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Icks 4d
People with a 3.8+ GPA who can’t tell you SHIT about the content their classes have.
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Anonymous 4d

Because the education system doesn’t reward long term learning and understanding, it rewards those who can cram and then move on to cram more unfortunately. Some classes r better about this than others of course.

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Anonymous 4d

4.0 and i’m stupid as hell but i know how to be a good student

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Anonymous 4d

3.8+ gpa in my undergrad and masters, as #1 said I mainly got that through cramming and my dissertations. The classes I enjoyed I remember and can tell you about them. Everything else I either don't need in my career so there's no need to remember it but at the same time I have further deepened my understanding in the things I liked or are adjacent to my career. College is honestly bullshit because it's a broad sweep

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Anonymous 3d

sooo how are y’all studying and retaining the information? any tips?

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Anonymous 4d

3.85, my classes ain’t shit. My degree is worth 💩. Nothing i did in college was worth anything at all. I would have been better off if I had started working at a warehouse at 18. At least I could probably have gotten promoted through time worked there. Instead, I have a stupid BS degree and no job. 😒🙄

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4d

What major

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3d

Noticing you didn’t answer the question 😐

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3d

Apply the information in your degree to the real world whenever you can

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

i’m a biology premed major who can’t pass gen chem for shit 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 3d

That was my favorite class😂 dm me and i’m happy to help

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

If you just want general tips instead, I suggest attempting to correlate what you do in class to your daily life. A perfect example being conversion factors, it’s no different from changing cups to pints or pints to gallons, it’s just different numbers/exchange rates.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

When learning your polyatomic anions and your periodic table, use the songs on youtube (my favs are on ASAP SCIENCE)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

As for learning your different reactions and what will happen in them, a lot of it is just pattern recognition, my recommendation there is to write the correct answer so many times over and continue to understand why it does what it does, then eventually when you feel comfortable, writing out what the correct answer is without help and understanding why you write what. Unfortunately a lot of university labs do not have their lab aligned with the class or i’d say try and use what you learn in lab

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3d

If you are a bio Major you have to do gen chem 1 and 2 then do orgo 1 and 2 and MAYBE biochem idk, you really need to pay attention in get chem 1 and 2, it makes your life in organic SO MUCH EASIER

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i’ll dm you for the specifics but this here was so much help. i’m going into my 3rd year and have been having to work around chem 💔

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