<p>It seems to me that college students do not study at all anymore, are lazy, and are dumbing down.
I am a biology major at a state university and study my a** off just to get B’s in my science and maths, (gen eds seem to be easier).
MY room mate is a lazy piece of s*** and never studies and just plays video games all the time or hangs out with his girlfriend who is the only friend he has, but he never studies at all and his gpa sucks and he just doesn’t care about anything. It ****es me off, he’s never going to get anywhere in life.
I have friends at other universities in the state and they are in fraternities, and all they ever do is party, and one of them thinks that his frat will land him a job.
Is this the case across the country? My father, who is college educated, and I must say has been very successful in life, always says that I am in college to learn. And the only way to learn is to put in the effort and study! So I study! But no one else studies!
And its funny cause now the library is full because it’s finals, so now everyone thinks “ohh well i have to study now so I don’t get a C in this class” when their final is the next day. </p>
<p>So what does everyone think? How much do you or don’t you study? I think a lot of students at my university shouldn’t even be here.</p>
<p>(and it seems like I should now study my english more! The title should say “Students” not “Student’s”)</p>
<p>This is so true. I basically lived in the library last semester and I still fail to understand how my floormates who lived off Call of Duty and Vodka still managed to do better than me…</p>
<p>It’s not really your job to worry about his gpa or whatever. You know that you’ll go far and that’s what matters. What he does or does’t do is on him.<br>
I wouldn’t say I “study” study like most of the people I see. They spend all their times cramming through notes and things. I seem to remember things better by discussing them with people, watching documentaries (I know, I’m so much fun:p), or reading books about the subject that aren’t academic. Therefore, many people don’t think I study and slack off while somehow maintaining a 4.0.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed a lot of people don’t study, but plenty of people still do. I spend about 30-40 hours weekly working on homework and studying, and I work in a walk-in chemistry help center and though it doesn’t really get packed until a day or two before each test, there are always some regulars who come in several days each week to work on homework and study. I think not studying is probably more common outside of the STEM majors, at least beyond freshman and sophomore year where you can work hard and still get a D depending on the professor.</p>
<p>I myself have a good memory…so I remember things better and therefore have less to study so I appear to barely study at all. Some people just have to work less for it then others.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity… what state university do you go to? You seem to hang out with very different friends than I do. As an Asian with a lot of Asian friends… you can infer from that how much my friends study. I will study a lot for a few days before an exam, even if I know the material pretty well. I just wont feel comfortable if I don’t study hard when it comes exam time. I’m sure the students at your school and your friends are quite different than lets say… students at Oxford.</p>
<p>So now you’re trying to mAke this thread into an argument between Greeks and nongreeks. “it’s been proven” so show me the proof. There are far more people in this world who have become successful who weren’t Greek. I for one am an Eagle scout and have job, which will remain confidential, that allows me to socialize with far more influential people than any Greek ever will. I don’t need some stupid social support system to get ahead in life.</p>
<p>i wouldn’t say it’s been proven, because it hasn’t, but I do find it humorous the select few in the greek system who screw off all the time yet still manage exceptional grades.</p>
<p>they are few and far between though, most of the people i’m around study quite a bit.</p>
<p>I study rarely and I get mostly B’s. I’m taking pretty easy classes though, so that’s probably a factor. I have to take a lot of intro things which are easy (for psych) and then I have electives so I just pick things that interest me. For a lot of those things I have extensive prior knowledge on the topic, so I don’t really have to study too much for that.</p>
<p>Here I think how much you study is heavily dependent on what you study. But I was never much of a studier so I’ll probably always not study until I can’t get away with it anymore, lol.</p>
<p>The learning process does not necessarily involve studying. This is especially true for subjects which require more thinking and less memorization (eg. some engineering class instead of history).</p>
<p>My school designates a week out of each year dedicated to studying. If there is a subject I’m shaky on, I’ll designate half a day out of that week to study. I then mess around the entire rest of the week since I’m just not the type that learns studying like that; for me, it’s about slowing down on the assignments and taking time to absorb the material in small increments.</p>
<p>You initiated this yourself when you bashed the system that I believe in only because Greeks and people in general would like to blow off steam once in a while and socialize instead of grinding hours away at the library every night. </p>
<p>^ you’re assuming that I do not go out and party and socialize. This thread isn’t about what people do to have fun in college and relieve college stresses. This thread is about the academic aspect of college.</p>
<p>I find it odd that one person can let another person’s grades control their own emotions. He gets a bad grade, but you get mad? There has to be some kind of disconnect there. </p>
<p>I have never really studied, I guess. My attention span when I’m by myself with a book is pretty much non-existent a lot of the time. If I feel like I need more than homework and class time to understand something, I go to study groups or I talk to my teachers. </p>
<p>Cramming, in my opinion, is a waste of time. It’s all about storage and retrieval, so the brain needs more than the two days before a test to make the connections needed.</p>
<p>@cabhax: What’s your major? I take 2 or 3 upper level chemistry classes and at least 1 upper level math class every semester. By studying I mostly mean working out problems from the book and looking for problems from other sources after that, because most of my classes don’t actually assign homework yet the professor will tell you that it is impossible to pass the class without doing all the problems. It was very clear that this was true because we had a bimodal distribution of scores, with an average of 47, standard deviation of 29, high of 106, and low of 8. I spent about 40 hours in the 5 days prior to the test drilling problems and got a 98. (This class was physical chemistry 2- quantum mechanics)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be able to study this hard if I was in a major that didn’t require it, but I am, so I have to study this much to be able to do well.</p>
<p>It’s not like I’m studying an excessive amount, I have the maximum credit hours I’m allowed to have and so there is pretty much always a test coming up.</p>
<p>And as for Greeks, I don’t know how it is at your school but at mine only about 5% of the school are Greeks and you hardly hear anything about them. The only thing I’ve heard is people complaining that their group pressures them to go out every night even if you have a test coming up. Doesn’t sound conducive to success to me.</p>
What about top LACs that have no “Greek” life and yet have some of the highest percentages of graduates going on to get a PhD, high rates of entrance to top graduate programs per capita, etc.? Success is more than a measure of income.</p>