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How do you get motivated to do homework?

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OG_lock
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in need of some good tips right now....
Jan 30 2013 11:43PM
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OG_lock
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inb4 vyvanse or adderall
Jan 30 2013 11:44PM
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El_Barto.
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The desire to not be an idiot. Knowing shit is cool. Knowing shit makes you money. Money gets you bitches and race cars. Knowing shit gets you bithes and race cars. Studying gets you bitches and race cars.
Jan 30 2013 11:49PM
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Chubz.
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Basically that^
I always look back on my homework and realize how easy it is. Im just so lazy
Jan 30 2013 11:55PM
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dirtybackside
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I use the reward system. Do a little bit of homework and reward yourself with something.
Jan 30 2013 11:56PM
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CandyNipples.
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Just dont do it eventually you will realize that it makes no difference
Jan 30 2013 11:57PM
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Soja.
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i don't, but when you're paying $17,000 a year out of your own pocket you tend to want to get it done and do it well
Jan 30 2013 11:57PM
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BeefiestExpert
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very well said
Jan 30 2013 11:58PM
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.Apex.
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Step 1. Get off Newschoolers
Step 2. Disconnect Internet if possible
Step 3. Tell yourself you're just gonna start
Step 4. Troll yourself and actually do it all
Step 5. Feel accomplished
Jan 30 2013 11:59PM
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POTandPans
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Agreed. Im guessing your day consists of School, Homework, NS, Skiing, and Masturbating. M perosnal choice is blow off homework and maybe even school and then combine the three other loves and buy a pocketpussy to use on the mountain while updating us about your current status on NS
Jan 31 2013 1:29AM
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.Hugo.
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Tell myself I don't wanna be a piece of shit and/or waste these thousands of dollars i'm paying. It's really not that hard, just sit down and do it. It really is that simple
Jan 31 2013 1:36AM
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paige.
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The perfect combination of writing papers and drinking a couple glasses of wine is the best discovery I have made in my university career. Whereas before I was struggling to get words on the page, deleting as much as I wrote, add some wine and next thing I know I've written a few pages. Because it has some sugar in it, I get a bit of a buzz without getting sleepy so I stay focused (if really tired juice wines like Arbor Mist are even better, plus cheaper). Restraint is key, as is taking time to edit the next day (you know what Hemingway said, even if he didn't have lab reports in mind).
Study beers have been less of a success. I generally get sleepy and decide I would be better off curling up in bed with a movie.
Jan 31 2013 1:37AM
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El_Barto.
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I also have this as my background

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I reviewed o-chem for a good 8 hours today for my exam at 8am tomorrow. ive got probably 30 hours of reading over the next 4 days for the two midterms i have on monday.

it sucks and i hate it but i will be driving that car by the time im 35 so its all worth it

set your goals high and you can achieve great things
Jan 31 2013 1:54AM
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.AR6rider.
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Sorry, bud, but I don't know too many dentists who are driving Lambos by 35. Whatever keeps you motivated, though...
Jan 31 2013 1:56AM
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El_Barto.
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Both my brothers are dentists, both under 35 and both could go buy that car and pay cash for it. My brother in florida grosses 1.4 and keeps ~60%. Im sure you can do the math on that.

cute attempt at being condicending though.
Jan 31 2013 2:06AM
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El_Barto.
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Derp condescending
Jan 31 2013 2:07AM
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.AR6rider.
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Jan 31 2013 2:13AM
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El_Barto.
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you got me....i get off lying to strangers over the the internet.

hey, you never got answered my question in the pre-med thread. What med school did you get into?
Jan 31 2013 2:18AM
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.AR6rider.
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I've been accepted to the University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State, Oakland University, and I'm interviewing at the University of Chicago next month. Still waiting to hear back from University of Colorado Denver, as well as Johns Hopkins and Harvard, but those two were essentially money wasted for a one in a million shot. I've also been accepted at every DO school I applied to. Not sure if you were trying to call my bluff or what, but uhh...there's your answer?

As for you and your brother:

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Jan 31 2013 2:26AM
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Soja.
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im gonna make under $100,000 a year for the rest of my life, welcome to graphic design
Jan 31 2013 3:11AM
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Wompuscat
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Yeah. I study organic chemistry a lot. And I would like a lamborghini at some point in my life. But I would get a used one for around 120-150k. And I am thinking more realistic by 55-60. I'm a car guy, so I will have a nice ass car in my 30s, but not at that level. You shouldn't study O-chem and science with the goal of being a dentist just so you can get money. Thats a terrible way to go about it. I know being a doctor would allow me to get those things at some point, but I am going that route because I have a passion for medicine and I know it is all I want to do. If I don't get into med schools or DO schools(should get in somewhere but hey, who knows) I am still going into some healthcare profession, I don't care what it gets to, but thats really all I want to do with my life. Don't let glamorous cars and cash drive your ambitions. But yeah, my motivation for school is just there. It's don't fail or else you won't get to do what you want to do. And it just makes me feel stupid. I dont like feeling stupid. Colon knows all this shit way too well and could fucking school me in absolutely anything I say. Listen to him.
Jan 31 2013 3:34AM
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Dr.Dro
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You can always sell drugs to get loot on the side. Say you make 100k a year and on the weekends you move a couple pounds of coke here and there, what do you know. In no time you will have that Lamborghini and be producing some of that trap bangin G shit like Waka.
Jan 31 2013 4:44AM
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HWW
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thank you
Jan 31 2013 5:44AM
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seward
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i always kind of thought to myself: i can....

A) do 4 years of homework now, get a decent job, live comfortable.
B) not do homework, get a worse job, struggle to pay bills.

i chose A
Jan 31 2013 9:43AM
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no_steeze
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i'm interested in my homework so i don't mind doing it. i'll happily read 150 pages a week about vikings
Jan 31 2013 9:46AM
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RawrRawrRob
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1) Do homework
2) Graduate and get a good job
3) ?????
4) Profit $$
Jan 31 2013 10:02AM
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Huck_Norris
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It's all how you spend or save.  I personally know people that have shit jobs who have just never spent any money that just have a huge wad sitting in the bank waiting for nothing. 

Prime example- I know a sandblaster who's checking account reciept I happened to see when I was detailling his car as a kid and he had over $300k in just that one account and this was after he just bought a brand new Caddy and paid cash, it just blew my mind that someone who appeared to have so little had so much.   

So you never know.  A dentist with good money habits could easily have a VERY nice nest egg.

Jan 31 2013 10:08AM
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whoa-dere
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Ain't nothing more important than the mulah-big sean
Jan 31 2013 11:02AM
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DayMan
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Gonna go ahead and bump this because I really should be doing homework right now... Fuck AP Calc.
Nov 24 2013 5:45PM
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Piste.Off
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Assuming you're in high school: School is your job and #1 responsibility right now; do your job and do it well. Its not even that hard.

Assuming you're in college: You're paying $1000s to go to school. Be an adult and just do your work. Homework reward systems are bullshit and for kids.
Nov 24 2013 5:53PM
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NotoriousT.S.E
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This thread is relevant to my lack of studying on this brisk sunday afternoon.
Nov 24 2013 5:54PM
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Hammyslapwagon
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......I would have finished that sentence with it wouldn't be worth it, but I suppose we all have different opinions
Nov 24 2013 6:01PM
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Spinoza
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Nov 24 2013 6:02PM
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Spagett+
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if you get into harvard or johns hopkins the internet might break from all your virtual self satisfaction.
Nov 24 2013 6:07PM
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49566738265
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Ehhhh....try harder next time. 6/10
Nov 24 2013 6:10PM
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TechnoPotamus
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reward system ftw.
Nov 24 2013 6:13PM
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deleted5
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Yeah I gotta go with him on this, if you could drive a lambo and pay for it in cash at 35, I think everyone would change professions. I'm going to have to ask a plastic surgeon family friend if he could have afforded that by 35, because I highly doubt it. I know it takes a while to pay off medical school loans, establish a practice, get patients to walk through the door. Only then do you start making money.
Nov 24 2013 6:36PM
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deleted5
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Also guys don't be a doctor for the money, General practice doctors generally do not make a lot of money, and when i say a lot I mean driving lambos by the time they are 40. It's a nice pay check and a you can live comfortably, but you should want to be a doctor, because you like learning about the human body and helping people.
Nov 24 2013 6:43PM
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gotti
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Im guessing your brother is not married? without a family and kids you can live the high life
Nov 24 2013 6:48PM
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TechnoPotamus
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> pretty much nobody is actually working a real job in this thread
> pretty much everybody comments about what type of lifestyle one can lead based on a job they know nothing about
> what the fuck am I reading
> thread intention and thread direction are opposing
> NS: we fucking know everything about everything. Bitch.
Nov 24 2013 7:03PM
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Bogs
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Don't. You're going to die someday. I'm sure you can find some better way to spend your time. Which isn't to say you should sit all day on ns or other parts of the internet getting nothing done. Find something you love and work on that.
Nov 24 2013 7:09PM
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DayMan
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Truth. You have to specialize to make really good money. My dad is a radiologist and when he owned his own/managed other practices he was making around 500k a year. He then proceeded to retire, lose all our money in a house and the stock market, and yeah..
Nov 24 2013 7:16PM
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Toaster-Tony
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I have to clean the whole house and then set up an awesome study station in order to do anything. I can never focus if the house is disgusting.
Nov 24 2013 7:21PM
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PKNeison
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Go on NS, forget about homework, do bad in tests, fail exam, don't get into uni/college, no education, no job, no money, no bitchez and racecars, much sadness, very lonely, die alone.

Moral of the story is NS is fun.

But really do 30 mins, have a break for 10, then go back for 30, then break for 10. Repeat. And homework will be finished in no time - don't try and do it all at once - you'll find you make less effort as you go on.
Nov 24 2013 7:25PM
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Hammyslapwagon
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>TFW no green text
Nov 24 2013 7:29PM
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freestyler540
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How I get motivated? do it or fail!
Nov 24 2013 8:24PM
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Heart
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Masturbate every time you complete an assignment.
Nov 24 2013 8:27PM
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Spagett+
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I am perfectly happy with a 60%. suck my little boy peen.
Nov 24 2013 8:32PM
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Cannaburner
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Working out and skating, then showering, eating, cleaning, basically get everything else done, then do it. ANDDDDDDDDDDD coffee of course.
Nov 24 2013 8:35PM
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RusselCrowe
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Fuck. If I thought of that myself i wouldnt be doing as shitty as I am now
thank you
Nov 24 2013 8:39PM
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coling
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I hated english and history in hs. I just had to do it. But science was fun even though i never had to study it. Idk just buck up and do the work you need to do
Nov 24 2013 8:39PM
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