<p>I'm now a senior in high school, but I just have a few questions.</p>
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<li> Compared to your high school workload each night, how is college's different? (time and content wise)</li>
<li> How does your college GPA compare with your college GPA?</li>
<li> Any studying tips I can practice while I'm a senior? (I'm one of those people who doesn't study much but still gets good grades.)</li>
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<p>Thanks :D</p>
<p>it depends on what kind of school you go to, but for most your going to have to study, like it or not.
you can practice by …STUDYING. college is harder than high school, you first semester wont be too bad, but depending on your college and major, it’s a lot of work, but I’m sure you’ll be fine.
college is all about managing your time well. you have to know that school comes before the party or hanging out, but it doesnt mean you should study all day.
GPA is basically the same, although its on a 4.0 scale.
college is what you make of it, dont worry too much, just manage your time well.</p>
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<li>Compared to your high school workload each night, how is college’s different? (time and content wise)</li>
<li>How does your college GPA compare with your college GPA?</li>
<li><p>Any studying tips I can practice while I’m a senior? (I’m one of those people who doesn’t study much but still gets good grades.)</p></li>
<li><p>1st year (engineering) it was heavier, but it wasn’t bad because of less time spent in class. 2nd year it got a bit worse and 3rd year it got ridiculous to the point that all I did was school last semester. The exams also got 5x harder in 3rd year.</p></li>
<li><p>I do about the same; still a top student. But in canada we don’t have highschool gpa.</p></li>
<li><p>no.</p></li>
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<p>College is all about TIME MANAGEMENT AND GOING TO CLASS. PERIOD.</p>
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<li><p>There is more flexibility in college. A prof will give an assignment due in 3 weeks where as in HS they baby you and have certain due dates to make sure you’re getting the work done. So for me who saves everything to the last minute I’m miserable for a day and night but tend to have a decent amount of free time otherwise.
I dedicate much more time to tests though, since they generally count much more than in HS, so that eats up some time.</p></li>
<li><p>My GPAs are very similar, college one is a bit higher.</p></li>
<li><p>I was the same way, I’m still pretty much the same way. Tests make me nervous, the more I study the more nervous I get, and I blank on the test and doubt myself. When I study lightly I’m much less nervous (I have a “I’m going to do bad, nothing I can do about it” attitude) and usually do much better. Usually. I’m trying to find a happy medium, still.</p></li>
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<p>not for everybody, it isn’t. I almost never went to class in college - did fine. Still rarely go to class in med school and I’m doing great. </p>
<p>So let me fix that for you - college is all about figuring out how you personally study and learn material best.</p>
<p>in really dont want you for my doctor Icarus.</p>
<p>I don’t want Icarus as a doctor because clearly he’s not committed to his craft. Sounds like he’s just doing it for the money. Sigh.</p>
<p>^ Why does it matter? If he knows his stuff, he knows his stuff. Hell, it might be better if he did it for the money, he’d be less inclined to make mistakes since his malpractice insurance would go up and he might be sued.</p>
<p>What’s wrong with doing something for the money?</p>
<p>whatever makes him a good doctor is none of the publics business as long as he is a good doctor and he isnt breaking any laws!</p>
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<li>It’s different for everyone - depends on who you are, how you study, what’s your major, etc. I’m a political science major and have a lot of reading to do, and that’s it, so I’d sit down on Sunday night and get through about 200 pgs of dense textbooks and notes, and then I’d be done for the week. Some math and science majors, however, have problem sets and all sorts of other work they have to do.</li>
<li>It’s slightly lower now than it was in HS, because courses are harder. Instead of having tons of BS homework assignments to pad my grade, your class grade is based solely upon how well you do on three tests - it’s a lot harder in that respect.</li>
<li>Learn how to take good notes and stay organized. Make notecards and get good at memorizing. That’s about it!</li>
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<p>Ok wow that really didn’t quite go the way I intended. So let me address a few things.</p>
<p>First, and most importantly, you guys must not have read the last line of my post and therefore missed its point completely. If you equate going to class with ‘dedication’ or as the only way to do well, you are sorely mistaken. However if you’re the type of person who needs to go to class to learn the material, then great - thats a good thing to know about yourself. But it is not the case for all of us, and to judge someone just for not going to every class is shortsighted - I figure out which classes I need to go to or are especially helpful for learning, but otherwise I study on my own or in small groups which I find to be a better use of my time. </p>
<p>The point of the post was to encourage people to figure out what works best for them, and to point out that whats best for them might not be going to class all the time. (contrary to Jimgotkp’s post) I maintain that to figure out who you are and to learn to do things your own way is a prime goal of your college years, when you are free of the rigid schedules of high school. </p>
<p>Second, you might want to start asking your doctors if they went to class all the time in med school. If they’re honest, the answers might surprise you (and you’ll have a hard time finding a doctor you want to go to). Only about a third to a half of my class is in any given lecture. But as I’ve said, thats not what matters - what matters is knowing the material and, for medical school, being devoted to the art of medicine (so yes, it is a bad idea to go into medicine ‘for the money’)</p>
<p>^^ Agreed. You don’t necessarily have to go to class to get the material down, although your professors will try to tell you otherwise during the first week of class. Most of the lectures I attended were simply the professors restating what the textbook had already told me and were a total waste of my time. For others, the teacher read directly from a powerpoint that was posted on their website - again, there was absolutely no point for me to go to class. I can read just as well as she can.</p>
<p>Go to the first couple of lectures and see if it’s really necessary for you to go or not.</p>
<p>Always go to class, even if you don’t need the lectures. The professor might announce something like an assignment, a class starting early, something that isn’t in the textbook that you need to know, etc.</p>
<p>In my experience, I learn more in an hour’s worth of lecture than in an hour’s worth of self-studying, unless the professor is a completely terrible lecturer or the course is really easy.</p>
<p>I find that I procrastinate a lot more in college since youre not forced to really do anything. If you fail, that’s on you. YOu don’t get a lot of written HW so when all you’re told to do is go home and read the book every night until the exam, it takes some degree of self discipline.</p>
<p>Now Icarus is taking this too anal. I was only kidding, doctor.</p>
<p>I’m definitely more of a self-studier. I’ve always done better in classes in which I do everything myself (and teach myself the material). So going to every class isn’t really a requirement for me to get a good grade. If you go to lecture you will often find out which classes you really need to go to and which ones you don’t. I guess I’ve always had a rather keen eye on figuring out when I should go to class and when I don’t have to…but it is all about your own personal preferences/habits. College workload though, overall is significantly harder at least in my experience</p>