<p>So remember in Legally BLonde where the girl goes to Harvard and has a hard time fitting in and joining a study group....I guess what my question is is how difficult is it to join a study group and how prevalent are such groups in college settings...</p>
<p>Like I know Econ is gonna be hard for me in my first semester so how would I go about finding a study group...is it usually with your friends?</p>
<p>She’s also in law school. Law school is much more cutthroat than college, because everything there is graded on a strict curve.</p>
<p>Which is all completely irrelevant.</p>
<p>In my experience at my school it seems like not a lot of people bother to form study groups, but usually if you ask people you’ve talked to in class if they’d like to get a group of people to study in preparation for something they are generally agreeable. I formed a couple study groups last year.</p>
<p>Around the midterm or final, a student will occasionally send out an email to the class asking if anyone would like to form a study group. But from my experience, they aren’t common at my school at all.</p>
<p>When I went to my orientation, I talked to an engineering major who said he didn’t remember the last time he studied alone. He said group studying was all that he did.</p>
<p>Study groups aren’t really common in my school except for freshman classes when everyone getting used to the first college finals week… I did two (different classes) for a freshman final. One was fine because we respected each other and did equal work… The other no so much. I pretty much got screwed over because she failed to do the other half of the study prep. My mistake for trusting her to do it, but it ruined my A average in the class. Don’t do a study group unless you either a) are prepared to do the rest of the work by yourself in case it doesn’t work out or b) really trust your groupmates…</p>
<p>My study groups just kind of formed organically. Since I have a pretty small major, I know a lot of people in most of my classes, and we’re all friendly with each other, so people who live in proximity to each other get together and study sometimes.</p>
<p>^^^yeah, I hear there’s mostly study groups in engineering majors</p>
<p>Well, Legally Blonde was, you know, a movie which means that its um…fictional.</p>
<p>Just because its like that in the movie doesn’t mean its like that in real life. If movies were completely real, college would be full of animal house parties (there are some parties like that, but most of them aren’t like that)</p>
<p>Study groups are integral to maintaining strong GPAs. Foolish high-IQ, low-GPA types are too cocky to be seen studying, and their academic careers crash and burn as punishment for their hubris.</p>