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re: Pulled my first college all nighter last night.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:15 am to DownSouthJukin
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:15 am to DownSouthJukin
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I was the king of all nighters when you could still buy mini thins at every gas station and drug store in town (I is old). I'd crash for a complete day after pulling one. If I was writing papers, I'd generally get C's on papers that would have been easy to get A's on. If I was studying for a test, would should have been A's were B's or C's.
Treat school like a job: between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, if you're not in class, be somewhere doing classwork or studying (i.e. library) with your phone shut off. You'll be happier and healthier, make better grades, and have very little, if any, course work to do on weekends. Unfortunately, it took me until post-grad to figure this out. When I did figure it out, my grades reflected it.
Thanks for the advice man.
Will try, there are just a lot of distractions nowadays. I have never been good at studying.
This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 9:19 am
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Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:47 am to Rayburn8
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Will try, there are just a lot of distractions nowadays. I have never been good at studying.
There were a lot then, too: drinking buddies, fishing, hunting, golf, womenrz... if you spend more time studying for 4 years, you'll get a lot more time to do those when you graduate, and a lot more $$$ with which to do them.
School came easy to me... too easy. I thought I could skip class all semester, rely on others' notes, then waltz into a class for an exam with barely studying and after staying up all night. That worked for a couple of semesters and I skated by on C's and B's. When I got into my 300 and 400 level classes, I damn near failed out, and barely got out of undergrad with a C+ average.
I had as much fun in post-grad because the guys I hung out with all treated school like a job, and after 5:00 p.m., we'd knock off, cook out, drink beer, and chase women, use our weekends to fish, hunt and golf, etc., but we'd have our asses in class or the library at 8:00 a.m. every single week day. I graduated post-grad with an A average. Unfortunately, I had to pay $100,000 for all of my post-grad, when a scholarship was easily obtainable if I would have held an A-B average in undergrad.
$100,000 buys a lot of guns, fishing tackle, golf clubs and... you get the picture.
Anyway, that's enough from this old man.
and good luck!This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 1:22 pm
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