Being a sophomore in High School is a great place to be. You are no longer the youngest person in the school, but you are not on your way out yet. You are in the prime of High School, but you do not have all the work of Junior Year. Sophomore year is a good year if you make it one.
As it was happening, Sophomore year was okish because I had one best friend that I spent all of my time with. However, Sophomore year for me was more of an identity crisis than anything else. Ever had a best friend break up? Well that happened too.
Sophomore year, you are comfortable in your school. The next step, is becoming comfortable in your skin. Everyone changes a lot sophomore year. Why? Because you no longer feel the need to cling to anything that grounded you in Middle School as you are now comfortable in your High School, ready to climb the authority latter and become who you are actually going to be. Sophomore year is when you start to think about college. Not too seriously, but seriously enough to realize that it is time to start molding yourself into the adult your childhood self dreamed of. In addition, you really realize that your academics are important and you stop doing well in school for your parents and start doing well for yourself.
The people who do not do well in school, the slackers, the bums, they start to fall behind. If you are not one of them you start to separate out from them. In Middle School, a friend group could have the bums and the non bums. Sophomore year is when the bums stop wanting to even know who the non bums are. They stop making drama with you. Relationship drama comes and goes but friend drama starts to mellow out a bit. Isn't it about time?
Tenth grade opens more opportunities to take advanced classes. Personally, I do not recommend taking Advanced Placement classes in tenth just because you just aren't ready. I do not know how to explain it but everyone who took them Sophomore year tanked them. Wait till Junior year. It will help you so so much. However, I do recommend challenging yourself with honors classes in your strong subjects. Overloading yourself with honors in both subjects you excel in and those you don't put extra stress on you. The people who did this thought they were doing themselves a favor because they expected to get a higher GPA out of it. There is only so much work you can do in one night and you have to sleep sometime. Thus, there just is not enough time for all honors unless you are one of those genius' and if you are go for it! But for the average person I know who attempted this, they failed miserably and ended up with a worse GPA and a lot of stress.
Speaking of stress, some High School's are more stressful than others and managing your stress is very important. Sophomore year, you may start SAT prep early, you may be taking on harder classes and more responsibilities in extra circulars. Personally, I remember thinking that tenth grade was pretty stressful. I started to go to bed later and be more tired in the morning and during the school days. I wanted to eat but not excursive because who has time for that when there is a never ending pile of homework to do. Personally, I may have had bumps in the road with managing stress (and that is normal) but some people do not do well with it at all and fall off the deep end. Sophomore year, I saw kids who always managed to hold it together suffer from serious conditions. If you are in a pressure cooker High School like I was, remember, you are not your GPA. Believe it or not, you are not a number and your number only says a fraction about yourself. You do not have a perfect GPA to be happy or healthy. Take some time out every day to just relax a bit. Reset yourself. Do a little excursive and keep your body healthy. Just because you have a lot on your plate docent mean you should forget to eat. Take care of yourself. You can have the best grades in the world, but if you are not healthy physically, spiritually, and emotionally, it really will not matter. Like I said, you are not your GPA you are a person.
Being a Sophomore is a great position because you are not going into or coming out of High School. You are right in the thick of it to absorb all it haste offer. I know that it is hard to believe right now, but graduation really is right around the corner. So liven the now while you can.
xoxo
As it was happening, Sophomore year was okish because I had one best friend that I spent all of my time with. However, Sophomore year for me was more of an identity crisis than anything else. Ever had a best friend break up? Well that happened too.
Sophomore year, you are comfortable in your school. The next step, is becoming comfortable in your skin. Everyone changes a lot sophomore year. Why? Because you no longer feel the need to cling to anything that grounded you in Middle School as you are now comfortable in your High School, ready to climb the authority latter and become who you are actually going to be. Sophomore year is when you start to think about college. Not too seriously, but seriously enough to realize that it is time to start molding yourself into the adult your childhood self dreamed of. In addition, you really realize that your academics are important and you stop doing well in school for your parents and start doing well for yourself.
The people who do not do well in school, the slackers, the bums, they start to fall behind. If you are not one of them you start to separate out from them. In Middle School, a friend group could have the bums and the non bums. Sophomore year is when the bums stop wanting to even know who the non bums are. They stop making drama with you. Relationship drama comes and goes but friend drama starts to mellow out a bit. Isn't it about time?
Tenth grade opens more opportunities to take advanced classes. Personally, I do not recommend taking Advanced Placement classes in tenth just because you just aren't ready. I do not know how to explain it but everyone who took them Sophomore year tanked them. Wait till Junior year. It will help you so so much. However, I do recommend challenging yourself with honors classes in your strong subjects. Overloading yourself with honors in both subjects you excel in and those you don't put extra stress on you. The people who did this thought they were doing themselves a favor because they expected to get a higher GPA out of it. There is only so much work you can do in one night and you have to sleep sometime. Thus, there just is not enough time for all honors unless you are one of those genius' and if you are go for it! But for the average person I know who attempted this, they failed miserably and ended up with a worse GPA and a lot of stress.
Speaking of stress, some High School's are more stressful than others and managing your stress is very important. Sophomore year, you may start SAT prep early, you may be taking on harder classes and more responsibilities in extra circulars. Personally, I remember thinking that tenth grade was pretty stressful. I started to go to bed later and be more tired in the morning and during the school days. I wanted to eat but not excursive because who has time for that when there is a never ending pile of homework to do. Personally, I may have had bumps in the road with managing stress (and that is normal) but some people do not do well with it at all and fall off the deep end. Sophomore year, I saw kids who always managed to hold it together suffer from serious conditions. If you are in a pressure cooker High School like I was, remember, you are not your GPA. Believe it or not, you are not a number and your number only says a fraction about yourself. You do not have a perfect GPA to be happy or healthy. Take some time out every day to just relax a bit. Reset yourself. Do a little excursive and keep your body healthy. Just because you have a lot on your plate docent mean you should forget to eat. Take care of yourself. You can have the best grades in the world, but if you are not healthy physically, spiritually, and emotionally, it really will not matter. Like I said, you are not your GPA you are a person.
Being a Sophomore is a great position because you are not going into or coming out of High School. You are right in the thick of it to absorb all it haste offer. I know that it is hard to believe right now, but graduation really is right around the corner. So liven the now while you can.
xoxo
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