<p>I posted in the engineering forum that My roommate can get excessively good grades without doing any of the work, a few people said it was impossible and I just wanted to get the general idea. Because as I said in the other thread it is entirely possibly and it a work in progress and is already happening.</p>
<p>My roommate a to be Junior who has 72 or so credits has a 4.0 gpa. He has never gone to classes, except to pick up a syllabus or to take a exam/quiz. He does not by the books and well never studies. He just sits there and plays world of warcraft all day and sleeps the rest. He has varicose veins all over his legs because he is bed ridden, all he does is sit in bed with his laptop. Now he makes me feel like an idiot because I study alot and barely can keep a b/c in my curriculum. he is a biomedical sciences student btw. Now I am telling the truth, I am not lying.</p>
<p>yah, but is he social? does he have friends and go out? probably not, what does that mean? it mean's he probably can't talk with people, can't socialize, can't actually INTERVIEW for a job even if he is a brain. it's all about balance man, don't worry about it, follow your own path.</p>
<p>Maybe you should help the guy out. Tell him to go exercise or something. Sitting on the bed, or just sitting in general, all day long is very unhealthy. I've heard that some people have died from that sort of inactivity.</p>
<p>he can be very social he actually has alot of friends, he usually goes out of Thursday Friday and Saterday nights, but other than that he is the same old bed ridden guy, Im not sure if his friends are really his friends or maybe they feel sorry for him.</p>
<p>"no im usually around, he really doesn't ever study"</p>
<p>So you spend all your time in the room as well?</p>
<p>Sounds to me like you're more similar to this guy than you realize. You study, he plays games. If he spent all of his time studying you probably wouldn't say anything. And yes, I know people like this. They can understand stuff really well and he probably does review the material, but he can do it really fast so you don't actually catch him "studying."</p>
<p>no he doesn't even look at the material. why do you guys keep assuming he looks at the material, he doesn't. Ive given him one of my engineering exams and atched him do it, perfect 100 and he aint no engineer.</p>
<p>It is a little odd that you are so obsessed with this... anyway, if he's self-bedridden, he can't have healthy legs (you mentioned the veins) and he can't be a doctor/researcher/whatever if he can't walk! Take some comfort in that and maybe get some sleep?</p>
<p>Who cares...he's probably doing one or several of the following:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Has taken a lot of classes / has a lot of knowledge in the subject areas he's studying already</p></li>
<li><p>Being a genius</p></li>
<li><p>Studying when he's out and you don't see him (I really don't think you watch him 24/7)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Weird things happen...there's bound to be someone like this. Just don't obsess over it.</p>