Honestly, how much free time do you have in college?...especially if your a bio major

<p>Honestly, how much free time do you have in college?...especially if your a bio major taking 4 classes a quarter and want to make b+'s to a+'s in your classes</p>

<p>You need to realize questions like this are unanswerable. You can't equate someone's free time with another's. You don't study like I do. You don't study like he does. Four classes is more than three, less than five. You will need to work more than you did in high school. No, it won't be easy. If you work smart, it won't be impossible.</p>

<p>The key to college, in my opinion, is the way you study not the length. You can study for eight hours, when all you needed was two.</p>

<p>Please, stop thinking any answer to this question with a numerical value is right. There is no right amount.</p>

<p>Also it's you're, not your. Might want to step up the grammar, now that you're in college.</p>

<p>haha good answer</p>

<p>yeah if no one corrected that i was going to...lol</p>

<p>ooh, so while we're on the topic...any tips for "smart studying" (any class)</p>

<p>don't procastinate.</p>

<p>read this:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386929%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=386929&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>What works for me best is the following:
1. Read the chapter, taking notes of everything. I write pretty straight forward notes, I summarize each paragraph of each chapter, within reason.
2. Do example work if there is any. If it is a math or science, do the homework/examples.
3. Listen to the lecture.
4. Go back right after the lecture and review what you did. Reread the chapter and the notes. Look over the homework. I don't check the homework problem-by-problem, but look over the questions and see if I could have misunderstood the question anywhere. This is a bad habit of mine, as I wish I could go over every problem, but I'm lazy.
5. Make sure I know everything by discussion time. If I don't, I get help. After the discussion start the next chapter.</p>

<p>I avoid specific learning, meaning I don't cherry pick to what I need to do. I never value one paragraph over another. Unless I know for sure that it is an oddball topic (And there are some in everything) I don't undervalue anything. For example I might ignore a lab technique in say chemistry because it is hardly used, but I still know what it is.</p>

<p>I don't agree with the statement "The trick is knowing what is important and what is not. Extra points are not awarded to those who go above and beyond the blood sweat and tears." Maybe it is okay in subjects where you absolutely have no business in, but the sciences/math/engineering are all stuff I want to learn as much as possible. But that is me, not you.</p>

<p>I think that suggestion (given by another parent not me) was meant in the context of when you are pressed for time. If you know there is no way you can possibly do all of the assigned/optional reading you need to learn this skill. I agree that especially in engineering knowing the subject completely is essential.</p>

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<p>Might want to watch the usage of fragments, now that you're telling other people to step up the grammar.</p>

<p>Eh who cares about grammar on these forums...seriously. I was just typing that question really fast..not thinking. If I got into UCSD out of state, I'm pretty sure I know grammar fairly well.</p>

<p>I'm sure you do. But it is annoying to read errors that are there only because of laziness.</p>

<p>HAHAHA...McLovin. I guess it was only a matter of time before I started seeing that.</p>

<p>I think sentence structure is less embarrassing than your/you're. Where is the fragment, anyway?</p>

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Might want to step up the grammar, now that you're in college.

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a.) You might want to step up the grammar, now that you're in college.
b.) Now that you're in college, you may want to step up your grammar.</p>

<p>Since you asked....</p>

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<p>Comma between "three" and "less" is used incorrectly. You should've just added "and" in between.</p>

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<p>Comma required between "study" and "not."</p>

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<p>Comma between "hours" and "when" is unnecessary.</p>

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<p>No subject. It's not implied either because "want" is not a command verb and "might" is an adverb describing the non-command verb.</p>

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<p>When starting a sentence with "also," you need to have a comma after "also." You also should have surrounded the words you are talking about with quotations as to not confuse the reader.</p>

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<p>The correct way to right this is </p>

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For example, I might ignore a lab technique in, say, chemistry because it is hardly used; however, I still know what it is.

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<p>Point is (and this is probably something you're thinking now) that a lot of the mistakes you made aren't necessarily indicative of your grammar skills, but rather that this is just a farkin' forum post and you didn't find the need to proofread. Likewise, the OP thought the same way about his/her post. So who cares if he used "your" instead of "you're?"</p>

<p>It's totally fun to point out people's grammar mistakes to discredit them if they are asserting authority in the form of chastising others or accusing others of being stupid. Otherwise, it's completely uncalled for to point out grammar errors on a forum where nobody places that much importance and time into typing out a 100% grammatically correct post, especially if you make errors yourself.</p>

<p>hey mclovin,</p>

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The correct way to right this is...

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<p>you mean write? at least roflkeke was only a hypocrite. you're a double hypocrite. lolol.</p>

<p>^HAHAHAHA. In my defense, my post was longer. The chance of error is higher. Not to mention:</p>

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<p>You didn't capitalize the first letter of any of your sentences, you didn't quote the word "write" when you were referring to it, and there's no such thing as a "double hypocrite." You also didn't capitalize my user name HOW DARE YOU!?!?!?</p>

<p>Ur a hipokrit, gramarless l00zer 2!</p>

<p>Point is, we don't need to be pointing out grammar mistakes in the first place. roflkeke fired the first shot.</p>

<p>double hypocrite is a phrase that i made it up. it means calling out someone's hypocrisy (roflkeke's grammar when he corrected someone on it), when you did the same thing he did. and i never claimed to write formally, but at least i use the right words.</p>

<p>Oh please...=|</p>