Average just means you are not the best but not the worst either. I think in this particular case it stands for: lazy as fuck (excuse my French). I know that I have posted tips on how to be a great student… and these tips are definitely helpful and worth a try. Yet, although I know these work very well for me and would improve my work, I find them hard to follow. I am now going to introduce you to how my everyday student life actually looks like and trust me… it doesn’t look pretty.
- Take on too many courses for each term because all of them are extremely interesting.
- Prepare yourself with highlighter, new note pads, sharpen your pencils… this term you are writing down every single detail.
- Attend your classes the first week.
- Be disappointed because you didn’t get into the classes you actually needed.
- Attend all the courses where attendance is obligatory, occasionally miss one or two or even more of the lectures without compulsory attendance.
- Decide that you are not interested in one subject and drop it.
- Plan when to write your essays.
- Don’t do it, because something more important happened.
- Postpone your writing week to next week.
- Worry about a midterm that you will have in a week.
- Look at the things you are supposed to study.
- Get a little panic attack.
- Start studying too late…so one or two days before.
- Get distracted by Facebook and friends.
- Make it to a total of 4 hours of studying.
- Be really nervous and think you are going to fail.
- Don’t fail and get a surprisingly good grade.
- Be relieved but also be annoyed because this didn’t give you a reason to prepare better next time.
- Hold a group presentation that you prepared ahead of time because you don’t want to seem like a lazy, unreliable slob to your colleagues.
- Plan next term paper.
- Miss the deadline you set yourself.
- Tell yourself that you still have time to write it over the holidays.
- Christmas happens or you plan a trip to some place.
- Wonder when you are going to do all your work.
- Get really stressed out because you don’t know how to cope with your self-induced problems.
- Mum calls and asks how you are doing.
- Tell her fine. It’s just stressful being at university.
- Don’t tell her that your inability to manage your time is the reason for it.
- End of term comes around.
- Panic at the thought of all your exams and deadlines.
- Get books from your library for this one very important final.
- Increase your stress level by repeatedly looking at their covers from time to time throughout the week.
- Have the feeling you can’t do anything fun, because you ought to be studying.
- Turn on your laptop to work.
- Facebook.
- Lost 3 hours… damn.
- Think about not doing the exam.
- There is always a second date.
- Start studying the day before.
- Be angry at yourself because you wasted the whole week not doing anything, because you weren’t studying but didn’t allow yourself to have fun either.
- Sit exam.
- Repeat for next few finals.
- Because you didn’t do it earlier, you write your term papers within two days (each of course).
- Don’t sleep and try to stay awake for as long as possible to finfish at least this one chapter tonight.
- Your eyes burn.
- Decide that you call it a night… at 4 am.
- Look in the mirror and see that you have bloodshot eyes.
- Repeat same next day.
- Deadline is the 30th.
- Finish paper on the 31st at 5 am.
- Hate it, but send it.
- No one cares if you send it 5 hours late, right?
- Go to bed.
- Finish most of your work during your break. Always last-minute.
- Next term starts.
- Take on too many courses for each term because all of them are extremely interesting.
- Prepare yourself with highlighter, new note pads, sharpen your pencils… this term you are writing down every single detail.
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