College is Hard

[HandOfHeaven]

It really is difficult.




Just kidding, it's pretty damn easy. I will much like only have 3-4 classes a day as opposed to the 8 I had all through high school. Just got a job and start on Sunday. Should be able to work 25 hours a week and still have tons of free time after factoring sleep and homework time.

[!King_Amazon!]

I would tend to agree though I'm only going to be doing 3-4 classes per semester(I'm only doing 2 right now because it's my first semester and I wasn't sure how much I could handle. 2 classes is mind numbingly easy. I don't even feel like I'm in school.)

[Thanatos]

Your first semester is pretty damn easy. It's an uphill battle after that, though.

[!King_Amazon!]

I'm looking forward to it myself. I've been craving a challenge in school for a while now. That's part of the reason I didn't give a shit about high school.

I want to have to bust my ass to get a good grade, but I want to learn in the process, not just work for the sake of working.

[D3V]

I'm with yah K_A. So far i've only attended two Semesters, both full time and even then they we're both easy. I have a feeling though as soon as I get more towards my bachelor's degree-type classes it's going to get a tad bit harder.

[HandOfHeaven]

I regret not taking Finite Mathematics and a Chemistry class this first semester, but I'm just taking Liberal Arts Core classes for my first semester/year. I'm at 16 credits, and I may make it 18 if I find a couple 1 credit courses. Next semester I am going to take 18 credits. Honestly, I was prepared for the hardest classes when I came here, and it's not even that difficult at all. Maybe my economics and accounting classes next year will be tough, but that's all I can see for now. I guess my high school prepared me well.

[!King_Amazon!]

Both of my current classes are liberal arts, and most of my classes will be liberal arts throughout college since I'm majoring in Philosophy.

[gruesomeBODY]

College is an uphill battle. They factor in that its your (at least most peoples) first time away from home and want you to adjust properly. I know my freshman year, i got a 3.7 gpa and partied my ass off. After my soph and jr year, im now at a 3.5 gpa, which is good but niothing like freshamn uyear.

[HandOfHeaven]

I can pull a 4.0 and be in a drunken/high haze. It makes me focus a lot more and prioritize more. Don't worry, I should be able to graduate Magne Cum Laude.

[Vollstrecker]

Core Classes for Liberal Arts don't tend to be difficult.

[Lost-Soul]

I can pull a 4.0 and be in a drunken/high haze. It makes me focus a lot more and prioritize more. Don't worry, I should be able to graduate Magne Cum Laude.
Congrats to you my friend. I'm sure if you keep smokin on the daily, your grades will reflect it.
LoL.

[HandOfHeaven]

I pulled a 3.7 and I smoked three out of the four years I was in high school, with very heavy use the last two. I got drunk 3-4 times a week during that time too, held a job, had a girlfriend, and managed to get a 3.9 for my senior year. So yeah, I guess pot makes people smart. K thanks bye. Damn Skeptic. Oh yeah, and my classes were more difficult because it was a private school and the grading scale was harder (70%= F). On top of that, I missed out on scholarships because I wasn't even in the top 10 of my class of 59. I was like 22nd, if I remember right. I posted it on here. Don't even judge, foo.

[!King_Amazon!]

Pot does not make people smart. I can confirm this. I seriously felt a hit to my cognative abilities after smoking pot for a while.

[HandOfHeaven]

Well, I was going with the reverse to his theory of pot making people stupider/irresponsible. I do have some times where my short term memory doesn't spark up, but most of that stuff is insignificant. I choose to memorize school homework, key words, and people. That way I can best do school and interact with people while using the key words as a grab bag of subjects to go off on.

[Grav]

There is a lifted veil when cessation commences

[Vault Dweller]

Absolutely. There can also be some latent hostility toward life that surfaces, but that fades away after a bit. I'm sure I'd have learned more from my undergrad years if I hadn't been stoned as much.

Oh, and HoH...don't underestimate the level of quality your professors are looking for. It is certainly NOT like high school. I wouldn't recommend comparing them (unless you're at a community college).

[HandOfHeaven]

I had to do papers most of my senior year, along with well-done projects for stingyass teachers. Do remember that my high school was more challenging than most. I'm more than prepared to do the 'extra' work to touch it up, if there is any. Hell, just having 5 classes and a lab that don't meet everyday is heaven.

[Thanatos]

Pot does not make people smart. I can confirm this. I seriously felt a hit to my cognative abilities after smoking pot for a while.

True dat. I feel like pot has definitely dumbed me down. I was a fuckin genius back in high school, now... not so much. I'm sure once I go back to college (next semester, woohoo) it'll all come back to me, though.

[!King_Amazon!]

I haven't smoked pot in a long while now and I still feel like it took something away. I have a slightly harder time putting my thoughts down in an intelligible way now than I did back then. I guess the main thing is I don't feel like I communicate as eloquently now and my memory is somewhat lacking.

[HandOfHeaven]

Really? That hasn't happened for me.

[D3V]

True dat. I feel like pot has definitely dumbed me down. I was a fuckin genius back in high school, now... not so much. I'm sure once I go back to college (next semester, woohoo) it'll all come back to me, though.

I was A honor roll all the way up until 10th grade when I tried it a couple of times, even after the short amount of time that I did it I felt as if my comprehension went down the drain for basically anything that I read, very odd side effects possibly?

[HandOfHeaven]

That's odd. My comprehension and writing skills increased vastly from 10th grade, which is when I started smoking. Stats show my grades went up.

[!King_Amazon!]

Really? That hasn't happened for me.
You can't lose what you didn't have in the first place.

[HandOfHeaven]

School is quite easy for me, by the way.

[!King_Amazon!]

Grades are hardly everything, HoH.

I got horrible grades in High School, I wouldn't call myself dumb because of that. I lacked motivation and didn't do my work.

Perhaps pot motivates you, makes you want to get work done. It does that to some people.

[HandOfHeaven]

Maybe it does. I wasn't going for the grade thing, either. It's just that I understand most of everything I was taught, and remember it well too. I have several friends who did terrible at high school and are still quite smart.

[Thanatos]

I was A honor roll all the way up until 10th grade when I tried it a couple of times, even after the short amount of time that I did it I felt as if my comprehension went down the drain for basically anything that I read, very odd side effects possibly?

Neg. There's no way you were affected after only a couple times of using.

[gruesomeBODY]

My friends are motivated by drinking, so they get through school so that they can drink. If they get bad grades then they cant go out, so it motivates them to do well. i cant wait to see what it does to thier livers 10 years from now.

[Vollstrecker]

I can tell my cognitive skills are suffering merely from aging, I don't think nearly as clear as I did about 6-7 years ago.

Also, school isn't difficult. Grades reflect nothing more than work ethic, as teachers giving honest grades would upset most parents to no end.

[!King_Amazon!]

I can tell my cognitive skills are suffering merely from aging, I don't think nearly as clear as I did about 6-7 years ago.

Also, school isn't difficult. Grades reflect nothing more than work ethic, as teachers giving honest grades would upset most parents to no end.
It's too bad that we no longer live in an age where people go to school simply to better themselves, rather they go to school to get a good job.

How I would love to live in those days. I want so badly to get a masters or even a Ph.D in Philosophy, but I know that neither is a very practical thing to do, so I'm undecided whether or not I will.

[Grav]

Tinme management is hard. I'm putting in 60 hours of extra cocklickulars on top of classes and such. Any free time I have I just want to chill out instead of study/do homework.

[Demosthenes]

College is hard as fuck for me. I have time for next to nothing. What college are you going to HoH?

[Vault Dweller]

What college are you going to HoH?

That was my next question. My school was no cakewalk either.

[Vollstrecker]

It's too bad that we no longer live in an age where people go to school simply to better themselves, rather they go to school to get a good job.

I love learning, I'd still be going to College.

[Vault Dweller]

I could see myself working on a philosophy degree or getting a masters in English if it seemed practical. Damn practicality.

[Vollstrecker]

In all honesty, if I could get paid for learning, I'd make College my career. I'd take just about every class offered.

[!King_Amazon!]

In all honesty, if I could get paid for learning, I'd make College my career. I'd take just about every class offered.
And I would be right there next to you. I wish I could live off of staying home and reading whenever the fuck I want, so I don't have to worry about a job or anything like that, just devote my life to learning everything I can. I feel like our current world is limiting me, because I HAVE to get a good job and I HAVE to make a lot of money to be at all successful in this world.

[HandOfHeaven]

Southwest MN State University in Marshall, MN. I'm just taking generals this semester, so I think that's why it is easy. I have to write a 5-7 minute speech each week for one class, write essays every other period in another, and do papers every week for my science class on top of some daily reading/work. The other classes are mostly just reading. Much less homework than what my high school gave out, and at less frequent intervals. Next semester should be more difficult with Marketing 311, Principles of Accounting, Finite Mathematics, and a couple of other courses I haven't chosen yet.

[Vollstrecker]

And I would be right there next to you. I wish I could live off of staying home and reading whenever the fuck I want, so I don't have to worry about a job or anything like that, just devote my life to learning everything I can. I feel like our current world is limiting me, because I HAVE to get a good job and I HAVE to make a lot of money to be at all successful in this world.

Yeah, it's pretty much a requirement to survive. Too bad there's not much use for the Renaissance Man anymore...

[!King_Amazon!]

Yeah :(