POLL: Does dating slump grades?

[badmouse]

this is a pretty one-sided poll.

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: vshah

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
not if you only date them during school hours

schadenfroh how's your girl? find out her name yet??

-Vivan

nah man, she hooked up with a black guy over the weekend

sux

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: cucumber
I think it kind of depends on the girl too. If the girl is a very serious studious type she will put off spending time with you to study or work. This kind of motivates you to work harder too (at least it did for me. I kind of felt like a bum when I slacked and the girl was busting her ass)
When the girl is more laid back and wants to be with you all the time it can definitely hurt your grades.

Then there's the Yoko Ono (spelling?) complex. The man (a great athlete, musician......etc) falls for a woman and loses himself and his greatness.

aye.

 

[Fingolfin269]

No.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
Just wanted to know what you guys thought. i personally think so.

If by slump you mean go up.. yes.

 

[Alphathree33]

Does dating slump grades? YES

But you didn't ask

IS IT WORTH IT ANYWAY? YES

My girlfriend and I broke up a month ago. For a while, I felt sad, horrible, lonely, empty, worthless... but I've been slowly falling in love with another girl. It's just the greatest feeling in the world, and yes it is hell on my grades.

Men are nothing without women. Everything we do is to impress or otherwise court women. I never feel pride in any of my accomplishments unless I can share them with a lover.

 

[alphatarget1]

depends on you, your major, and the state of your relationship IMO.

I pulled a 3.3 something when i first dated my ex... I was happy, spent a LOT of time with her and i still pulled really strong grades.

Things went to sh!t this semester, we broke up in april and my GPA was 2.9 something...

 

[vshah]

yeah the breakup can cause more harm to grades then the relationship usually...

-Vivan

 

[upsciLLion]

I've actually had a 4.0 the past two consecutive quarters in spite of dating. Though my bank account did suffer a bit.

 

[nageov3t]

it's always happened to me. in high school, whenever I'd be involved with someone, my grades would drop noticably (5-10 points on average).

I didn't really date much in college for that reason.

 

[thawolfman]

Yeah. Also slumps the bank account!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
My friend defies the assumption. 3.95 GPA and married, her husband is 4.0. Both in my major.... GTFO?

I think there may be an element of stability and routine that comes with such commitments that leads to academic success.

 

[SilentZero]

lol Depends who your dating. If your dating multiple woman at the same time, then I would say yes. But if its just 1, then no.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
Just wanted to know what you guys thought. i personally think so.

Dating : no
Breaking up : Oh god . . . the stories

 

[MAME]

of course it does

 

[Wheatmaster]

hmm so i guess generally speaking dating does bring down grades, but there are exceptions?

 

[cain]

seriously no, i almost dont date at school, and i work pretty hard, but my grades suck. the school is just too fvcking hard.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
Just wanted to know what you guys thought. i personally think so.

I can't tell you about college yet (grr just a few more months...), but dating had no affect on my grades in HS. Maybe that's b/c HS was easy to the point of being painful.

edit: on the other hand, me/gf were both accepted at great schools...so maybe that's a factor too?

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
hmm so i guess generally speaking dating does bring down grades, but there are exceptions?

sounds like you want to date and your parents said no (for the reason posted above).

 

[heat23]

Unless you have dicipline pretty much anything will lower ur grades. Even posting on ATOT all day will lower your grades.

 

[Reliant]

In most cases, yes.

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: MAME

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
hmm so i guess generally speaking dating does bring down grades, but there are exceptions?

sounds like you want to date and your parents said no (for the reason posted above).

lol funny you say that. my dad and i had one those dad to son talks. we were talking about college and my future and girls came up in the discussion. he suggested that i try not to date when i'm in college but insisted that i still hang out with them. he claims girls will come to you if you're patient and when you graduate from college cause you'll have more time/i've got my life in a more stable status or that's what he claims. i responded with: "eh"

 

[Lonyo]

Straight A student all the way through, and have had GF's, during exam periods.

That said, I have an exam tomorrow I haven't revised for because I have been at the gf's all weekend.

 

[kami333]

I think it depends on finding the right girl.

The only reason I graduated on time and passed orgo was because of my gf

Since we were in similar majors, biology vs biochem, we ended up taking alot of the same courses. I had at least once class with her every semester and usually another class but in different sections. Made for some "friendly" competition, the loser being the slave until the next test (dishes, laundry, vaccuming, etc) was a pretty good motivator. We even applied for the same internship for next year and I was the one who got the interview (even though I didn't get it in the end)

 

[clicknext]

Not in high school, it doesn't. Unless you break up and you're in a slump or something.

<- dating, with GPA 4.0 for the last 2 years. Before then... well, I just didn't care about grades!