24 Hours Research Paper

If you’ve never felt overwhelmed before, hit up your local high school and try it out for a day! Days consist of early mornings, school, sports, going home, eating, homework, hanging out with friends maybe, and sleeping. Somehow highschoolers have to balance all of that out in 24 hours. They are given so much to complete within 24 hours, there’s simply not enough time in a day. The basic life of a high schooler typically includes balancing school, extracurriculars, homework, hanging out with friends, and sleep. School is the main source of feeling overwhelmed. There’s 8 classes in total, and for some people, half of their classes are dual credit college courses. It all adds up to a million assignments to complete within a week. That’s a little …show more content…
That’s all that matters, right? There’s no time for homework at all, because you’re at the school until about 5 or 6 at night doing extracurriculars like sports and clubs. Then, you have a decent amount of homework to complete on top of that. If someone is in extracurriculars, they spend about 10 hours at the school each weekday. That’s about 42% of the day spent at school. Homework is stressful and overwhelming to do. Especially since you already spent 7 hours at school, or 10 if you’re in a sport, and now you have to go home and do more school technically. If you’re lucky, you can finish in a decent amount of time, but for the most part, there’s quite a few hours down the drain. Not that homework is a waste of time, but it just takes up so much of your evening. Homework helps in the long run, but it’s stressful in the moment. Hanging out with friends is a necessity in order to bring something into your life that’s not stressful. It’s hard to make time to hang out with people though. Usually, the person you want to hang out with has homework when you don’t. Then, the night you don’t have any, they have a bunch. Friends help keep me sane during the school year, so it’s important to make time to be with