and I am smart enough to do anything, but now I’m left like a total idiot for even trying and feeling bad about
Life. I am not suicidal, my parents have been amazing taking me to Disney, buying me whatever, but my school and social life is horrible and I want to fix something and so im not so dependable on my academic life. I know it’s pretty pathetic to come on here and rant about life but I don’t want to keep these emotions built up and then I just blow up like a cartoon.
Thank you for reading

this is nasty we need to fix this

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hi guys, im a sophomore

this was previously posted to r/teenagers but i wanted more advice.

recently... i have been feeling really done with my life. i began cutting myself frequently to transform mental pain to that of physical pain. starting last week and continuing on, i began having severe headaches and i js really want to sleep and not do anything for the day. i get like 8+ hours a night usually, i dont even know why im tired. i also began having the most terrible dreams, and i dont know why. it gets so much worse in school and in the evenings, and now i dont even know if i want to live anymore. every day, i just want to cry in class, but i feel like that would only make it so much worse. i started documenting my thoughts every single night since, and reading over it, i found so many horrifying thoughts i had, most of which concerning watercoloring with blood.

i love my friends, but i dont know if they will ever get me or if they even care about me.

last last week, walking to school after cutting myself >16 times i really js wanted to jump into the street and get run over by a car, js to end it all, shaking the whole way to school. it rly doesnt stop sometimes, even now. i often hang out alone at lunch; honestly, people kind of annoy me now. yesterday, i was fighting myself: i want to cut myself so bad again but i know its gonna lead to more pain in the long run, not js the scar's pain. i dont think anyone noticed, except for one person that sat next to me, her eyes flickering to my scars and back to me, when i was clutching it cuz it started hurting so bad along with my head.

last week, i cut myself twice, this time on my inner forearm running parallel to each other and perpendicular to my wrist. i dont know why i keep looking at it, picking at it so it makes a mark one me, as if i dont have enough marks already. I cant even get the motivation i used to have earlier in life. now i just want to give up in every task i do, when times get hard. part of me wants to die and shrivel, and it severely affected my endurance and just everything.

honestly, i dont even know why im posting this, i should be doing my homework. but i feel like i need advice, i dont know how to stop with this, but i know that i should stop. my passions with sports, with just everything dissipated in a span of a month. i i dont want to do my homework, and i feel like the world would be better without me in it sometimes. i had a plan to die but im scared to execute so maybe thats good??? im still savable???? but i really dont know if i want to be happy again. im not sure though but i would love to know how yall dealt with this and became happy again even after everything that happened to you 

Hi I'm a high school junior who is STRUGGLING in AP Stats. And the class itself itsn't hard and I would say I have a pretty good understanding of the content but every single test I take it goes south. And my teacher is genuinely evil incarnate bro and I don't say this lightly. I already have quite a few Bs from freshman and sophomore year (2 both semesters of freshman year (one was honors) and three both semesters soph year (2 were weighted)) and my GPA is lwk cooked but idk, should I thug it out and get a B bc that's probably the max I can get or should I drop? I've never dropped a class before and I'm worried about how colleges would take it but dropping it would genuinely save so much of my time because I have A's in all of my other classes (4 other APs, 1 honors, regular). Should I drop or not? How bad does it look to colleges? Can my GPA take another hit? I'm so lost and terrified.

Hello. I started my Junior year a month ago and to say I have regret is an understatement. I've been unable to find any volunteering opportunities in my city so far, and have been unable to improve my ECs. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? I was thinking of helping create a new STEM club at my school, but I'm still questioning it. Any advice on what I can do? I don't plan on going to an Ivy League, but I want to get into some great public schools. I feel like I've prioritized academic success too much and forgot a crucial part of the application process.

My life revolves around scjool. It sucks. But what sucks even more is that no matter how hard i try i waste hours on one part of some type of problem (wheter its a math problem, a section of a lesson or a project) and it goes into a spiral of insanity where i tell myself "its okay" "i tried my best" i'll do better next time" "i wont let one grade relapse me" but then i end up crying for hours and rotting in bed while hiding my phone from myseld as punishment for being dumb. I feel like i will never be able to become a student that will be able to enter college because of my grades and my knowledge and how i overthink everything.

I have tried every method that you can think of to make me remember things but none of them.work. i am so stupid that i even have lack of knowledge outside of school (wich i wont talk about). I just wonder why cant i be a smart person. Why does my brain hurt and turn off when i have to study. I dont know what to say anymore.

lol so I just got a warning that if continue to be absent at first period they would call my parents, should i be nervous?

Today at school there was a blood drive going on. My sister chose to participate by donating blood and once she had it extracted she passed out and knocked her front 2 teeth out and was bleeding out. I feel so terrible because now she’s going to have 2 teeth missing for the rest of her life and it’s not even her fault. Make sure you eat well before donating blood. Also a school shooting happened in my city. Everything is just pissing me off right now.

I am a 4 min drive away from school but a 25 minute walk.

I am too close to take the school bus, since majority of the walk is in neighborhood territory there is no city bus. What would be the best way to get to school? Im thinking like a bike or something.

i plan on majoring computer science and fine arts and ive heard taking a higher up physics class is a good idea but im already in regular physics this year, im also considering anatomy or astronomy so lmk which one is the best idea

(for those who don’t know what onramps is, its a high school class taught by professors from or trained by ut austin)

I was pulled out of school during like 3rd or 4th grade I think and I didn't start going to public school again until 8th grade (I'm in 9th now) During this time I was homeschooled which is perfectly fine I had to do stuff like Khan academy and some other websites I forget, but let's be honest is any kid really going to do school on a website when you can instead be playing cool games? No. (Or at least not me) I would mostly pretend to be doing it but when they walked away I would switch back to a game, which honestly it wasn't my parents fault I wasn't really good at listening but I don't think any kid is so because of that I got behind..a lot... Obviously my parents didn't know this and when I got caught on the games they would obviously ground me and stuff, but now I'm going to public school again, it's hard for me in math and I have a bad grade in that, because I barely understand math, I mean obviously I understand some but I have like a D, I'm trying to do tutoring and stuff, but I'm kind of a slow learner ngl so it's hard to do the tomb ring and try to keep up with regular stuff, when I get something I'm very good at it but it's hard for me to get it is the point (something that may be related to this is that I may have autism, I basically know and my parents know, but I still need to get diagnosed and stuff) I don't really want to tell any of my teachers this or something because they might try to get ppl involved or something

My school is on a four block schedule so it might look different than what some people are used to but currently im a sophomore and im planning for my second semester to be ap precalc, ap physics 1, biology honors, world history honors. all in that order from first block to last. im taking algebra II honors right now and it seems easy but idk if im actually smart enough for those two ap classes and ive never taken an ap class before. I dont know if something is actually messed up in my brain but i'll often go through a few weeks where ill be tired and incredibly angry and i dont know if i can actually take those two classes but i want to keep up a good gpa and take rigorous classes for college. im so lost and all my friends say my biology teacher stacks endless notes, i just dont know if i can do it but i dont want to drop those classes and wish i hadn't dropped them. if this post is even readable its 11:40 and i should've been asleep an hour ago and i'll definitely regret this when i take a test tomorrow in a class i hate and when i have a performance for the schools marching band that i hate. im so exhausted i hate this school

Could be a class topic, school procedure, or social situation.

I started HS. i'm two months in, and I'm doing good. surprisingly, because I genuinely dont know how to study properly. i love math but I suck at science, history, essay writing,,, so basically I suck at eveyrthing ig......i mean. its not like im failing though, but I really need to work on it but idk how

okay so i'm not sure if im right, but some of my teachers aren't really good at teaching. They don't explain things clearly but maybe its because Its so different from the teachers last year? or is it bc the teachers in high school want us to be more independent study wise and improve in critical thinking? i asked a few people and one said that as you move up the grades, the teachers explain less and expect you to learn on your own without much guidance (?)

Or maybe i'm the one to blame and i'm not paying enough attention,,,,oh my god i just feel so stupid writing literally Anything and coming across something hard to read makes me want to die Not to be overdramatic or anythinf

i just can't stop overthinking if I'm even going to make it to college (I have no idea what to do anyway) and I can't picture a future for myself. Theres really. nothing that makes me interesting. though i wanted to do art but i know that i'll hate it and besides art doesn't pay well. i'm thinking of nursing but i feel like i would grow to hate it too because i have no great interest in it. im so overwhelmed. theres so much i need to improve on and make big decisions but i Cant

But i really want to do good in school. i need to read and write more. i feel like everyone else is so smart and talented and they stand out while im a Nothing burger. im kinda just a waste of space cause like i dont think i'm contributing to society or somethinf nidk

Please give me tips if u want!!! there must be other people that feel this way too

It can be anything I just don’t know what to do

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im currently a senior in highschool and ive recently been hit with this wave of not only laziness but agitation, not wanting to be at school, and a lack of effort. my room is always messy, i put much less effort into my work that i used to feel passionate about, and i get agitated at my loved ones easier. i have a hard time enjoying the things i used tl adore and my newest hobby has just been laying in bed thinking about what i could be doing. and there is a lot i could be doing such as: studying for my SAT, working on my college essay, applying to colleges, and the other stuff seniors have to worry about. the reason why i think its so abnormal is because i usually never act like this. although i am not the biggest fan of school, i always work hard and try to get the best grade i can. i stay on top of things and i am usually in a good mood in school. i think a part of it may be burnout but i have no clue how to get out of this awful funk im in. what should i do?

Hey everyone! I have an AP Statistics survey due very soon and desperately need 30 responses. It is only 3 quick questions and will take you less than 15 seconds. I would appreciate your help so much!

https://forms.gle/333kdBRcM7X4Cd3DA

So i have been thinking about scheduling for next year and here is my thoughts and i want to know if this is too ambitious im currently a freshman
(I have been thinking if i wanna take summer trig and precalc so then i take calc ab sophomore year)

(Not in order)
Ap physics 1 and 2(one class)
Trig/precalc
Ap world history
Honor engineering robotics 1 half of the year
Honor engineering physics the other half
Honors english
Intro to programming python one half of year
Personal finance the other half
Honors chemistry

This is what i want to do but it kinda feels like it would be hard, im pretty passionate about these types of classes so i think i could keep good grades but is the workload too much? My math background is honors geometry algebra 1 and 2 im also taking a intro to coding class this year we touch up on python