Honestly, the education system is at fault and not you. The schools expect borderline impossible results for high schoolers thanks to the pressures to get good grades to get in a good university and all of the classes they try to cram in on such a short schedule.
The fact of the matter is that you don't need good grades nor do you need to get into a top end Ivy league university to be considered "successful". I would advise any high schooler that I know to take high school easy and not put so much work into getting all As and Bs. Getting good grades by working so hard and not having fun or taking care of your health is not worth the reward in my opinion.
I mean hell, I had around a 2.3 GPA in high school because I genuinely didn't give a damn and I'm doing alright now. When I finished high school, I went to trade school to work as a computer technician for about a year and people who were going into that kind of work were making $12-15 per hour starting pay after only 6-12 months worth of training that cost maybe $300-600 per semester (depending on full time or part time). Now, I am in a community college studying web design that costs around $120 per credit hour that a Pell Grant is covering entirely and giving me around $1400 in refunds of unused money each semester that I'm living comfortably with alongside my part time student job. With options like these out there, I see no real need to get into a good university and bury yourself in debt when there are much cheaper options that don't require you to be miserable in high school and can net you similar opportunities to make a decent living that an undergraduate degree would.
With all that being said, take it easy, K? There is no point in being miserable over a broken education system.
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