08-29-2005, 03:58 AM
I remember college. Going to class and doing your work was I'd say... 75% of the battle. The remaining 25% was getting along with your professors to get the good grades (knowledge is no good in school if you can't convince your professors of how much you have). I was good at the 75%, but convincing them was tough. Especially when they had the 1 A, 1 B, everyone else C policy. You had to be better than 25 other people to get an A or 24 people to get a B. Get a real genius who was good at tests of professor favorite and your semester is shot to hell (getting 56 out of 60 points for the entire class and getting a C next to the lazy 22 point bum was complete crap, especially when the A was 59 points, the B was 58).
As far as the beers, enjoy the beers properly. Let it get in the way of school and you'll fast find yourself in deep doggie doo doo. Get those easy classes over with and get As as much as you can. Graduate school was considerably easier than undergraduate as less was expected out of you for some reason. If you have the opportunity to go all the way through to PhD, take it (I didn't get to and am still mad about it). You'll likely never go back to school once you leave.
Once again, enjoy it while it lasts.
As far as the beers, enjoy the beers properly. Let it get in the way of school and you'll fast find yourself in deep doggie doo doo. Get those easy classes over with and get As as much as you can. Graduate school was considerably easier than undergraduate as less was expected out of you for some reason. If you have the opportunity to go all the way through to PhD, take it (I didn't get to and am still mad about it). You'll likely never go back to school once you leave.
Once again, enjoy it while it lasts.