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How to Avoid Study Without Really Trying
(avoid these pitfalls at all costs) *

1. Don't have the things that you'll need. This will allow you to get in a lot of conversations with others.

2. After you begin studying, remember that you need to go to the bathroom, or are hungry, or that you need to write a letter, or that you aren't clear about an assignment.

3. Tell yourself how dull the class is and believe that if you just had a better teacher everything would be easier to understand and be more interesting.

4. Develop a superior attitude to impress friends with the fact that you don't need to study, that it is somehow beneath you and not worth your time.

5. When friends come and interrupt your study time, don't send them away because you'll hurt their feelings.

6. If your room is too quiet, find a place to study where there is a lively social gathering. Why be bored when you study?

7. Remember that "A clean and uncluttered book bag is a sign of a sick mind."

8. Never study material you don't enjoy since you'll obviously never use it anyway.

9. Always remember that people will think you're smarter if you flunk a test because you didn't study than if you flunk it when you did study.

 

*Adapted for High School students from the Texas A&M University student counseling center