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If you have rudimentary organizational skills you should have plenty of time for both studying and socializing in college.
Most people I know had both active social lives and studied hard. There's four years to do both.
A few people didn't manage, but there were usually other things going on hampering them such as marijuana addiction, poverty, thyroid problems, etc.
The few people I knew with perfect grades -- friends who were the very best students in the entire university and have gone on to successful careers as leaders in their fields -- all had rich, active social lives.
A friend of mine is starting medical school in a few months after spending a few years in the private sector, coding software for a fortune 500 company. He had sex with ~20 women or so during undergrad, including a few relationships.
Another guy got the aware for best student my year in the entire school. We've since lost touch. At the time aside from getting A's in all his classes, he was also a phenomenal tennis player, a marathon runner, researching quantum cryptography and linguistics, and teaching courses on ancient Sumerian at another college, among other things.
A third guy did math and physics with me ... also was an elite programmer in his spare time, studied neuroscience (later switched to that), was a political activist, into classical music, playing pool, and was pulling quite well ... we lost touch when he got up to 20 women two thirds of the way through university. He works at google now and makes 250k/year.
I could go on.
They went to many parties, not all the parties.
Everything about your posting history Fred suggests that grades were not a priority for you. You are ideologically opposed to effort and you were most likely an average or slightly-above-average student -- something which takes no effort. Your post is likely retroactive excuse-making for the fact you didn't pull as well while in university. Whatever the reason was, it's not that you were busy from too many classes.
Most people I know had both active social lives and studied hard. There's four years to do both.
A few people didn't manage, but there were usually other things going on hampering them such as marijuana addiction, poverty, thyroid problems, etc.
The few people I knew with perfect grades -- friends who were the very best students in the entire university and have gone on to successful careers as leaders in their fields -- all had rich, active social lives.
A friend of mine is starting medical school in a few months after spending a few years in the private sector, coding software for a fortune 500 company. He had sex with ~20 women or so during undergrad, including a few relationships.
Another guy got the aware for best student my year in the entire school. We've since lost touch. At the time aside from getting A's in all his classes, he was also a phenomenal tennis player, a marathon runner, researching quantum cryptography and linguistics, and teaching courses on ancient Sumerian at another college, among other things.
A third guy did math and physics with me ... also was an elite programmer in his spare time, studied neuroscience (later switched to that), was a political activist, into classical music, playing pool, and was pulling quite well ... we lost touch when he got up to 20 women two thirds of the way through university. He works at google now and makes 250k/year.
I could go on.
They went to many parties, not all the parties.
No. WTF lol. If everybody who had a bad breakup failed their year, most people would have failed years.
Everything about your posting history Fred suggests that grades were not a priority for you. You are ideologically opposed to effort and you were most likely an average or slightly-above-average student -- something which takes no effort. Your post is likely retroactive excuse-making for the fact you didn't pull as well while in university. Whatever the reason was, it's not that you were busy from too many classes.
BUT I have known women who at 30 and 35 were incredibly hot. Maybe what confounds is that most women after 30 have lots of baggage (bad marriages, kids) so they do not look so yummy anymore because communication is difficult, but not necessarily for physical reasons.[/QUOTE]
