In terms of grades, were you an above average, average, or below average student?
Did you enjoy studying and the constant knowing if you were going to pass or fail classes as a student?
What were your grades like as a student and did you enjoy studying?
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I’d say I was above average. All through high school came pretty easy. College, the subject mattered. The more I cared about what I was learning and found it interesting, the more inclined I was to study and do well.
Generally average to above average during highschool, and then I was top 10% at my university for my major in engineering. I found that I enjoyed studying and learning far more in college when I had a choice in my subjects. But I generally liked school and was interested in learning most of the time!
I was a straight-A student in high school. I was in my graduating class’s Top 10. But I didn’t enjoy studying, because I didn’t know how to do it. No one ever taught me, and, for the most part, I never really had to struggle to teach myself because most of the stuff I learned in class, I was able to retain.
Well, wait, I take that back: I’d make vocab flashcards in my Spanish classes, and I think sometimes I’d play around with conjugating verbs to make sure I knew how to do it, but that was kind of it.
Fucked me, a little, when I got into college, especially when depression/laziness led me to skip a lot of my classes in my third year, but as long as I was attending classes pretty regularly and getting homework done, I still didn’t really need to study anything.
Grades were good in some subjects, really bad in others. Studying was good, then I started to get worse and worse until I stopped viewing it as a meaningful thing
Not American. Depends on the school but it’s a 10-100 or 1-10 system. I usually was in the 100-80 range. Yes, I enjoyed studying.
Started off average, become above average, to top of the class. Got depressed in highschool, teachers calling me lazy and uncaring, dropped back down to average. I used to love studying but that quickly changed
My HS average was a 3.7-3.8, my BA was 3.8-3.9 and my MA was back at 3.7-3.8. I’ve never enjoyed studying and only did it in really dire or important situations (this is probably why I’m ass at language learning). I’m also a proponent of intuitive studying which is what I call listening to your brain when you don’t feel like studying anymore.
I was an average student in high school and college. I loved math and was a book worm but hated reading for or writing for a grade. I did have a certain path I wanted to take in high school regarding my future career. While that path slightly changed, it didn’t change enough to continue on a similar path that’s kept me employed since I graduated from college. Ironically, my job involves a lot of research and knowledge.
Straight As in languages and humanities. Straight Fs in maths, physics, and chemistry (even though I was trying REALLY heard). I loved the former group, hated the latter. But the worst subject was PE. College was great because I chose a major I loved.
Above average. Never really topped but used to be around there somewhere. Still above average but now I am no longer near the top.
top of my class (major in computer science) ! I’m motivated by spite haha. To prove that I’m capable too and help other girls succeed in STEM :))
Above average, but not the top because of executive function issues even as a kid. I graduated from high school 8th in my class, I believe. But it doesn’t matter to me 20 years later.
I didn’t do well in undergrad until I was put on academic probation and forced to take a break. I took some time to work and one day I woke up wondering what it would take to go back to school. So, I re-enrolled, got on the dean’s list for the first time and brought my GPA up to a 2.57 cumulative. It was really bad. But I did it.
In grad school I had a 3.0 or something.
Elementary and middle were generally mediocre. High school, I was an almost 4.0 unweighted GPA student. I loved STEM and the arts. Social sciences and English were rough, but I still got great grades. I ended up graduating salutatorian out of about 425 students, but I’m not sure if it was worth it. I genuinely believed that if I didn’t have at least one mental breakdown a semester, then I was not successful. There’s a reason I got my master’s at the age of 20, but was it worth it? I still don’t know.
Moral of the story: don’t rush it. Don’t overdo yourself. Enjoy your time because you’re truly only competing against yourself.
I got straight As until 7th grade, when things became less easy for me. I sailed through elementary, not being challenged at all. So I never learned how to work at studying. From then on, I was a B- student, and in college I was a chronic class-skipper.
I was 40 years old when I was finally diagnosed with ADHD.
The worst grades I didn’t like going to school I didn’t
I got along very well with my classmates, they made very bad jokes with me, with the boys I got along with 10, they were very attentive to me and that bothered the other girls.
Usually somewhere between 3.2-3.5. I was never struggling, but I could’ve pushed myself a bit harder and received more A’s. I was always in the honors classes, but again I was just kind of a coaster. (Still am in many aspects of life)
I was kinda above average in school, but tbh, I never enjoyed the stress of wondering if I’d pass or fail.
In school I graduated around 3.8. in my bachelor I got a 3.7. I didn’t enjoy school but I did enjoyed college.
They weren’t great — my SAT scores didn’t even hit four digits. School wasn’t my thing, except for art class. That’s where I really thrived.
In elementary school, teachers thought I had a math disability because I flunked a standarized test because I was daydreaming and dealing with anxiety.
In middle school I got Bs and my parents were called for additional parent-teacher conferences because I wasn’t “living up to my potential.”
In high school, my parents made me switch school boards to a Catholic school with a “better reputation, Christian values, and fewer politically correct teachers” (my parents’ words not mine). I was surrounded by kids from more privledged backgrounds so I did better. I got mostly As in high school, except in science which I hated.
In university, I did well in the classes I liked, not so well in the “breadth” courses I didn’t like.
I had good grades, not perfect but good, and I loved studying. Becoming a feminist while partying and experimenting with drugs and making friends and studying abroad was glorious.