<p>I was reading a post on how hard it was to get a 4.0 at Carleton. I'm not expecting a perfect 4.0, but I want to succeed.</p>
<p>I'm getting very scared because I'm not one to have the attention to study, but I'm a good BSer/discussion person.</p>
<p>You should focus more on learning and less on grades. Just a piece of important life advice...</p>
<p>^^^ Right on the money. Your future employer isn't going to care about your GPA. They'll want to see you in action. Thus, the actual learning and absorbing of information from your classes is more important.</p>
<p>If my daughter's experience is any indication, "good BS/discussion" skills won't get you very far in the hard sciences. Perhaps English classes are another story but I doubt it. I think it's safe to say that, due to the trimester schedule and the high standards of the faculty, most Carleton students spend more time per day hitting the books than students at many other colleges. Therefore, the stress level is rather high, yet the battle is with yourself rather than a competition with your fellow students.</p>
<p>well, this is just my opinion of english classes, but they really are just BS. <em>Shields Face</em> But even so, it still helps to really put in as much intellectual thought as possible, not just purposely BS.</p>
<p>Good BS skills won't take you too far at Carleton. If you write a paper with a crappy, poorly reasoned argument, you'll get a crappy grade. Most professors don't weight in-class participation too highly in computing grades, and when they do have it as part of a grade (typically 10% or so), it's more of a subjective assessment of engagement, not so much how groundbreaking your insights are.</p>