Not going to lie, I didn't really want much of a social life. But the one I had consisted of thousands of Facetime calls because none of my friends go to my school, or even live in the same state.

1. Get a job
   • While the paychecks are nice, having a job takes tons of time away from family and friends. In the beginning of the summer, I started working crazy hours, like 25 hours a week as a cashier. I loved the paychecks, but I hated not eating with my family – instead I relied on discounted food from work.
2. Start or join an extracurricular
   • Fall is golf season, which means I would practice almost every day or I would have a match once or twice a week. After golf came Mock Trial, which took way more time. My senior year of high school I decided I wanted to be an attorney for my school’s Mock Trial team – big mistake. While I loved what I was doing, it was so time-consuming. I would pull all-nighters modifying my questions and finding holes in my witnesses’ testimony. After Mock Trial came softball. And with all of this, I was still working 10-15 hours a week.
3. Purposefully avoid friendships
   • I’ve had my fair share of friendships gone bad, so I’m always leery when starting a new friendship. If you go to a school anything like my high school, good luck having good friends. 9 times out of 10 they weren’t reliable and talked all kinds of crap behind your back.
4. Have chores at home
   • Not going to lie, I really don’t have that many chores, but some of them take a while. Like cutting the grass – for a while our tractor was broken so we had to use the push mower for the entire yard, which was killer in the summer heat. Sometimes it would take me 2 hours if I had no help, but most of the time my parents and sister helped.
5. Having weird hobbies
   • I can’t really relate to this, but I’ve seen a few people that I’m sure would be able to explain this better.
6. Having no interest in sports
   • In middle school I gave up sports for the time being. While I loved going to baseball games, I never watched them on T.V. or participated in them. Gym was the worst class because I was not athletic AT ALL.
7. Being in accelerated courses
   • I took a variety of AP, GT, and honors classes in high school which may have contributed to my social status. Countless essays + projects + tests = NO SLEEP