don't you hate going to take tests that you already know before hand you're going to fail?


i do. i don't think there is any possible way i could pass my italian test in an hour. part of me wants to not even go, except i guess i'd rather have 40/100 than 0/100.


my problem is that when it got to sunday afternoon and i realized how little i knew, i just gave up mostly and said f**k it rather than studying all yesterday evening. i don't know what my problem is, i think i have poor study habits because most of my life i've never needed to study very much to get decent grades. so now when i take classes that need more effort i can't seem to get myself to do it.

are you guys "f**k it" people or are you stay up late and study people?


i developed this theory to make myself feel better about my tendency to "just wing it" rather than put in more study time. i figured that by just winging it, the tests would more accurately gauge my knowledge on the subject. so i'd know what i REALLY knew from the class. i basically turned it around to make it like studying was cheating at the last minute and preventing me from knowing what grade i really deserved based off what information i'd truly retained.

I mean, it really depends. If it is a test that I know I am going to fail, then I won't study for it. If it is a big time test, I will go all out for it, and make sure that I know the material inside and out. I usually do very well on the big time tests, and so so on the small ones.

yeah if this was a huge test like a final or something that decided my grade, then i can usually find the will power to throw more study time in. if it's just a quiz or a regular test though, i sometimes feel like i'd rather make a bad grade than even use my free time to prepare.

Exactly. I don't really get the notion of a quiz. If you fail in college, your loss, not the professors.

yeah seriously.

which reminds me of anther suject, for those of you in college do any of your classes take attendance and penalize you for missing? for some of my classes (mostly just my small studio classes that have 15-20ish people) they take attendance, and then after 5 absences points start coming off the grade. that shit pisses me the f**k off even though i'm not the kinda person to miss over 5 days in a class anyway usually. just the idea of the rule being there though is bullshit to me because the students are the ones PAYING for the class. if you want to not go to class, it shouldn't matter if it's your money your wasting.

Truth on that one too! My professor has a perfect way of dealing with this. He says, " You are the boss of your education, and you are paying me to help bring out your talents. If you want to keep your talents inside, and be a little shithead, then don't come to class."

Yeah, I agree. Most of my classes don't really have attendance policies this semester, fortunately, but if you miss English three times for any reason, you get dropped from the class. Which is such bullshit, since that could leave an undeserved WF on your transcript and thoroughly f**k over your GPA.

Last year I had a 300 person lecture take attendance. That was pretty stupid. So what if people are showing up to hand in papers then leaving? Their loss.

But I'm definitely a crammer. I have pretty terrible study habits, so I learn everything at the relative last minute.