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1. My grades are A's and B's. They've gone down recently out of apathy but they're still not bad. I know they're important to college, but grades are something I just abhor because I feel they really diminish the value of learning the subject. Like I said though, they're "decent": I've had no C's, and the lowest GPA I've had is a 3.17, which is mediocre, but it's tough to make myself care. Really it's just a matter of extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation for me; I try to motivate myself to do better with grades because there's supposed to some benefit later on of getting into a better college and all that, but I'm just more motivated to do other things like learn programming languages or typography or how to play the drums, or just read. Probably a typical teenager thing to say, sorry.

2. A few, I could 'network' more as some people above me said. I guess I've been aversive to that because it seems that's the only thing most of my peers want to do. If that'll make it more enjoyable though, I'll try...

parent anonymous1618 17 years ago

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