More studying tips:

1. Ask your parents to quiz you about trigonometry or the periodic table of the elements.

2. Take your little sister to the park and observe the wildlife, but watch out for the vicious caterpillars.

3. Flip on PBS or the History Channel — you’ll learn about the mating habits of the tree frog.

4. Ask your grandparents about World War II — it has to be more interesting than those textbooks.

5. Find the quietest place you can (probably a library) and reread your notes on the French Revolution — Vive le Francais!

6. It’s about time you read all of the required reading — “War and Peace” shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours, right?

7. Get on the Internet and find some quizzes on general topics you’re studying — and you thought the computer was just for instant messaging.

8. Turn on your favorite radio station and make up a rap with the tenets of Puritanism.

9. Grab your friends, popcorn, a lot of pop and have some rousing debates about Jane Eyre or the Pythagorean Theorem.

10. Study? That takes time from a more pressing issue — SLEEP.

— Journal-World Teen Advisory Board member Jessica Foulke is a junior at Free State High School.