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Thanks for the responses so far. I guess I should elaborate a bit more: - Yes, I do have to take 6-7 courses/semester. It's the program. - I've already spent

Thanks for the responses so far. I guess I should elaborate a bit more: - Yes, I do have to take 6-7 courses/semester. It's the program. - I've already spent most of my time thus far "enjoying myself" so to speak. I'm not necessarily the nerd-kid going to engineering who needs to make friends, I'm closer to the opposite and now that I appreciate my education I want to take it more seriously. - Why GPA? Well I like competition for one, and I want to prove to myself that I can excel at it despite the challenges. I guess I'm tired of pretending I'm smart while only getting a 3.2 GPA. Plus I may want to get into a good graduate school. Someone mentioned something about test-taking: that's my main weakness for sure. I do well on projects and assignments, but tests just destroy me. I get too much "tunnel-vision" and seriously under-perform for the knowledge I have. Also, what types of classes can/should be skipped? I feel like certain solving courses are worthless for lecture (for example, beginning-level electromagnetism which is well-documented online and reduces to a small number of vector calculus equations and definitions). But I feel something like computer organization is best attended.

a3camero 16y ago
I don't know about your classes, but I did science at a fairly well known Canadian tech school (now in professional school in Canada). I usually would skip the last few weeks of school and study straight through at the library. Studying ten hours a day instead of going to class worked for me. Studying for exams is boring. It's easy to get distracted. I started off timing myself with my watch on seven hour countdown. Every time I got up or got distracted I would stop the clock. Builds good habits and after a while you won't need the countdown and you'll gradually be able to study more hours a day. 12 to 12... Studying is a pretty individual thing but that's what worked for me.

a3camero 16y ago

I don't know about your classes, but I did science at a fairly well known Canadian tech school (now in professional school in Canada). I usually would skip the last few weeks of school and study straight through at the library. Studying ten hours a day instead of going to class worked for me. Studying for exams is boring. It's easy to get distracted. I started off timing myself with my watch on seven hour countdown. Every time I got up or got distracted I would stop the clock. Builds good habits and after a while you won't need the countdown and you'll gradually be able to study more hours a day. 12 to 12... Studying is a pretty individual thing but that's what worked for me.