High School Is Killing Me!!! (npmd reference?!?!)

I never understood why people say that highschool is the highlight of your life, and I DEFINITELY don't understand that now. I genuinely don't know whether I'll be stuck unhappy at a minimum wage job or unhappy at some university out of state because I don't even know if my grades will do. IM ONLY IN 9TH GRADE. WHAT THE HELL MAN. I have a 5 paper research paper due 4/18/2025. Seems easy enough, right? Except my teacher wants us to have something done by tomorrow (4/7/2025) and I know I'll disappoint her if I show up with only, like, 4 paragraphs done. They cover about 1 and 3/4 worth of pages, but I don't know if it'll be enough... how do people do this for 4 years?...