If so, do you know anyone who has smoked quite a bit, 3-4 times a week, and maintained a decent GPA?
Yes.
I don’t know how close this is skirting the “don’t endorse legal stuff” rule, but we’ll see I guess…
I graduated from college magna cum laude with a 3.8 GPA, and at the time I was smoking quite a bit more than 3-4 times a week. So, yes–it’s very possible.
Yes.
Huh? Did you say something? Did you hear the phone ring? What was the question?
Oh, umm. Yes it is definitely possible.
lol Jayrot. I’m not sure how close this borders along the legal clause either, but I was just curious. The group I hang out with smoke quite a bit, and it seems most of them are just happy getting by with B’s and C’s. So, I was wondering, did anyone know of someone who was considered a heavy smoker that did quite while in school.
raises hand yes heavy smoker when I was in college and as I was paying my own way I was not paying for anything less than an A.
Magne Cum Laude 89’ , Masters 92’.
Ahh … the efficacy of spherical thinking back then …
Er, a “friend of mine” graduated with a 3.97. Yeah, that’s it - a “friend of mine”… That’ll make it nice & legal.
I don’t touch the stuff any more but I smoked several times a week in college. I got a BS and an MS in Mechanical Engineering. I rarely smoked duing the day and saved my toking for the evenings after work was done.
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No, this is not possible. You’ll be trying to write a paper and all of a sudden your PC will go beep beep beepbeepbeepbeepbeep and you’ll be, like, ungh? It will have DEVOURED your paper. It was a really good paper. And then you’ll write it again and it won’t be as good. It’ll be, like…
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a bummer.
So how did you all cope with the insanity and loss of cerebral function that smoking marijuana causes?
Seriously, it’s obvious that a great many people can function at a very high level, academically and otherwise, while smoking marijuana.
I used to smoke quite a bit, and because I was careful to limit my usage to personal entertainment time (weekends, some evenings) and not let it interfere with responsibilities, it had almost no negative impact on me. Well, I did put on a few pounds (that Ben & Jerry’s is some tasty stuff, yo), but that’s about it.
It’s the people who can’t draw those boundaries and maintain personal discipline who get in trouble. Of course, the same could be said about betting on sports, or serial dating, or jerking off, or anything else that’s unhealthy only when done to inappropriate excess.
I know one guy who claims that the only exam he ever did badly in (I think his standard of badly was below 85% or something), he was sober when he wrote it. I don’t know him very well, but I do remember picking up one of his exam papers, it was somesort of advanced physics (this was years ago and I wasn’t sober, so details are iffy) but the grade was a 98% (at the university level).
Me, OTOH, my grades slipped when I took drugs. Of course, there was a bit more to it than that - I was having troubles with a guy, and with some of my friends, and life was kinda messy for me - but anyways, my grades dropped. I quit drugs over 4 years ago, and I am damn proud of it.
3.0 here. Would have been better except for the first semester of my freshman year, when I failed French and did badly in a couple of other classes. But the real problem was the transition from an easy public high school to a difficult college.
I knew a guy in high school who pretty much smoked on a daily basis. He was the valedictorian. He also went to Harvard.
Make of that what you will.
As I understand it, it’s very easy… you just have to major in “Fritos” or perhaps “Looking at your hands, I mean really looking at your hands”
Jerking off too much is unhealthy?
Shit.
shiiiiit… best semester I ever had grade-wise, was when I was a heavy smoker. Of course, smoking puts me in a more “contemplative” place, ergo more equipped to sit down and write a paper about…well pretty much anything, really.
Yes, they can.
It may shorten ones attention span and attentiveness, but