Interesting study tactic...

[Orsorum]

I was talking to a friend of mine at Duke, apparently there is a guy who does this for his courses - he picks them out the semester before, then audits them the quarter prior (or whenever they're offered prior). He's apparently gotten four years of 4.0s this way.

Couple of obvious problems I can see with this:

- double the usual class time, so six hours a day in class
- maybe 1 1/2 times the usual workload; you (obviously) wouldn't be required to do the coursework, but part of success would be doing the assignments along with the rest of the class to get practice and some feedback during the lectures
- the problem of actually finding space in the classrooms to audit them. There are a great deal of courses at my school that don't allow people to audit them.

I should try that Winter quarter after my law school apps are done, see if it works.

 

[cpals]

Interesting. Seems just like a lot more work to me.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i don't think this works for sequential classes offered only once a year?

 

Good idea if you really care about college that much.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i don't think this works for sequential classes offered only once a year?

That's what I thought. Maybe the guy has a good enough memory he could retain information for a year's time?

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i don't think this works for sequential classes offered only once a year?

That's what I thought. Maybe the guy has a good enough memory he could retain information for a year's time?

yeah or maybe he has no fvcking life!!!!!!!!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: awg

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i don't think this works for sequential classes offered only once a year?

That's what I thought. Maybe the guy has a good enough memory he could retain information for a year's time?

yeah or maybe he has no fvcking life!!!!!!!!

That, too. I surmised from listening about this guy that he has no job; probably living off scholarships, actually, which isn't entirely undoable.

 

[dighn]

that's hardcore

 

[Spoooon]

That might be worth doing if you knew of a particularly difficult course that you had to take. I don't think I'd want to do it for all of my classes.

 

[Mucman]

I tried doing that one semester, but the time it takes to do that is difficult. Stopped after three weeks. If I didn't have a job,
and 10 hobbies that I enjoy doing, I would have kept on doing it though

 

[Spooner]

um, yeah, all set with getting more class time............. but i do wanna be back in college

 

[imported_Tomato]

Phew. That's dedication... a good idea, if your top priority = 4.0 (with less time for a social life, etc.)