QUOTE(fyren @ Jun 18 2006, 08:03 PM)
Learn to love to expand your knowledge. Gotta learn till you die right?, so might as well start now.
The things that I prepared for MCAT (an excellent example of studying)
-Took 10 days off during spring break and went camping to reflect just what the hell I am doing in college. This is tough considering all your friends are hitting the clubs pretty much wed-sat night. But I made it especially during spring break to see if I can overcome simple things as "enjoying my spring break"
-Fasted for a week to appreciate the things in my life and to seep out the 3 years of fast food
-Cut off all my social circle for 3 months. That means no partying, no clubbing, no blunts and no liquors. No exception. If your friends are truly your friends, then they will understand.
-I read some great books regarding War commandeer/generals. Miyamato musashi and Patton comes to mind.
-Just a fight with your mental state. That is probably the biggest hurdle in people's lives. You can't win against a simple task of seeping new information?, then where the hell do you think your going in this world?.
It was very tough for me to initate this state of mind. I completely agree with you that no one likes to study, but I ended up loving to learn new things whether its directly related to my field or not.
The reward?
Excellent MCAT score-
Done with all my interviews
Enjoying my senior year
Pass the Blunts to the right and liquors all around
I love learning, just not what im studying. Most of the time im reading up on stuff I currently find interesting. Be it a circuit, how to build something... other miscelaneous knowlege. I just know I can read a book on something I care about for fun and learn a lot but so far haven't found anything USEFUL that I can apply my brain to. I mean I <3 computers look at the tech section (at least when I had a lot of posts there...) I love fixing them tweaking them and overall troubleshooting. However, I know that stuff is pretty much worthless in the real world. Sure, take your computer to CompUSSR or Geek Squad for $50 an hour to "fix" the computer but in the end they aren't paid much. If I recall correctly, CompUSSR was just slightly above minimum wage.
In THEORY, I should have very little issue when it comes to "the social circle" my friends only exist online now. I never have and probably never will do "the normal stuff" like partying, clubbing, "blunts" (No idea what that is) or drinking.
=\ probably have to just battle my mental state. Last time I talked to a friend (well at least someone I wanted to talk to) in real life... well more of an acquaintance because I rarely talk to them even online... was two and a half quarters ago, right after talking to her for about 20 minutes, I went to fail a midterm.
QUOTE(Natsuka @ Jun 18 2006, 08:47 PM)
my advice is to lock up your computer and anything else that amuses you more than studying...until after your exam.
now, besides studying, you only have things that are even more boring to spend your time on......
i should take my own advice...but even if studying takes forever, there's no fasteer way to get a good grade unless you study...or you cheat (which i do not recommend you do).
however, besides reading, make sure you go to class, stay awake in class, and try to retain what you observe in class. if you can remember all of the information from class up till the exam, you don't even have to study that much.
finally, do your homework...even if it doesn't count for much. i didn't do my hw for one class because it was less than 10% of the grade, but as a result, i could never finish the exam questions in time.
basically, you just need to force yourself to study...or you can take courses that interest you more, so you won't have to force yourself to learn the material......
I have tried locking my computer but if I were to do that, I would reach insanity rather quickly. You know how I said I don't talk to people in real life? Well I don't do social stuff and the internet is the only real path I have to talking to people. Without it im a bit lost and well I DO like talking to people, just don't manage to talk in real life.
I DO go to class. Never missed a class, never late, never leave early. I rarely sleep in class but night classes are just evil and although I don't sleep I do tend to zone out. (school doens't offer those classes at NORMAL times, not popular enough or some mini cooper)
I retain everything I observe in class. My notes are absoluetely worthless because they just repeat what I saw. I understand all the logic behind the stuff, especially in physics but none of the stuff they explain in class ever seems to have anything to do with the actual calculation of the stuff. I mean if they just GAVE me velocity, acceleration, and time or told me to calculate for it sure. If they gave me angles and told me to figure ____ out no problem. But I guess I interpret the problems differently because that mini cooper never makes sence when I try to calculate it.
Yeah, homework does help. Most never return it, others don't bother to collect it. I do about half of it when it doesn't count.
=\ I don't know what course would interest me. Anything in an academic context is screwed over and is hopeless. I like circuits. In my 4th firefox tab is a schematic to make my computer's power light fade in and out like one of those apple standby lights. In an academic context I would have to calculate the voltage drop, the amperage between the resistors... I just don't care. Its like playing tennis... do I honestly care how fast the ball is going? How long it will take to come back down if I hit it straight up at 11m/s, how high will it go, and what about wind resistance?
Thats the crap I can't figure out. I know it falls, I know it goes up, but I dont care how long it takes. If it falls, it falls. If the circuit has a high amperage, then it will get hot. If the voltage is too high, it will get hot. If I touch it, sparks will fly wires will melt. Thats all I care.
Studying bores me and I can read a chapter half a dozen times without any gain. Any ideas how to fix? 
now I definitely feel stupid. Or way too apathetic 
GRR I guess I better work on studying next quarter... (Easy to say, difficult to accomplish)
