Are you a poor student?

[doodo!]

I mean I get by, and I'm not the worse but when it comes to certain classes I just don't pass them and focus on my other classes...

I know that isn't the right thing to do but I'm not really the best student. Like Spanish, I'm just sort of attending the classes I don't think I'm going to pass.

I'm really kind of being lazy and immature, irresponsible. I'm just not really a very good student.

[GinnyN]

Originally Posted by doodo!

I know that isn't the right thing to do but I'm not really the best student. Like Spanish, I'm just sort of attending the classes I don't think I'm going to pass.

Hey! There's a ton of Spanish speaking people here in the forums, starting from me! You should ask for help!

[Rather Dashing]

Oh, I thought you meant poor as in no money. Probably due to eating breakfast ramen in my dorm room while fussing over a few matters of about $10 each when I read it.

[coolsome]

I am a poor student of life

[Secret Fawful]

I'm surprisingly a student with high grades, despite the fact I'm about as dedicated as a member of the Delta Tau Chi fraternity. I've had almost two years since graduation to study for college and outside of taking my GED I've spent about two weeks on it. Crap.

[SunnyGuy]

Well, I don't study much and yet I still somehow manage to pass with good grades. Most of the time. Only exception is literature or anything where the most points come from an essay, my inmense hatred for essays did not come out of nowhere after all.

[Ashton]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Oh, I thought you meant poor as in no money. Probably due to eating breakfast ramen in my dorm room while fussing over a few matters of about $10 each when I read it.

This is what came to my mind too.

As for my grades... yeah, I suck. I have a major problem with Procrastination and ADD, so when I finally DO start on an assignment, I'm constantly wandering off from it for various reasons. I also have a very hard time studying things I don't find interesting (though I think some of this is a problem everyone has) as well as a miserably hard time with dates in history/lit/etc)

[Alcoremortis]

Despite all my complaining, I do end up doing fairly well in school, usually A's, but since university a few B's have crept in. It's hard though, since I have a very short attention span and like to do things like watch anime while doing homework or studying. This only works because I have no social life.

[Ethan 8-bit]

I've started at a university recently and haven't been doing so hot in some of classes, mainly because I'm not used to the huge classes and the fact that some of my teachers like to solely rely on Power Points to teach instead of taking a pen and paper and SHOWING us how things are done.

It's a bit frustrating.

[Vainamoinen]

Duh, I misunderstood the question. Not "a student without much money", but "not a very good student"!

...I've had both. Started out with computer science and failed miserably, then continued with English and German and excelled. Sadly, the latter didn't bring the joy of much money in my pockets. So I'm poor, but not a student anymore.

[doodo!]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

Duh, I misunderstood the question. Not "a student without much money", but "not a very good student"!

...I've had both. Started out with computer science and failed miserably, then continued with English and German and excelled. Sadly, the latter didn't bring the joy of much money in my pockets. So I'm poor, but not a student anymore.

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[DrRocketGenius]

Last year I had a 4.0 for the year. I still have really good grades this year, but... Chemistry. Ugh. >_>

[Shwoo]

I have an anxiety disorder that prevents me from concentrating a lot of the time, so yes. The only reason I'm doing well in my current course is that I really love programming and can concentrate on it easily.

I just barely passed year 12, though.

[OzzieMonkey]

Right now, I'm still in year 9 (long way to go), but I am doing pretty well in my subs, mainly maths and English. My elective subjects have pretty lenient and fair scoring, and my programming teacher gives extra points if you help the new kid ( I did that once). I mainly get in the A's and B's area as far as grades are concerned, although I tend to just pass Science, which is not good. Also, does anyone else here find Geography totally boring?

[bosbeetle]

yes started studying biochemistry 11 years ago and still haven't finished my PhD

[Javi-Wan Kenobi]

I've never been a poor (meaning bad) student. It's true that my results went considerably down when I changed from High School to University but never too bad.
Also, I've never been a poor (meaning no-money) student. I've always lived with my parents, so I haven't needed to pay for food, accomodation, etc... and I was able to save the money I went earning with my jobs.
In two weeks, I'm starting my Master's degree. Now, I'm hoping not to be a poor/bad student, but I fear I will become a poor/no-money student: the Master's degree is outside my town, so I have to quit my job, and the Master fees and the food/accomodation costs far from my parents will eat all the savings from previous years.
Since I'm voluntarily quitting my job (not being fired or ending contract period), I'm not entitled to have an unemployment compensation, and with the crisis situation it may be hard to find a new job

[Shwoo]

Originally Posted by OzzieMonkey

Also, does anyone else here find Geography totally boring?

I've never done a geography class. My school never offered it. I love geography, but it might be different if I actually had to study.

[puzzlebox]

In high school I was a great student (see also: teacher's pet goody goody suck). I loved school. However, my dedication to scholarship waned a little when I started uni and discovered the joys of vodka, alcopops, and cheap riesling (not necessarily all at once).

I wasn't really happy with good but not stellar grades, so I became more studious again as the "omg adult freedom" craziness wore off and I took an Honours year. I think it also helped that in the later years of university, I had more control over which subjects I did. The first couple of semesters involved some subjects that I didn't particularly want to take but were core for the degree. In later years I could specialise a lot more and choose the subjects that interested me most.

Anyway, not sure what kind of student I am these days. It would probably depend on what I was studying and why. I'd need to be pretty engaged with the subject material (or have some kind of significant external incentive / end goal), because I fear I've become intellectually lazy and may not follow through with what I start.

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Oh, I thought you meant poor as in no money.

Ditto. I wonder if the "no money" interpretation would be the most common one. I'm betting yes, just because of the general association between full-time study and lack of money.

Originally Posted by OzzieMonkey

Also, does anyone else here find Geography totally boring?

I rather enjoyed geography, and think it's a decent high school subject - it's fairly important to at least be aware of the wide world outside our own backyards.

[VeronicanPlay]

Only when it doesn't interest me, like Scripting or Cisco.

And definitely maths, I hate maths... But lucky for me I won't have to do it ever again, I sure love my Calculator on my phone...

[Woodsyblue]

I used to be a terrible student. I barely passed high school, and I mean barely. But I used TAFE (roughly the Australian equivalent of Community College) as a springboard into Uni and now I'm hitting a real stride. If the semester were to end to day I'd have an A average and I only have three major assignment to go.

I'm still lazy I've just gotten a lot better at getting this stuff done.