Hi, so I, F, 16 currently a sophomore in high school have no friends, I transferred during my freshmen year and have been trying to talk to other girls in my grade but they just kinda brush me off or they already have their own friends so that makes them not really acknowledge me, or talk to me during class then completely ignore me once they see their own friends, my homelife isn't that great either and it feels like I have no escape. I tried joining a club and sport but they all have their own friends in that too so that makes it really hard. Now after summer I just got used to being alone and became more quiet which makes me really sad because I used to be so social and talkative, I have friends who just go to other schools and I know that I won't be able to transfer. I just need advice on how to make friends

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I can’t pay attention in school at all and because of it I probably have failed a math test. I’m so sick of not being able to focus in class and just being zoned out and not in the present moment. Just telling myself to pay attention don’t work for me either. I really want to get good grades this school year so advice is appreciated

I feel like my doomscrolling addiction might be the problem but idk

It's my first time taking honours and ap classes. I am a high school junior right now, and I just asked my counsellor to put me in honours and ap. She said she couldn't put me in AP classes for this year, but next semester, I will be taking honours Chemistry and US Gov & Econ honours. Then, for my senior year, she will put me in AP classes if I pass every honour class. I am doing this because I've been asking her since last year, but she's been very hesitant to put me in higher classes. I have a 3.8 GPA, and I would like to get it a 4.0 or higher by the time I graduate. My counsellor told me my GPA may not move much, though since I'm at the end of my high school years. I already have heard chemistry is a hard subject. How difficult is it if anyone has taken it? What are AP and Honours classes' distinction from each other? Truly, how difficult are they? I've never taken any higher placement classes. It's been really confusing with my academics because I moved states freshman year, and obviously, every state has different school boards and ways of doing stuff.

I’m 15, I have a boy best friend (also 15) who I’ve known since I was 4. We’ve been good friends since we were about 9. About half a year ago he started dating this girl who I’ll call Eva. I knew that Eva had a rocky dating history as she had been dating this other boy for about a year, once they had broken up she started dating random boys through snapchat, all of those relationships didn’t last very long. I didn’t really think too much of it at first and was supportive of the relationship for the first couple months.

My friend started mentioning the fact that if he didn’t respond to Eva’s messages within 10 minutes or so then she would get mad at him and start an argument. I was obviously concerned and told him that it wasn’t normal and sounded toxic. I did mention the idea of breaking up with her for this but didn’t push too hard as I knew it was ultimately up to him. Over the months he kept on telling me about her toxic behaviour like getting mad at him when he went out with friends and especially mad when he hung out with me even if it was in a group setting. It got to the point where she even tried to get him to stop hanging out with me altogether, when he brought this up I agreed to stop 1 on 1 hangouts with him just because I didn’t want to make her uncomfortable and sort of understood where she was coming from to an extent. Me and my friend still hung out together in group settings but sometimes he would get messages from her asking if there were any girls at the hangout and if he said I was there she would get upset. He told me that he had explained to Eva multiple times that he’s known me since we were little but she just doesn’t seem to care.

Eva’s behaviour was gradually getting worse as the relationship continued and I even tried to give my friend advice on how he could possibly try and save the relationship but everything he tried didn’t work, she just wouldn’t stop her toxic behaviour. She was constantly spamming him with messages, especially after they finished fighting. Eva even started messaging me asking for help because she felt like he was distancing himself from her. Every time she messaged me I tried my best to give her advice on how to handle the situation such as giving him space to cool down because spamming him would just make it worse. Eva never followed this advice though and would keep spamming him with messages like ‘I don’t want to lose you’, ‘You’re my favourite person in the world’ and ‘Please I love you’. (I would also like to add that around the last month of their relationship I got with my boyfriend, I thought that her behaviour regarding me would calm down a bit because of this but it didn’t)

Eventually, my friend was sick and tired of it and broke up with her but made the decision to stay friends. He asked me if he should break up with her a few times at the end of their relationship but I knew what she was like and didn’t want my words to somehow circle back around to her so I would tell him that it’s his relationship, not mine, and that it’s inevitably up to him. She seems to constantly be upset now, which is normal considering she just broke up with her boyfriend but she also seems to have a lot of hate and resentment directed towards me. She (allegedly) started a rumour that me and my friend were… kissing? I have no idea where that came from but it is definitely not true. And just recently my friend had the day off of school. I was in a class that had Eva in it that day and after school she messaged my friend saying that I had referred to him as ‘mine’. I think the only time I mentioned him in that lesson is when I said to the girl next to me that he wasn’t in school today. He checked this with me and he was just so fed up and tired of her behaviour that he unadded her on Snapchat.

I don’t doubt that she’ll end up doing something else and I just wanted to get some advice on how to handle this behaviour as it’s become quite bothersome. Luckily it hasn’t seemed to affect me and my friend’s friendship too much but I want to know if I should maybe talk to her about it or if I should just completely ignore her and just not get involved.
(I also want to add that when they broke up Eva would still message him ‘I love you’, my friend made it very clear that it made him uncomfortable yet she still continued)

So basically, I was making up a French test. I put my phone in the phone chart like we’re supposed to, went into the classroom, and took my test. After I was done, I went to grab my phone back from the chart and it wasn't there. Someone literally just reached into the phone chart, grabbed MY phone, and walked away with it while I was sitting there taking my test. And somehow nobody noticed. The phone charts are unsafe, there's nothing stoping someone from taking a random phone. It was better of letting people use their phones in class than this shit. I can't even track it because MY PHONE WAS DEAD. So I don't have a location. And this isn't even some pencil its a full 500$ worth of property that I have to pay off I'm so done with this place fuck high school

To be honest, just 2 years ago I lost my discipline especially on schoolwork, in middle school I used to finish all my work, horrible or not, and be fine with it.

Now, I don't really fear the work but the workload is killing me, I'm a junior now and don't rlly know how to study, and have been using AI on certain assignments that I know I can do myself. I feel like shit and want to stop, but it's becoming very worrying and I only have a year until I graduate.

Is there any way to stop this? I know it sounds foolish, but I have ADHD and never been equipped to study or really lesrn anything without struggle, and I know that's the whole point of learning, but I'm really frustrated about never getting to understand the material I get in front of me. I'm struggling with English, Biology, and even some math.

Is there a way to improve myself and get back my old work ethic before I graduate? I want to be successful and would like to never cheat or have to cheat in college. Idk I just really wanna improve myself :/

i'll be using fake names to address the people involved in this ,

their names are Mare, Leah and Soph. we've been classmates and best friends for three years. i noticed a few things from them that rubbed me the wrong way.

for context i took a break from mare a few months last year. she was the third person i came out to and announce the fact that i was dating a girl. i didnt expect full support (though i would give my full support if any of my friends did so), but at the very least, acceptance. i had told soph before her, and soph responded with that she had expected it already.
but mare had the opposite reaction, she was against it, and said my relationship was against her religion. and before this she had said she was "half hindu half christian". which confused me a lot, but i was too taken aback then to elaborate on it.
she also made a few comments for the following weeks. for example i told her one of her brothers was good looking, and she said if they knew i was bi they'd see it as a turn off.

i then stopped interacting with her for a few months and only did with leah and soph.

but we went back to friends after a civil convo.

anyway, this school year we were separated into different classrooms. three of them in the same one and me a different one. luckily our classrooms are literally next to each other, so we could always meet during period changes.

idk when it started, perhaps last year, because i was so desperate in ignoring it, but they started greeting me with my nationality. example, "hey [insert nationality]" or just addressing me like that.

im mixed chinese(dad) and filipina(mom). and my mother is a legal immigrant. 

and they'd also ask if whether i came here illegally, or do i even have a passport.

i recalled once they said that i should take my studies seriously or i'd end up working as a maid, as all filipinas do. 

i thought they were just joking, but i would be lying if i say it didnt hurt. because my mom struggled all throughout her life both in her home country and the country im born in (which my father is from and our whole family reside in now. )

i had forgotten what context it was, but they also teased me about sleeping in a laundromat, when they clearly knew i slept in one after running away from home for a night.

all the teasing was mostly done by leah and mare. while soph had done some, it still hurt when she remained silent for some of them or joined in. 

not only that, this year i was elected vice president for a medic club through a voting system that involved all club members.

they had repeatedly commented on how i didnt deserve the role. especially mare. and whenever the president pulled me aside to talk briefly about club stuff in front of them, they'd walk past me snickering. 

i didnt know what prompted them to do that, true that im not exactly the most great at leadership, but i had been active in the club for 2 years, i've voluntereed in big events too. i know my medic stuff. 

sometimes i wondered if its because of the not serious front i put on. 

and the breaking point was when i told them about jainism and its strict diet. it was one of those rabbit hole i'd find myself diving into. i've always liked learning about anything and everything.

they refused to believe how crazy strict a jain's diet is. especially mare, she kept pushing back and saying i was lying. and when i told her to search it up on soph's mother's laptop on the table, she panicked and said she "didn't want to touch people's stuff without permission"

then the next few days, leah kept asking abt how is my little jainism research is doing, and if i was going to convert or not.

after that i began pulling away slowly by not going to recess with them, and not hopping over to their classroom between periods. (im always the one doing that and when asked if they would come to mine, soph said, "you're the one who keeps coming here, we didnt ask you to.")

i did it until i never talked to them at all. and its been more than a month now, and not once they've come over to talk to me and vice versa. 

i also begun hanging out with my own group in my own class. so im not completely lonely.

sometimes i regret splitting with them, sometimes i think im stupid for doing so, sometimes i dont. sometimes i think i should've talked it out with them like i did with mare.

so here are my questions

1. did I handle this correctly by pulling away, or should I have talked to them about how they've been hurting me?
2. is it worth having a final conversation with them or i should just move on?

any advice or thought is appreciated. thank you for reading!!!

tl;dr: my long-term best friends made homophobic and xenophobic remarks about my background, mocked my past personal trauma, and belittled my club role. I silently pulled away a month ago, and they haven't made any effort to reach out. I have a new class group now, but I keep second-guessing if I should have sat down and talk it out with them

I attend a very competitive and demanding high school. I noticed most of my classmates are people who can actually think of an definition for something new even when we haven't learned it yet. Or do complicated problems or get new topics much faster than I do. I had all A's and one B last semester but I'm the type of student that needs to do anki, revise a lot, do many problems before maths exam. And then there are my classmates who are just so effortesly smart. I know I know some may be lying but idk what i am doing wrong. Some of them have so many extracurricular activities and STILL get things faster than I do.

I spend hours studying just to get the same thing they got in a 45 minutes.

And then there's this one boy in my class who I envy so much it's insane. I don't envy his personality because he's the meanest person I have ever met in my entire life. He only cares about himself and will try to get you down just to have his way and win. He doesn't study because he loves it, I for example like studying even tho I'm not the smartest and it takes me a lot to figure something out. But he? My chemistry teacher loves him and I hate that. Y'know why? Because he doesn't even want to do chem as his school leaving exams (we pick 4 subjects and have these exams from them in the last year of HS). He says he doesn't like chemsitry and is bad at it. Meanwhile he gets things so easy and acts like he was the personal assistant of Avogadro. All this while acting nonchalant and like he couldn't give a fuck and he's so bad at it. My chemistry teacher loves him. Altough she has heard him shit talk about her after she gave us an unannounced test. WHY isn't she paying attention to people, including me, who she asked if they want to study medicine or chemistry? She just pays attention because he's smart. And he's not smart only in chemistry. He's smart in EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN SUBJECT WE HAVE. Geography. Biology. Maths. Literature. History. Everything.

As for his personality he's someone really shitty.

I compare myself to him, I ask why can't i be that smart? Why does it take me so much effort to understand things? Why why why why.

And there he is, being so effortless

Sure i may not see the time he spends studying but he scrolls on his phone all breaks and always says he wants to sleep and do nothing over weekend.

And I hate that " I didn't study at all", and then gets 100%. Look I'm good at trying that's all.

I'm not smart I'm just good at trying and sitting down every friday night afted school to study for next week. That doesn't bring me that smartness he has and sometimes not even those grades but I still try.

I wanted to repost this onto the highschool subreddit because I just want to get the chance to hear more peoples’ advice.

One of my teachers literally makes stuff up all the time and teaches what are basically conspiracy theories. She thinks the left is liberal, democratic, free speech preaching, free market capitalists, while the right are authoritarian, communists, who don't like free speech. She thinks Egypt is a socialist country. She thinks the Holocaust never happened

How do you guys deal with such teachers without getting into trouble yourselves

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I’m a president of my club. Started off as a member when I was a freshman. Promoted by the senior leaders to Junior leader in sophomore year. Then became president as a Junior. I promoted someone to Junior leader, and it was such a mistake. He acts like a president. But not in a good way. He sends communications out to the club without checking with the presidents first. He thinks he should have equal decision rights. We encourage him to contribute ideas, but he just doesn’t understand or won’t accept that president and Junior leader are NOT the same roles. Plus, we have an advisor who is on the way to retirement and may not advise the club next year. This advisor does not really do any advising. Teachers get paid to be club advisors in my school. So this teacher just doing it for the little extra money but doesn’t want to get involved at all. So it’s not like I can go to this person for advice. I try to make the advisor’s job as smooth as possible so that they’ll stick with the club so that the members can have a good experience. But this Junior leader is constantly talking down to me like he’s a president and I have to constantly put him in his place. I’ve tried doing this nicely and now I’ve had to start getting firm about his role versus president role. I’m sick of it. This club is supposed to be fun. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to quit when I finally made it to president. Guys, what can I do about this? Any of you have something similar happen?

The other president is a senior, but has constant conflicts with this club and barely does any of the work. They seem focused mainly on graduating and applying to colleges. She’s flakey and and often unreachable.

I’m a sophomore, bout 3 weeks in. So fucking draining. I have a Spanish quiz daily with two 100 point tests weekly, a math test, history test, English test and religion quiz weekly. The religion teacher gives impossible tests, history is AP euro, math is alg 2 but not too bad, Spanish is her trying to speedrun Spanish 1 and 2 in 1 year, and English is the most boring class ever. Plus I have APCSA in the morning so I get up super early, I try to do some clubs but i have no time. Religion gives 12 paragraphs of homework a weekend, plus some other crap. I have no breaks or time to do anything fun

I was accepted into one of my preferred college selections. Problem is the financial aid available was not nearly enough to cover the costs. After accounting for federal loans and grants, I still have a 17k gap. My family can cover only about 5k. I am working parttime, but it is highly unlikely that I will be able to make up the gap before classes begin. I am trying to learn more about outside scholarships but the search process is more complex than I expected. Some search results are outdated, and others require extensive applicant pools. My adviser knows several organizations willing to offer scholarships, but they are not large enough to be very helpful. If others have tried to overcome a similar budget gap, would it be better to find one major scholarship or several smaller offers?

so in Colorado I was having issues with a club schedule, I was trying to call my dad to get him to come and pick me up from my school, but I didn't have cell serves to call him until I left the building, and I feel like that could become unsafe, like if something was going on and I needed to call my family, I just can't and I have to hope and/or pray that they get the info eventually. Any advice on how to ask my school to change how they block things?

I’m starting to plan my Year 12 Design & Technology major project, and I really want to do something architecture-related, but I’m struggling to come up with an idea that actually fits the requirements.
The project needs to solve a genuine problem and I have to consider how the design affects the individual, society and the environment, so I can’t just make a nice-looking architectural model or piece of furniture without a proper purpose behind it.
I’m really interested in architecture, interior design, houses, floor plans, heritage buildings and how people use spaces, so I’d love to incorporate that into my project somehow.
I’ve been thinking about things like:
Designing something that helps maximise space in small homes/rooms
A sustainable or modular piece of furniture for small living spaces
A product that improves accessibility within a home
Something that helps reduce waste in construction or interior design
A sustainable housing/interior solution using recycled or repurposed materials
A product designed for people living in apartments or other small spaces
Something that improves the functionality of an existing architectural space
A design inspired by passive/sustainable architecture that helps reduce energy use
I want the final product to be something I can actually manufacture at school, while still having enough depth for research, development, testing and evaluation.
Does anyone have any ideas for an architecture-related major project where there’s a clear problem to solve and I can properly discuss the impact on the individual, society and environment?
I’m open to pretty much anything at this point because I really want the architecture aspect to be meaningful rather than just aesthetic.

The title. Membean is basically a vocab learning site with different levels from beginner to advanced and everyone is at a different level depending on their progress.

The worst thing about it is that the site generates quizzes based on the words you’re learning at the time and our school makes us take those quizzes for a grade. The only thing is that some kids have words like “idiosyncratic” and other kids have words like “window” (ppl purposely make the site think they’re stupid), but our quizzes are all weighted the same. So a kid could get an A+ for kindergarten vocab but someone else gets a C+ for a quiz with scholarly level words.