Elaboration: So yeah, school poll: 40% of the student population on antidepressant medication, somewhere near 60% in therapy of some sort I believe. The reason? Our schedules in the winter, too, start with dark and end with dark. I'll give you a taste of my schedule, which hasn't yet taken it's toll on me, but may do so in due time. 5:15 - Wake up and prepare for swim workout 6:00 - arrive at pool, stretch, warm-up, push-ups and crunches for a half hour 6:30-7:45 - Swim workout, normally very hard. Generally a 500 warm-up, 7 to 8 minutes of vertical kicking, a stroke set, and a main free set. 8:15-3:15 - School, 4 to 5 classes per day, typically every other day there is a test, a project, a quiz, or a paper due in one class or another Afer School: on average 4-5 hours of homework and 3 hours of rehearsal for the musical this year. Go to bed around 10 or 11 and wake up the next morning to begin a new day with the exact same schedule. The pressure at our school to succeed is overwhelming. Everything is about competition over grades and class work. College is the focus of everyone's life come sophomore year until they get into one in the middle of senior year. Stress is always at an all-time high during the winter because first semester is winding down (finals, papers, projects, etc...) and there are so many things going on. Inglemoor aint' so bad. Though I'm sure it's still stressful. After all, it's school all the same...just a less stressful, perfectionist school environment. Z.
5:15 - Wake up and prepare for swim workout
6:00 - arrive at pool, stretch, warm-up, push-ups and crunches for a half hour
6:30-7:45 - Swim workout, normally very hard. Generally a 500 warm-up, 7 to 8 minutes of vertical kicking, a stroke set, and a main free set.
8:15-3:15 - School, 4 to 5 classes per day, typically every other day there is a test, a project, a quiz, or a paper due in one class or another
Afer School: on average 4-5 hours of homework and 3 hours of rehearsal for the musical this year.
Go to bed around 10 or 11 and wake up the next morning to begin a new day with the exact same schedule.
The pressure at our school to succeed is overwhelming. Everything is about competition over grades and class work. College is the focus of everyone's life come sophomore year until they get into one in the middle of senior year. Stress is always at an all-time high during the winter because first semester is winding down (finals, papers, projects, etc...) and there are so many things going on.
Inglemoor aint' so bad. Though I'm sure it's still stressful. After all, it's school all the same...just a less stressful, perfectionist school environment.
Z.
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