Thanks for reaching out to us tonight! It sounds like you're going through kind of a tough situation. Its good that you want to pull up your grades and realize  you need to study more, but don't want to give up being social.

Try this: talk to your friends about getting a study group together. Meet at the library or coffee shop after school and do homework, review notes, and study for tests together. That way you don't give up the social aspect, and you are still getting your homework done and being held accountable by your friends.

Make a rule that you guys can chit-chat and gossip AFTER you get your homework done. It can help to do homework with other people--sometimes seeing things from someone else's perspective can help us gain a better understanding of things. Talk to your friends and set something up.

As for forgetting what assignments you have, 10 minutes before you're going on to your locker, make a list of the homework you need to take home. You'll most likely be in class, so write quickly so you're not missing out on anything. Otherwise, it might help to get a planner or assignment book, and at the end of each class, you write down the homework you have for that night. Then, at the end of your last class, look at the planner and double-check what you have to take home.

Hopefully, those tips will help ya! Good luck with studying and your grades. You can totally pull them up! Hang in there!

Melissa, Counselor