be a better student

I slacked off pretty hardcore towards the end of this semester (SENIORITIS!!!), but overall, I think I did pretty well and was definitely more engaged than my previous semesters.

And now, off to the working world!!

So, I was doing pretty well with this until yesterday. I had a paper due that I put off until the last minute, and then something came up where the time I set aside for writing it was all used up by something else. It turned into a question of if I would rather do the paper or get a good night’s sleep.

I chose sleep. That paper was worth 12.5% of my overall grade, and the professor doesn’t accept late work. Honestly, though, I could care less. I don’t especially like that class, I wouldn’t have gained any valuable knowledge from writing the paper (which is why I put off writing it in the first place, I think), and I already have a job for when I graduate (so if I end up doing poorly in this class, it doesn’t even matter).

Anyway, I’m still doing really well in my other classes, so I just have to make it to the end of the semester without completely giving up. At least I only have one final!!!

A, A, B+, B+, B

Yay! I can’t say I think I entirely deserved those grades, but I DO think I’m improving little by little. Not having any Japanese classes this semester really helped, haha.

I kind of made progress…

I had 2 tests this past week, and I studied for them. So, not as amazing as you might have been expecting, but I never study for anything. Either I know the material, think the class is stupid, or just don’t care (usually a combination), but this time I actually sat down and studied before my tests. I didn’t study as much as I could have, but everyone has to start somewhere right?

I also feel like I shouldn’t be saying things like this my senior year of college. Like, does anything I do now really matter? Or, if I got by so many years without studying, how are one and a half semesters going to change anything?

I don’t have a terrible GPA or anything, but I guess I just want to stop feeling like I’m not not getting anything useful from college. I mean, I’m paying $XX,000 a year to be here, so I might as well get something from it, right?. Although, I kind of have the feeling that I might change my mind again once I start getting job offers…