Preparing for College Exams

The best way to understand this is to imagine preparing for running a marathon. Say, on Friday at 10:00 am, you are to run a 30-mile marathon. Do you think it is a good idea to go to the gym and exercise for 12 hours the day before this marathon? NO! Absolutely not. Why? You wouldn’t make it to the marathon. You’d be burnt out. Why do this to your brain? You should be at the gym prepping for the marathon weeks ahead of time and then take the day off the day before.

Before the exam, you should be as prepared as possible leading up to 2-days prior. The day before, relax, go see a movie, spend time with friends and family (no drugs or alcohol) and have a healthy meal and get a good night’s rest.

It is okay to do some studying the day of. Still, you shouldn’t be studying the day before—that is, you should be well-prepared 2-days ahead, so your brain is healed and ready to rock n roll!

It works! I have twenty-three years of watching students succeed or fail, following or not following this advice.

Preparing for Employment Before Graduation

In the next chapter (or book in the series), I will go over in great detail what you need to do starting at freshman year (or wherever you are at in college) to get high paying job before you receive your diploma. If you do not have a job offer before graduating, you are not qualified for employment. This means, you must go to grad school immediately. Do not take a break; the last thing you want on your resume is more unemployment. Four years of being unemployed followed by living with your parents is not good for a resume!

“STEM is a lifestyle choice, not a career path. It requires 24-7 devotion.”

If you don’t want to spend all day everyday thinking about science, DO NOT do STEM. 50% of all STEM majors do not succeed. And in 2024, 420,000 students graduated (according to the census bureau), and only 14% got jobs. This is not because of the job market. At the same time, there are approximately 800,000 jobs per discipline that unfilled and open for application.

“There is nothing wrong with the job market; there is something very wrong with the students applying for jobs.”

“There are two types of people: People that have jobs and people that complain about the job market.” Do you think there is a connection? No one wants a impatient whining complaining pirating Khan Academy cheating disagreeable little twirp that did nothing in college to prepare for work and does nothing for anyone but themselves working at their company. This is a wakeup call. You are F*CKED if you keep using YouTube, Chegg, WyzAnt, ChatGPT, Teacher Solution Manuals, skipping lecture, trolling, disagreeing, arguing, writing with pencil/pen/tablet, not learning Microsoft Office, …, the list goes on and on. Grow the F*CK up. Seriously. Just stop and grow up yesterday!