Blog 14

School hasn't changed that much for me over the years. It has always been very difficult for me and taken up most of my daily life. I'm a junior in college and it doesn't seem like things have changed but only getting harder as time passes.

It seems like a daily routine now. Five days out of the week I wake up and get ready for school. I would be so tired sometimes from staying up the night before either studying or doing my homework that I'd forget to have breakfast and even take anything for lunch. After six hours of school and work I'm exhausted and hungry but my day isn't over. By the time I get out of school I have enough homework to keep me up the rest of the night.
By the time I get home my dog hasn't been walked for almost eight hours. When I get
back from the walk I notice my sister, who is a junior in high school, has all of her homework pilled on the couches and floor in the livingroom.
"That much?" I'd ask her.
She looks up at me and says a simple, "Yes."
My mother would then come into the room and say, "She's been like this since she got
home. It's ridiculous with the amount of homework they give them."
By then it would have been around six o'clock in the evening and my sister gets home at
two o'clock in the afternoon. She is also an honor student and has five AP and Honor classes out
of the seven classes she takes at her school. I would then leave my sister for her to continue her work and for me to have my dinner.

At the dinner table I would half the time have my homework with me. I wouldn't really be able to pay attention to the people sitting down with me because I'd have to concentrate on the homework that I would be doing. By the time I'm done with my dinner I would leave to go to my boyfriend's house just to be able to spend a little time with him otherwise I wouldn't be able to see him other than the weekends.
When I arrive at his house I'd either pull out my books or my laptop and start doing my
homework. We'd sit down together on the couch and he would either watch tv or play a game.
After a few hours I would start having headaches and falling asleep.
"I think you should take a break for a bit." he would tell me.
"No, I'll be fine. I just got to finish this." I would tell him.
If I start falling asleep again he'd say, "I really think you should take a break. You're
stressing yourself too much."
It's then I'd agree, put my books away and ask him how much work he had.
"I have two papers due this week." he told me.
"I'd love to only have two papers to do." I'd tell him.
By that time I would start getting very worried and upset that I wouldn't be able to finish
my work in time and fall behind.
He would then say, "Don't worry yourself so much. You'll get through it like always."
After that I would start feeling a little better and we would talk and watch a movie
together. I would then soon have to go home and still have work to do. I would feel bad about my boyfriend because I felt I would spend so little time with him but I would just be so busy.

I would finally arrive back at home around eleven o'clock in the evening and would find my sister still doing her homework.
"How much do you have left?" I would ask her.
"Got this art project to finish." she'd say.
"Due tomorrow?" I'd ask her seeing that she had just started it.
"Yes." she'd say.
I would stay downstairs helping her out with what I could while doing my work as well.
By the time we would be finished it would be between midnight and one o'clock in the
morning. She also explained to me how her school dropped the passing grade from 70 to 65 which ended up lowering her GPA on her report card and since they didn't do the same for the Honors List which made her be in the second honor roll when she should've been on the first honor roll. She was very disappointed and frustrated that she'll have to work even harder if she wants to be in the first honor roll.

School's has been very difficult and it's only getting harder. I have almost no time for myself unless I force myself to have that time and the same goes for my sister. With almost anyone I ask have the same problem and it only seems to be getting worse.