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studies, relative grades, everyone else 6 hours a day, failure, stress to study, lack of motivation to study.

The usual, carry on. =_=

If they're studying six hours a day, especially if those hours are consecutive, they're being so inefficient it nears the point of counterproductiveness. Don't berate yourself for not following the path of idiots. Study smarter, not longer ;_;

I'd hope like hell an environment as broken as yours is would know decent studying habits by this point, but it sounds like it doesn't so... remember: Break things up. Long study periods don't help, and have been consistently found to damage information retention. Doubly or trebly so if it's on the same subject -- variety isn't just the spice of life, it's the lifeblood of studying. Small sessions -- 15-30 minutes is good, an hour on the outside -- spaced throughout a day is ideal. Finding ways to integrate your studying with other activities is massively helpful -- bring note cards with you when you're out and about, figure out ways to integrate the work you're doing in normal thought processes, record lessons in a verbal format and listen when you're doing other things, etc.

Wrestle ways of making it fun out of the aether -- little ditties and whatnot are very common and very effective. Little drawings can also work! Problem being a problem, make a 4koma out of it or whatever the korean equivalent is. If you can program (or even try to figure out how, if not actually set code to text) a tiny program that addresses an immediate issue, as well... that's great -- building an automizer for something is one of the best ways for learning how said something works. Get help, if you can -- I can only imagine there's plenty of people on B12 willing and able to help, and other places both online and in person with folks available.

Mostly, just... experiment. Find out what works for you. Don't give a damn if it's not what works for someone else -- they're not you, and if their method didn't work it's irrelevant. Their six hours are not your six hours, and the lot of them are shooting themselves in the foot, anyway. Know it's hard -- I've seen so many people in situations like yours -- but, just. You can make it your own. Define the situation by yourself rather than have it define you.

... maybe it'll help, some. If not, well. Know folks are hoping for th'best for yeh, and'll still think well of you even if things do go poorly. You're more, and more important, than some silly tests inflicted on the populous by an idiot education system. Regardless of what said idiot system is telling the people stuck in it.

... would it? Asking on behalf of what a fairly substantial portion of the country is probably thinking, why the hell is iraq imploding our problem? More importantly, how would we manage to intervene without fucking ourselves again with massive war debt?

E: I mean, don't get me wrong, if NATO or the UN or whatever decides to get together and do something, or Iraq goes and begs the world (with commensurate economic reparations to repay the cost of helping, because to hell with doing it for free right now) for help, I'd say let's join hands for a kumbaya-singing asskicking, but I'm pretty ruddy tired of playing (and paying for) international lone bloody ranger.

The only wrong ways to eat cereal involve catheters. You're fine.

Comparing ideas period, really, just via dialogue patterns. It doesn't have to be what other people would say, after all. Arguing isn't really the word I'd use, though, since it implies a second actor of some sort. And there's kinda' not, in this case. Usually.

Culturally/experientially programmed alternative memetic patterns. You're not really debating so much as comparing, just via a dialogue-like methodology.

Reading the warren reports in tactics ogre... notice they actually make direct reference to cities in Ogre Battle. Lans(elot) was born in one of the cities on the second map, canopus the third... stuff like that. Continuity arrow right in the nostalgia, oof.

In my defence, I was like 7, and thought it was the coolest thing in the history of mankind

If you're talking about the accordion, it is one of the coolest things in the history of mankind. 'Tis an amazing instrument capable of making incredible music. Even polka is not without its merits, but the accordion is very versatile in terms of genre, and its use in other genres -- zydeco, sea shanty stuff, klezmer, and many, many others -- has been, in my experience, profound.

The accordion is quite possibly my favorite instrument. It kicks more ass than nearly all others. A well played accordion is a thing of glory and awe.