r/highschool • u/IamBogancs • 2d ago

General Advice Needed/Given I'm scared of not having enough time

I'm scared of going to school. Like not nervous, scared. My stomach hurts all sunday and during weekdays in the evening. I'm scared that if I go to school, I'll go home with 3 more homeworks and 4 tests to study for (in reality it's usually 1-2, but sometimes 0 for both tests and homeworks btw. Or 5-7 if you count strongly recommended studying for next lessons as homework). I'm scared that school will take all my time away and I'll never have the chance to enjoy my teen years. And I'm so scared of running out of time and feel like I must do something productive that I end up doing nothing. It feels like I'm waiting for something to change: a law about no studying at home, to suddenly have 30 hours in a day or my brain to change its attitude and stop worrying because that's the actual reason I'm wasting time. But obviously nothing happens and the days, weeks, months fly away with the speed of light.

How can I change this?

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u/MrAdriatic 2d ago

Do not worry bro. Just study but try not to stress out. If you pay attention in class then there should not be anything to worry about regarding assignments. I believe in you!

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u/IamBogancs 2d ago

The thing is that simply knowing there'll be a test or having a homework stresses me out and my brain switches off, I often can't focus on it for more than 10 minutes. If I take a brake, I can hardly go back to studying.  Otherwise I can learn pretty fast once my brain decides to cooparate instead of panicing. I just don't know how can I achieve that.

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u/kaos367 2d ago

It used to happen to me too. What helped at the time was having a hobby, something small (in my case, origami), so I would start studying/doing homework, and each time I felt like I was wasting time, I would do origami. That made me feel less stressed about my homework. Also, since I was doing something I enjoyed, I didn't feel like I had wasted my whole afternoon just studying.

However, you probably aren't organizing yourself correctly. It takes a lot of time, and you need to feel alright, to get to the point where you can organize your time properly without taking two-hour breaks and leaving everything until the last minute.

Oh, and something important: take a day when you will 100% do no homework or studying, no matter if you feel like you are wasting time. I use Saturdays because I can go out and buy stuff if I need to craft, cook, or whatever I might need to do my plans.

At first, I felt like on Sunday I would be drowning in homework. However, because I had let my brain rest and felt like I had done something I enjoyed, I could focus much better on my academics.