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Not really a "hack," but literally just prioritize the things you care about.
I feel like there's so much pressure when you're young to be excelling in literally every field. You're expected to be getting great grades while also having the time of your life at parties while also doing extracurriculars, and so on.
If you only care about resume building, just focus on grades (and extracurriculars if you're in high school). It's okay to not have friends and get terrible sleep, school is only temporary anyways!
If you only care about appreciating life, that's valid too! Functionally there's often no difference between a 70% and a 100% as long as you make "the cut" to get into college/a job/whatever.
Objectively, the only thing you should not be neglecting is your health. To be perfectly honest, sometimes you will just need to pull all-nighters to get your priorities done. Don't make a habit of it.
Also, one last controversial opinion: Office hours are useless if you already know the material, you shouldn't just be attending office hours by default.
C's get degrees.
I don't agree with the no friends part, uni/college is one of the very few places in your life that it will be (relatively) easy as fuck to make good friends, partners and acquaintances.
You're depriving yourself of an amazing experience if you just burn through it like someone's after you and only care about grades.
I agree. College is really the first time in a school setting where the people you see on a daily basis are there because they share the same interests as you. You have the opportunity to make friends based on that, instead of the fact that you happen to live in the same postal code as them. This means you have the chance to hit it off with people from all walks of life because you all have one interest in common already. And those friendships can last your entire life and even possibly land you a job because you work in the same field.