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Put Down the Ducky if You Wanna Play the Saxophone (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} chibikaijuu) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Re: Thank god this is UFB because something about this hits my rage button.
Yeah, that's basically what happened to me (I also had/have pretty severe inattentive ADD comorbid with anxiety and chronic moderate depression, which, uh, didn't and doesn't help). I never, ever learned how to study or properly outline and revise an essay because if I actually did my work, whatever I turned out on the first try would garner an A or B (in fact, I regularly got higher marks on papers written at 2 am the night before than on the ones I actually started a few days ahead of time). Anything that actually required running through exercises to learn (math, chemistry, foreign languages) I generally did well in because my brain likes that sort of thing overall, so doing it was often kind of relaxing (I took a symbolic logic course in college basically for kicks - four credits of A for work that made my brain shut the fuck up because it was busy instead of ragequitting? Hell yes.).
Then I got to college, did well for about a year, and then shit got hard. What do you mean, I can't just read three chapters of organic chemistry the night before and ace the test? I'm doing better, with therapy and medication, but I'm still working on my undergraduate degree six years in. God, do I know a lot of unrelated crap, though.
Yeah, that's basically what happened to me (I also had/have pretty severe inattentive ADD comorbid with anxiety and chronic moderate depression, which, uh, didn't and doesn't help). I never, ever learned how to study or properly outline and revise an essay because if I actually did my work, whatever I turned out on the first try would garner an A or B (in fact, I regularly got higher marks on papers written at 2 am the night before than on the ones I actually started a few days ahead of time). Anything that actually required running through exercises to learn (math, chemistry, foreign languages) I generally did well in because my brain likes that sort of thing overall, so doing it was often kind of relaxing (I took a symbolic logic course in college basically for kicks - four credits of A for work that made my brain shut the fuck up because it was busy instead of ragequitting? Hell yes.).
Then I got to college, did well for about a year, and then shit got hard. What do you mean, I can't just read three chapters of organic chemistry the night before and ace the test? I'm doing better, with therapy and medication, but I'm still working on my undergraduate degree six years in. God, do I know a lot of unrelated crap, though.
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