“I think scheduling out your time is really important,” said Ava Whalon, an AP student who additionally is a part of La Salle’s choir and theater departments.
Ava Whalon
October 6, 2021
Ava Whalon is a senior at La Salle, where she is involved in both the theater program and the choir program.
Right now, Whalon is preparing for La Salle’s fall quasi musical Alice in Wonderland, where she will be playing Alice. Currently, Whalon and the rest of the theater department are rehearsing two to three days a week, with each rehearsal lasting around two hours.
For her final year at La Salle, Whalon decided to challenge herself to a trickier course load. Her schedule included AP English 4, AP U.S. Government, and Anatomy & Physiology. “I’m enjoying them, but it is a lot of work,” she said.
During the school week, Whalon said that she is spending about one to two hours a night on homework. When it comes to getting assignments done she’s “pretty fast and efficient with it,” she said, which she feels is helpful when she has so many other things going on.
On the weekends, Whalon said that her homework load doubles, leaving her roughly three hours of homework to complete.
A suggestion she has for underclassmen at La Salle is to plan out when to get their homework done. “I think scheduling out your time is really important and works for me,” she said. “By setting aside time to do homework instead of procrastinating, you won’t feel as overwhelmed and will have more time to enjoy your extracurriculars.”