Mmmm...Come here foot soldier...

[boykooties]

I just want to take a moment to describe how totally, thoroughly disgusted I am with myself over my grades this semester. I really have no explaination why, with the exception of engineering design, they all just sucked monumentally

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[maryanjelluvsu]

Boiz tend to be like that. Im sorry you dont feel gratitude for your grades, I know you worked really really hard, and you probably diserve so much better than what you got. HELL IF YOU CANT GET GOOD GRADES, there is no hope for the rest of us who are idiots, cause you are one of the most intelligant people I know.

haha <3 the cute boi!!!

[mpnolan]

I'm sure you know quite well that creativity isn't well-rewarded by "the system", but fortunately I think that that creativity can be used against that very system. Understanding something is the first step to controlling it, and you can see the clockworks.

I'm kind of curious, what do you think has prevented you from succeding by "their" standards? Primarily your focus on your own things, or something to do with having visual thought, or some frustration with the techniques, ...?

I don't have much in the way of specific strategies, not inhabiting your mind. But you do seem to have free time for IM, LiveJournal, forums, etc., and maybe you could set up some kind of micro-study system. Use the five-minute intervals somehow. I don't think traditional "open a book and study" methods would work.

[boykooties]

I can see that a lot of things contributed to it, like shoving all my classes into two days, or not having my full liscense, but I can sense a deeper problem. You have to understand that for me to succeed at something requires me to put everything into it, reguardless of how easy or difficult it might be, and it gets taxing to keep trying to switch and jump around between chemistry, ecomomics, my own work, english, etc. My mind is one designed to focus not on problems that take days or weeks to crack, but months and years, and especially when I am under stress, my own projects and interests will simply crowd everything else out. It's almost like the opposite problem of an "Attention-Deficit" problem; I have so much attention that the effort it takes to control it burns me out in no time even for the simplest subject matter if I don't find it interesting

[crazy_julio]

you should write a book.

The troubles of getting some in cyberspace.

Judging by what you've talked about, you probably have a volume's worth of material.