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As many pirates do, I constantly let my grades slip (sometimes much farther
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than is generally recommended). Then when exams come around (every 12 weeks -
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the exams count 1/9 of the grade for the year: where I go to school) I have to
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C R A M (please note the caps). I find this really hard if I am tempted to
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well, shall we say, let the Cat do something while I study- and then come down
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and switch disks/call another number/etc. Now this is not good at all. First,
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it doesn't sound like it will disturb you. You simply calculate the time it
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will take and when you have to be back and then go off and study until then.
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This worked ok when we were all using AE. But now with the wonderful CatSend
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and Cat-Fur, we will have to be comming down every 10-20 minutes! That does
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not help your studying. So it is best not to do anything on the computer while
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you are trying to study. But damn! Sometimes it's reallllly tempting. I mean
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say there is a newly cracked game, you're just dying to get and play. The
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little computer inside that is watching the grade point average drop lower and
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lower is flatly saying: "No fuckin way, guy... Get back to the books!" All
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the time, there is that imbred pirates' yearning to phreak out and grab that
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ware and rock. To help the battle, I have figured out the best way to get
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yourself to study (just briefly for exams): GO COLD TURKEY. The best method
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for doing this is to take your power cord down to school.
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There you can do one of a couple of things:
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[1] Give it to the teacher who dispises computers (or you) the most.
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[2] Give it to a friend.
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--> And instruct them that you wish to pass the exams and would they please
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help you by holding this until exams are over.
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[3] Put it in your locker.
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--> By putting your power cord into your locker, you are less likely to take
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the trouble to bring it back home again just to see what's up as you
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would be more likely to get it from your closet or somewhere.
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Now, from past experience (I actually did well on the exams, thus saving my
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spiraling average), I have found that there is absolutely zilch you can do
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without your power cord. (Unless, of course, you get into form-feeding all
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your paper through your printer or just staring at a blank monitor)
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I, still having a little self-control, put mine in my locker. It is,
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however, really hard to keep it there if, on the night before, your best
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pirate-friend calls you up and says: "Hey dude.. Just got Cat-Fur ][ and the
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most awesome arcade game in a looonnggg time.. Want me to send it to you?"
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But hey, this is just a simple suggestion on how to pass your exams... Do
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whatever you want. Use whatever means you wish when you want to pass. Or I
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guess you could study all along and not have to cram (Hey, wow..I could,
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counld't I? Actually doing my homework & study for tests insteading of getting
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the newest, meeting wild new people, reading interesting textfiles on how to
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pass your exams, and staying up all night connected to some line...
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Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!)
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