How much reading did you do in undergrad?

[Broohaha]

GODDDDDDDDDDDD

THERE'S SO MUCH F*SCKING READING !!!!!!!1

i mean i rarely do it, if ever. i, like most college students, i imagine, play it completely by utility. it totally depends on how important actually doing that class session's reading is to getting a high grade on an upcoming grade, be it an in-class discussion, recitation, paper, exam, etc. hence, 99% of the time, i save ALL the reading for exam time and screw myeslf over.

seriously, how did you folks go about reading in undergrad where many psci and hist classes ask you to read literalyl 150 pp per class session. what kind of insanity is this!???!

 

[Anubis]

none passed everything just fine

i actually stopped buying books. less tempted to work then. its all BS anyway just pay attention in class and your fine

 

[silverpig]

I was supposed to read one novel for a first year english class. I didn't read it. I did the essay drunk 5 hours before it was due and got an "A+ Simply the best essay I've ever read on this book" on it.

I do read the chapters in my science/math books while doing the homework so I can understand the stuff, but that doesn't really count as just reading I figure.

Reading is for chumps.

 

[Broohaha]

Originally posted by: silverpig
I was supposed to read one novel for a first year english class. I didn't read it. I did the essay drunk 5 hours before it was due and got an "A+ Simply the best essay I've ever read on this book" on it. I do read the chapters in my science/math books while doing the homework so I can understand the stuff, but that doesn't really count as just reading I figure. Reading is for chumps.

where'd you go to kawlij?

 

[notfred]

Uh, seeing as I'm not a poli sci or history major, not much.

 

[ed21x]

learn to speed read

 

[Nocturnal]

I have to admit, majority of Anandtech Forums are geniuses. Natural born geniuses.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Broohaha

Originally posted by: silverpig
I was supposed to read one novel for a first year english class. I didn't read it. I did the essay drunk 5 hours before it was due and got an "A+ Simply the best essay I've ever read on this book" on it. I do read the chapters in my science/math books while doing the homework so I can understand the stuff, but that doesn't really count as just reading I figure. Reading is for chumps.

where'd you go to kawlij?

UBC

honestly though, the essay was pretty good. I had read the book a few years before in HS, so I pretty much knew what it was about. A little internet summary stuff brought back the major points pretty quickly, and the rest just wrote itself.

English is complete BS anyways. I wrote essays for that class that I honestly tried on and got anwhere from C- to A- on. It seemed completely random, so I figured I'd shoot the odds with the final essay and won

 

[squirrel dog]

not much.Network,feel your way.

 

[Martin]

I do my math/science questions, but not much reading.

I do have a history class, but I still haven't gotten the book for it. Hard to read when you don't have the book

 

[opticalmace]

silverpig

what year are you? and what classes?

i'm at ubc too, 2nd year

 

[psydancerqt]

i dont read much, i prolly should read more... i've read a few chapters so far this semester, but that was at the very beginning

 

[CanOWorms]

I was in engineering... didn't read too much.

 

[RabidMongoose]

I had to read 7 books a week while walking to my classes barefoot up a hill while there was a blizzard raging outside.

 

[Jombo]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I had to read 7 books a week while walking to my classes barefoot up a hill while there was a blizzard raging outside.

so you are teh idiot that i was laughing at

 

[Jombo]

i usually took classes that focused more on lecture notes than facts from a book. i mean if you have to read a book to do well in a class, why are they giving lectures?

profs lecture the points they feel are important, and they shoudl test you accordingly. not ramble on, then test you on facts straight out of a book.. imo anyway.

after my frosh year, i rarely bought books, mostly course packs. besides, how many o you remember what you learned in undergrad? i sure don't remember much..

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: Jombo

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I had to read 7 books a week while walking to my classes barefoot up a hill while there was a blizzard raging outside.

so you are teh idiot that i was laughing at

Everyone was working too hard back in my day to waste time to laugh!!!! :|