Hi everyone and welcome to week 7’s chapter of The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen! This week we will be looking at: Life Inside The Class Room, Assuming You Wake Up and Go to Class. This chapter covers a variety of different things about how to succeed and not to succeed (a.k.a. not going to class, not doing your work, and just focusing on the social aspect). The top two tips are:
To Go or Not to Go: Missing a class is the equivalent to paying hundreds of dollars for a ticket to a show and then not going. Unfortunately, you can’t scalp tickets to English 101. Besides the price, your grades will suffer. We go to a school where either you or your parents spend thousands of dollars for you to go to class. Education is very important and you are definitely smart enough to be here! So get up, put on those comfy clothes, and go to class!
Nice Professor, Nice Professor: Professors want you to do well, but unless they actually know your name (not just your email name), and your face (not just a jpeg or .gif), they can’t help you do well. Here at Bryant it’s a bit different given the majority of our classes are very small, but that dosn’t mean you shouldn’t go and visit your professors once in a while at their office hours. They have those for a reason- even if you don’t have a question about the course, they have good insight on the future! For example, let’s say you realize you’re interested in a certain subject, such as Economics, and are thinking about changing your major. What you should DEFINITELY do is visit that Micro teacher you took again this semester because you liked her so much last semester!
You can do well in college or you can do badly in college, regardless of how you did in high school. Things change, people change, and you change! If you want an A in a class, you need to put in the effort. They just don’t hand those out around here. (And if they do can someone tell us where?!)