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School requires you to work longer & harder, how do you intend to achieve an optimum work – life balance?

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1. I don't have a good answer to that. Where are you from? I'm from Canada and I live in a provence where the school system was changed over a very short time, which ended up hurting a lot of students in the long run. Students in my year were the first to experience these changes ... we were known as the "guinea pigs" and these changes involved us learning the same material as the students in the grade after us. So when we were in grade 9, we were learning the same work as the grade 10s, and possible grade 11s as well. I think a lot of us who really wanted to do great at school suffered from this. I remember one of my friends joking about how he wanted to sue the school board when he gets older because all the books he had to carry in his backpack to do his homework were too heavy for his back. The only advice I can give you is to schedule time for doing things you like to do outside your school life -- time with friends, bike riding, and so on. You could also set certain reasonable goals that you want to accomplish for school and reward yourself with extra outside-school activities. For example, if you complete a certain amount of work within a certain time you can reward yourself by going to a movie you've been waiting to see. One of my problems with school though, was setting goals that were always really high. If I did not achieve them, I felt like I had failed. But looking back, I wish I had actually focussed less on achieving perfection and more on having fun with friends. Anyways, good luck with whatever you decide to do. P.S. I don't know if you would be into this, but I find that because everyone has a different learning style and personality, it can help to watch entertaining documentaries that are educational. I'll give you the link to a great show called History Bites and another funny show called Great Thinkers of Out Time. That last one is funny because they discuss the lives of people like Freud, Da Vinci, and Beethoven, but put them in completely modern terms and make jokes using modern-day references. I think the point is to show you what these people were thought of in their day, and what they would be like if they existed in our time. Check them both out. They're hilarious! Maybe you can watch some of these shows online somewhere like Youtube.