The impressions you make during your first week can follow you your entire high school career. You never know when a good relationship you have established will come back to help you later. Setting a good first impression is a quick way to establish friendships and quality relationships.
2. Know your way around.
Knowing your way around will help you get to class and can help you make new friends when you assist them to getting to class. Also knowing your way around can help you find the offices you need to go for assistance.
According to Gallup research:
If you feel close to other people, you are four times more likely to feel good about yourself and life.
People who claim to have five or more true friends with whom they can discuss important problems are 60 percent more likely to say that they are "very happy."
People with a best friend where they work are seven times more likely to be engaged in their work!
If your friend helps you cheat, they're not really your friend. A friend will push you to better yourself. Your friend won't be there to take your EOC for you.
Show me your friends and i'll show you your future.
Joining clubs will help you in many ways, from keeping you out of trouble to helping you learn new skills. Joining clubs and playing sports also help you to meet new people. If that's not enough of a factor, consider this, club and sports involvement are impressive to put on college and job resumes. It shows you not only can pull decent grades, but you can also balance other activities and commitments.
5. Be organized.
This will save you a ton of heartache later on. Teachers tell you to carry a notebook for a reason. Notebooks have clips for a reason.
Don't procrastinate. The sooner you get things done, the sooner you can relax or do things you want to do without deadlines looming over you. Also, putting things off leads to you forgetting to get them done. It also could help you win points with your parents when you want to go do something. Your parents will eventually see how responsible you are, so that mid-week JV football game you want to go to or going over to your friends house for dinner might end up becoming an option.
This doesn't just mean eating healthy and exercising. It also means celebrating small goals. Set goals to earn certain grades on your tests or studying a certain amount of time and then celebrate with a small reward. It could mean, every hour I student I earn 10-20 minutes of video games (if 10-20 sounds too small then unaddict yourself from the console).
8. Accept change.
It was once said elementary school is like running the intermediate hurdles, you can just kick the hurdle over or step over it and move to the next. Middle school is like the high jump, just lower the standard and you can flop over. High school is like the pole vault, unless you come prepared with your pole you'll never make it over. Be prepared for change when you start high school. Your friends will change. Your school won't run the same as your middle school. Your teachers won't be the same. You'll even change. There is no way of going back. Instead of fighting the change, embrace it as you move foward in being the grown person you are to be. Enjoy your experiences in the process though!
No one wants to be around someone who is constantly negative. Staying positive is a way of keeping and making friends. These friends will be around to help you when you are blue. Also remember, no matter how hard your day is things tend to work out in some shape or form. Try to find the positive in everything you do. You receive a poor grade on a test, at least now you know you need to work harder on something than failing the End of Course exam. Look at the life lessons in what you do.
10. Be yourself.
The most important thing is not to deny who you are as a person. You are unique for a reason. You can find friends by being yourself. Don't give into peer pressure to change who you are or to do something you know is wrong.
