Studying used to be so easy in school.

It's hard to transition from shakes to fries. Don't burn yourself and keep you head on a swivel for flying ketchup.

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Studying used to be so easy in school.

Any of you baws went back to school or started a new career that required studying and learning new topics?

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Speaking of “so easy”, your Mom and your sisters are amazingly similar.

So no additional learning was required.

If the classes suck already, the career path will follow

ETA: unless it's BS prereqs

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If the classes suck already, the career path will follow

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Classes don’t necessarily suck, my brain just has a hard time taking in info and turning it into knowledge lol

Other way around for me. I passed anything K-12 without thinking. Tried that in college and just about failed out my first semester. Dad threatened to bring me home and get me a job welding (which I should've done anyway) and then gone back. Then grad school, where you have to study but there is a massive shortcut - get last year's outline, highlight it and know where all the answers were. Any books you have to read - first chapter, last chapter, then first paragraph of each chapter plus the title sentence of any paragraph.

That's basically how I learn now, and I go back and read for detail if necessary.

In the complete opposite. I fricking hated school and learning growing up and did everything I could to just get by without studying.

But now I love to learn and read about new things. Wish I had this attitude when I was younger.

The older you get OP, the harder it is. Henry Ford once said, paraphrasing, "I don't care whether a man is 8 or 80, as long as he is learning, he is young. If he is not learning, then he is old."

Hang in there. I'm about to start a course for some new industry certs at 60-ish. Not looking forward to it. My ability to focus remains intense, but the duration can be quite short.

Starting back grad school as well. Been using this app called flora. You wager money on focusing… when I lose money it grabs my attention.


Also, can we all agree how pointless the GRE is?

I got my Associates degree in 1998. I then went into the workforce. Decided to go back and complete my Bachelors degreee a couple of years ago. Graduated last December. I'm 55.
I had to come home and create a little study area, no music or tv, and dedicated 2 hours a day to homework. It worked for me.
One difference that I did notice was that college coursework was very difficult in the 90's. I breezed through this time because of DEI. Most students were triggered by something in the material, so the professor would cancel the test or cancel a research paper. It was nuts.

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Any of you baws went back to school or started a new career that required studying and learning new topics?

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I found that it was much easier to study in grad school than it was in undergrad (really didn't study at all in high school), because I was actually interested in the material. I had/have zero motivation to study for something that doesn't interest me. I have 4 certifications that I have to re-certify in every 3 years via a proctored exam, so I still study from time to time.