I am at the second year of my studies, but it feels wholly pointless. There are nice things, the place's great, the people are nice, and the professors quite good and supportive to strive to do more work...

But it's also filled with moronic idiots that I'd rather wipe my hands with them before even dealing with them, the students from the US tend to be mostly stereotypical and always within in their social circles meanwhile they spout some nonsense about getting out of your comfortable area when they have a huge student loan to pay their "vacation" to a semester in a US college in Greece.

The Greek students... There are two kinds of them; those who do study, and the huge number of people who are there, drinking coffee in the cafeteria and wasting their parent's money at a private institution. Without having some kind of realistic ambition, interest in a craft or maybe talent in some cases. (The lot of them also get quite a huge number of financial aid, too)

I'll sound like a bitch, but I do have talent, I do have interest in what I do and I love it, but college is just making me more arrogant as the assignments feel like leg work. They are not challenging, and it feels idiotic to do "group assignments" just to deal with the fact that the other person will fuck up things and whatever happens I will have to gather the pieces to put things back together. The programming course was in Java, it was nice, but there was no challenge there either.

I want challenge, I want the brutal kind of challenge with competition, and to actually feel the A slapped onto my courses worth my time and effort. Whenever I am slapped with a grade, it only leaves a bad taste, a sense of disappointment and lack of achievement.

What's the point? It's not challenging, it feels like legwork, and it lacks any kind of fascination as the challenge didn't get any good after my first year. Whenever I talk about video game development I am met with lack of expertise, interest and misunderstanding.

Yeah... That's the kind of thing that I do hear often. Sometimes people complain about the basic GER courses being challenging, but most of them are just about your classic routine; go in class, listen, take notes, review notes, study a little, and pass the course.

That routine being completed about ten times for different courses is boring. There's no challenge to that, because since you figure out the system, it's just a bunch of nonsense. When I will go out there, maybe in a boardroom, maybe in a business meeting, or critical writing, nobody will talk to me in keywords, and the concepts are most of the time obvious.

Where's the challenge in a more "difficult" course? 25-50% more hours dropped into studying? That's not challenge, that's just more deadweight to carry on until the next assignment, midterm or final.

Well, the further you go along, the more challenging things should get no? Stick it out in the splashy pool for a while and wait until they throw you in with the sharks in the ocean. It'll have to happen eventually.

I already do that, and I started doing it years ago. When we tackle SQL and we talk about functions in MySQL and Oracle SQL it's all stuff I did back in 2008, it just comes back to me. Yeah, maybe there's some new stuff and some details, but those are really specific things that you can find out by yourself even in a work environment from someone else, or from your own experience.

The biggest challenge I am facing currently is writing a 2D engine from scratch. Which later I will attempt to transform into a full blown 3D engine. However, if I start talking about that with another student or professor then there won't be any fruitful conversation. Hasn't occurred to me yet, at least.

Or, accelerate things.

Learn on your own. Challenge yourself.

Moved it to Serious.

Maybe it's not challenging because you're too damn good at it!

I also think this should belong in Serious

Do you study your ass during the semester, or the last few weeks of it?

Just be lucky you don't have to try and you still get good grades while some of us study our asses off and still end up with C's.

Yeah, you don't "study your ass" when you work the last days before an exam or final. Also, you can study at some points, but means taking time off other things. For someone like me who doesn't care about a social life altogether, I do find myself with plenty of time.

Usually the few days leading up to an exam/final.

I mean most people can't study all year round.

Study minimally? Please, don't get it wrong. I study the whole semester minimally. That's the big difference. You set your own priorities, and if your priority is to just have a merry time with your parent's money then it's your call, the reason my parents are shelling money for me is so I can actually get a degree, and maybe anything good that comes with it.

I can't actually study more than an hour or two consecutively, so I do that during the weekends, or days without classes, and due to taking notes and following up to anything that might be unclear to me then I can be successful in my classes, because when you crack how school works then you just do the same thing repetitively.

Things like Playing Baseball and joining a frat were a higher priority than studying. I wish I did have the time to study, just couldn't make the time.

And now in grad school I would love to study 24/7. I mean right now I think I have something like a 40 in one of my classes. But work and parenting prevent me from studying, it blows.

I'm just saying, you should feel lucky you can study minimally and still do great. I wish I had those brains.

That's the card I am ready to play any time it's necessary.

When I was in High School and had these group projects.. I told the group.. Don't do anything! I'll do it all and I won't fuck up your grade. They listened and we'd usually walk away with a mid 90 at worst.