Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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How To Get A 4.0 GPA Diligence, Drive, Determination, And Discipline ontrary to what many Penn Staters would have liked to believe, there was more to Penn State than just football games, tailgates, parties, and lying in the sun twhcn there was sunl. If one wanted a grade point average above a 2.0, there was also studying. It has been said many times that Penn State would be a really great experience if it were not for studying, but it was inevitable. After all thatls what we were tsupposed to bel here for. Sooner or later. the books caught up with you. If you waited too late, though, you also stayed up later the nights before the exams. The technical name for the con- Ccpt was ilcrammingf and in many cases cramming resulted in the infamous all- nighter. You remember; you glanced over your Syllabus and quickly calculated that you had to read 496 pages of chemistry, not to mention lab notes and proctor problems, for your 9:00 exam the next day. So you--- 1. Plugged in the coffee pot, 2. Looked for someone to share your mis- ery with, 3. Found some poor soul who had 648 pages of Medieval History to read for an 8:00 exam, . Drank two cups of black coffee, A 5. Complained with your newfound blood brother for no less than an hour and twenty-five minutes, . Finished off three more cups of java, .Read seven and half pages of chemistry, .Wondered if it was too late to drop chemistry, Downed three more cups of the black stuff, . Read twelve more pages, .Gulped down the second pot of caffeine, 12. Read 476 pages of chemistry in a re- cord time of four hours and thirty-six minutes twith the help of a little more coffeel, l3. Sprinted to the exam. Everyone remembered their all-nighters. ul did an all-nighter for my law class, remembered Molly Lynch Uournalisml. I drank mega amounts of coffee-three pots that nightwblack. ul did an all-nighter last year,n said John Williams tComp. Sciencel, llOnce I got past two or three in the morning I was ok. Ijust had to pump the coffee in during that hour, though. Not all studying was as painful as the all-nighter, though. In fact, contrary to popular belief, studying can be enjoyable. oo VOK P --O Frank Stepnick tChemical Engineeringl, said uStudying can be frustrating, but when everything clicks, itls beautifully new and freshe-bouncing around so easily be- tween my ears. Others claimed that when you liked the subject it was great. Molly Lynch said, uStudying is only productive when you are interested in the subject. And when you did not like the subject? Brenda Fields tEnglishl said, uStudying statistics at 2:00 in the morning is pure hell. Finding a place to study was often a job in itself. The HUB fishbowl was great for sleeping, but studying was out! It was too hard to concentrate over all the snoring. The library was a great place to see friends and catch up on the latest gossip, but studying was usually confined to the stacks. Some people ltstudiedll at Royls, but spent most of their time going back for free refills of Diet Coke. Dave Schiecatano claimed that he found the best studying atmosphere on campus; lil prefer studying in my own roomein complete silence. 9 Article by-Brenda Laukaitis Layout-Deanna Kennedy g The secret ingredients of making it Ihrough the night were cookies. ice cream. cream pie. caffeine nnd cigarettes. Barb knew the correct way to study curly in the semester. Robert Hownrlh Studying 29