Help With Homework + Lazyness
Knife_After_Dark
Join Date: 2003-03-29 Member: 15000Members
Join Date: 2003-03-29 Member: 15000Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">I don't do homework and I don't know why</div> Ok, I love lazyness but how exactly do I do homework without burning out? I NEED TO DO HOMEWORK BUT I NEVER ACTUALLY DO IT! Got any tips for actually getting started on homework and **** like that?
"Just do it" won't help either.
"Just do it" won't help either.
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basically "Just do it" is key... here i am, paper due in thirteen hours and i'm posting on ns forums? omg. haha
Look at teh pages you have to do in your Mathh book, look over the structure of the problem for a while and then write it down, just use any random numbers, its fine as long as it matches the format of the problem. Make shure you number them correctly so if your teachers decides to check it they don't get suspicious. And if for some freaky unknown reason your teacher actually LOOKS AT WHAT YOU DID and THINKS ABOUT it (which will almost never, ever happen) just tell him/her you didn't understand and you did your best. Thats is, now don't say I never gave you anything.
Seriously, it is a problem of mine that has it's roots from way back, like 10th grade. At first I could get good 80's and 70's, but in the end I suffered terribly. As of now my grades are: Math20P: 30%, Physics 20P: 55%, Social20P: 60%, and English20P: 95%.
Follow Zel's advice; the key in doing your homework is you, and I know this for a fact, (look at my grades).
How can't you love figuring out a bullet's penetration? You better enjoy Newtonian mechanics while you can, because light, sound, thermaldynamics and nuclear physics aren't much more interesting (while the facts are, but not the math).
And yes, winging your Math homework will generally let you pass, but you'll have no idea what to do on a test. I also don't recommend doing that for applied math courses (such as physics and some chemistry courses, if you have a good teacher they'll check your problems).
If you really want to do your work, and especially remember your work, take an interest in it. This can be incredibly difficult to do sometimes, but if you find some aspect of the subject intersting you'll be more apt to pay attention/do the work. I remember almost everything from my Russian 101 course because I <i>want</i> to learn it, conversely, I've dissolved every bit of knowledge Comm 101 tried to give me, because giving speeches is boring.
I get my homework done, although I procrastinate gallons before I get it done, (the consequence being that I lose awful amounts of sleep).
Not sure what your habits are like, but for the few times where I can actually get myself to do it:
Disconnect your modem.
Better yet, get a relative to hide the modem. The net sucks up time like nothing else, (just like right now). What makes this difficult though is sometimes, I do in fact need the net for homework, and I easily get sidetracked.
<i>/15 minutes into homework... I think I'll check the NS forums... WTH? These topics suck! I'm going to make 5 page essay based on a flawed theory I have on the discussion forums. Lalalalala... well would you look at the time? 1AM Guess I'll get to work now. 3AM done. 4 hour sleep isn't bad... *ding*.</i>
Man do I regret not doing anything in High school. I wish I did better.
-Go to a library or someplace where you won't have a temptation to turn on the comp, play a game, etc.
-You'll be bored out of your mind so you might as well do your homework
-On group projects, just remind your partner about the project if you guys trail off, and he'll encourage you too
....yep, not much, but the first tip is really important.
doing all work during class is what i've done all other times, that works too
but there's no way i'll do work when i have the option of playing instead
Man I love physics. the basic stuff anyway. I am very good at imagining that stuff and when the calculus is involved even better, because of figuring out how the pieces fit together and y the calculations work.
Ok that does nothing to help you. Have a good day
I hate discrete math tho. In your brain there a few different areas for, say, arithmetic. I do not know exactly what they do and what does what but just get the general idea. For instance, the language part of your brain takes over for mental calculation when you are tired. This is why you (I) fuk up on math when I'm sleepy and make ridiculous simple mistakes. And why pure writers are dumber than those who can also do math <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> Also, when estimating numbers (kind of), feeling the number (that's only my feeling tho, I'll explain), there's the left hemisphere part that is accurate, and the right hemisphere part that feels. I think I am too right hemisphere for this discrete math (if you don't know what that is, not important for this discussion lol) and even tho I get a feel for what is happening I am terrible at sequencing it out step by step and constricting myself to writing the formal proofs. I am also extremely bad at coming up with the crap that the discrete mathematicians seem to conjure up out of nowhere to prove their esoteric points.
An analogy is imaginary numbers. Take note I have no problem with these, but you can see how something conjured up actually helps in reality and is therefore based on something in reality. Well, the thing with discrete math is, there is a lot of stuff to prove and to prove this stuff involves a lot of conjuration, seemingly arbitrary bending of reality. Except that it fits reality perfectly. Too bad I can't "fit" or "feel" these answers well enough, I think the feeling part is too right hemisphere. I need the necessary functions in my left. I just cannot conjure up random rules with which to frame reality. Take note that those who are really good happen to have both hemispheres functioning perfectly well.
These mathematical rules are hardly random but this is but a larger part of what the left hemisphere can do. For instance lots of people distort their memories through the words they use to narrate them. Consequently, they believe the words they use, the lies so to speak. This shows up also in a disease known as korsakov's, where the hippocampi, two horseshoe shaped structures on either side of your brain, are destroyed. You cannot make new memories at all, and are constantly in a new present. With some people it is so bad for them as to cause them to constantly make up a life story for themselves, that changes dynamically and on the fly. Such as greeting you with a name they know from somewhere, acting like they are working at their job, then talking about buying groceries at this imaginary place and having to pick up this imaginary child, then talking to you as if you were another person, using a different name, then doing it again, etc. In this way their minds are making up arbitrary rules, so to speak, about their reality, which they believe (or perhaps struggle to believe). This is the same function that is integrated into those normal people's daily operation, who believe what they make up about their memories instead of what actually happened.
For me, this never affects me. I always know exactly what happened in my memories. I do not rely on words to shape my reality; I am in touch with it. Consequently, it may be this advantage, and handicap, that prevents me from making up **** for math. Of course, making up **** is not enough, it has to be right, and I dunno if I am lacking the ability to determine rightness, since I can feel the things. Just never spell it out, and if course very rarely make up the right stuff.
Calculus is of course very different. It is based on every day experience and is very feel oriented, being something easily imaginable, as is physics. Advanced physics involves the crazy imaginary made up math tho, and of course there is that section in calculus involving series and sequences, which again is not based in every day experience and is impossible for me to see and imagine; I can only feel out and cannot do correctly. Of course I can see graphs, and I can see the general trend of things, extrapolate etc if you thot of that - I have to have been able to do so to be successful in the rest of calculus. If that makes sense, since I know some people do not appear to see the sequence in their heads at all, and these people do better than me at this lol.
Ok that does nothing to help you. Have a good day x2
haha, I hijacked the thread !
i was compelled. early morning compulsion to digress
...generally that wont work at institutions of higher learning, because your grade mostly depends on mid-terms, final exams, and 10 page papers. It's still possible to wing it...You just have to create 10 pages of mindless, incoherent dribble....instead of 5 paragraphs of it.
That's unless you get a good professor that gives you good work (as in, not mindless busy work).
I went to one of the best schools in the state (not one of the poor, uneducated states either <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> ), and the only class I really did homework for was AP Physics...otherwise it was exceptionally easy and took like 5 minutes, or it was exceptionally easy and boring, but took forever (ala Mathematics, English...pretty much any busy work).