I’m not 19 anymore and just had my first dose of that reality today. You cannot, as a functioning, working adult, be out until 11PM, sleep until 4AM, and have a good training session. You can train, but it ain’t gonna be fun or pretty.
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Flame Free: I inwardly chuckle everytime I see things like “snatch grip” written out. Hah, snatch grip.
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I think you’re in good company with that my man … I’m in my mid-30s and chuckle at shit I “shouldn’t be” chuckling at still
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You’ve been saying this for a while now. I feel a bit of sympathy. Empathy is burdensome. Find some training you like please.
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This must have been a completely different Dick Marcinko than the one who wrote the book I read.
Seriously though, fun book. That guy’s fucking crazy.
This is my life every day of the work week. You are correct
I feel like I am missing a joke here.
@stooge I get 23 hours a day to feel fine. I feel like an hour a day doing something miserable really isn’t bad.
Rogue and rouge are very different words, unless you’re legitimately dyslexic and then I’ll feel like a dick. Felt like the joke would be right up your alley, except now it’s been explained and is falling apart fast.
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I didn’t notice the spelling error until you pointed it out, and also needed it explained to me, but now I’m finding it hilarious.
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Ah, completely missed it. Well played, haha.
That book taught me so many creative ways to swear. I still use “doom on you” on occasion.
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Last 10 posts or so read funny as hell to me.
I have some advice on the topic, even though I am late to the party. Want to weigh in, even though your final score ended up being higher than this (congrats).
In the future, if you barely get a passing grade, be happy and move on. It’s far better to be on that side of the finish line than the other. Failing an exam is akin to accumulating debt, because now you have to juggle your on-going studies while also managing to complete failed exams. This is usually the beginning of a downspiral.
So cherish the passing grade, regardless of how well you cleared the finish line. And, for the sake of your well-being, disassociate your performance in exams with your own measure of self-worth. It’s a highway to burn-out if you don’t.
If you are going to analyse your performance at all with regards to barely passing, use it to refine your study technique for future exams, but don’t beat yourself up for even a second. Even if you fail. Just brush yourself off, and move on. This time you got lucky, and can focus on your upcoming exams, that’s the place you want to be.
And don’t be quick to dismiss everything else going on in life either. I remember you suffering through some gastric discomfort. That stuff will detract from your abilities.
And never, ever, utter to your fellow classmates that you are unhappy with a grade. One of them might be flunking in every course and it will not do them any favours hearing your discontent with your passing grade.
That’s just one token expression of intelligence, and not the only one. Some of the smartest people I know bomb exams like you wouldn’t believe. It’s not a good venue for them to display their intelligence.
Do you feel that you understand calculus? Will you be able to do your job in the future? Really the ultimate goal should be to expose yourself to as big a tool-box as possible so that when you work you’ll be able to dig up these things on your own as you need them in the future. You don’t need to know Taylor series in your day-to-day business. But, it’ll be handy to have an inkling of what they are later, so that if prompted by a certain problem you might explore the tools that solve them easily.
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Thank you for the advice!
That’s by far the hardest thing to do for me.
I do, but that was mainly one of the reasons why I felt bad. I had started to love the subject and I felt like I actually knew a lot. The dissonance between what I thought I knew and what I accomplished at the exam was what was bothering me, mainly.
Sure thing. I only spoke about how I was feeling about this to a few guys because I wanted some advice, and they had all passed the exam and to my knowledge, are doing better than me overall.
You can certainly know something and still flunk an exam. Depends on how well designed the exam was. Your perception matters too, and as long as you’re not delusional about it, trust your gut.
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It’s incredible you passed. I asked my Italian Econ professor about the calc exam and he said it was traumatizing. It took him 3 tries to pass and he was the FIRST one in his class to do so
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So, dude at the gym yesterday. Fat. I mean, fairly short, quite ‘nerdy’ by most standards, and just had a big fat, roly poly stomach. The guy had tits. You would look at him and think, okay, here is some nerdy fat kid that probably can’t do a single pushup.
And then this glorious son of a bitch walks up to a bar loaded with what looked like about 290 kilograms and deadlifted that damn thing. My flabbers were gasted. Felt like I should run up an hug him, but restrained myself.
It just goes to show you…don’t judge a book by his giant fat stomach.
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Studying Italian economics sounds about as challenging as studying cartography of former Soviet republics.
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Having flashbacks of 9th grade history. Given blank piece of paper and told to draw Soviet Union. I performed…poorly.
So Italian economics is probably super tough.
I bet if you just drew a picture of California you would have at least gotten half credit.
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