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How do you maintain a good social life and balance good grades?

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1. All you got to do is have fun for like 2 hours after school and then dedicate the rest of your time to school. On the weekends nothin but social life except for homework.
2. This is the easiest question of the day! ;-) Maintain your social life with those that have the same common interests as you and have the same desires to maintain good grades. Social life is important yes, for now, but as you get older other things will come to light that are much more important to you. Making good grades to provide yourself with a degree in the future so you can go and make a decent living I ASSURE YOU will be much more important to you in the long run....
3. Get your school work first, because you want a good education and give yourself a time limit to be out with friend and family. Kind of make yourself a pie and cut it out school, social life, study, sleep. Good luck.
4. all you have to do is make sure you get your homework/schoolwork done (the least amount you can and still get a good grade with) first, and then, party on, dude!
5. well, i think of what i am writing like it is a pisture of my report card
6. What worked best for me was to develop study groups in certain classes where we all needed to benefit from sharing and learning from each other. This evolved into social events and friendships that lasted even after college was over. The key is to find people in your classes who have the same need you do for a social life as well as good grades. They are the ones who will understand when you need to buckle down for a test or presentation, and you can keep each other focused to make more efficient use of your time together (giving you more time to let your hair down). We all knew that we were responsible to the group to come prepared (i.e. no free ride on homework, etc). Even if we didn't understand something too well or really screwed up the assignment, there was mutual respect because of the effort in trying. We started out as strictly a study group, and that developed into long-term friendships. Looking back, I don't know that it would have worked out nearly so well had we all gone into it "trying" to be close friends. It just happened naturally. I hope this helps.
7. Don't sleep a lot. I had straight A's in AP classes all through high school. I had awesome friends and I was elected to Homecoming & Prom court. Buttttt-- I only got 5 hours of sleep a night. Then I would sleep extra on weekends. (This was back during my successful "normal" days.)