<p>It is impossible to plan out your life like that. Other things that take time will come up. Did you plan for getting groceries or taking a duece? How about talking to your professors if you see them walking across campus? You can easily spend 20 minutes there.</p>
<p>he is just to anxious/ambitious. Plans rarely work the way they’re supposed to. His definately won’t. Won’t even be close by any stretch</p>
<p>You can’t seriously predict how well you do solely based on the hours you spend. First of all, no human being can concentrate optimally for 12 hours straight. Normal, practical capacity for optimal study is at most 5-6 hours and by then you’d lost most of your early concentration. Success in whatever you studying for depends on how effectively you study. If you spend 12 hours studying and doing other things like talking on the phone, chatting with friends, listening to music, or watching TV, you might as well not study at all. To effectively study for anything in college spend about 5-6 hours seperated by 20 minute breaks to study. Then, one would be able to study effectively without wasting time or torturing yourself.</p>
<h1>1 Why do you want a 4.0 gpa?</h1>
<h1>2 You don’t need a 4.0 gpa. You’re not pre-med, or pre-law or a humanities major who needs a 4.0 to stand above everyone else. Shoot high, sure. But don’t focus on the GPA. It’s very rare to see the people who stress about the super-high GPAs actually get them in engineering, and the thing is no one will really care. Anything past 3.7 in a top rated program like purdue is stellar.</h1>
<h1>3 I just wiki-ed polyphaisic sleep schedule and the only person who’s even come close to maintaing such a cycle for more than a week or two is this guy:</h1>
<p>Paul Erdős, the set theory mathematician, slept two hours a day for several decades through a combination of napping and methamphetamine use.</p>
<p>If you can pull it off fine, but if this is just something that you’ve tried out for a week and think you can do, think again. Not to mention, even the proponents point out that even if you miss a single nap time, you become exhausted. College is too unpredictable to maintain such a schedule like that. </p>
<h1>4 Is this a joke?</h1>
<p>…hell, I got a 3.5 at Rice and ended up getting admitted to every top ten grad program I applied to for structural… Got money at several places, too, and did just fine at the #1 program.</p>
<p>Nothing’s impossible, but going for a 4.0 is, bottom line, <em>nuts</em>!! You’re going to burn yourself out so badly by the plan you’ve laid out that once you graduate, you’re not going to <em>want</em> to do engineering anymore, let alone do anything aside from curl up on a couch and watch television. Anything you want to do, you can do with a 3.7. Don’t bash your head in going for those last few tenths of a point, it’s just not worth it. There are vastly better uses of your energy… get involved in research. Become active in some professional societies. Write a paper. Win some contests. Do some extracurriculars. Get work experience.</p>
<p>But if your plan involves something that’s only been accomplished before through the heavy use of methamphetamines, then it’s probably best to revise your plan…</p>
<p>Indian.</p>
<p>you need to lighten up on the anxiety and GPA obsessing, your life will not be over if u dont get a 4.0 in engineering at a top school</p>
<p>if u keep obsessing about an unrealistic 4.0 gpa the way you do, ur gonna isolate yourself and make people think you’re socially ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>you also need to get laid,
sleeping for 30 minutes every 4 hours will make it impossible to have a social life.</p>
<p>i doubt ull be able to pull the 4.0, and i doubt even more u can commit to the sleep schedule u described</p>
<p>but i give u props for such a funny post</p>
<p>it would be funny if 4 years from now he’s like I told you I could do it and he gets 4.0 every year. The he’d go to MIT for grad school and do the same thing and we’d still be doubting him</p>
<p>Apparently Steve Pavlina (who’s a bit of a nutcase/selfhelper) was on the polyphasic sleep schedule for over a year. But he got bored and stopped seeing the benefits, so he quit.</p>
<p>I understand a 4.0 is very difficult, but the main reason why I want it (or something close to it) is because it would (I think) allow me to get acceptance into a top grad school to get my MBA several years later. I’ve heard that the top schools don’t admit engineers if their GPA isn’t good, and I’m <em>guessing</em> you need a very high GPA to get in, so I want to shoot for the highest. Is it significantly easier to maintain a 3.7 than a 4.0? </p>
<p>I’m not trying to correct you guys or anything but I’ve been on this sleep schedule for around 1.5 months, and 2 of my close friends are doing it with me. I’m not sure where you heard that it’s very hard to do it; it just requires dedication and discipline. </p>
<p>Also, I realize 12 hours is way too much, and 5-7 hours of studying is more realistic. There is no way I would attempt to do this all in one sitting. I would have <em>several</em> intervals. Also, I wouldn’t just sit there for that much time and not understand it… I would know if I’m wasting time, lol. I know I can’t plan out my life like that, it was just rough assumptions; I understand that there will be bumps during the day. </p>
<p>Again, please don’t take this as flaming.</p>
<p>There are years when an entire graduating class doesn’t have a single 4.0 in it.</p>
<p>I pretty sure Indian is my favorite poster on this forum. You entertain me more than most.</p>
<p>Engineering grad schools care more about recommendations and work/research experience than whether you are a perfect 4.0. If you waste all this time on studying (which won’t guarantee you a 4.0 to begin with) you won’t have much to spend on those two.</p>
<p>I know you don’t need a 4.0 for engineering grad, but I want to do business grad at a top school, where it’s very competitive.</p>
<p>have you ever heard the saying, “Striving for excellence is healthy; striving for perfection is neurotic.” a 4.0 is essentially perfection…i realize grad school entrance can get very competitive, but i seriously doubt every applicant will approach the 4.0 mark, even at top schools…the deal breakers will probably be those things that can’t be so easily quantified. i think you can do things with your time that are much more worthwhile than worry about your grades. given how rigidly you’ve set up your daily schedule (if you can even stick with it, which i doubt), i dont see how you can dedicate yourself to something that exhibits your character, expands your perception of the world, and just overall improves the quality of your life (because, you might not believe it…but money =/= happiness, at least not by itself).</p>
<p>…and the whole “top school” thing…just another layer of stress. i hope you realize that you will probably get a good job without having gone to the best school…</p>
<p>MBA programs don’t look at your GPA at all. As long as it’s over 3.0, you’re golden. Admission hinges on your work experience.</p>
<p>you would also go nuts and run away from college by the end of your first semester or quarter</p>
<p>This is an interesting idea. Although I doubt you will actually experience college life.</p>