Do you like studying?

[Tiberiu911]

Now now, be honest! If you are not in school anymore, just think way back then.

 

Personally I always disliked studying. I was doing it before, but I quit it during Highschool. I say #2!

[ThetaOrionis01]

Education is wasted on the young.

[Abramul]

If I read it, I remember it. Why bother studying?

[Malchik]

To study - to apply the mind to, in order to obtain knowledge or skill.

 

I'll bet you do it all the time.

 

What you are asking is did I enjoy studying stuff I disliked or was not interested in. Of course I didn't. Who would be so masochistic? On the other hand I was blessed (cursed?) with teachers who could make most subjects seem interesting which helped enormously. And of course there was always the knowledge that unless I did enough to pass exams - no assessment was permitted - I'd never get a decent career.

 

So I did what I had to.

 

And I don't regret it.

[Povuholo]

I study, but I don't like it. Why should I? Most of the things we learn at school will be useless later on anyway...

 

I'm glad that I can remember stuff pretty well. I can get a sufficient for geography, history, english, dutch and some other things by using common sense most of the time. I read through it once or twice and I'll be fine. It's just German, French, Maths and Biology I have to spend more time on.

 

I don't know what I'm going to study yet after my exams. Sociology probably. I am going to study something, that's the only thing I know for sure.

[thedark888]

Studying is one of the most painfull stage in the learning process.

 

Learning is a cool thing tho. I always feels great when my mind finally grasp a new concept or figure how this or that works.

 

I also have two meaning of studying

 

A: Exam prep, filling my brain with a ton-of-useless-after-the-exam-garbage. That I did not like back then, when I was in school.

 

B: Finding discovering new things. Exploring new alleys. Finding solutions to a preblem. This is more to my liking. Studying a problem and finding solutions, or workaround. In any cases I do feel quite content when I acheive a successfull "study" type B.

[Marxist ßastard]

I completely sympathize with you, Tiberiu! The absolute pain and torment that your cruel, evil adult overlords call "reading a book" is much worse than the alternative --- IE, spending the rest of your life doing backbreaking manual labor at minimum wage playing video games all day and just chillin'.

 

If showing your mother this thread doesn't get you out of doing your homework, you can always threaten to leave home. That works every time.

[mike milly]

I never study. Most of what you need to know is either told to you or you read for yourself. It is easier to just remember the first time than to beat it into your brain and potentially confuse yourself or forget altogether.

[Tiberiu911]

I completely sympathize with you, Tiberiu! The absolute pain and torment that your cruel, evil adult overlords call "reading a book" is much worse than the alternative --- IE, spending the rest of your life doing backbreaking manual labor at minimum wage playing video games all day and just chillin'.

 

If showing your mother this thread doesn't get you out of doing your homework, you can always threaten to leave home. That works every time.

 

I think I have been missunderstood.

 

I do not like studying. That does not mean I don't like learning! And I love reading ^^. I must of exagerated on answer #2. Well the only studying I do is the 5 minutes revising before an exam -- We have all been there --. I'm still young and I can still fool around for a while. I am concious that college wont be as tolerant and that I wil have to change my habits. But guess what I want to do later? Either work for Pixar animations or as a 3d artist for a video game. I also considered becoming a pilot, but I'm scared of heights (Shhh!).

 

My hate for studying can be explained by the insane amount of time it takes, the energy it drains and also that if you listen carefully, in most cases (except a few classes) you dont really need it. Five minutes revising will do the job for you.

[Peregrine]

Five minutes revising will do the job for you.

 

*laughs*

 

Right. You just try taking any serious classes and doing nothing but 5 minutes of studying before the test.

 

Seriously, all you people complaining about studying are either:

 

 

1) High school students at best, or maybe college students in joke majors like English. Try repeating your dislike of studying when you're taking difficult math/science classes.

 

 

2) Doomed to work some minimum-wage dead end job after failing out of school. But at least you can be happy about how much more time you had to play on your xbox while you're asking me if I want fries with my burger.

 

 

3) The rare 1% of the population that's actually smart enough to get away with skipping studying. I'd almost put myself in this category, but even I have to study for the real classes. Not as much as most people, but no matter what your intelligence, going into an engineering exam with 5 minutes of studying is a good way to fail it. Humanities classes on the other hand...

 

But I seriously doubt too many of you are in the third category. The personality type stuff is just too rare, 90% of the time it's just overconfidence.

 

I study, but I don't like it. Why should I? Most of the things we learn at school will be useless later on anyway...

 

You, of course, would be in category #2. Sure, you won't need all that stuff you learned in school... if your highest ambition in life is bagging my groceries for me.

 

I don't know what I'm going to study yet after my exams. Sociology probably. I am going to study something, that's the only thing I know for sure.

 

*laughs*

 

Good luck on that one with such a strong dislike of studying. The only way you're getting a degree in sociology without a lot of hard work is if you go to some party school where "not showing up to class high" is considered good enough for a B.