How to Survive High School 1. Know your way around Everything is in the same boat at the start of school, but soon after you are expected to know your way around. It can be difficult to be one of those people who learns slower than others. I remember one of my teachers getting angry countless times at this girl for being late to class the second week of school. It's better to find your way sooner or later if you find yourself in this situation. Every time I think I don't know what to do, I think of one of my friends. It's the second month of school and he always walks past our counseling class. I don't understand how he doesn't know where he is by now and keeps making the same mistake. Luckily he always realizes this before entering another class, which would be embarrassing. One of my friends went on to tell me that he got into the wrong class countless times. To make matters worse he arrived late to the wrong classroom while the teacher was speaking. If it were me I would have died of embarrassment and would have been haunted by that memory forever. Whether you want to admit it or not, everyone always judges by your actions. You don't want to have the reputation of being the kid who doesn't know his way around school.2. Find out what kind of teachers you have. To survive, those in high school need to figure out what kind of teachers you have as quickly as possible. There are many different categories that teachers can fall into. The first teacher to watch out for is the foreign language teacher who is too strict. It doesn't 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 who you… halfway through the paper… if you had done it straight away.5. Find balance Some of my friends constantly complain that they can't find balance. They point out how they don't have time to do all their AP homework because they go to the newspaper club after school, then do soccer practice, and then eat dinner before they can do their homework. I asked them why they took so many AP classes if they didn't have the time to do so. Their response was that they wanted to take AP courses because they would look good on their college transcript. When I try to politely tell them that it's kind of their fault for taking 4 AP classes and doing extracurricular activities, they respond by saying that it's the teacher's fault for assigning so much homework. I decided to stop asking them why they decided to try to do everything. The reason is that they wouldn't admit it was their fault.