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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tanager" data-source="post: 1073684" data-attributes="member: 1986">Congratulations! Beer and women <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  ...which is why it took me 5 years to complete a 3 year program in Fine Arts (painting and printmaking) with lots of electives in Linguistics (comparitive Indo_european mostly). Basically what the two previous posts have already said, I'll add a few personal observations about "playing the game" (or, in Academese Trends in the power dynamics of socio-political, trans-generational discourse in a post modern/post-structural learning environment )  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'll second Agback's thoughts on lecture notes vs. course texts, although, it depends on what cues your memory more. For myself I found taking lecture notes a distraction as I was always a few steps behind the lecture in that case and had a better memory of the discussion if I just payed attention. Depending on the size/accoustics of the room a dictation recorder (those little half sized cassette recorders) can be useful to let you focus on the discussion, take a few key notes and then transcribe the important bits later.His point about asking qestions is good too. Professors enjoy students who appear interested in the material. Also, use your professor's office hours to ask questions, seek clarifiaction on reading materials. I'm certain I raised grades a half-step (A- to A) in several classes simply because the profs new could put my name with my face and liked me.Social situations outside of class: If your prof is the type who likes to carry on the class discussion/related material after class in more informal surroundings (read: local pub), go. My experience has been that an hour in a small group with the prof is usually worth 2 or 3 class-hours. This also ties in with the previous points. As far as gaming goes, our group consisted of old friends and basically only gamed in a casual way and was basically fairly infrequent when we all could make it or felt like it. A gentleman never tells the *really* fun stories<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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