It isn’t about time spent, it is about how you tackle things. I probally spend less time on my homework in grad school than I did in high school and my grades are way better than they use to be and I actually understand what is going on in my class.
Focus less on just reading chapters and focus more on the information in the chapters. Understand why you are learning this and not just how to regurgitate it on a test. That will help you with college.
I have a different bit of advice. Don’t worry about school. Do just enough to get buy. Split the extra time you have between more fighting games and self study in business and tax law. Learn the difference between different types of ways of organizing a business (C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC) never do a DBA (doing business as). Now, get a job while still in high school doing sales. LEARN TO SELL. The big secret to selling is you will have to understand that you have to hear “no” 10-20 times for every “yes” you get. Now that you have learned how to sell, start a business. Don’t worry, you first business will fail. Failure is good because you will learn more from failures than you will from success.
2 reasons why you should strive to be a business owner rather than go to school to “get a job”. First you have proved you have a common trait of successful business owners. You are smart yet don’t have the patience to get the best grades. School trains you to be an employee, and I promise you will be miserable as an employee, someone telling you how much money you will make, when you can eat, when you can go home, what you can wear blah blah. Second, go down to your local “occupy” movement, bypass the dirty smelly hippies, and go talk to the 20-30 year olds standing around who went to school, got a degree, and can’t get a job because either there is no jobs to get, or the fact that more and more employers are not hiring college grads because most of them come out of school with a bitterness towards business, who wants to hire someone who thinks you are an asshole.
Don’t quit school, but don’t worry about college because customers don’t ask for your degree, and If you own the business who the fuck are you going to show you degree to? If you wonder what my credentials are, my wife and I both dropped out of college and it costs an average of $3,200 to get us to Photograph and DJ your wedding, and we do about 35 weddings a year.
don’t smoke pot, don’t get drunk, don’t get laid, and don’t game
buy supplements and do extra problems in there
you probably don’t like the answer, but there will be plenty of time for the fun stuff once you land a good job
get your priorities* straight, and learn how to manage your time accordingly. this skill will become more important in college, and then life afterwards.
implied from managing your time is that you can’t procrastinate. not procrastinating is a skill you need to develop, and it falls under the umbrella of “managing your time”.
getting your priorities straight will also help you to avoid / deal with all the random bullshit that happens during high school, and in college.
the approach you want is to set yourself up for success. getting good grades will set you up for getting into a good college. doing well in college will set you up for getting a stable job. if you’re not setting yourself up for success, then you’re limiting your potential opportunities to a different and smaller scope, one that is less desireable and filled with more difficult choices.
talk to others, especially teachers, about this as well. i would avoid asking your peers, unless they are consistently doing very well in school.
*your priorities:
sell/do heroin
college is all about attitude, not aptitude
high school is all about who can get away with cheating the most
No hw tonight tho :o
Nothing you do matters at all. Grades are important, but not to the point where you need to stop living. Same thing goes for colleges. Find something, stick with it. Learn to WORK and do things that you don’t enjoy and do them well enough that no one finds offense with you. Congratulations, you survived life. :tup:
Stop procrastinating and stop playing FGs that don’t really matter. Find a scene and stick to it and one or two games at best and learn how to balance life with school. For the next 2/3’s of your life that is exactly what you’ll be doing.
fuck a lot of bitches
Stop visiting SRK…trust me when I say we will not miss you.
Do more than just your homework. Pay attention in class, take notes, go over notes and books (if you have those) when you get home. Generally speaking, you should go over the material at least 3 times. And not all in one day.
Study smart, not study hard. Find out what works best for you. Some people have to make flashcards, others talk out the material aloud. Some just read the book and they’re good. If you know something, don’t study it over again unless it’s for review. Study the stuff you’re having difficulty in.
If you want to be an A student without destroying your social life, I have one word for you:
READ.
And I’m not talking about low-tier crap like magazines and news articles, but top-tier shit like novels, comprehensive non-fictions (no biographies), and textbooks. You need to up your reading comprehension skills and vocabulary ASAP. You’re young, so if you start it now, your reading level will be so high, you can study quickly and efficiently.
I cannot stress how important this is. In college, many of my classmates hated reading their textbook because it would take so long because they didn’t understand all the big words and complex sentence structures used. When I told them that I would read the whole textbook, they look at me in shock. And note, I had a full time job, worked out daily, and had time to chill with friends on the weekends and game…and I was a straight A student.
So here is what you need to do now:
Attend every class. During class, pay attention, take notes, and PARTICIPATE. This is a no-brainer as since you have to be in class, you should maximize the effectiveness of the time spent there.
After class, read the chapter covered during class and go over the notes you took Its very important that you do this ON THE SAME DAY. That way what you learned in class will stick and will therefore extremely cut your pre-exam study time. This will also level up your reading (very important). Note: if this is a problem-solving class (like math), you should also do some practice problems too (unless thats part of your homework).
Prior to exams, read over the notes you took. Ultimatly, this is all you need to do before the exam if you followed steps one and two. However, if you dont feal confident, study terms and do practice prob (if applicable).
Follow these steps, and you will be able to get A’s by just spending 1-2 hours a day Monday thru Friday studying plus homework. And if you’re tacking your homework with your studying time, you should have full weekends where you can do whatever you want, and you should have quite a bit of weekday time available too…
Not trying to steal the thread, but who here (if any besides Jasin) have actually dropped out/never went to college and have a pretty ok life? I only ask because I only went to college for one year (right after HS) and I didnt apply this year bc when I first went I didnt recieve any money from Financial Aid and ended up having to get a loan for about $5,000 just to attend a community college for one year. My father went to college but dropped out because he had a job that was paying good money (which he still has now) and although my family isnt rich, we’re doing pretty ok (not living check to check or anything like that). Like he even has two cars and is usually buying suits and shit online. Im not 100% sure what I want to do in life, but I cant see myself going to college (while racking up debt) and then having the chance of not finding a good job to pay it back.
If you are having trouble with High School then I don’t think you want to go to college. x_x
High School was a breeze, but I seem to be having the same problem but for college. Hard to juggle work, games, and social life without messing up 1 of them.
Read and write a lot.
It will take daily dedication to achieve success at anything in life, including … high school.
Try to find hobbies outside of school to which you can dedicate yourself to perfecting.
You can’t be your best or even 50% every day, but you can work hard to get there. No excuses, just do or do not.
About going to college while accumulating debt:
$5000 for a community college? What the fuck?! California community colleges are no where near this expensive… Maybe this includes living on your own expenses? Because yea I can definitely see 5 grand dropped on that anywhere, much less California.
The question is, what do you want to do at university and will it be worthwhile to you. It’s starting to get to the point where getting a university education is too expensive. It’s benefits outweigh its costs. The reality is many people will go to university and end up doing jobs they could do without a university education. On the flip side, they are also educated. There is more to life than money, and the pursuit of happiness can be spurred on by education, no matter what job they end up doing. It’s not the only thing going on.
A university education is not required to become dedicated to mastering something as a hobby for your own enrichment.
Fuck around in high school, go to community college and transfer to a 4 year university. That’s what I did. Saves money for the 1st 2-3 years.
This… Try and read ahead even. I find if youve read something before its taught its better than after.
Drugs and sex with farm animals.
read the subject material, dream about it, live it, embrace it. Become one with the material. Do the homework, dedicate yourself to the material as you would to the whore you fuck every night. When you envision that grade envision it as a meth monster envisions his next high. Use all the tools at your disposal. They allow graphing calculators? Take full advantage of that tool. Learn where and how to study. stop worrying about your grades, and just do the work. Stop worrying about making time to do other things, the time will appear as if magic.
you have 24 hours in a day. you can function fine with only 7 hours of sleep. Take breather every 2-3 hours. Do not cram ever.