Honor Council Student Skills Conference 2015: Balancing Social LIfe & Academic Life by Mitzi Harris, Bear Reisinger, & Mr. Kamper

2. How to Hang with Friends
and Still Get A’s
Mitzi Harris and Bear Reisinger

3. Do your homework right when you get home from school
Sports = “excuse”
- Find your order
1. Activities
2. Working Out/Sports
3. School
4. Friends
5. Sleep

4. Turn off your phone and log off of Netflix
- Sleep
- 7-9 hours
- realistically, try to
make the sleep a good
quality because this
might not happen

5. Plan your schedule far in advance

6. GOALS (monthly or weekly)
- write down current and goal grades for each class
- at least three ways you are going to achieve goals
- meeting with teacher
- working farther in advance
- etc.
- big assignments coming up in the week

7. Be responsible
- Every once in awhile stay home on a weekend night
- Don’t ruin your Sunday with bad choices on a Saturday
- choose the right times to be with your friends
- Collaborative and free period vs. weekend night

8. Scenarios: Let’s talk them out
1) Homecoming and a busy school week following it
2) Best friend throwing huge party and project due Monday
3) All day activity on Saturday and essay due Monday
What do you do?