u/Fluffy-Following5314

can’t sleep

i seriously can’t sleep without ripping my pen and it’s gotten worse as the months go by. i started smoking last year february and i’ve only realised now that it’s affected my sleep a lot. throughout this summer ive been smoking a lot before i sleep because that’s really the only time i have as my older sister moved back in from university and i just wait till everyone’s sleeping. i have an indica pen so naturally it makes me super tired and i knock out really fast. im trying to go on a tolerance break before school starts as i kinda want to ‘lock in’ this year but everytime i try to start a t-break i realise i cannot fall asleep. no matter how tired i was throughout the day, every time it gets to be that time that i feel like i should sleep because i have work or i just need to be up early for something the next day, i notice that i can never actually sleep. ive done the remedies that used to make me sleep like reading, listening to music, and taking magnesium pills. none of these have helped. it’s gotten to the point that i stay up till morning and still can’t sleep. i haven’t gotten melatonin yet but am planning on to tomorrow. it’s really bad and i haven’t been successful with a t break at all. i don’t have a history of insomnia or anything so it’s definitely not that. it could be cause my brain is adjusting to it and everytime i smoke it signals that i should sleep??? i have no clue. i know that you can lose your appetite when you smoke a lot which has happened to me too but idk about sleep. i don’t know what to do because i do not want to be dependent on my pen this school year.

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u/Fluffy-Following5314 — 2 days ago

Am I already behind?

Hello, I am an upcoming junior next year (CO ‘28) and my school has career/major academies that you picked during freshman year that cannot be changed at all.

I am currently in the career academy that is for students that are interested in attorney jobs and police officer jobs. Unfortunately, I am no longer interested in law at all and have been interested in Mech E.

Obviously I am unable to change my career academy and the courses I am taking for the next two years of high school will for sure bore me. I cannot even take a single engineering course either till my senior year as one course is a whole semester long and I do not have enough space in my schedule for it this coming year.

Besides the aspect of me being uninterested in a few classes, I fear that I might be behind when I want to apply to universities next fall as I do not have any engineering background nor any strong STEM background either. I am planning on doing duel enrollment during my senior year and taking a college intro to physics course and Calculus 1 course. I’m still scared this isn’t enough as well.

Along with that, the ECs I am in are Speech, NHS, and a culture appreciation club that I have a lead role in. None of them are STEM related and I slacked during this summer not doing any classes or going to a science camp.

I know I can always transfer departments if I get into a non engineering/science department. I still worry about it though.

Does anyone have any advice? If anyone is going through something similar with a different field they’re interested in?

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u/Fluffy-Following5314 — 25 days ago