<p>Girls are very distracting. I remember when my best friend entered college and he was super attracted to this girl he met in one of his classes. However, he only had enough money to pay for one year of college. He needed to get scholarships, so he dedicated himself entirely to studying that first year, got the grades, and he got all the scholarships he wanted to pay for his school. Unfortunately, the girl he liked and stared at for the longest time before diverting his eyes back to the books met a classmate of his and got married at the end of freshman year. I think they’re getting a divorce soon.</p>
<p>So, I can understand if you’re concerned about paying for college. I would do the exact same thing my best friend did. Neither of us were part of this “hook up” culture, though. Both of us fortunately have found marriage material girls. I think we’re the minority. If I had to do it all over again, I probably wouldn’t go into college in a relationship so I could focus more. Then again, it’s not really a regret of mine that I’ve ended up the way that I did. </p>
<p>I know my favorite physics professor would sometimes go off on tangents during lectures. He talked about his days at UCLA as an undergrad and that he was in a fraternity partying, drinking, and chasing skirts. He said it was the biggest mistake of his life and that he was barely able to save himself to get into a respectable graduate school. The guy is a genius and one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He absolutely recommended us to stay in the books if we wanted to get into a good graduate school if we were planning on going to graduate school for physics. Although I can’t completely take him seriously as I’ve had a girlfriend for four years now, I’m definitely focusing on school to get where I want.</p>