Can confirm. Highschool completely stops mattering as soon as you step foot on a college campus EDIT: get your diploma. Also, definitely be friends with the nerdy kids. This helped me immeasurably back in highschool. Just hearing conversations about the material can really help you remember it. I remember that I used to sit near the nerdy kids especially before tests and listen to them as a last minute study tip. They tended to be the best informed about what would be on the test, and if they were going over it last minute it was probably important. But even more than that, your friends and what your friends expect from you impacts your actions. If you befriend the nerdy kids, both you and they will start to expect you to live up to their standards, and it'll make you work harder. Peer pressure is cool like that.