studied maybe a few hours total and pulled off an A+
Yep—I did that at fist too. Mainly because I began in Maths—which I was really good at… that led to me getting lax and assuming that I didn’t have to do any work at all… Generally I found I got 90-100% in the subjects I was interested in… and barely scraped through on the ones I didn’t like… eventually I failed one—one that I knew was easy enough that I should have aced.
That woke me up and I started to try to change my habits… but because I’d basically been slacking for over a year by then—I was so out of the habit of actually working that I also resented it. I also didn’t have deadlines (except the mid-term/final one), and was living away from home—and there are SO MANY DISTRACTIONS at university… so it was a hard slog to learn to actually work. :P
Yep—I did that at fist too. Mainly because I began in Maths—which I was really good at… that led to me getting lax and assuming that I didn’t have to do any work at all… Generally I found I got 90-100% in the subjects I was interested in… and barely scraped through on the ones I didn’t like… eventually I failed one—one that I knew was easy enough that I should have aced.
That woke me up and I started to try to change my habits… but because I’d basically been slacking for over a year by then—I was so out of the habit of actually working that I also resented it. I also didn’t have deadlines (except the mid-term/final one), and was living away from home—and there are SO MANY DISTRACTIONS at university… so it was a hard slog to learn to actually work. :P
But eventually I did…