As long as you get through the whole ordeal, no matter how you did, you'll do fine after. Marks never come up in resumes, and even if they came up in job interv

As long as you get through the whole ordeal, no matter how you did, you'll do fine after. Marks never come up in resumes, and even if they came up in job interviews, you can fluff to your heart's content since no employer cares to see your High School marks (except for University claims, of course). So take this with a grain of salt. It's basically my thoughts on what got me through relatively unscathed. When you count how many hours you get for each class in a semester (or tri or whatever division of the school year you have), you realize that if you skip any one class, you miss out on a big chunk and can get behind really fast. Then you end up asking the questions everyone already knows the answer to, and it's all quite distracting and frustrating for everyone around. So if you must take a day or days off, try to catch up as soon as you can before your return. Otherwise you might have a hard time understanding what the subsequent classes you attend are even talking about. That advice obviously doesn't count for bird courses. (Make sure you always have at least one bird course!!! It's a way to get easy marks with something that's at least interesting and fun.) If you skip a class to hang out with friends, then any subsequent hardships are yours to own. Also... you have to find a way to at least somewhat enjoy classes with material you can't stand. For example, I really hated History because it dwelled on WWII and specific names and dates, when there were other things that are more interesting and not so deflating as reading walls of text and watching old black and white movies with that old-timey documentary accent and wobbly sound track. I barely skimmed by because I just couldn't hack it. The only saving grace was that my uncle was a captain in the air force, and he could tell the same stories in a way that were far more captivating than those depressing school films. If it wasn't for quizzing the crap out of him every time we visited, I would not have passed. BONUS: My teacher was lenient on me because she knew I was trying to get this stuff down even when not in class. As much as I hated the class, I really respected the teacher for her understanding.