Work Ethic
Busy week this week . . . I had a large paper due and a midterm (even though it wasn't really the middle of the term).
One of the scary things about college is the constant thought of being in a situation where learning actually matters. In high school, I remember studying for a latin exam or something and knowing that this was my last latin class, and I only needed to know it for the next couple days and then I could forget it for the rest of my life. This was true at the time, of course, and sure enough I have forgotten almost all of the latin that I learned in high school. It's kind of a waste though, when you think about it -- I took four years of latin.
If there are roughly 180 school days in the year. Multiplied by four years, I went to around 700 latin classes in high school, for a total of almost 500 hours of latin classes and probably a few hundred more hours of homework and studying.
But now I know nothing! . . . and it doesn't matter.
College is a bit different though. Granted, a lot of people will continue their education after college, but college is when learning starts to matter a lot more. This is scary when it comes to studying and developing a work ethic.
So, in studying for my midterm, I was pretty sure that I knew enough to BS my way through it. . . but even though I was tired of reading and studying, I felt I should try to learn something! Heck, for the amount of money that college costs, it would be stupid not to.
I'll admit it though -- sometimes I just can't get myself out of my old mentality of trying to do the smallest amount of work possible, working only for the grade and having no real consideration for learning. I wish I could outgrow it.
This will come with time, I suppose.
--David
Busy week this week . . . I had a large paper due and a midterm (even though it wasn't really the middle of the term).
One of the scary things about college is the constant thought of being in a situation where learning actually matters. In high school, I remember studying for a latin exam or something and knowing that this was my last latin class, and I only needed to know it for the next couple days and then I could forget it for the rest of my life. This was true at the time, of course, and sure enough I have forgotten almost all of the latin that I learned in high school. It's kind of a waste though, when you think about it -- I took four years of latin.
If there are roughly 180 school days in the year. Multiplied by four years, I went to around 700 latin classes in high school, for a total of almost 500 hours of latin classes and probably a few hundred more hours of homework and studying.
But now I know nothing! . . . and it doesn't matter.
College is a bit different though. Granted, a lot of people will continue their education after college, but college is when learning starts to matter a lot more. This is scary when it comes to studying and developing a work ethic.
So, in studying for my midterm, I was pretty sure that I knew enough to BS my way through it. . . but even though I was tired of reading and studying, I felt I should try to learn something! Heck, for the amount of money that college costs, it would be stupid not to.
I'll admit it though -- sometimes I just can't get myself out of my old mentality of trying to do the smallest amount of work possible, working only for the grade and having no real consideration for learning. I wish I could outgrow it.
This will come with time, I suppose.
--David
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