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05-09-2008, 03:05 PM
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| How do you define hardwork?
Presently, I have studied for over four hours straight, with no breaks, or snacks. Some students would reply that I have studied with great effort according to their depending standards. However, others may simply view four hours as a joke.
How do you define hardwork in terms of studying in your room?
I myself am rather avid for the replies of overachievers' in here. | 
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05-09-2008, 03:23 PM
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| Four hours is hard work! Hard for me, I mean. At most I can study for an hour. It's just not easy for me. The thing is, I am an overachiever. Just not one who can study for four hours straight. So I do consider that hard work. | |
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05-09-2008, 04:26 PM
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| Hard work is what the OP said. Last year I did two days of 12pm-6pm straight.
On a day to day basis, hard work is doing your work well enough to be proud of it. | |
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05-09-2008, 04:56 PM
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| Wow, thats quite impressing y7bbb6. Was it sort of a procrastination type of study since you merely accomplished 12 hours in days? | |
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05-09-2008, 06:19 PM
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| studying for 4 hours for one subject is hard work.
Spending 4 hours doing your homework + studying for all subjects is average for me.
Of course, I'm usually watching That '70s Show, so I don't get much done during those 4 hours. | |
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05-09-2008, 06:45 PM
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| I think hard work is the ability to continually work hard to stay current in your classes and not be starting every assignment the day before it's due. It's when you give enough time for your work so you can budget and actually spend the amount of time on each assignment that it deserves. | |
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05-09-2008, 07:04 PM
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| 3 hours is a lot to me. I have a friend who can stay on one topic for 9 hours and another who got a 23 on the ACT yet is able to maintain a 3.91 at a top boarding school. She stays up to 2 am almost every night. | |
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05-09-2008, 08:18 PM
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| To me, hardwork means quality of study not quantity. I can easily sit in front of a book for 4 hours and not be paying attention. "No breaks" sounds like you were pretty focused, so what you were doing seems like hard work. | |
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05-09-2008, 09:27 PM
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| putting in absolute effort and time until I accomplished my goal.
like, I wanted to do well on SAT II & AP USH. So I basically studied every single weekend, with few breaks (only basically to eat/volunteer/Mass)...that = hard work.
It's not necessarily a time thing though, sometimes I put a lot of concentrated hard work to getting math homework done quickly and efficiently. | 
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05-09-2008, 10:47 PM
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| "I think hard work is the ability to continually work hard to stay current in your classes and not be starting every assignment the day before it's due. It's when you give enough time for your work so you can budget and actually spend the amount of time on each assignment that it deserves." -RacinReaver.
Totally agree. The longest and the hardest I had ever worked was an entire quarter. I worked constantly giving all of my 100% and more even. My grades went up an entire grade in most subjects, some only half a grade. I got almost straight As except for two classes where I caused irreparable damage.
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05-09-2008, 10:51 PM
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| hard work is working hard | |
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05-10-2008, 04:49 AM
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| Hardwork is something that gets the you the best result your capable of getting. Hardwork is perfection! | |
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05-10-2008, 08:58 AM
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| I don't define it quantitively, as has been said. When I spend an hour straight reading my Chem textbook, that's not hard work. When I spend an hour straight editing and proofreading a term paper...that's much harder. It requires more thought and more attention to detail. | |
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05-10-2008, 09:01 AM
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| dude 20 minutes straight for me is like a miracle that i haven't done since 7th grade this one time-_- | |
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05-10-2008, 09:06 AM
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| Teenage_cliche does make a definite point, everything in life depends. Nothing is definite. Agreed? Discussion terminated. | |
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