Students, What do you do to get yourself to do homework?

[Darus Grey]

Do 99% of your studying in the bathroom.

[Mici]

I go to my moms house, or my wifes parents place.
They are all very poor and have no food, the place smells and is very dirty. They always ask to borrow money so there electricity doesn't get shut off. Roaches everywhere and no money to get rid of them.

Normally after about 1hr at either place I come home, clean, do the dishes and do home work. So much that I have done all the homework for 2 classes this semester.

[sexxxytaru]

Go to the library.. and grab a friend to go with you. It really, really helps.

[Wtfiku]

Go to the library.. and grab a friend to go with you. It really, really helps.

and make sure your friend is the same sex. Otherwise, your progress of studying will be little to none..

[Krye]

Haha, doing homework, wat?

1 AM right now and I have a research paper due today(well, just a rough draft, no worries, I might even convince myself that I don't need to do it after all) that I haven't even started yet. I'll probably start it in 2 hours, pass the fuck out 5 and get woken up at 6.

[Myst]

log into ffxi.

[finale23]

get out of the house or think hard about the consequences of not doing the hw.

[Creeps]

You know a lot about physics, so rig a machine that clamps onto your nipples and every time your hands leave the book, it shocks the shit out of you

[finale23]

You know a lot about physics, so rig a machine that clamps onto your nipples and every time your hands leave the book, it shocks the shit out of you

i was referring to more along the line of not learning and not getting A on the next midterm, but a car battery hooking up to your nipples and delivering shocks like you described will certainly work better in the short term

[Lbelle]

Have a midterm in 10 minutes...read over my notes twice then came to the forums!

Prospect of doing well on exam: Little to none.

I'm hoping on atleast getting a C on the test. I got a B- on the first test, so what I usually do is rationalize. If I get a B- on one test, a D+ on the second, that's still a C. Therefore, I just need to not fail the third and final test of the semester, and I still walk out of that class with a passing grade.

Do any of you guys also use the rationalization tactic? The "it's okay if I fuck up one test, but do decent on the others" kinda thing.

[Correction]

Rationalization is a strategy for pure failure.

When I was low on time and really really had to study I absolutely had to leave my dorm room and find somewhere without a TV to hunker down and get the work done. Didn't have to be the library, the dorm's lounge worked most of the time. When that failed the dining hall did in a pinch. I hated the library since the no-noise atmosphere made me drowsy. Something about not having comfortable distractions but not surrounding myself with total silence got it done so much faster than when I tried it in my own living space.

[finale23]

Have a midterm in 10 minutes...read over my notes twice then came to the forums!

Prospect of doing well on exam: Little to none.

I'm hoping on atleast getting a C on the test. I got a B- on the first test, so what I usually do is rationalize. If I get a B- on one test, a D+ on the second, that's still a C. Therefore, I just need to not fail the third and final test of the semester, and I still walk out of that class with a passing grade.

Do any of you guys also use the rationalization tactic? The "it's okay if I fuck up one test, but do decent on the others" kinda thing.

i am the exact opposite and operate under the assumption that "if i do well in the midterms then i can fuck up the final and still get an A." then i don't have to stress out during the finals week during which you ganna have 3-4 finals. also, some of our professors understand that for some of us, an exam is just a formality and give us who's in the A range, the option of not having to take the final. that's surely alot of incentives to do well to begin with and maintain your performance throughout the term.

[Correction]

That may have been the case in the humanities half of my studies, but that was most certainly not the case in the chem courses I took, where every exam was on a curve. Rationalization only puts you at ease when you can count on the same level of performance for every exam. Curved grades wreck your odds there.

[Lbelle]

Eh I just took my exam. It wasn't THAT bad, and I actually knew the answers to some of the questions :D

[kyod]

I actually enjoy doing the work/homework/projects for my majors.

But for the useless shit the university makes you take, I tend to go to the library and force myself to do it. I never go with friends, because then we end up talking and distract ourselves even more.

[Oxyminus]

I think of all the time I've wasted playing ffxi, getting high and mindlessly watching tv, getting drunk, and being a general waste. and think to myself i want to graduate so i can get a decent job and get back to doing those things again. well, I still get high and drunk plenty often, but quitting ffxi is a step in the right direction.

but in all seriousness, time management is where it's at. since I started this semester and I got a feel for my class schedule I made for myself a pretty standard schedule for myself of what homework I'm doing for what class on what day/time. I just stick to it, and even though I rarely go a night during the week where I'm not doing any homework at all, its manageable that I'm rarely doing more than one hour a night unless I chose to put something off.