How to Survive High School1. Know Your Way It's all in the same boat at the very beginning of school, but soon after, you're supposed to find your way. It can be difficult to be one of those people who learns more slowly than others. I remember one of my teachers getting angry with this girl countless times because she was late to class the second week of school. It's best to find your way as soon as possible if you are in this situation. Every time I think about not knowing how to navigate things, I think of a friend of mine. It's the second month of school and he still walks past our advisory class. I don't understand how he doesn't know where he is now and keeps making the same mistake. Luckily, he always realizes this before he goes to another class, which would be embarrassing. A friend of mine told me that he had been wrong countless times. To make matters worse, he arrived late to the wrong class while the teacher was speaking. If it were me, I would have died of shame and be forever haunted by this memory. Whether you want to admit it or not, everyone always judges your actions. You don't want to have the reputation of being the kid who doesn't know his way around school.2. Learn what type of teachers you have. In order to survive high school, students need to figure out as quickly as possible what type of teachers you have. There are many different categories that teachers can fall into. The first teacher to take into account is the foreign language teacher, who is too strict. No matter what you say, they want it said in their language, even if they haven't taught it to you yet. An example of this would be a French teacher telling you... in the middle of a sheet ...... if you had done it right away.5. Balance YourselfSome of my friends are constantly complaining because they haven't balanced themselves. They point out that they don't have time to do all their AP homework because after school they go to press club, then soccer practice, then eat dinner before they can do homework. I asked them why they were taking so many AP classes if they didn't have time. Their response was that they wanted to take AP courses because it would look good on their college transcript. When I try to nicely tell them that it's somehow their fault that they're taking 4 AP classes and doing extracurricular activities, they respond by saying that it's the teacher's fault that they're giving them so much homework. I decided to stop and ask them why they decided to try to do everything. The reason being they weren't going to admit it was their fault.