On "student theories/types"

I've been having trouble focusing on my studies lately, and with the state of my midterm grades on some of my subjects, I am screwed. One of the many things I've learned for the past months is not to panic. It gives you shit when you expect the best. Out of boredom, I made up a couple of student theories based on the regular days when I feel like observing norms:

Theory #1: the "Oh-I-am-going-to-ace-next-term!-or-maybe-next-next-term" student

Normally, these are the students who performed poorly on their previous term. They either failed a subject or got a very low CGPA. These are the ones who experienced ice-cold hands while going to their university website, typed their username and password with hands shaking, closed their eyes after clicking 'View Grades', opened one eye to peek on their grades and tadaaaa! low grades as expected. Next thing they know, they are obsessing on food while saying "I will do good next term! I will be DL next term" over and over again. But then, the term they have been waiting for comes and history repeats itself. At the end of the day, they found themselves saying, "...or maybe next term."

Theory #2: the "almost-but-not-quite" student

Do you know that infamous bar "I did my best but I guess my best wasn't good enough." from the song Just Once by James Ingram? Yep, that is the perfect line to describe the almost-but-not-quite students. Every term, their GPA would be .05 or even .01 short from making it to the dean's list. They will also say, "next term will be MY term" but history, yet again, repeats itself.

Theory #3: the "I-just-did-what-had-to-be-done" student a.k.a the effortless student

Most of the time these are the consistent dean's listers and the overachievers. So far, I have never read or heard a student from this type that explains word-per-word their "secret" on why they are so good. When asked about what they do, they'll just answer the generic "enough hard work and discipline" kind of thing. Normally, you'll see them around either preoccupied with their thoughts, running around to beat a deadline or to make it on time for a meeting, or even in school papers either on the byline or they were the ones being interviewed. 

Theory #4: the ''eff school" student

These are the students who are not interested in school at all. I can think of two reasons: first, they might be the past "responsible students" but eventually got lazy because they failed a subject or two. Second, these may be the people like Steve Jobs who doesn't see the point of school at all but excels on other activities.

Apparently, there are still a lot of theories I have not covered but the sad state of my academic life is a mix of all these. I am always one of the people who finds it hard to describe herself because I think I am a mixture of all (sorry if it sounded like a narcissist). These days, I find myself indulging in food, Twitter, random ideas and dream jobs, blogs and future whatnots. Hopefully, it's not yet too late to gain momentum and ace this term.

xoxo,

Vrigy (feel ko lang na may ganito.HAHAHA.)